Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1862-09-19

or death of this Republic? 1t believes, as in
its own existence, that we should fight the
common enemy with every weapon God and
nature have placed in our power-even as
you, sir, would fight for your wife's honor or
your mothers life 1t counsels to strike
whenever you can and wherever you can, but
strike hard and strike home
If any man has been elevated to, continued
in or removed from a position Of military res
possibility out of purely political consdera-
tons, public instinct regards it an e2sregrious
error. a party whose loyalty is so ticklish
as to require that description of pleasing, had
better be sent bodily without our lines. II
Gen. Mcclellan, for example, is really the
ass ''of spades that so many take him to be
it were wicked thing to continue him in
command one moment
= The people desire only to be organized and
led-dash to be combined with strategy, in
Just proportionS--th officer and private be
unit in one intense desire to work every
possible injury to the common enemy, COM
patible with civilized warfare-that all private
animosiies and all jealousies be sheved or
sunk by our commanding generals, and that
every man, be he general or generalissimo,
whose heart is not entirely in the work, who
is not, body and soul, his country's and his
countrys only, who regards any considera-
ton of personal preferment or military eti
Guette as of a straw's value, be dismissed the
service.
1t knows that somebody was terribly to
blame for the late disasters that have over
taken US. and it needed not the pregnant par
agraphs OF Pope's report to prove it. 1t
thinks it can name men whose declared prin-
ciples and known capacity qualify them to
organize victory and crush this rebellion.
And herein we think the voice of the peo-
pie is the voice of God
The Legislature has refused to pass the bill
Quakers from military service. 1t
should row take some action in regard to
hat class Of able bodied citizens, who desire
% go to the war, but can't because the gov
cxempts and pays them TO stay at
What should be done with that class who
IRE neither useful at home nor in war, but on
he contrary, do al in tn ir power against the
Government.
Two CANDIDATES. There are two men in
he country who particularly affect Washing
on, and both are straining every nerve to get
here One, at the head of traitorous horde
would wade through sea of slaughter to the
dry land of Pennsylvania Avenue,--the other
only proposes to make the streets of Musca-
.ine run knee deep in blood if any attempt
IF his is frustrated. The one is Gener;. Lee
the other Judge Thayer.
"Out Of the abundance of the heart the
mouth speaketh y and it is not wonderful
hat these gentlemen, from such dissimilar
,tand points but with so similar objects,
should fall into the same line of argument.
Says the Judge
"Prisons and forts filled with citizens who
lever breathed aught against their country"
And again:
"The Robespierre at the head of the War
Department, issues, on the mere suggestion
If these unprinciplcd Union haters, a warrant
or the removal of the patriot to the prison of
the martyr"
Says the General, in his proclamation to the
inviting them tc the embrace OF
secession and reciting their wrongs:
"Your citizens have been arrested and I'M
,risoned upon no charge and contrary to all
orrns of law
Par nobiis .tratrnm.!