Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1862-10-03
What u COnfe SsiOn!

What u COnfe ssiOn!
1t sometimes happens that insincere mel
dishonest men, disloyal men, and traitor:
who, while they appear to be looking on
way, are really rowing another, will inat
vertently admit all that could possibly b
said of them by those who have witnesses
their spasmodic attempts to appear what the,
are not
The above is general proposition merely
and not designed to have any personal appl
cation; but its truth can be maintained frun
all history, and is illustrated in the life of ev
cry hypocrite. When Judas betrayed hi
master, it was with kiss. Benedict Arnold
treachery was conceived and matured ami,
the loudest professions of loyalty.
The editor Of the Courier, (who, by tn
way, once delivered a lecture on the characte
Of Benedict Arnold,) under the pretense o
sustaining the Government, has done all tina
he dared to subvert it. He has appealed to
and striven to array against it, every bas
passion of the human soul
All this he has done as the friend Of tn
President; and many weak brethren wer,
led to believe that the Courier was really il
earnest in trying to uphold the hands of th'
Executive in its efforts to suppress the rebel
lion. But what will those weak brethren say
when they learn, as they now do, that the
Courier is endeavoring to re-organizea party
the recruits for which must come from the
rebel army, and is supporting policy which
draws its inspiration from and is dependent
for life and energy upon
First-The complete and perfect unity Of
the Cotton States.
Second-Divisions, dissensions and crimi-
nations among the Border States.
2hird-The division of the public senti
ment of the North.
With these three things effected the rebel
lion must succeed; and whatever contributes
to the success of the rebellion will contribute
equally to the success of the Democratic party;
and all this we prove by a simple quotation
from the editorial columns of the Courier
Speaking of the Presidents proclamation it
says:
cit will complete and perfect the unity of
the Cotton States-it will create additional
divisions, dissensions and ordinations among
the people of the Border States-it will divide
the public sentiment of the North-it will in
fuse new life and energy into the ranks of the
Democratic party-and it will satisfy cOnserv-
ative men everywhere that from this time on
the war will be conducted for the purpose of
freeing the negro"
Is not this confession that the rebels and
the pro-slavery Democracy have joined hands
that their interests run parallel and are iden-
tical; that whatever gives aid and comfort to
the one "intuses neo life and energy into
the ranks Of The other?"
At the close of the quotation the Courier
adopts the cory catch soords of the rebels
1t tells its readers the same story with which
the rebel leaders have phenzied their deluded
followers, viz: that the object of the war is to
free the negroes!
The Courie, must have high estimate o1
the intelligence of its readers, in thus placing
them on a par with the rank and file of the
southern armies, and seeking to make them
believe that which it knows to be an a.rocious
tilsehood
The object of the Presidents proclamation
is plain enough. 1t speaks for ITSELF Pass.
ing over the events of the last year and half,
he once more calls upon the Southern States
to return to their allegiance; and warns them
that if, despite invitation and entreaty, they
continue in rebellion until the month o1
January, 1868, then the slaves of rebels shall
be free. "Only this and nothing more"
The truth is, the Courier seeks to shield
the rebels from the consequences of their owr
acts, and would make the threatened vista
ton of those consequences, the cornerstone o.
aparty whose mission it is to compel the sub
mission of the Government to the demands O
Rebellion.