Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1863-07-24

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Examine Well their Record.
In yesterdays issue, we charged the re
Sponsibility Of the riot in New York, upor
the Copperhead Democrats of the North
We believed it then,--we believe it more
firmly than ever since giving some attention
to their records Mansions and business
houses have been consumed by fire; private
residences have been sacked and their con
tents destroyed; railroad communication has
been entirely obstructed; public vehicles
have been turned aside; work upon the ship
ping has been suspended; officers Of Stat.
and Government have been cruelty beater
and murdered by lawless mob, calling them
selves Democrats, who were determined no
to submit to the laws, legally and constitu
tionally enacted. And why is all thiss Wht
is responsible for all these crimes perpetratet
IN the name of Democracy?
In May last, a Democratic Peace meeting
was held in New York city and was address
cd by one McMasters, editor of the Fireman.
Journal, who used this language:
"The same blood that courses in our veins
runs in the veins of the people of the South
The State Of New York can defy all the States
that may combine against it, under our gal
liant Seymour. God bless him. Under him
We are able to defend our State against the
whole world. The question IS, as
to the liberties Of the free men of the North
whether the Federal Executive shall have an
easier conquest by putting yokes on our
aecns.
'This was not an issue to be tried by
cheers nor g. oans. 1t was by the brawny
muscle and the determined will of free men
who were ready to die sooner than to yield.
[Cheers.] And how were they to save their
liberties A voice-"F ght Tor it, Yes, if
necessary fight fer It,: butn OF in Il disorderly
right, for # you were to punish those who
first ruined you, there will be other masters
to take their pacrs. But you must uct by
organization; organize not in wards, for
wards are too large. Organize in your neigh
borhoods, by tens, ny hundreds, and by
companies and by regiments
McMaster's programme seems to have been
adopted by the insurrectionists. .iu..
Judge McCunn, Judge upon the Bench,
placed there to administer law as well as
equity, said 'he thanked God for our Gov
,ernor, who stood by the people of this State,
and it is for US Democrats TO say, Mr.. Sey-
mour, we are with you from beginning to the
end. In. 1s short months from now this
country will be too hot for those men who
are hunting down freemen here"
R. H. Tharin next spoke and said ''he
came expressly tonight to denounce the ad-
ministration. Never have our rights
been in such jeopardy. We stand before a
coming storm, and it has come now, and as I
address you, do it to save your rights, for
they are lost, BUT TO REDEEM THEM AS YOUR
FATHERS DID. There are various
ways of public resentment. One is by words,
the other is by ACTION. After exhausting
words, our revolutionary fathers resorted to
action. If the time must come, THEN, VEL
CONE THE HOUR. We can die but once and
we should die freemen."
Mr.. Blankman was the next speaker and
said-"Cmsar had his Brutus, Charles the l.
had bis Cromwell, and the George the III. Of
the present day might profit by their exam
pie. ask you if you have 5000 in your
pocket I. (Cries of no, noD. Then you will
have to 60 to war. (No, no.) Would we
have such refusals to 60 to war if this war
was for the Constitution? (No, MOI But
when the President calls on you to 60 ami
carry on war for the niger, / am Id if
! believe you will 60. (Cries--you may bet
your life we WON'T" e4t
On Thursday evening, July 9th, Demo
cratic meeting was held in the Goth ward of
New York city, the very centre and begin
ming spot Of the terrible riot, and addressed
by the ex-Rev. G. c. Burr of whose speech
the New York Herald says as follows:
TIE ISsuRREcTIoNARY DEMONSTRATION IN
THE Doth WARD The speech Of Chauncey
G. Burr and its reception at the meeting in
the goth ward on Thursday evening are cat
culG.ed to STR up mob-iilke spirit, in
this city. If Mr.. Burr is not careful, he will
raise a storm that will terminate in insur-
rection and blopdy scenes in this city. When
this mob spirit is, once started, no person can
tell where it will end or who will be sacri-
feed by its vengeance. Whilst MIR. Burr
poured out his invective, counseled resistGnce
to our national GGthoiities, and app aled to
the beastly passions of the assemblage, he
still declared himself a Democrat, and would
have us understand that he ia one of the
leaders. But his speech was anything but
Dem cratic in tone, and shows great lack Of
statesmanship in the leaders of the Demo
cratic party in this city in allowing such
clustering men as Burr to assume to set
themselves up as leaders of the party in a
crisis like this. -sa5Em .o p9so 5l.o9 loz
So much, reader, for the teachings Of So
called Democracy, where the ripened fruits
are now being so bountfully harvested in the
field of blood and dssolation. The New
Yorkers are not alone, however, in the enun-
ciation of such sentiments as we shall here
show. go a,'s ~..ferrgsa e..... T.~ls.s
On the 15tn of May the Dubuque Herald,
the leading Democratic paper in Iowa, said:
l''If those who deny freedom to others, OF
assist in depriving them Of it, deserve it not
fol, themselves, and under just God cannot
long retain it, LET Us PLACE OURSELVES
Upon THE EXTREME BOUNDARY OF onB RIGHT,
and leave to our children an example Of a
manly defense Of our high privilege. = 8 =
.Freemen, your interests center in the man
now at the mercy Of chance General Of the
army. If the wicked wrong be meditates be
cousummated and you are torpid, may you
be rewarded according to your deserts"
., The same, sheet SAID, There is one way