Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1863-01-16
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MuscArINE, Jan. 8, 1853.
In pursuance of call published in tn,
DAILY JOURNAL, the friends Of the Admins
tration met at the Court House, when tn,
meeting was called to order by L. H. Wash
burn, on whose motion Hon. j. A. Parvir
was chosen Chairman.
On motion of H. S. Compton, L. H. Wash
burn was chosen Secretary.
On motion of W. F. Davis, committee o.
five, consisting of w. F. Davis, Joseph Crane
Jacob Butler, Vernett Tracey and W. D.
Velie, was appointed by the Chair to draf,
resolutions expressive of the sense of the
meeting.
While the committee were absent, Hon. L.
A. Ellis, being called for, entertained the au-
dience with some very able remarks, sustain.
ing and calculating the benefits to be derived
from the late Proclamation, at the conclusion
Of which, W. F. Davis, Chairman of the
Committee on Resolutions, reported the fol-
lowing:
The loyal citizens of Muscatine, having as
sembled on this, the anniversary of the battle
OF New Orleans an event that gave to
Andrew jackson so much of his immor-
tality-for the purpose of giving public ex-
preston of ours views touching the Presi-
dents Proclamation Of Freedom, declare
LIST, Our continued, unwavering confidence
in the wisdom, integrity and patriotism Of
Abraham Lincoln; that we fully appreciate
the many embarrassments that necessarily
surround his administration of our public af-
fairs, and tender to him our sympathies and
our prayers
I'd, That we have witnessed with pain his
fruitless attempts to bolster and preserve an
institution that has been the fruitful source
OF all our present national woes, by endeav-
oring to conciliate those who, at best, were
only enemies of the country; wherein we
have fresh evidence of the utter folly of
attempting compromise with so dark and
treacherous an evil as American slavery.
Sd, That we hail with joy, profound and
unmeasured, the Proclamation of Freedom
issued by the Commander in-Chief of the
Army and Navy as an absolute military ne
cessity, necessary to deprive the rebels of
their power, to shorten the struggle for Ma
tional existence, and thereby save the lives of
our citizen soldiery. We hail it as an act of
equal and exact justice to all men, that must
command the respect of the most enlightened
of foreign powers and secure to us the smiles
and blessings of Almighty God. The al
mighty has no attribute which can take side
with slavery in contest between slavery and
freedom. "-Jefsrsom.
4th, That in all our national affairs, we
would recognize the hand of an overruling
Providence, causing good to flow from intend
ed evil Out of the rebellion of tyrant task
masters against the lawful authorities, Provi-
dence has brought deliverence to the captives
and let the oppressed 60 free In this we
witness the dawn of an era to which Jeffer-
son referred in the following language: "But
we must await with patience the workings of
an overriding Providence, and hope that that
is preparing the deliverence of these our suf-
fering brethren. When the measure of their
tears shall be full, when their groans shall
have involved heaven itself darkness, doubt
less god of justice will awaken to their dis
tress, and by dispensing light and hberality
among their oppressors, or at length, by his
exterminating thunder, manifest his atten-
ton to the affairs of this world, and that they
are not left to the guidance of blind fatal
ty."
9Th, That we hope to hear the continued
of that exterminating thunder till
every rebel shall be brought low, and every
tory become a by-word and reproach among all
people, and to this end we renew our pledges
of unfaltering support to our brave soldiers in
the field.
9Th, That language is inadequate to ex-
press our utter contempt for those, who, up
on the new-made graves of 100000 patriot
soldiers, cry for Peace, Peace, with traitors in
arms That the miserable idea of separation
of the West from the East was conceived in
treason and born in toryism, and receives the
endorsement of none but tories that the at
tempt to re-organize the defunct body of pro-
slavery Democracy is but an attempt to d.
vide the North and give comfort to the
South. We hold up to the execration of
whoever is not at this time in favor
OF using all means in our power to suppress
the present wicked rebellion, and we here le-
new our pledge to give our united support to
the Administration in a vigorous prosecution
of the war; that we regard opposition to the
recent war measure of emancipation as Grim
inal and reasonable, and demanding the in
terposition of the strong arm of the Govern
ment for its suppression.
w. F. DAVIS, Chairman.
1t was moved and seconded that the reso
lutions be received and adopted, when Messrs.
Butler, Judge Dillon, Richman, Davis and
Cloud, were called upon and addressed the
meeting at length, at the conclusion of which
the resolutions were unanimously adopted
with great enthusiasm. ts
J. A. PARVIN, Chairman.
L. H. WAsHBURN, Sec'y.
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