Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1863-07-17


For Lieutenant Governor-John F. Dun
combe, of Webster county. -e
For Judge-Chas. Mason, of Desmoines
county.
There was desperate struggle at first be-
tween the Byington and Tuttle men. Bying'
toms friends finding no chance for him, pro
posed Fisher, who was accepted.
f., The platform is the same as adopted by
the Copperheads Of Ohio. ..f f.sus ...-l
Both the ticket and the platform will bt
repudiated by the people Of Iowa, in October
next, by $1,000 majority.
Address of Hon. ThOs. B. Bryan,
Ct Chicago, at Musca time, July
Ath, 1S6S. ...t
We are rejoiced to be enabled to present te
our readers the eloquent and patriotic address
of Hon. Thos. B. Bryan, of Chicago, at the
Fourth of July celebration in this city. II
will be found to contain much food fol
thought. 1t is the utterance Of man who
claims allegiance to no party except the party
of the Union. and is a mastery appeal to all
true friends Of the Union to sink party pref
erences and party pride in an earnest desire
for the salvation of the Union and mainten-
-ance of our liberties:
Mr.. Chairman, and Ladies and Gentlemen
of Auscatine:
A f1utist without f1ute-a fiddler without
a fiddle-a speaker without a voice! AS
brief must be the race of the short-winded
courser, so of brevity you may rest assured,
also, where there is lack of wind to swell
the sails of oratory-too little, even, to unfurl
'the glorious flag" or support the wings of
the "spread eagle" The imprudent and ex-
cessive use of my lungs during the past two
years has developed their weakness; and, to
avoid pantomime, | need now an audience
chamber whose walls shall be nearer to me
d.. than the hills encircling Muscatine, and whose
ceiling shall be lower than the canopy Of
heaven.
The national clock, noting only years, has
this day struck eighty-seyen. For aught l
know, there may stand before me some hoary
headed sire, who witnessed the birth of the
Union or aught we know, hundred gener.
ations hence may behold the Union still
second struggle with the mother country, it
booming of cannon and the roar Of musketry,
in a third and most sanguinary war God
grant that it may survive this also
Mr.. Chairman, for more than two years
past, there has been held great national fair,
in which every loyal State has Wed with
every other in the exhibition of its proudest
products-its valiant sons. Right nobly did
Iowa present her hosts of gallant soldiers,
sprung almost spontaneously from her soil,
enriched, not by lime or guano, but by that
far greater fertilizer, patriotism. With most
commendable promptitude did the gallant
men of the Northwest enter the ranks of the
nations defenders, showing their just appre-
clifton of their duty as American freemen.
Nobiy, indeed, have they sustained the con-
fidence which that promptitude inspired in
their bravery.
And for what did they go forth to battle !?
Was it against some foreign foe? Was it to
adopt suicidal policy, and sever with their
own hands the ties that bind together the
members of our beloved Union No! In be-
half of a far different and far hoier cause
was their aid invoked It was to strike down
the ruthless bands that had been raised to
overthrow the Government. It was not so
much to avenge the insults offered to the
Amirican flag, as to maintain the majesty of
the law, and preserve the integrity Of the Re-
public. It was for this they marched to the
theatre Of war, to battle and to glory. Bril-
..liantly CLOVIS their patriotic zeal in the fame
of their deeds. ,...s ...s.. ~.
And now, whilst those gallant spirits are
standing firmly, resolutely, and with daunt-
less yalor, in battle array, for the preservation
of our common country, have we no duty to
perform? Whilst they peril their lives, and
freely shed their blood for US aud for our lib
critics, shall we who remain at home, we who
urged them to enlist, we who animated them
to the strife BY words of cheer and patriotic
counsel-shall we Signominously desert the
cause they hold 50 sacred. and prove ourselves
false to our professions, false to honor, and
false to patriotism? Heaven forbid. o'sni
It behooves us to beware Of all who, in this
hour of our country's most imminent peril, !,
expend all their energies in opposition to their
own Government. And am 1 asked If ad'
lvocate slavish adherence to the acts and doc
trines of an administration, reply promptly
and emphatically, No! On the contrary, l
deem an honest and temperate criticism OF the
measures of our public men salutary cheek
upon our official course-a sort OF balance
wheel in the machinery of our democratic
Government. Uniformly have deprecated
intolerance of political, as well as religious
sentiment, believing in the exercise Of charity
toward all men, neither arrogating to myself
nor admitting in others, infallibility of judg
sment. But such of US as stand aloof from
the strict discipline Of any mere political or
eanizati0n, and recognize now the existence
Of DO other parties than those for and agains
the Union, are enabled dispasslonately to scru
tinize, and lmpartially to judge, the acts ant
declarations Of those who, in the progress 9
the war, have been NEST conspicuously prom
inent in the political arena. When the trai
tors fred upon the flag floating above tn
ramparts Of Sumter, the politicians Of tn
North rushed to the forum to denounce tn
Lvandslous act, and to proclaim their unalter
able attachment to that Union, for the PIE
sefvatien Of which they freely pledged, no
only the resources of the nation, but ais
their own individual efforts, estates and lives
Then the burial Of all old parties was decreed
The lamented Douglas, and all the public mel
at the North, proclaimed the imperative neces
nsity of forming and continuing during tn
war. one great party, and ono osly-the par
ty for Union-whose lofty aim should be tn
suppression of the rebellion and the mainter
ance of the Republic. That great Senate
remained till death true to his profession
faithful to his high purpose, earnest and il
'defatigable in support Of the Governmen
and uncompromisingly hostile to the rebellion
HIS ainos. dying words still echo in my ca
Would that they might sound in every eal
and touch every heart in the land The
can be no neutrais in this war only patrio