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Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1863-10-09

l"Among the recent developments is a
letter written by Frankie Pierce in 1860, to
JEFF. Davis, promising aid and comfort from
the North to the rebel cause-a promise
whi:h the Copperheads are working hard to
make good -Muscatine Journal.
The impudence of the federal Postmaster
at Mnscatine, in charging treason upon the
patriot and Statesman Franklin Pierce, whose
ancestors fought to achieve American inde-
pendence is only excelled by his utter pow
erty of truth --DesMoimes Statesman.
That our readers may see the sort of trea-
son this central organ Of Iowa toryism and
especia! champion of Gen. Tuttle endorses,
we give an extract from Pierce's letter:
"W1THouT DISCUSSING THE QUESTION OF
R1sHT,-of abstract po,0er TO sEcEDF, haue
never bslieced TINT ACTUAL DISRUPTION OF THE
UNION CAN OCCUR WITHOUT BLOOD; AND IF
THROUGH THE MADNESS OF NORTHERN ABB
OLITIONISTS THAT DIRE CALAMITY MUST
CONE, THE FIGHTING WILL NOT BE ALONG MA
SON AND DIxoN's LINE MERELY. IT WILL BE
WITHIN OUR OWN BORDERS, IN OUR OWN STREETS
AND BETWEEN TIE TWO GLASSES OF CITIZENS TO
WHOM HAVE REFERRED. THOSE WHO DEFY
LAW AND SCOUT CONSTITUTIONAL OBLIGATIONS.
WILL, IF WE EVER REACH THE ARBITRAMENT OF
ARMS, FIND OCCUPATION ENOUGH Af HONE"
What stronger language could be used to
encourage jeff Davis and his associates in
treason to inaugurate the rebellion? 1t was
such assurances as these that led the cospira.
tors to expect success. Franklin Pierce a
.'patriot and Statesman" forsooth
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1863-10-09

EXCHANGE OF PaIsoNERs.- Psrfly.
-Th rebels, in violation of the cartel for the
exchange of prisoners, lately declared all the
prisoners 10000 in number) who were cap
tured at Vicksburg by Gen. Grant, exchanged,
without notifying our authorities of the fact.
In consequence of this, our Government has
given notice that all Federal prisoners who
were paroled before the 1st of September
have been exchanged. As the latter did not
number more than 10000 men, there is bal
ance of 10, 900 men in our favor. All civilians
who were captured by the rebels and paroled
previous to the 9Th of May have also been
exchanged.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1863-10-09

ANOTHER TUrTLE PLATroRM.-The princi
pal advocate of the election of Tuttle is the
Chicago Times. The Rebel State Committee
have recommended the circulation Of that
paper throughout the State to aid his election.
The following editorial extract from the Chi
cago Times gives the platform on which that
paper is working for him:
CHE WHO SUPPORTS THE WAR is
AGAINST THE UNION, because the war is
the most terrible engine for the destruction of
the Union which Belzebub himself could have
Invented. THE PROFESSED DEMOCRAT,
therefore, who has his senses about him and
is deliberately FOR THE WAR, is not Dem
ocrat in fact, but an Abolitionist of the most
radical, violent and destructive kind"
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1863-10-09

LOYALTY TO CoUNTRY.-The Rev. Dr.. Bush
nell thus defines LOYALTY:
",Loyalty is no subject of law or legal def
milton. 1t belongs entirely to the moral de-
partments of life. 1t is what a man thinks
and contrives, not as being commanded, but
of his own accord, for his country's honor
great sentiment, his deep and high devotion,
the fire of his habitual or inborn homage to
his country's welfare 1t goes before all Con-
stitutions, and goes by the letter Of all stat
utes, to do and suffer, out of the spontaneous
liberties of right feeling, what the petty con-
structions and laggard judgments of the State
cannot find to compel. It does not measure
itself by what the Constitution or the laws
prescribe. 1t has no art of contriving, for
itself and others, how to hide from the coun-
try behind the Constitution. 1t loves what
the Constitution loves and keeps it only the
more rational that it will even die for its OBJ
iectsn . -..
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1863-10-09

REBEL TESTIMONY TO THE EFFECT OF THE
EMANCIPATION PRocLAMATIoN.-In a plain
letter to Gov. Seymour, Peter Cooper, of New
York, relates the following, as having BEEN
told him by Provost Marshal Dean, of St.
Lois. in support Of an assertion that I" the
proclamation of freedom has done more to
weaken the rebellion and prevent foreign re-
cognition than any other measure that could
have been adopted"
"On bis late visit to my house, he inform
ed me that he had brought on large number
of rebel officers and men to be exchanged at
Fortress Monroe During their passage lie
took the opportunity to ask the officers in a
body what eff ct the Presidents proclamation
Of freedom had produced in the South. Their
reply was to use their own vulgar mode of
expression) that "it had played hell with
them" Mr. Dean then asked them how that
could be possible, since the negroes cannot
read? To which one Of them repl ed that
one of his groes had told him Of the proc
lama ion five days b fore he heard it any
other way. Others said their negroes gave
them their first information of the proclana-
ton. One of these officers then said with a
defiant air that if we would only leave them
their corn, their bacon and their homespnn,
which their negr es produced, they would
fight US twenty years."
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1863-10-09
RT Some idea of the length Of time

(lgY Some idea of the length OF time re
quired to reinforce Gen. Rosecrans from
Vicksburg may be obtained by considering
The stance between that city and Chattanoo-
ga. First, there are 347 m Is Of steambo t.
ing to Memphis, and next, by railroad from
Memphis to Chattanooga is 800 miles. But
The road is not open all the way. Trains
run regularly to Corinth and Julia, the latter
1l5 miles, and it is not unlikely that the road
NAV have been opened to Decatur, 70 miles
further east There should, too, be railroad
com nunication between Stevenson and Chat
tanooga, by means of TIE Nashville and Cen
trail road, the distance between these fwo pa.
ces being 81 miles. But we Can hardly reck-
on on more than, say, zoo miles, if so much
of railroad transportation between Memphis
aad Chattanooga. The transfer of tr ops
began several days ago, even before there had
been any battle between Ros. Grams and
B.agg.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1863-10-09

wThe Muscatine Courier, which is now
begging the soldiers votes for Tuttle, pub
lished along article on the 14th of last July
in condemnation of the statute allowing
them to vote. The following is an extract,
referring to the decision of the State Court Of
Wisconsin against the validity of the law:
"There are so many ADMIRABLE reasons for
this conclusion that the day is not far distant
when people will be unwil ing to believe that
the project was ever seriously contemplated. J"
Soldiers, how do you like this evidence Of
Copperhead regardf Is 1t not an "admira-
Bile reason" to say nothing of more weighty
ones Of principle, why you should spurn the
Cour;er's candidatesi ,as-
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1863-10-09
a~ The Maine election returns from 4,

sw The Maine election returns from 476
cities, towns and plantations, make Cony's
Union) majority 1888, which is net gain
of II 1874 over Coburr's majority in the same
towns last year. The total vote thus far is
11e,299, being the largest ever thrown in the
State except at the two last Presidential cleo
tons. There is only one Democratic Sena or
chosen, whose election is to be contested. The
House stands 120 Union to 81 Democrats, a
net Union gain of 26 over last gear.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1863-10-09

w The Vallandigham orators in Ohio are
driven to queer inventions to sustain their
cause and candidate One of them asserted
the other day that President Lincoln has de
termined to enforce amalgamation, by con-
scripting large number of white young
ladies', who will be compelled, nolens volens,
to accept husbands selected for them from the
black brigade! Such an impression has been
made on the Copperhead female mind by this
invention of the enemy, that at recent pro-
cession at an Ohio Vallandigham meeting,
a large wagon load Of lorn damsels bore aloft
banner with the pathetic legend, "Fathers,
saus your daughters from negro equality"
Some day when the misguided tools of trail
tors and their allies wake up, there will be
dire indignation at the industrious zeal cf the
fellows who now Gle in wait to deceive" the
peop in the behests of the rebellion.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1863-10-09
Think of 1t!
The titles to your land-the value of your

money-the security to person and property
all depend upon the maintenance Of the Gov
ernment. If the rebellion succeeds our
paper money is worth nothing-the pensions
to widows and orphans are worth nothing
How foolish, then, with our all depending
upon the result Of the struggle, is it for any
one to embarrass the government by voting
for the party which is throwing difficulties in
the way Of the administration, and by this
means, as the traitor Maury says. giving
''aid and comfort to the South" The Cop
perhead leaders Of the North wish to get into
power in order to oppose the government
more effectually-in which they have the
earnest prayers Of the rebels-and yet there
are men considering themselves loyal who
are foolish enough to support the tory ticket.
1t is suicide-it is ma ness
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1863-10-09

W It has been noticed that the Copper
heads became suddenly dove like IN their
venom after the capture Of Vicksburg, Port
Hudson, Knoxville, Chattanooga, Little Rock,
&c. They hung their heads like bull-rushes,
and went about the streets like mourners at a
funeral. The rebels noticed this change, and
the Richmond Enquirer prays for victory at
Chattanooga, that "the peace men of the
United States may once more assert their
manhood, and speak rut as they did before
the late disasters had choked their utteran-
ces. s."-Erchange.
There is nothing that the Copperheads so
much desire at this time as a rebel success at
Chattanooga, or at some other important
point. The community of interests between
Copperheads and traitors is apparent to any
man that can distinguish his right hand from
his left. Breckenridge, Wood and Vallan-
digham, and those who desire the election of
Vaandigham, it is self-evident are engaged
in common cause. 1t matters not how
amiable may be the manners or how delusive
the ''grin" assumed by these gentlemen who
fraternize with traitors, they will be ranked
with the men with whom they associate and
GympathiZe, in all future time.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1863-10-09

WThe fugitive rebel Governors of the
Trans Mississippi States Messrs. Reynolds
of Missouri, Flanagan of Arkansas: Moore
of Louisiana, and Lubbock of Texas (the lat
ter not yet fugitive) have just been in con-
vention at Marshall, Texas, to consider the
present aspect of affairs in that region They
have issued an address reviewing heir mis-
fortunes, setting forth their bright prospects,
urging renewed efforts, and announcing that
the Western section Of the Confederacy will
seek no destiny separate from that of the reb-
ell States east of the Mississippi. They have
also established themse yes as Committee
Of Public Safety for the purpose Of helping
the fortunes Of the Contederacy.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1863-10-09

PREs1IcE's LAsr.-The Louisville journal
says that there is no use "talking about ne.
gotiations with the Richmond Government.
Our NEGOTIATIONS must be with the rebels in
the field and the sooner these negotiations
come to head the better. All those in the
Federal armies in favor of requiring the
South to submit to the Union snd the Con.
stitutiou will signify'it by holding up thsi'
arms Allsthose in rebel armies in favor Of
yielding to the requirement will signify it by
lavsnq doom ths;r arms or running"
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1863-10-09

tw Another remarkable article from the
Raleigh On. CO. Standard has appeared, urg-
ing the Shareholders of that State to stop the
war and save their slaves by compromise II
would be difficult to imagine stronger proof
than the Standard furnishes of the value Of
the emancipation proclamation.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1863-10-09
MUSCATINE, IOWA, FRIDAY. OCTOBER 8, 1863

attend our last Grand Rally of the campaign
on the 10Th, provided he is not ordered to the
fed before hat time, | am ready to return
home
P. ST. cannot omit mention of ONE Of
the signs of the times. Last Winter pass
ed over the splendidly equipped Alton & St.
Louis Road-none better in the country-and
was continually vex d at what called But
ternut tendency, being the demand for the
Chicago Times at every station. When the
tran-boy stepped off the Times was the rage,
and a 81 ht of Tribune or journal was a
rarity How the scene is changed. On my
passage from Chicago to Springfield, Deca
tur, and back, think il safe to say did not
see twenty five copies of the Times being read
or purchased, while the great wish was for
the Tribune. Such is the change in public
sentiment 1t will continue, and Butternuts
will find their political graves much SCORE:
than the y anticipated. W. F. D.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1863-10-09

10y The name Of the battlefield of the
10Th and goth inst, where Rosecrans fought
the combined four rebel armies of Bragg,
Buckner, Johnston and Longstreet, is Chica-
mauga. 1t is the name of river which rises
in the Northwest part of Georgia, and enters
the Tennessee in the State of Tennessee, a
few miles above Lookout Mountains.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1863-10-09

a. The Texas expedition, marching over
land through Louisiana, in three columns,
under Gems Franklin, Weitzel and Heron,
has again been heard from. At last accounts
no enemy had been encountered, but the COL
umns were still marching on"
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1863-10-09

az Officers belonging to Gen. Grants
army, absent on furloughs, have been or
dered to join their commands immediately
This indicates active work. The battles of
Chicamauga have put all our armies in mo-
ton, or rather in preparation for notion
We are on tho eve of grand events. @ b.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1863-10-09

tW Hear Gen. Grant: II am not an abo-
litionist. 1 never was an antislavery man,
but try to Judge everything honestly and
fairly. 1 am satisfied that the North and
South can never live in peace except as one
nation and that free nation" oa y -r9l
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1863-10-09
VINO ARE ENTITLED TO VorE Art. 2, Sec

Who ARE ENTITLED TO VoTE Art. 2, Sec.
1, of the Constitution of Iowa, says:
every white male citizen Of the United
States at the age Of q years, who shall have
been a resident of this State six months next
preceding the election, ard Of the county in
which he claims his vote sixty days, shall be
entitled to vote at all elections which are
now and may be hereafter authorized by
law
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1863-10-09

az The celebrated Indiana Copperhead,
D. W. Voorhees,, said in speech at Sullivan,
Ind, and repeated the same sentiment in Fay
cite township, Vigo county, that "the soldier
now in the field. who was for assisting old
Abe in the prosecution Of his Abolition proc
lamation to its full extent, ought to have o
collar around his neck inscribed upon it in
large letters "Lincoln's Dog r" H.t
This is the vile tory whom the Courier
honored by printing his speech in full.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1863-10-09

w The following rem may be read aloud
by sufferers from the season malady:
"Eddrybody may dod hab the infuedza
bud id is certainly beddy fashionable, add
the debad for pocked handkerchiefs bay be
quoted brisk. Bonesed, hoarhound, brooch
es, and stig ligorice in agtib request
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1863-10-09

STATE RIGHTs AND THE UNIoN.-Mr. Peter
Co per, of New York, in letter addressed
to Governor Seymour, puts in very clear
and forcible light the great truth that the
saving of the Union is duty paramount to
that Of maintaining State rights. No State,
he argues, could have achieved or maintained
its independence without the aid Of the 9TH
ers nor could any single State now exist
separately from the Union, except feebly and
amid ever recurring wars, as do the Central
and South American republics. Therefore
State rights, properly so called, can only be
maintained within the Union. The Union is
necessary to their vitality; and the best way
of upholding any essential power Of the
States is by upholding the rightful authority
and vigor of the Union.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1863-10-09

W- Gen. Lytle has died Of the wounds
received in the battle Of Chicamauga. His
family in Cincinnati have received dispatch
this sad intelligence, i3s BIB q
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1863-10-09
The Only use OF u COpperhead
-- - Party.

The Richmond Enquirer in referring to the
attitude of political parties says: 1.-THE Dem.
ocratic party is of the utmost Importance to
US in stimulating disaffection among the Yam
KEGS against their own Government, and in
demoraliz'ng and disintegrating society in
that God abandoned country" And it adds
the following suggestion, which has signifi'
cance in connection with the recent move.
ment Of Lees army: s|.r M
"Let Lee drive Meade into Washington,
and he will again raise the spirits of tho Dem
ocrats, confirm their timid, and give conf
dence to their wavering. He will embolden
the Peace party should he again cross the Po-
tomac, for he will show the people of Penn
Sylvania how little security they have from
Lincoln for the protection of their homes. 1t
matters not whether the advance be made for
purposes of permanent occupation, or simply
for grand raid it will demonstrate that, in
the third year of the war, they are so far from
the subjugation of the Confederate States that
the defense of Mary land and Pennsylvania
has not been secured"
jeff. Davis and their crew estimate at their
true value the results of Democratic f" VIC
tories at the North With Woodward in the
executive chair of Pennsylvania, Vallandig-
ham in that of Ohio, and the Mabony faction
in power in Iowa, it would not be unreasona-
BILE for them to expect civil war here that
would so paralyze the arm of the Government
as to defeat its military operations, and ensure
the triumph of the rebellion.
The copperhead prints throughout the
North, do not hesitate to declare that if VAL
landigham is elected, he will be taken to
Columbus and there inaugurated in spite of
the national authorities. The traitor Maury,
aware of this design, writes to the London
Times:
''Vallandigham waits and watches over the
border, pledged, if elected Governor of the
State of Ohio, to array it against Lincoln and
the war, and to g. for peace What the re
sult of the election there will be cannot
tel, but the canvass is going on, and we
know that opposition to Lincoln and his war
party is growing more and more popular
every day, and throughout the whole North. :"
The main dependence of the conspirators in
this struggle has been upon the Northern
through whose policy they have
hoped to protract the war, until the people,
tired of the struggle and exhausted by the
drafts upon them, would be ready to submit
to disunion peace.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1863-10-09

az Some men, who appear to love party
better than country, are terribly afflicted
with Aabeas corpus they have h,beas cor
pus on the brain. A little gooa Union tonic
would cure them. o1,9- fasu
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1863-10-09

WTwo millions and half of postage
currency have been retired. The issue Of the
fractional currency which is to take it's place
was to have commenced on Friday. and six or
seven dollars worth were printed, but its ap-
pearance not being satisfac ory, its destruc-
ton was ordered, and the issue has been in
definitely pOstponed Y ~ ----.-- Ill
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1863-10-09

Treasury notes, altered from 2s to SOS, are
in circulation. A man named Jacob Trapp
has been arrested in Buffalo for passing them.
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1863-10-09

SUSPENSION OF THE Wharf.-The sacred
writ of ha6sds corpus, welded by disloyal
men for disloyal purposes, remarks the Alba
ny Eoening JourndD, threatened to BATTLE
the efforts of the Government to strengthen
the army and so give the finishing blow to the
accursed rebellion. a bevy of briefless bar
risters in the city of New York had found a
plant judge ready. for consideration. no
doubt, to issue all the writs applied for upon
any sort Of evidence. The process had been
so thoroughly systematised that men could be
released by the writ faster than they could be
drafted and examined. And the same class
of lawyers in our own city had laid their
plans for an active business in the same d.
rection whenever the draft should commence
here
But the proclamation of the President has
nipped all these finely laid schemes in the
bud; and alll rebeldom and all copperhead
dom will howl out their indignation accor
dinghy.
But let them howl So howled the Feder-
alists against Gen. Jackson's suspension Of
the writ in 1914. But the loyal people re-
joiced and sent the discomftted conspirators
into a retiracy from which they never
emerged
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1863-10-09


THE OATH Bound TRAIroRs.-The editor Of
the Montezuma Republican has come in pos
session of copy Of the cath administered to
members of the "Order of the Star" (the
same which was exposed in the affidavit Of
Mr.. Rogers, as published by us week or
two since) The following are two of the
most important sections of the oath:
"That you will not voluntarily take up
arms against brother of this organization,
North or South.
"That you will not tell, divulge or make
know to any man, woman or child out of this
order the proceedings, signs, grips, and pass
words of this order, so help you Cd, under
the penalty of DEATH"
jeff. Davis could not desire more faithful
servants than the men who are spreading
treason throughout the North by organizing
lodges of this order. If he can prevent the
people of the North from enlistng in the
army to fight their Southern BRETHREN" it
will be an easy matter for him to fix up mat
ters to suit himself. Every miscreant who is
thus bound by solemn oath not to fight
rebels and to resist the draft will vote for
Tuttle. Can patriots vote with them
Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1863-10-09

CoLoRED TRooPs.-According to state
ment In the New York Times, the numerical
strength of the colored regiments actually in
the field is somewhat over 10000 men-less
than has been generally supposed. This num-
ber does not include colored men who have
been regularly enlisted in the service and now
employed as teamsters and in various other
capacities by the Government. The number
so employed is about $4,000. The skeleton
regiments scattered through the country
principally in the Southwest) are being rap
idly recruited to their maximum standard,
and before the end Of the year it is estima-
ted that the Government will have 1000
negro soldiers in the field
1t is the opinion Of eminent military men
that colored regiments will form the basis of
our future armies, and that the Government
will have to rely mainly on colored troops to
finish up the rebellion.