Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1863-02-20

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publicanism, we are not to be swerved from
our plain duty. Our Republicanism is the
Constitution with all its guarantees-the
Union, one and indivisable, now and forever.
How stands the Auscatine Courier?
| Treason.
The men who oppose the further prosecu-
ton of the war to suppress treason have =
great dislike to be called "traitors" ''tories, ,"
&C., &c. We are aware that to call q man
traitor is to apply to him the most hateful and
opprobrious epithet. But we wish to make =
proposition upon the subject of treason
There can be no doubt in the mind of any
reading man that throughout the West, if not
the East, secret organization exists, whose
object is to oppose the Government, to aid
its enemies, to resist legally authorized
drafts and arrests, to disband our armies by
assertions, and, when in the face of the
enemy, to surrender or fire blank cartridges.
There can be no doubt of the existence of q
branch of this organization in this county.
Its members may be known by their bitter
opposition to the Administration and clamors
for peace. That they give aid and comfort to
our armed enemies needs only to be stated.
Whether, then. such men are guilty of treason
or deserving the name of traitors we leave to
the Courts.
Chief Justice Marshall, in the applications
of Bollman and Swartwout, confederates of
Aaron Burr, for discharge from custody on
writs of habsas corpIs, laid down this doc
trine: SIT is not the intention of the court to
say that no individual can be guilty of this
crime (treason) who has not appeared in
arms against his country, if the war be actu-
ally levied, that is, if body of men be actu-
ally assembled for the purpose of effecting by
force reasonable. purpose, all those who
perform any part, however minute, or how
ever remote from the scene Of action, and
who are actually leagued in a general con-
spiracy, ARE TO BE CONSIDERED As Traitors"
Under this doctrine we have right to in
sist, that those who are not for the Govern
ment, but with its enemies, are guilty of
treason. If you would not be called traitors
don't act like traitors.
~ Private letters from the 35th Iowa
assure us that there is not one word of truth
in the report so industriously circulated by
the Courier and its correspondents, that
changes in sentiment had taken place in the
regiment against the Administration. One
letter says there is talk of holding meeting
Of the regiment and denouncing the Courier.
Another, from an officer, who has every op-
portunity of knowing whereof he speaks.
says:
II know of none that have changed their
opinion in regard to the Administration, as
some private correspondent of Thayer's
would have you believe. With but few ex-
ceptions think the officers of this regiment
are here to stay till their times are out, and
not for money only, but to fight, do guard
duty or any thing they may be ordered to do"
Whereabouts Of Iowa Regiments.
But few Of our readers, we presume, are
able to keep fully advised of the movements
Of Iowa regiments. Through the kindness
Of Adj't. Gen. Baker, we are enabled to give
the following statement Of the present where
abouss of all our regiments. It may be re-
lied upon as correct:
The I'd Iowa Infantry is at Corinth; Sd,
9th and 9Th at Memphis or between there
and Corinth; 4th at Vicksburg; (the two
latter may have gone below lately 7th at
Corinth; 9Th, part at st. Louis, balance at
Davenport; 9th, 10th and 18th at Vicksburg;
18th, st. Louis and Davenport; 18th, Vicks-
burg 14th.. St Louis and Davenport 18th
and 18th, Vicksburg; 18th, in Tennessee
18th, Springfield, Mo-; 10th and Goth, Army
Of the Frontier in Arkansas; 21st, Houston,
NO.; 22d, Rolla, No.; 23d, Forsyth, Mo-; Oath,
Helena, Arkansas; 25th, 26th, 9th, Vicks-
burg; 28th, 29th, Helena, Ark; SOth and
S1st, Vicksburg 32d, Cape Girardeau, Mo-, !
and Island No. 10; SD, Helena, Ark; s4th
was in Chicago at last accounts 18th, Cairo
and Columbus; 36th, Helena, Ark; 37th,
st. Louis; 38th, New Madrid seth, Corinth;
10th, Columbus; s41st, battalion of three
companies Fl. Randall, Dakotah.
LIST Cavalry, Army of the Frontier, Ark: |
I'd, Lagrange. Tenn; Sd, part at Helena,
Ark; part at Houston, No.; 4th, Helena,
Ark; 9Th, Fort Henry, Tenn; 9Th, Daven.
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