Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1863-04-10

We are indebted to Col Abbott, of the 30th
Iowa, for the vicksburg Wing and Jackson
M,ssissippian, both Of date March 25th. They
are poorly printed on a half sheet of dingy
paper, giving evidence of a poverty of print
ing materials in secessia. The subscription
price of the Wing is one dollar per month
and of the Mississippiam two dollsrs and fifty
cents per month, daily. The publisher Of the
former gives notice that all advertisements
must be paid for in advance, and that he will
not be responsible for money sent to him in
the mails, sowing to their deplorable derange-
ment and the rascality of many persons con-
nected with that department" .-
The Mississippian publishes the late
speech of Congressman voorhees,, of Indiana
the same which the Courier, of this city,
spread before its readers with SO much de-
light. The comments of the MississippiGn
are precisely in the same strain as the
Courie,'s-denouncing Lincoln as usurper,
tyrant, &C. The Missisappian closes its re-
marks as follows. How much it sounds like
Thayer's talk!
"Whatever may be said of the power of
Lincoln to crush out the Southern people, it
is certain that he is first confined to the task
of destroying the liberties of his own people.
We cannot believe that country which rears
such towering geniuses and steadfast lovers
of constitutional liberty as Vallandigham,
Voorhees, and Merrick can be made the foot
stool of the tyrant. Though the fawning IA
natics who feed upon the crumbs that fall
from the dlctator's table are willing to sing
his praise and endorse at once his vast usur-
pations and his future outrages, yet it cannot
be doubted that the masses, the sober think
ing masses, the men who love liberty for its
own sake, are waking from the dream OF
Southern conquest to witness the departure
of their own glory and the abasement Of their
own Great Charter of rights. Whether they
will consent to surrender into the hands of
one man their destiny, and tamely obey all
his Observation-Disclosures they will quietly give
up the blood-bought boon of constitutional
liberty-are among the developments Of the
future. We believe the voice of such men as
voorhees, finds an echo in the hearts Of three
fourths of the Northern people outside of
New England, and if they are not base era
vens they will not submit to the arbitrary
will of one man !" e+
How extremely solicitous the rebels are
about the constitutional rights" of their
Northern friends!
Here is an item from the same paper show
ing how the constitutional right" Of free
speech and free press is maintained at the
South: ... . @ ,a. !. t
DIS. E. STARR HANaED.-Saturday morn:
ing last, the Vigilance Committee resumed
the examination of Daniel S. E. Starr, who
was charged with having written an Abolition
book, which, we believe, was found in his
possession, but, as the examination was con-
Quoted in secret, we only speak from common
reports. It is understood that he had coun-
sci ct his examination. About 3 o'clock p. H.,
Starr was sent to Jail to await q trial before
the Circuit Court But the sequel shows that
he will never again appear before an earthly
tribunal. Daylight Sunday morning revealed
his body dangling from the limb Of tree in
or near the ravine in the north part of the
city. How it got there will probably never
be made public. The body was taken down
by his relatives, we believe, and in the after.
noon decently inferred. -Aontgome,y Nail,
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