Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1863-03-20

What Old Line Democrats Think.
We have repeatedly charged that the cop
perhead organ in this city does not give to its
readers the position occupied by the Democ-
racy of the North, outside of this county
We know there are many persons who read
no other paper but the Courier, and who are
consequently unapprised Of the great re-ac-
ton taking place in the public mind in rela-
ton to the present war and its conduct. We
wish we might reach them-we know that
the Courier will not give them the truth
Our readers may be assured that we shall en-
brace every opportunity to give them not only
the opinions of Republicans, but also of DEM
ocrats who are the friends of the Union
We ask them to give free circulation to such
quotations as We may from time to time make
from true Democratic opponents. A few days
since the Courier, in long editorial upon
John Van Buren,, endeavored to show that he
stood alone and was an unreliable Democrat.
How far the first is true we leave for the
Chicago Post, the organ of Stephen A. Doug
las while living, in its issue of last Thursday,
to tell:
every Democratic paper in the State Of
New York repudiate the doctrines of Ben.
Wood, Vallandigham. and the Chicago Times,
and endorses Seymour, Van Buren,, and Bra
dy. They repudiate everything looking, how
ever remotely to, a separation of the States,
and all ilsist that the Democratic party shall
be true to its great destiny-the maintenance
and preservation of the American Union
Shall the Democracy of Illinois separate from
their brethren of the East, and become the
advocates of disunion, national ruin and indi-
vidual beggary?"
In another column we publish from the same
paper an appeal to the Democracy of the
North West, to which we call special atten-
ton.
We quote below from the New York Her.
aid, a sheet that certainly no man will call
abolitionist," as an evidence of the reaction
in public sentiment. As Mr.. Thayer wor.
ships Vallandigham as one of his political
Gods, that gentleman may count himself in.
'Vallandigham, BOBBY Brooks, Ben. Wood
ana the RESI- VI TIC CopperneauS WHO nave
been performing their antics in this city are
mere agitators. Not one of them has the
brains, to say nothing of the training and ex-
perience, requisite for statesmen. They are
fit to belocal demagogues or ward politicians,
but have no capacity for national affairs
They remind us of what a New Hampshire
farmer said of poor Pierce, who proved so
miserable a failure as President. Frank
PIERCE said he, was great man here in the
Granite State; but when he was spread over
the whole Union, he was SO mighty thin there
was nothing of him. In the same way there
is nothing in such noisy men as Vallandig-
ham, Brooks and Wood, when they attempt
to discuss the affairs of the nation rent, as it
is, by civil war. They are all froth, sound
and fury. Some of them are counting mar
tyrdom but we trust the Government will
not crafty their aspirations. To arrest them
would be to give them importance and in
crease the excitement which their inflamma-
tory appeals are intended to produce"
What say you Democrats of Muscatine p
You are surely being left out in the cold
Will you return to your allegiance, Or will
you follow blind leaders, and bring ruin upon
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