, 1863-10-12
CAMPAIGN IN IOWA.
GREAT UNION GATHERING.
8 600 People Present.
A Big Victory Sure Tomorrow.

Correspondence Of the Chicago T11bane.
MUscATHE, Iowa, Oct. 10, 1858.
The loyal maeEes Of Muscatine and adjacent
counties met here In great numbers to-day rs
closing dsy Of the campaign. From 5000
o goo people were present, and I never
saw mora earnest and determined crowd. I
need giTe you no extended notice OF the diff:
fe1ent delegations that came streaming into
the city from until u o'clock, or tho va
1ious banners and devices they bore. They
were pretty much repittion of what has
been seen In many parts OF the State during
tie past Six Or eight weeks. The largest del.
egatton present from any one town was from
Goshen. It came carried in forty wagons,
and numbered about three hundred. One
Of the banners borne by the delegation had
on It this lending question: SIS Greek fire
constitutional?
The meeting was held in the Court House
Square, and was called to order at II o'clock.
Hon. Jacob. Butler Of this city was appointed
President, with number Of Vice Presidents
and Secretaries.
The frs: speaker introduced was Major
General 8. Y. Curtis. He began by saying
cept the preservation OF the Union. he
nanted the Republican party and the Demo
critic party to throw the issues UPON the
altar cf the country and uIitc With the SOL
diers' party The head of the Democratic
party WAS cut of, and wss now down South
IN Dixie. and what n6e Was thera in the tail
trying to Wiggle any longer. Gen. c. then
spoke Of the positIon he iad held in parties
before this struggle commenced-ofh his ex-
t.eme conaervatism-and what finally placed
him IN strong hostility to slavery. The slave.
holders took advantage Of weak hour in
OF q new and opposing President to the out.
going Administration, and his Inauguration,
to carry their treasopable designs into effect,
They Intended to establish slave arlstocr4cY
and put down what they called the Yankee
GoVeInment. For this conrse they started the
responsible for starting it. But It It Is ALLOW
60 10 continue, to SUCCEED, We are responsi-
bic tor 1t. It is now fixed fact. 1t Is now
Jour var; It Is now my war; It is not Dem
oc1at1c war. It l. our war and We must stand
up to tpe iss9e. No matter now how II orig
out. ANY man who stands aloof and Aays he
has no Interest In 1t, Is either traitor or q
fool, and he cannot escape from the alterna-
tire
Gen. Cn1tis then discussed the question of
the.constitutionaltty Of the war at considera:
said tEat the:Iebel States would not be CO.
creed Into sustaining the Lass; but Missouri
was; 50 vas kentucsy, aud Tennessee, aad q
large share Of Louiliana, Mtsslssippi, and 9th
er states; and they are daily wing loyal.
creed. You cannot carry On this war Without
force. Appeals to argument have failed.
They failed before tbs war vas commenced.
Tle rebels mean to destroy this Government,
and sou can OILY prevent them By coercion
Gen. Curtis related many Interesting Incl
denis as connected with slaves during his
campaign in Missouri and Arkansas; of his
giving free papers to slaves Of rebels when he
found them arrayed against our armies He
took them as captfves Of Waz from their mas
ters, just as the shareholders had taken them
feDded the Proclamation. It was military
measure, called forth By the exigencies Of the
case.
Senator Grimes, who had stopped from the
steamer on bis way home for fen minutes,
Was then introduced and received with great
lrg the State for the past six weeks, and he
was enabled confidently: to assert that we
4 ere on the ere ct victory which would
thrill the hearts OF the loyal people through
out the whole Union. The Union ticket
y double that ever given to any csndfda.a in
the State. He believed that grand Union
victory In this and other States, this fall,
would do more In crushing the rebellion than
any other event that could happen.
The meeting then adjourned until after
At two o'clock the me citing again Assem-
bled, and the President introduced to the au-
dience Hon. James Harlan. United States
Senator from this State. He was received
with applause.
tive Of Iowa, be said thai at tbs commence
ment Of this struggle, be WAS anxious to avoid
lt-and hoped that a compromise might be
effected. and thus prevent the eduslon Of
blood. He 1abored earnestly to that end.
Buthe finally saw that it could not, aud it
thcn proceeded to 1x the responsibility of
the conflict upon the administration Of
James Buchanan, who Was in power when
1t commenced, with the Rouse ct Represen
to do his bfdding-so that the whole respon-
eibil1tiea rested upon the Executive and his
Farty. The war WAS commenced under that
admlnistration-and when Abraham Lincoln
became the Executive, Federal forts. revenue
cutters, enns, ,s'a amm'unltion' &c'' where In the
Mr. 3. then gave long and succ1uct his
tory Of the attempt Of the Peace Congress to
effect compromise, and the reception which
It met with 1t the hands of the shareholders,
notwithstanding Congress had passed q law
forever torbiddlng any Interference BY the
existed in the states. But nothing was satis-
factory. They had determined to secede and
nothing but the power ofarmies would pre-
vent them. They commenced the war. And
get men say they are coustitutlonally right.
Mr. Il. then defined the duties Of the Pzesi-
dent to zee that the laws be. faithfully exc.
cuted, and that he could not escape from that
responsibility. He cannot permit these trail
tors TO dissolve the Union, and he would not,
notwithstanding the efforts Of traitors and
copperheads. Mr. Harlan discussed the
above and many other points, at considerable
length and With much force; and closed with
apowerful appeal to the people to do their
| whole duty Ee1t Tuesday.
a letter was here read from Gov. Yates Of
Illinois, regrettiDg bis inability to be pres.
ant ut this meeting. The letter WAS quite
iono and vs,v -','a and mas received with
hearty cheers.
The meeting WAS then addressed In Ger
man, by Rev. Mr. Overman OF this city.
! The prospects Of 4 glorious victory on
] Tuesday next a1e very cheering. The major
itics ill be very large. H1c- Hoe.