Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1863-07-31

the SQulrrel-shooters of the beech forests OF
Indiana and Ohio. But they have proved
themselves equal to the emergency. All hon
or to them! e.. ..... l..s,..siss.a.. g.
Hon. John j. Crittenden.
The compeer Of Clay, Adams and Webster
has gone to that "bourne from whence nc
traveller returns" His great heart is still
his voice is hushed, and the memory and rec.
ord Of great man, a giant intellect, alone
remain to the people Of the Republic. The
death of such man, whose life was spent IN
the service of his country, in time of ma
tional peace would touch the tenderest string
of the public heart, and all patriots would
pause to do homage to his memory. Sur
rounded with the noise and tumult of civil
war, watching with eagerness and GREATNESS
suspense, the latest intelligence from the con-
quering armies of the Republic, the intelli-
gence of the death of John j. Crittenden will
be received as minor event Of the times.
We yesterday gave, in brief, biographi-
cal sketch of the great statesman. Born and
reared amid the surroundings of slave life, it
is not to be wondered at that he was some
what weddedl to the peculiar institution"
That he stood by the side of the great COM
morer of Kentucky. in his desire to see some
plan. of emancipation adopted, is we'll known.
The views of Clay and Crittenden were ider-
teal on the slavery question.
Our purpose at the present time is not to
rake up his record upon this, that,
or the other party question. With deep
regret and strong contempt, we have have
witnessed on the part of the rebel organs in
the North, who during his active lifewere his
most bitter and malignant enemies, a DISPOSE
ton to place the deceased patriot in the
gallery Of their saints. They would defy
him because of his authorship of the compro-
mise of 1861. That Mr.. Crittenden, citi-
zen Of a State containing large dis!oyal ele-
msnt and claimed by the rebel Confederacy,
true to his patriotic impulses and past record
on the compromise measures, should be
among the first and foremost to propose a
settlement of our unhappy difficulties, is not
strange. The North, having in fair and
constitutional manner elected its candidate
for President, upon clear and well defined
principles, could not reasonably be expected
to ignore the principles upon which he sue
ceeded. Mr.. Crittenden, honest in his pur-
poses, desired the success of his settlement"
but when it was insolently repudiated,
and the rebel demagogues declared
"that were they presented with blank
sheet of paper, they would not write their
own TERMS" so hostile were they to union
with the North, and thereupon opened their
guns on Sumter-then it was that Mr.. Crit
tenden sank the partizan in the patriot and
declared for war. Ard unlike the miserable
tools of disunion and rebellion, who would
now seek to profit in their damnable schemes
by his patriotic efforts, he stood faithful to
his trust as an American citizen, believing
his country moffe to be priced than party
That the difference between Northern spit
licking political demagogues and Mr. Critten-
den may be clearly seen, we make the follow
ing extracts from letter written by the old
patriot, in May, 1868, accepting the nomina-
ton for Congress: 8, ...1ss. inc.
'The compromise was rejected; the rebellion
and the war followed. 1t was a rebellion
without just cause; so 1 then thought and
so still think The Administration up to
that time, Mr.. Lincoln having been inaugura
ted, had done nothing of injustice to any
section, or State, or individual. Throughout
this great land no single individual could be
pointed out, to whom the Government had
done injustice no man from whom the Gov
eminent had taken property, or whose liber-
ties had been encroached upon no man who
had been unjustly imprisoned"
But you must prepare to fight the REBEL
ion through to the last, no matter whether
England or France, or any other power,
make common cause with them or not. We
must fight them all, if need be and we can
whip them all, in the defense of right.
don't want to extend the boundaries of this
war-God knows do not have tried to
make peace, as long as peace was consistent
with national safety. Now, l believe war alone
can save us, and war it must be.
x X Whether Hooker
has re-crossed the Rappahannock or not
whether. Richmond is taken or not whether
in defeat or victory, my determination is to
stand by and maintain the Government, and
do all lean to promote vigorous prosecu-
ton of the war;"
No hypocritical cant here, about emancipa.
ton, illegal arrests, arbitrary power-no de-
fence of rebellion. Cup to the time
of the rebellion the Administration O.
Mr.. Lincoln had done NOTHING of injustice
to any section, or State or individual.
War alone can save us and war it mus
be."so '.a .
Such, reader, is the latest record of grea
statesman and an earnest patriot, who's
light has gone out among US. His voice will
be no more heard in Senate Chambers, bu
its feeble echoes. still bid us " stand by ant
maintain the Government and do all we car
to promote a vigorous prosecution OF tn
war" Let us heed that .yoice, and stand by
OUT Government. sa t
~ At a public meeting in Westcheste,
county, N. Y, Mr.. Haskin, Democrat, said
that some one had questioned his right te
have colored man in his employ. He had
such aperson, and he was the man who first