The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1863-03-26
For the Upton Advertiser.

March 18th. 1853.
M At meeting held at the school
house in ub-district Nc. 6, in Center
township, on the night of the 18th inst,
the house was called to order by Mr..
John Brown; and on motion Of Nr. Nc.
Galley, Joseph Howard was elected Pres
ident of the meeting; after which Col.
Swineford was called on to deliver a
speech. The Col, be i. remembered,
before committing himself desired some
person to state the object of the meeting,
whereupon Mr.. McCallcy arose and sta
ted to the audience that a coppcrhead
speech was what was wanted The Col.
remarked, that he thought they would not
get that sort of speech from him; and
then he pitched into the emancipation
policy Of the Communicating Chief of the
United States army. He said, that the
proclamation had not freed single slave,
and that it united the South, and divided
the North, He then quoted Wendell
Phillips, Horace Greeley and Thurlow
Weed as ruling the administration, and
finally made an indiscriminatc assault
upon the D. DIS, the church and the
sabbath schools; and said that the grand
cause of all our difficulty was that all the
institutions of the church taught Adolf
ton doctrine from the pulpit, the class
meeting and the prayer meeting. He
undertook to eclipse our patriotism by
displaying his own real or prctende /
horror of taxes; this was a vain effort Of
his, for we wish him and all others to
understand distinctly that we will sup
port our government and pay our taxes,
traitors and Copperhcads to the contrary
Notwithstanding.
Mr.. McCalley told US that there was
no religion in the church. It was all
abolition and no gospel. He quoted
Henry Clay Dean to prove the assertion
lie also told Us that the South was o0lv
contending for their rights under the
Constitution, and that if he were a south
ern man he would do as they have done.
Some of the boys whistled at this. He
replied that they might whistle and be
ID. These are some Of the sayings Of
these peacemakers. They told us that
Pres. Lincoln was a traitor; vet our wor
thy President, Mr.. Howard, had 10 word
OF reproof to offer to these speeches; but
as soon as they were told that they were
blaatlng treason, he arose to reprove for
using such harsh Ian guagc-sa i it woul5
irritate. know the paper Col. told US
and especially Mr.. Nee y, that we die
not know what treason was; to which
Mr.. Nicely replied that it consisted j,
levying war against the United States
and that their treason consisted in actu-
ally acknowledging that the tories of tb,
South were only contending for thei,
constitutional rights. This was quietI,
swallowed by the paper Col, Mr. How.
ard, j. Brown, j. Bunker and Moses
Criswell. At least they answered not.
Yet it must be Acknowledged that it was
very coolly received by the meeting.
Finally there was motion made tc
adjourn, but before it could be acted IN
on Paul W. johnson moved that we sun
port the administration in its efforts t,
put down the present. hellish rebellion
Although Mr.. Howard, upon request, hac
previously declined to express his views
he now found his powers of Speech
chord had been struck that looseped his
tongue. He arose and opposed the mo-
tion-sail he could see a disposition tc
know which party was the stron ges., and
he was opposed to it on that ground. I,
was very easy to see that the administra,
ton party would out-vote them two to
ono. If it had been otherwise there