Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1863-09-04
A True Verdict.

If at any time Gen. Tuttle stood the ghos,
of a chance of an election to the office Of
Governor of Iowa, it melted and vanished as
snow before summers sun, when such pa
pers as the Argus, Courier and Statesman
became his recognized organs. And Col.
Stone will be under lasting obligations to such
editors as Hutchins, Todd and Thayer, for
their efforts to defeat him and elect Tuttle.-
II we desired an Office in this county, the
6rst thing we should look to would be how to
incur the displeasure and opposition Of the
Muscatine Courier, and having secured these,
we should regard our calling and election
sure. e-... ..s o.,ta.ft .s,5f.so, .l .,- ..
This fact will not be lost sight of during
this campaign. that not a solitary loyal paper
in Iowa has yet rallied to the support of Gen.
luttle, nor one abandoned the election of
Col. Stone Not Union speaker has es-
poused the cause Of futile, and only because
that officer has associated himself with such
traitors and tories as Jones, Dodge, Byington,
Mason, Duncombe, Thayer and Wallace. A
fr INK and open reputation by Tuttle of the
Copperhead platform and refusal to accept
the Coppe'head nomination, accompanied
with the announcement that he was an inde-
pendent candidate upon Democratic war
platform, would have made it necessary for
the friends IF Col. Stone to use the most
superhuman exert;ons to secure his election
by small majority. a.d.
We have reached that point in the history
Of our country and Of this war where there
can be but two parties patriots and traitors,
loyalists and disloyalists- and for any man to
array himself with the one, is to oppose the
other He who is for the Union, without
condition or an if, will not be found seeking
political favors from those who have been
arrayed against the Government lf General
Tuttle was in earnest in his Union profess
ions, he wonld not be found with those who
have sympathized with nothing but rebellion.
In Wednesdays issue the Tuttle organ of
this county, the Courier, edited by one
Thayer, grows profoundly eloquent over Tut
tie, and deals in its characteristic slang con-
corning Col. Stone. 1t has been repeatedly
challenged to produce the proof of Stones
perfidy and dishonor, but with reckless dis
regard for truth repeats the vile calumnies
without blush upon his brazen countenance
Col. Stone, when here, challenged one word
of proof of the Cour.er's lying charges. We
have, in his behalf, repeatedly called for their
proof, and have as often been promised it, but
it comes not. The editor has thus placed
himself in the position of vile traducer Of
a character unimpeached-a wflful slanderer
and malignant falsiiier. In one issue this
tory organ lies about Stone, denounces the
policy of the Government and praises Tuttle.
This is the kind Of support Tuttle receives
Can it escape the observation Of any loyal
man? When ones cause is so weak that it
can receive no support except that inditfer-
emily given by tories, it is hopeless, and be-
yond redemption.
Tuttle has voluntarily thrown himself
among his worst enemies, and seeks from
their hands honors and emoluments. He has
taken his own life, and tine true verdict of th1
people in October will be-suicide. The sol
dier will meet the civilian at the inquest, and
say, while we admired his conduct on the
battlefield we despised his politics, which
with us were one thing, among our enemies
at home another and quite different thing.