Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1863-08-14
An Advocate Of Secession.


We have very distinct recollection. that
at about the time ten-cent Jimmy" went
out of the White House at Washington,
followed by the prayers Of Floyd and Wig
fall, a number of distinguished gentlemen rep.
resenting chivalrous constituencies in the
Sunny South said to the Summers, Wades,
Shermans and Lovejoys of the North: "Gen-
tlemen, back square down from your Chicago
platform, abandon your puritanical notions
concerning our colored population, or we,
as representatives of the land of chivalry and
negro concubines, bloodhounds and bowie
knives, will leave these halls of legislation,
and thereupon the sovereign States we here
represent will leave the Union and de, lare
the partnership existing for more than eighty
years dissolved" The t'puritanical fanatics
aforesaid, having examined the Chicago plat,
form, found it very elevated one, and to
back down from it would be a very dangerous
undertaking, and therefore very wisely con-
concluded not to back down, but to stand
upon it until time should demonstrate its
weakness and unfitness.
Accustomed to ready obedience at home
on their plantations, the chivalry smelled the
battle of the irrepressible conflict from a
short distance, unless they recalled their i'm
perious demands. Their education had been,
that when a niger was commanded, he must
obey-that his masters wish was law, and
never having been defed by their property,
really thought themselves monarchs of all
they surveyed. They couldn't back down
no, not they! So they carried their threats
into execution and dissolved partnership witt
the mud-sills," greasy mechanics ard poo
white trash of the North. The white men o
the North for once proved themselves supe
rior to the black men. Threats would not in
timidate them or cause them to deviate from
the path Of duty.
Well, as we said before, they went out lik
unclean spirits, and if they had only possess
ed the good sense or devilish spirit of som
Biblical swine, and gone doaon into the sea
the world would have been better of, provid
ed the sea was deep enough. Their goin,
out was called secession, and that is very
legal treason. After they went out, the
must Of course stay out, or have their pro
gramme fail. To stay out would necessaril
involve fighting, and this would be the ove'
act. Secession we say is treason.
With this preface, we approach our sui
ject, for an Introduction of which into n
spectacle society we beg pardon of our in
aaaaiigsnf readers. heeubjectis the loyalt
of the Muscatine Courier. The text is take,
from last Saturdays paper, in the following
words: ,e,
"If, when Congress meets next Decembe,
it sh II be found that the Administration ha
succeeded in obtaining q majority of Abo
tionists in the House of Representative,
through the fundamentally ofsuch orders q
were issued in Kentucky, we boldly declas
that we believe God and the country will 20
ever smile upon the Democratic party, if Den
ocratic members leave the House, break up
quorum, and prevent abolition legislation -
From careful reading Of the context, "
takeit, that this great apostle Of South Car,
lima Democracy in Iowa. means this: TIL.
on the fifth day Of August, by virtue of Law
aState election came off in Kentpcky-ths
it containsa very numerous body Of traitor
4s~hadAs II deeaepias The Federal Anthorit