Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1863-01-16
MORE THAN A CLUB MEETING
The Unterrified and Unwashed I'm
Grand POW.vVOw.
Judge Thdyer delivers "a most able, logical
and patriotic speecAr'
CEDAR COUNTY o X!

ResolUed, No. 9, "That it is due to the
people that their expression at the ballot-box
should be regarded; that by that expression
the people have most emphatically said that
they were tired of this unholy war"
Is it possibles Did Iowa, Missouri, Mas
sachusetts, Wisconsin, Michigan and Mime
sofa, at the polls in October, declare they were
tired of this unhsly war? Did the unques-
toned patriots of Illinois, Indiana, Pennsyl-
vania and New York express themselves at
the ballot-box at the last election upon the
subject matter Of your resolution
You know full we'll that your resolution,
No. 2, is plain and palpable lie. You know
that patriots filled the ranks Of our grand
army, while tories, like yourselves, remained
at home to seize upon the public Offices
You know, too, that your professions Of 10y
atty and patriotism were as deceitful as the
evil one, whom you counsel with.
You undoubtedly refer to New York, In
diana, Illinois and Pennsylvania as having
expressed themselves tired Of the war; Were
there no others who expressed themselves on
that subject? Oh! you don't count the SOL
diers' vote any thing-oh, no! But, butter
nuts, they'll count you as nothing less than
nothing when they shall return to more ac-
tive participation in the affairs Of State
They will deal with you as your merits richly
deserve.
RESOLVED, No. 4, "That we have always
corded to others the right to criticise and
freely comment upon the acts of public otfi-
GERS, x and we claim the same priv
ilege for ourselves, and will resist to the lds1
extremity any and all attempts, from what
ever source they may come, to abridge or IN
terfere with such rights"
That is to say, if you wish to talk treason
or give aid and comfort to the enemies of the
Government by denouncing that Government
or otherwise, and the lawful authorities shall
interfere, you'll resist to the last extremity
at the point of the bayonet.
Gentlemen, try your hands at the game
1t has been played. If you think it will win
go right in. You may the sooner obtair
your just reward, tneTeOy.
Query Is it fact that several hundred
armed men assembled in Cedar county las
week and declared their determination to re
sst draft, together with the encroachment.
of the abolition cabal at Washington p
Prominent Democrats should be more guard
ed in their conversation before children.
In days that are passed we recollect how
our heart thrilled with joy as we read and re
read that noble American sentiment,
"Tho Union. and forever, and iuseparable.
Amid the clang of arms-the sounds o
the rolling drum-the quick rattle of musk
etry-we have lost none of our love for tina
sentiment. 1t is doubly sweet to our ears
as the music that charms the soul when trou
>bled on every hand. What American ha
not been stirred to the very depths Of hi
being over "THE UNION, NOW AND FOREVER
ONE AND INsEPARABLE?" God preserve to u
the memory of its author. It has been lef
to the Democracy of Cedar county to declar'
it obsolete, and that very patriotic body ha'
instituted in lieu thereof the one more con
sistent with their hatred of common coun
try, stretching from the Atlantic to the Pacific
The Great Mississippi Valley, now one
forever, one and insepara5le."
Democrats of the olden time, how like 70,
that? Isn't it a sweet morsle? With you
which shall it be-"The Union," or "Tht
Mississippi Valley" "now and forever, ont
and inseparablc?" Soldiers of the Republic
What say you?