Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1863-03-20

South Side V1eW-A N0t tOr Cop
perhead Democrats.
While WE talk of peace, do not let us ig-
more the spirit in which propositions for
peace are received by the South. 1t is but
fair to presume that the southern press is the
mouth-piece Of the southern people:
From tho Richmond Enquirer, Feb. II.
Among the foreign relations of the Confed-
eracy, none is at this moment more interest
ing than our relations with the States of In
diana and Illinois. It is represented to US
every day-and we know it to be q fact.
that the people of those States are heartily
tired of the war, as waged by the Abolitionists
strictly so-called, and are, in fact, contriving
and devising methods and excuses to get out
Of it, and to evade the share of the Yankee
war debt. democratic" Yankee Senators in
those States bring in strings of resolutions,
denouncing Lincoln's Government and proc
lamation, and declaring that they are not 60
ing to fight any more for the negro. This is
all very well, and highly encouraging to US,
as proving distraction and encouragement in
the enemy's camp; but it is also well for us
to understand, once for all, that the whole
affair means simply-exclusively- they,
the Democrats, ought to have the conducting
and the profits Of the ''war for the Union !"
that it is Democratic finance minister who
ought to have the striking off of 'green-
to supply the army and navy; Democratic
Generals who ought to lead; Democratic
printers who ought to print, and Democratic
thieves who ought to steal.
To prove that this is all that is meant, we
might be content to cite Vallandigham-that
mighty friend of the South, who cries out, as
stupidity as Lincoln himself, that there can be
no secession, because the Mississippi runs
from North to South.
Just as we have believed all the while
The opposition to the measures of the adj
ministration of Mr.. Lincoln means that a por.
ton of the Democratic party, who have from
their infancy hung around the public cribs
and whose highest ambition was to get an
Office upon false representations of honesty
men who have brought that party into disre
pute and to the verge of ruin-it means, We
repeat, that these fellows have mt the con
troll of the green-back machine; they don't
every man of them, get contract; they dom
get all the appointments; they can't contro
as much as they did. Give them the reins
of Government, and, as the Enquirer says
they would be as much in favor of war as
any body.
But how does the South respond to ou'
propositions for peace? What think they O
the Northwest? The Enquirer answers a.
follows:
Let us respond, then, to the sympathies o
the Northwest in the proper spirit-that is
with the bayonet. These fond feelings which,
(they say,) are gushing and flowing towards
us now, let us not rudely turn back to theil
spring in the Hoosier heart, but rather open
wide the source, and quicken the current, and
swell the volume of their love, by the only
means we have ever used with success, name
ly-horse, foot, and especially artillery.
And yet the Courier and its follower!
crawl on their bellies, and ask these south
erners, who spurn and despise them, to take
them in and give them few crumbs from
the table of slavery Oh! you cowardly pal
troons; the very negroes hold you in con
tempt. You can't make yourselves thei
equals. You ought to be conscripted, with
out benefit of clergy, and differed by tn
dark skinned race. You are too cringins
and cowardly to be called white men.