Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1864-11-11

for Lincoln, "A tor McClellan-Union
gain 81.
Dies MONIES Observation-Disclosures
264 majority for Lincoln.
DUBUoUE.-Thec city $50 majority for
Mcclellan.
Education ~ the South.
Education is the palladium OF liberty.
Had the mass of the people at the
South been properly educated-had
they Leen taught to take comprehen-
sive view of the inheritance bequeathed
to the people of the United States by
the Revolutionary fathers-they would
never have been led by the bad and de-
signing men to raise their paricidal
hands against the flag Of their country.
We are in favor, therefore, of sending
Yankee schOolmasters among them to
teach them literature, ethics and loyal
ty. To this end we would be glad to see
the forfeited lands of the rebellious
States devoted to the establishment of
free schools. Education is among the
things that must needs be free III the
South. The secession leaders are par
ticularly hostile to popular intelligence,
and hate n. W England because she has
SO much of it. And the loyal portions
of the South, i'll every instance, are
those which have superior facilities for
education The average percentage of
attendance OH the public schools of
Kentucky just before the war was so,
while Pulaski county, near the Ten
nessee line, which has more Union sol
diers in proportion to population than
any other county, had SO per cent. OF its
children in the common schools.
A comparison of popular intelligence
In, loyal and rebel States is instanced:
The census gives the ratio of illitcrate whites
in the free states, for 1890 at 40 per cent; ID
that OF native white and free coiored IN Aiana-
ma, 800 per cent. were illiterate; In Georgia,
Tbs ~ 7@ee ist ST DE aieYth -&as
cent were illiterate, but in New Hampshire SUIT
81 in Maine but 81, in Rhode Island but Lei.
Mr.. Omstead gives in his "Seaboard slave
States" q table showing the native white ropu
lation and the native white adults ignorant Of
letters N a few states. Maine, with q native
white population oil 9.57i, had but ,999 Hitter
ate adults; North Carolina, with 5rl 2G7, had 81
225. Massachusetts, with si9,0H had but l.Oi5 H.
Iterate; Virginia; with S.l,8s:i hal 15sjs. IN
Louisiana, Of Isl, 500, li950 were
The rebel leaders have, in many IN
stances, seized upon the public school
books for reasonable purposes. By all
means let their confiscated lands con-
tribute to the re-establishment and eX-
tension of popular education. The Su-
perintendent of Public Instruction in
Kentucky well calls it 1.-THE bulwark
of nationality"
rea- Time was, and that not very long
ago, when the Constitution rs it is y
was the rallying cry of the Democracy,
both great and small. Now they are
very silent about "the Constitution as
it is, " and demand a cessation of hostil-
tiles with uie,U "a very distant one
"to an ULTIMATE convention of the
States For what: To re-adopt =" the
Constitution as it is?" To 0Dse7sd - the
Constitution as il is - No! But that
at the earliest prdcticdbie moment, peace
may be restored on the basis of"-what?
"The Constitution as it is?" Mo-
"No, the basis of the Federal Union Of
the States If the rebels are willing to
come back into the Union, under the
Constitution as it is" probably even
Vallandigham won't insist upon their
remaining out; but if they will not re-
turn under "the Constitution as it is, !"
(, in hn
form which implies that the Montgonae-
nv Constitution will not be satisfactory.
m- No disturbance occurred in Chi
cago on election day. The principal bu-
siness houses were closed, and thestreets
were patroled all the night previous
and during the day by mounted citi-
zens and special police force. About
200 suspicious characters were arrested.
The Journal says some of them confess
ed that they were induced to visit the
city to vote the Democratic ticket-that
they were to be furnished with pistols,
and if not allowed to vote, were to fight
for 1.-THE object being to get up gen.
eral war in the streets. Another part of
their programme is supposed to have
been an attack on Camp Douglas to re-
lease the - 900 rebel prisoners confined
there, by whose aid the city was to have
been set on fire and destroyed.
.-------------. .-
nay The Harrisburg pa Union late
Nv produced story about widow OF
Mrs. Lincoln's brother, living there, to
whom Mrs. Lincoln had refused aid in
her poverty. The widow now testides
that her entire story was false,
and that the Democratic editor made it
twice as bad as she told it. She is not
related to Mrs. Lincoln, and was TIC
doubt induced to manufacture the lie by
some hard pressed seeker for Democrat
ic campaign capital.
THE New YORK VOTE FRAuD.-Evi-
denoe is said to have been procured,
showing that one of the New York
agency ballot forgers had taken bundle
of thirty papers and hunted through the
list Of deaths In hospitals. to get the
names of dead New York soldiers fol-
whom votes could be forged.