Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1864-09-30

are of the most cheering character. The people
q the thy set be lH @ ready to
Our neighbOrs have been torn from theiI
homes, our presses mobbed, our Representative
lay we have an order issued that you Shall not
! Dear arms. In the name of God, we say that We
nave submitted TO all in silence, but to this out
age we will never submit. If the minionS O
| Gen. Heintzelman come to your homes and take
| rom your mantle-piece the gem that was left
you by your fathers. will you surrender 1t quiet
| v: No, never, never! -.l.
Taking advantage of an unholy war, they ride
cough shod over the rights of all. 1t has snatch
| these CALLING wrongs. Let us resolve here to-
night that he shall have no more white blood to
prosecute this damnable war.
But why say war is necesSary-that 1t will re-
store the Union: Great God, can you make a
| imam love you more, or hate You less, by shoot
ing him to death with bullets or cutting his
throat with sabres? 1t is folly, it Is madness.
But we have men who call themselves War
Democrats Such are Ingersol, Logan and Nc
| Or peit, went into the business of murder, and
| soaking their hands in fraternal blood, they
They are
! Democrats they are Abolitionists, and this fall
,'itionists, and damn them to eternal infamy.-
Already this infamous Admin tstration is clam
,ring for half million more of the gallant sons
md brothers of Chicago, Illinois and the North,
| and send them forth to Southern graves, Tor
what? to free the negro and make him your
equal! How do You ike M the prospects?
and place him upon platform that will restore
peace to our country and prosperity to the land;
do it. The minions of the ruling tyrant the sa-
| traps OF Lincoln may attempt to prevent the
expression OF your free will. If that attempt is
made we will resist it. .-
We will have n free election or free fight In
This we are intiexble and W'e warn those in
power that their blood will pay for the first in
fraction of our Go.l-given, heaven-born rights
II the Black Republicans want peace they can
re accommodated. But war or peace, We must
| ~ fiIEf ~ Il
McMasters, one of the editors of the
New York Na,cs was called out and
said:
He was proud to meet the assembled thous-
ands of the Northwest, at such time as this in
he interests of peace, for 1t is the magic charm
hat has drawn you together. from your farms
your workshops, and your rcounting-rooms you
t;tve seen the wide deSoiation of war The
srOuns OF the dying and the waiting of the be-
reaved have reached your ears and moved your
hearts, and you ceme to pour the balm of peace
into their bruised and iaceratei hNlrtS.
Your mission is a nigh and holy and glori-
Gus one. AS public journalist he was one of
first to cry out against the net;lriouS scheme
If wholesale murder involve in the war. But
was ass:t.ied and villiiied for my position by
men of my own party; bu' am proud to say
thai time has Vindicated the business OF my po-
sition, and show me War Democrat to-day
and will show you shoddy Abolitionst in
disguise. \ lNan who Is in favor of this unna-
lural war Insults the holy name of Democracy
when he eclai,nsa place in its organization. Ie
is q Judas, and should be cast out as an enamV
10 humanity and to Cod War and bio, I'd and
r;,pine and murder is the legitimate business of
the Lincoln lninion. We wash our hands clean
oi all participation in it. .'A a.-i
But We told tlat we must be forced to car
~ arms in this unholy fight. Soon the net is to
be drawn that will gather in it half a mil ion
more to fee, the Unsuitable thirst for blood of
the Negro God. Let us demand cessation of
,he sacrifice until the people shall pronounce
their great and emphatic verdict for peace, and
let tue tyrant understand that the demand
comes from earnest men AMI must he res i,ected
We are often cal ed ,he - Unterrified.' trust
YOU are. l hope Your nerves may be OF Steel
for there is n day of trial coming, an YOU must
Meet it. There VIII be provost marshaIs Who
will sneak into your family circles and py into
rour domestic relations, and perhaps cast you
alto an Abolition bastle. Then trust to find
you unterrified " indeed. Let not the threats
or bayonets or greenbacks of this Heaven cursed
Administration ffigh,en you but if you are to
die, die as becomes men, in II struggle for your
lights; live not as becomes saves, In the plat
form OF the Convention tomorrow we Shall have
embodied the glorious and sublime doctrines Of
peace. II you will sustain that PLATFORM, as |
know you wall, upon our country will dawn the
brightest era this nation has ever Seen and the
angels of God will come down TO earth to bless
the name OF Democracy.
This will suffice to-day Tomorrow
we shall resume these REASONABLE utter
ances for the benefit of those Democrats
who are not yet lost to reason and the
voice of patriotism. ''l A 1