Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1864-04-22
Correspondence Of the Nuscatins Daily Journal.
FROM WARRINGTON.
The Debate on the Ezpulsion Of Long COL
fac backs doaen-1he Gold Panic and

other day, the result being, as you have been
informed by wire, a vote Of censure against
that rebel sympathizer by majority of ten
votes. am bound to confess that, while the
debate is regarded as decidedly jug handled
affair." great triumph in all respects for the
Republicans the vote must be regarded as
a most lame and impotent conclusion. Here
was a fiery debate Of well nigh a weeks du-
ration, day and night; the importance of the
questions at issue crowded the galleries IS
they have not been crowded for years
brought upon the forum the best speakers of
both sides of the House of Represer tatives
the discussion waa,ths almost sole subject of
conversation from the circles whose jewles
and whose intelligence brighten and enliven
the executive MANSION to the frail tent of the
poor negro who nurses the sick in the quar-
ters Of the contrabands; the Speaker himself
had been SO much impressed with the wrong
done the American Congress by one of ito
members, that he left the presiding chair to
move the expulsion of one so unworthy
And yet after all, he himself withdraws his
own motion, and accepts q miserable substii-
tu'e of censure 1t is mighty poor feather
in Mr.. Colfax's cap. do not wonder that
Henry Winter Davis, and Julian, and Bout
well, and other men of unbendable backbones
were indignant, nor that some, ON that ac~
count, refused to vote at all on such skim
milk motion. Mr.. Colfax is one of the best
presiding officers the House of Representa-.
tives has ever had. He is thoroughly versed
in parliamentary law, is as courteous as the
most chlvalrous knight of the days of
Amads de Gaula, as impartial as Van Buren,,
and as imperturbable generally. He is, more.
over, one of the best legislators we have, but
he lacks the faculty of knowing how to be
indignant. He has not the qualities of q
leader. 1 say it with Difference, without call
ing into question any of his good and amia-
BILE qualities, he is deplorably wanting in
nerve He has exhibited the want If it be-
fore, but never more lamentably than on this
secession. Mr.. Colfax may be glad of the
eulogiums of Cox, of Fernando Wood, of
Voorhees,, and of the silent exultation of
Long, but when purchased at the expense of
the wrath Of such men as Henry Winter
Davis, Kelley, Stevens and Boutwell, they are
dearly bought.
| Maugre this bad conclusion, the debate, in
many respects one of the most brilliant which
has taken place in Congress for many years,
was fine victory for the friends of the Union.
In argument, in CLIQUE nce, in devotion to
country, the Republicans were the wearers
of the laurels. The debaters on the other
side, several of whom are men of great tai
ent, were ingenious, shrewd, crafty, sophis-
tical. But even Voorhees, could not rant
himself into sincerity, and the sardonic grim
Of Fernando Wood spoke of hypocrisy with
palpabls distinctness. Schenck and Davis
spoke from the heart, and their words OF
truth were powerful, convincing. So Demos
themes spoke against Philip, and Cicero
against Verres. Cox and Pendleton showed
they were laboring in bad cause. and could
not help making it apparent that they were
cutting against the grain. The result was,
the friends of the Union were jubilant and q
little noisy. They walked the streets in =
sort Of exultant manner, cooking their hats
in an air Of defiance, as much as to say,
eve are on the winning side" whilst the
sympathizers were mum, cross and not very
sober, according to character and habits.
There was, should think, about IS much
difference between the conduct of the two
classes of men as there was between the con-
duct of the Webster men and the Hayne
men some thirty odd years ago. And then
Colfax came in on Thursday and threw his
wet blanket over US all shall never for
give him, notwithstanding l think SO highly
of him generally.
And here endeth the first lesson.
The high price of god is a source of ex-
IRENE annoyance and chagrin to the friends
of the government. The public finances are
now being tried as they have not before been
tried since the commencement of the var,
and it is useless to deny the anxiety which
is felt here and elsewhere in circles which
have heretofore never lost confidence in our
ability to weather the storm by which we
have been troubled. National bankruptcy 10
now the danger which most threatens US.
The Secretary of the Treasury has urged
upon Congress again and again the absolute
necessity of taxation and of other measures
for the relief of the finances, but heretofore
without effect 1t now seems, however, that
something is likely to be done that the Tar
if will be raised with view to more revenue,
and more stringent internal revenue tax
law passed Without these measures we
must inevitably be hopelessly swamped.
do not doubt they would have been passed
ere this but for the opposition of President
makers, who for the past three months have
been doing the country more harm than even
the rebels in arms Let all. who have been
in the business put that in their pipes and
| smoke it.
The Ne,o Era is new evening daily VIII CHI
was ushered upon the town q few days ago
1t is an independent Journal professedly de-
voted to the one term pr nciple, and decidedly
radical in its views 1t is understood to be
edited by Geo. NJ. Weston, formerly connect
ed with the Republican. | do not like it in
some respects, but its want of toadyism and
its manly spirit are refreshing say this
without desiring to be understood as standing
on the Ne,o Era platform, for do not. 1t
is, thus far, the best paper in the city, but is
not SO good as most of our Iowa dailes- not
by considerable. l presume it is for FIRE.
| mont.
The meeting which was called for last
night to choose delegates from this District,
Gan absurdty, by the way,) was stormy af-
fair, and wound up in = terrific storm with
cut the choice of single delegate. That is
the way we District people dwell together in
unity.
The intelligence of the Fort Pillow atrocity
has been received with we'll nigh universal
| indignation. The President himself was
aroused at first, but finally got into philo-
sophical frame of mind, aud told story of
q fellow who went out blackberrying with
some ladies', and got into some terrible trouble
or other, l didn't learn precisely what.
L1NKRNSALR.
GleaninGs.
A man at Poughkeepsie has parrot fifty
years old. 1t has been forty years in his