The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1864-05-05


pa- The N. Y Day Book in speaking
of the acts Of the N. Y. Legislature
says: org @d ?. &aat aJg*.. .., -
at also passed an act to allow Mr.
Lincoln's army or such Of them az were
enlisted in this State, 10 vote at our cleo.
tons. Gov. Seymour actually signed
this atrocious bill If he had deliberate
ly signed the death warrant of the lber.
ties of the people. Of the State of New
York, he could not have done an act
more fatal or one which win, in all future
time, be regarded by Democrats with
more condemnation"
" Mr.. Lincoln's army As though
the thousands of our brave soldiers who
are exposing their lives to save the gov
crnmcnt from traitors in arms and trail
tors who are too cowardly to take arms,
were the hirelings or tools Of any man
or set of men "This atrocious bill !"
Why is it "atrocious"? The Day Book
does not claim that the law is. not prop
erly guarded SO as to prevent fraudulent
voting. Its complaint is that the soldiers
are allowed to vote at all. Are "the lib.
critics Of the people" in more danger
from the hands Of those who are fighting
for their CELEBRITIES" than at the hands
of the denizens of the Five Points Of
New York, of Gov Seymour's "friends,"
or of the endorsers Of the Day Book and
its doctrines We think not. Is it any
thing to be wondered at that our soldiers
should have a special hatred towards
such papers as the Day Book!' We on
ly wonder that they do not give way to
their hatred moro, frequently than they
do. "Ihe liberties of the people, are 10
the hands of our soldiers, and " in all fu-
ture time those Democrats" who are
now SO bitterly opposed to them will BIO
remembered "witb more condemnation.
the people" and among them we find
one from Muscatine, Iowa. 1t says:
MAY it please the All-Wise Being to
/ crown your noble efforts with success the
coming year. But the North will never
succeed in putting down Abolitionisn
until they quit helping it Gas they have
all along) and join with those who arc
struggling as never people struggled be-
fore to free themselves from its stead
grasp. Nor do they deserve to succeed
Any people that would help to enslavs
Others ought to loose their own liberties
The Democrats here think +" The Day
Book" tho best paper published, as mos
assuredly it is; and may its editors new
CT falter in the HeIculean task they have
engaged in-that is dispcllipg the Adolf
tion lunacy from the mind Of the people
May you live to see the day when Their
, is not such dementcd human creature
as an Abolitionist, and what is moane
still, War Democrat, on American soil.
It's not often that a eopperhead speak
} his honest sentiments SO plainly. Their
you have it in plain terms. The copper
heads are told that they must "quit help
ing it," (the government,) "and joi
with those that are struggling as neve
people struggled before to free them
/ selves from its steady grasp q. c. Joi
the rebeIs.) Wish the copperheads {
that ilk were not too cowardly to take u
with that advice Were that class
men all in front Of our army We coul
: soon suppress the rebellion, but viii
I there are thousands of them at II
j, North, thousands of Union men mu
stay at home to watch them. There
- no doubt that this Muscatine traitor re
u resents a large class of men ID our ov
l. midst, and they. are really helping t
@ rebels more than they could in the rel
% army. 1t will be noticed that the WI
ter considers a War Democrat "
"neancr still" than an Aboli,ionist.
& We give but a small specimen of Il
e contents of the Day Eooh. Such p
:. pers are allowed to be published, and Y
= they say that "the press is muzzled'-
- In the name Of all that is good, We won
like to know what it is these papers VII
to say but dare not
% OK BOARD U. s. RAN swfrzERhANp, !