Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1864-09-30
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In Mondays Courier Is letter adj
dressed by one Of the editors of this
paper, written by him, as Chairman Of
the Militia Committee Of this County,
to one Jacobs, of West Liberty, Captain
elect of a Paw-Paw company. jacobs
replies and publishes the correspondence
in the Courier, with the following note:
WEST LIBERTY, Iowa, Sept. %.
EDITOR COURIER Dear Sir: Please
find inclosed letter written by VIM. F.
Davis, Chairman of Militia Committee.
If you think proper to publish it, it is at
your disposal, with copy of the answer.
Respectfully yours,
s. w. JACOBS.
AS the Courier does not publish the
letter we received from Jacobs, we pub
fish it for the benefit of Jacobs and
Thayer. Any one, desiring to do so,
can compare the letter we received and
here publish and that published in the
Courier, and they will agree with US
that the latter Is forgery. We quite
agree with the Courier that the letter is
rich, rich, rich" and trust Jacobs will
also see it in that light: .... /.
West Libety Sept % 1854
Mr. VIM f Davis ,,...
Dear ST
yours of the - inst has been Reed
and the contents earthly examined from
it geather the fact that the Agst Gen
hes returned to you my company roll
with the remarks that all rolls must be
on proper Blanks and the Oaths be in
due form.
In rotation to the Blanks permit me to
say, that called upon each member of
the cOmmitte and was unable to pucure
any Blanks for the reason presume that
1 could not give the Loyal League Sig
nal.
you remark that that ace cannot admit
the right of any citisen to select what
portion of the Law or Legal requra-
mants we will obey or what he will re-
ject this zoe is big word how we apple
Swim. We the people of England says
the three Tailor of ruby Street
Probably in you're opinion We have
com to vary Dose coclusion But pray
tell me VIM f Davis Chairman of miti-
ten com whather in you're estimation
you're comitty was created before or
Since the christien ara and wheather,
you're Jurisdiction is timerted by States
or national Lines. Are you the waiter
or the tool of VIM Stone and n. 3. Ba-
ker you're Letter seemed SLANT upon
this Subject have heard that stone and
Baker required Mititin Officers to Sub
scribe to a very peculier oath but until
Reed you're Letter l didnot know that
! the big aOe of muscatine also required it
! whish 1 knew who you are, and what
capasiety you are acting inswhather you
Report to Stone or Stone Reports to you
so that | could ans you're letter undes-
tandingly but not having this Infima-
ton l must treat you as the big nc of
the State and uspond acordanly.
you Say ii any portion of the mil
tia oath is of any validity it is all valid
and by the Same rule of logic if any
part of fowl is good the holl is good
and juggling from the care with which
you do Stony dirtey work l should
think the entrails wer to you're taste;
the work must crave that part of the
animal, every man to his taste however:
you Say no good citisen Should Say
that we will Subscribe q portion OF
| chat oath and not the hole that depends
upon circumstances A PRESBYTERIAN may
| listen to one of you're Sermans and find
| in it much that he will Subscribe to and
yet denOunce you for delivering in that
| same discorse that there is no Devel
| would it not be rong in you to condemn
that PRESBYTERIAN and stiymatise him as
q bad man because he could not Swallow
the holl of the dOast you gave him no
Devel an all:
You Say that oath hes been So far
modu..de that no Loyal man can reject
! it Now even Stone thought the oath
did need modification So that Loyal
man could take it, and he Says himself
that he hes changed San words in it but
that its still preserves the Substance and
meening of the original oath How is it
modifide: then acordin to you're own
tungue it needed modification so that a
Loyal man would not reject it If then
the peasant oath pertains the Substance
and meaning of the original oath it
cannot have been moditide, and hence
every Loyal man is allowed to reject il
you Say this and l condemn it.
| you Say no companies will be re-
corded or organised until the oath is
fulley taken and proparlery filed
| Now Sir, l am Loyal man l am in
favor of the Restoration of union the
holl of the union without an if or q
but, in this State there militee Iva
have examined it and in accordance
| with its provisions q company has been
organised i'll this neighbowhood and
my Self Selected as its Capt I Stand
prepared to take the Same oath that
would be required of me wer l to be
comisianed Capt in the Fedral Survis
but you're Militen Committee Say this is
not enough / must Swair to Support
the united States government which
| Abe Lincon understands to mean him
and that to when that United States
Govement though Abe Lincon is doing
every thing in his power to permanently
devide and destroy the Union which /
Love 4 Respect ..--......
Sir before you or you're Master can cram
down my throat an oath to Sustain be
Lincon in his war for the abolisiOn OF
Slavery. / will die on my own thrast-
hole: you Say no comisions will be is
sued and what Sir do 1 care for a
peace of parchment Sigened by Bill
stone! My Company is organised the
militen Law of the State has been CO.
| piled = 18th the constitution requires
| Gov Stone to comision me If he refuses
he becomes pergurer. and the Hell
| which you seek to Screen people from
! will open wide its dorado mouth to Re-
cove Such miscrants: ..a
am in the right I feel it know it
and here I Swair before God and man
that while am willing to Shed the last
drop of my blood for the Union OF my
Partners / will be equally as willing to
Shed it in defiance of my individual
rights and Libelies if this be disLoyal
drive on.
Youres Resp
Silas w Jacobs