Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1864-07-22
BY JOHN MAHIN.
The "Keokuk Consultation" Essentially
Wrong.

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The "Keokuk Censtitation'' ESscntially
Wrong.
We still insist that Mr.. Clagett eXag
gerated facts when he waded through
an entire column to prove that during
three years of war the North had fur
nished over two millions of men. Nc
such figures have ever been reached. -
In brief article q few days since, we
demonstrated Mr.. C.'s erroneous conclu
sions from premises that We're false. We
reduced his figures from $50, 900 to 81, ,0Ot
drafted men, and called his attention to
the fact that Il very large proportion o
the three and nine months men had re-
enlisted for longer term, and, there.
fore, should not be twice counted in al
attempt to prove that our fighting popu-
latIon is being seriously exhausted. We
now call Mr.. C.'s attention to the fact
that the 700, 900 men he alleges to have
been raised within the last year. were in
good part composed of re-enlisted vet
Grams. But to make good his position,
and to startle his readers with the enor-
nous drafts upon ourpopulation, Mr.. c.
counts those who enlisted in the spring
and summer of 1861, and counts them
again when they re-snlist in 1864, and
then makes his footing of over two mil
lions. We admit that Greece and Rome
were exhausted Of military power in the
long years of war through which they
passed. But we insist that our country
is not analogous to those nations whose
resources failed. Here we have all the
elements of national strength and en-
durance. We are really dependent up
on the outer world for nothing. In
material wealth and resources, no other
country is like ours. Our casualties in
battle bear nocomparison to our increase
In population. If census were to be
taken on the 1st of August, we believe
that our population would be found as
large as when this war commenced. A
traveller, passing through the country,
can scarcely realize that so many men
are in the army. From those who seem
people, we ask for any evidence that
proves their position Is our commerce
suspended or weakened? Is our army
suffering for want of men that cannot
be obtained? Have our minerals fail
ed? Is manufacturing suspended? Is
there any less land cultivated in the ag-
gregate? Tell us wherein we are weak
er than when we took the sword to
defend our government from the assaults
Of its enemies. Don't run back to Rome
or Greece, nor Spain, but point us to
some exhaustive spot.
And now as to Mr.. C.'s position upon
the Mexican war. We have accom-
plished just what we desired. In our
article, a few days since, we intimated
that, as he was Wing at that time, he
was, Of course, opposed to that war
that gentleman is aroused, as will be
seen from the following:
Now what does Mr.. Mahin know about our
course in regard to the Mexican war? AbsO-
1utely nothing. Yet he undertook to inform his
readers in reference to it, by insinuation that.
because We were member of the Whig party
at that time, therefore, we must have been, like
himself, and the great body of the party to which
he belonged, so tied down by the restraints of par
ty discipline and party prejudice, that we could
not be patriot and stand by our country. ex-
cept our own party Was in power. For your In
formation, Mr.. Mahin We will inform you that
although we did belong to the Whig party, and
was a Whig member Of the legislature of Mary
land during the time of the Mexican war, we not
only repudiated ami spat upon the reasonable
conduct of such men of your party as Abranarn
cot fIofr
but We roted at0nc Of al the Wing members Of that
legislature ah the democrats against the passage
4i oliereu IN .hat Dooy Dy tne wings
lnstructins the senators and requesting the
members of Congress from Maryland not tOvote
any men or money to aid the government in the
prosecution OF that war; and of this fact the rec
ords of the Maryland legislature witness.
We also, at the same time, spoke in favor of the
resolutions offered by our then political oppo-
nents in favor of prosecuting the Mexican war
which latter resolutions, offered by the Demo-
crats, we are sorry to say, received, out of the
fOrty-ftve Wh1g members then in the House.
but one solitary Wh;0 rote and that one was given
by the writer of this article.
Why isn't Mr. c., prompted by like
patriotic motives now? The Mexican
war was waged for purposes of conquest
and the extension of Slavery. Mr.. c.
was then patriotic enough to break over
the barriers of party and vote with the
party in power to prosecute the war
Now, when the Nation is struggling for
existence and perpetuity, Mr.. C. affili-
ates with malignant opposition to the
Administration and can do nothing but
find fault and give aid to our enemies
II you could forget party in war for
Slavery, why can't you forget it in a
struggle between the government and
its enemies, Mr.. G.?
A Business MAN.-Upon the princi-
pal street of a wide awake, busy river
town, less than hundred miles above
this place, stands one story building
about II by 20 feet in dimensions. Its
front is covered with signs, elaborately
designed by some skillful painter They
read as follows:
County surveyor-F. G. H. Foreign Ex-
change AgenEey Weehsel apf
Befordert, Zon Mach. Europa passage, SCHEME
Zon 4 Mach. Europa. Cash for Hides. j. G. II.
Deer skins &C. F. G. H., Notary Public. Jus,
Passage tickets to and fl rom m e Europe Money Money
goods and packages to and from all parts of Eu-
rope. Plastering Hair. Ofentliches Notariat."
That's all we could see on the outer
surface of the building. What signs
F. G. H. may have inside we can't say.
He is business man, howaser. Moth
ing like advertising. II you don't be-
ieve it try it in these columns.
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-al lVALLANDIGHAM REPUDIATED BY
HIS FRIENDS IN INDIANA.-The Ode
mocracy" of Indiana, at their State
Convention at Indianapolis, on the 18th,
voted down a resolution endorsing VAL