Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1864-08-26
An Infamous Doc.

| IF there is one thing more than anoth-
er calculated to make an American citi-
zen swearing mad, it is to see man
who has been driven from the oppres-
sion and pauperism of Europe to our
shores, and while enjoying the protec-
| ton of our land and the blessings its in
| situations, TO form an alliance with the
country's enemies, denounce the laws
and their executors without stint. Any
thing but foreigner coming to this
land and seeking the destruction of its
institutions. If they don't like the
manner in which the affairs of this
country are conducted, let them go back
where they came from. We don't know
the editor of the metropolitan Record,
Catholic but his name-John Mulla-
! ly-has touch of the Irish accent about
it. Judging from the following extract
of his letter to the Dubuque rebels, de-
clining to be present ut their mass meet
ing on the 18th. we don't desire to make
the acquaintance Of John Mullaly:
The conscription will fail; indeed, hardly
think the administration viii attempt it. Re-
cruiting has failed. FesSenden cannot get the
snews of war. and this accursed and hendish
means to carry it on. Let our friends of Iowa.
| therefore. be of good heart. The day, thank
rapne aud murder, of injustice and tyranny,
| is nearly over. Let there be no weariness or
| faint heartedness i'll the great work before US,
and above all, let us not forget that If ours Is q
good and noble cause to live for it is good and
noble cause to de for. should the time arrive
when hat would become necessary.
We ask the loyal men and women, ir-
respective Of party, what they think of
this irishman who thus threatens resis-
tance to our laws, and for the sake of
peace with traitors, would inaugurate
civil war at our very hearth-stones.
Talk about naturalization laws. If
the foreign population OF this country
want to serve a political probation of 50
years, let them sustain such cOwardly
whelps as this Mullaly, and this war
ended. the people will be prepared to
give them all the time they want. If
there is desire to get up a prejudice
against foreigners, just let the Demo-
cratic party continue the Mullaly's in
its front ranks. When our laws and in
stitutious have become SO generous that
a foreigner shall stand up in our midst
and denounce a war waged for the
Union, a. - On dccurse,1 ard .fenoish in
rusion Of TIE South," we may well pause
in our career and inquire whether it is
wise to longer tolerate such g freedom of
speech ," We can remember the time
when the Democratic candidate for Sec
retary of State in Iowa, with other
Democrats, so-called, to-day, were eX-
ceedingly hostile to such papers as the
Record, and to such foreigners as Mulla-
ly. We can remember when they be-
longed to an association based upon pa
triotism, whose notices and emblems
were national. But to-day those Amer
leans sleep in the same bed with the OBJ
jects of their suspicious and prejudices,
happy over the thought that they are
now all agreed that the war waged
against rebellion and treason is an "ac-
cursed and fiendish invasion Of the
South.' We appeal to the authorities
of New York, whether amid such COM
bustible material as is gathered i'll that
city, this fire-brand should be permitted
to incite his followers to deeds of vio-
lence. Let the strong arm of military
power be laid on this infamous Mullaly
and his mouth be silenced.