Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1864-04-01

| w ASHfNGTON, Marcn ~.
The Border States are. in. a pickle again
Missouri is in Q ferment.ri What with be-
radicals, her conservatives, her Copperheads
her political gaeGrillas arounds everywhere
she may be said to be, in constant boiling
over condition, The subject Of politics, then
like politics in Kansas, is sri gsnsyis Thert
is no such mixed up jumble anywhere il
the e4heavens above, the earth beneath, or til.
waters under the earth. The eradicahnrJ
the radicals only, are ccmprehensibls1y out
siders. Dew tied to immediate emaG cipatior
everywhere, governed by this grand idea
utterly careless Of the spoils of office, pretty
sure that those nho. do not sa&eeskith then
are Copperheads at tbest. and probably down.
right traitors, who have served under Price
or Narlnadpkc, Of Qua9tyel, having suffered
much for conss;sace's sake first at the hands
of the bushwhsckers and the rebel armies;
afterwards more at the hands of the myrrni
dons Of Blair, of Bates and of Scho6eld
they must herespected by al who love justice
for its own sake, liberty for its own sake, and
truth for truths own sake. The radicals d
Missouri may be impracticable, they may
think harshly Of men of whom less earnest
people may think we'll enough, highly of some
not entitled to the highest respect; but take
them all in all, they form the only respecta-
BILE, the only truly loyal party in that State.
The others are aspeckled and spotted set
herd of ring-boned, spawned, curbed,
pole-eviIed, fstulad, distempered politicians,
living off the public plumber, scattering
all manner of political diseases among the
people. yar-.-Asl...-.-. ii .Ar14d
In Kentucky the Union men" "a are
trying to kick up. row. They are spelling
for fight, and l do hope they'll get one and
get awfully thrashed for their pains. The
most painful part Of. this Kentucky business
is the fact that the very men who are now
upon the very verge. Of rebellion against the
government are the men who used to be so
influential at the White House whose feet,
only eighteen months ago, more often pressed
the tapestry OF the Executive Mansion than
did the feet Of such men as Grimes and
Trumbull; whose Influence was 80 potential
in keeping Mcclellan in command, in carry.
ing out the diluted rose water policy, in
bringing the country to the brink of slave,
driving ruin. Fortunately there are earnest
men in Kentucky as there are in Missouri,
on whose side the Administration must,
sooner or later, array itself. O The prospects
now are it will do1so in Kentucky sooner than
in Missouri. ,..,g--.s ., -f.-
But in Maryland there is trouble. The
Blair faction seems determined to rule or
ruin. 1t sought to, send the old gentleman,
(Francis ?. Blair, sen. as a, delegate to Bal
tlmore, but failed, as it also failed in securing
any Blair men on the delegation, and it has
been swearing mad, ever since. ). A resolu.
ton highly eulogistic of Mr.. Lincoln was
adopted, and delegation sent to the Con.
-vention who will vote solid against him
You will remember ] long since mentioned in
this correspondence that such men as Blair
and Bates were iniuring M. Lincoln,o would
continue to injure him by their efforts in his
behalf, and might, succeed at last in killing
him off. That has been the result in Mary,
land already. The unconditional Union
Committee of that State published an address
on Friday last, in which the Blair family is
handled without, gloves. Here is partsof the
address, it being understood, mark you, that
the Clipper newspaper is the Lincoln Blair
oxooD nf po1tfmoro.