Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1864-03-25

ZEE 1O4AA FAREk OE THE OOUNTY.
JOHN MAHIN, EDlroa.
CITY OF MUSCATINE.
FRIDAY MORNING MAR. 20, 1854.
Whinings Of a Cowardly Copper.
head.
We find the following in the Courier Of
this week:
TIE SoLD1RRs' REcErr1ox.-Iti ID no more
than right that the soldiers should know why
Democrats did not take more active part in
the reception Of the veterans. We will tell
them.
Several weeks since the journal gave no.
tice that a meeting would be held at Comp
toms store to make arrangements for receiving
the returned soldiers. This was the only
notice given, and a. Democrats do not read
that paper, Of course Democrats could not
know about the meeting. But for fear that
some Democrats might accidentally learn that
such meeting was to be held-it was called
at the store of leading, and in many respects
obnoxious abo!itionist, instead Of at public
room, and no hour scos fixed for tho meeting.
SO during the day two or three persons watch.
ed their opportunity when no Democrats
were near, to appoint committees, and IN these
appointments the existence of any human
beings save abolitionists was utterly ignored.
Thus there was no way for Democrats to pub
licly receive the soldiers, unless y thrust
themselves in places where they were given
to understand they were not wanted. Even
Colonel Hare, the former Colonel of the reg
iment, was excluded by this self constituted
COMMITTEES, from participating in the reception
Of his old regiment The politics Of the
Colonel are precisely the same now Is when
in command Of the regiment.
Whatever Democrats may think about the
purpose for which the war is now being con-
Quoted, they have always been the true
friends Of the soldiers, and ever ready and
willing to respond to any call made upon
them for means to assist either the soldier or
the soldiers families. II would have afford.
ed them much pleasure to have participated
IN any ceremony which would cause the sol
diers to realize that their friends and neigh.
bors appreciate the services they have rem.
dered, and the sacrifices they have made for
their eountry's cause. But being denied this
privilege IN the recent public reception in
TINS city, Democrats must content themselves
with assuring the returned soldies, that hero.
AFTER ~ heretofore, the men who fight the
battles of the Union, can always count upon
the esteem and substantial sympathy Of the
Democracy.
We transfer the above to our columns to
let the soldiers see how contemptibly ridlcu.
lous Copperhead can make himself. The
editor of the Courier is too cowardly to con-
Tess that the true reason why he and his fol-
lowers took no part in the reception ceremo-
MES is that they have no sympathy for the
cause for which the soldiers are fighting.
He resorts to falsehood to apologize for his
conduct-too transparent, however, to de-
ceive any one. The public know that any
body and everybody WAS at liberty to take
part in the reception. If Democrats of the
Courier stripe were not placed on the cou-
mittees it was for good and sufficient reasons.
No man of that class has ever been known to
do anything for the soldiers in this commu.
nifty. We would like to know, however,
whether J. A. Bishop is not considered a
good Democrat. Has tho Courier read him
out OF the party simply because he was ap.
pointed on the Finance Committee for the
reception Of the soldiers =? It says none but
abolitionists were appointed. The fact that
Mr.. Bishop had place on this committee,
therefore, according to the logic of the Cau-
risr, constitutes him an abolitionist.
The Courier cannot, by these Aimsy pre-.
texts, conceal its hatred of the soldiers
They know that it has denounced the war in
which they are engaged as ian abolition
crusade''-that it has bitterly opposed the
law allowing them the privilege of voting
that it pcrsistently discoursges enlistments
by which their ranks may be filed and the
war brought to speedy close. They know
that it has denounced every measure Of the
Administration intended to weaken the re-
bellion, and that its constant effort is to Gre
ate discord and dissatisfaction at home, which
must leave the army without moral support
and make it an easy prey to the rebels. They
know that its every day text has been
" Peace" which, in the present attitude Of
the rebellion, means disunion and an ignomi-
nious submission to the rebels. Knowing these
facts, they cannot but read with scorn and
derision the cowardly winnings Of the editor
in the extract which we have given above.
az Legrand Byington, who lately de-