Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1864-09-23
and laws of the United

Constitution and laws of the United
States.
We call upon the Union Committees
and the Union Leagues, and upon all
loyal associations in every State, county
and town, to perfect their organizations;
to infuse fresh vigor and activity into
their operations to canvass carefully
and promptly Their. respective districts !;
to circulate documents and newspapers
containing just and forcible expositions
of the merits of our cause to combat
by assemblages of the people in public
meetings, by public speeches, by con-
versation, by letters and personal APP
peals, and in all just and proper modes,
the deceptive and perilous sophistries OF
the agents and political allies of the re-
bellion. Let them be on their guard
against the arts of corruption and of in
trigue which will be brought, with I'M
scrupul0us desperation, to bear upon
them. The rebel government and those
foreign powers most deeply interested in
our destruction could well afford to eX-
pend millions in Overthrowing this adj
ministratiOn and placing in power the
nominees and representatives of the
| Chicago Convention.
The skies are bright and full of prom
| Use. The liOn-hearted citizen-soldiers OF
the Republic march with steady step
and unfaltering purpose to speedy and
glorious victory. The heart Of the peo-
| pie beats true to the Union. Every tri-
umph of the Union arms over the rebel
| troops arOuses afresh the courage and
confidence of Union men, and chills the
heart and decimates the ranks of the
submission secessionists represented at
| Chicago. A Union victory in Novem-
Der will end the long and labOriOus
strife. 1t will paralyze the arm of the
rebellion. 1t will disperse its armies,
destroy the hope bywhich the despotism
at Richmond now holds its subjects in
bondage, release the people of the
Southern States from their enforced dis
| loyalty, and give them again the bless
ings of self-government within the
Union and under the protecting Consti-
tuition and Flag of the United States
1t will enable our own government to
exchange the weapons of war for the
cOunsels of peace, to relax the stern con-
troll over public action and public speech
which n state of war renders unavOida-
Die, to restore our financial system, to
dissolve all military courts, and hand
over again to the civil tribunals OF jus
tice the punishment of crime and the
preservation of public order, and to re-
clothed with hOnors and to be held in
everlasting remembrance, that great
army of our citiZen-soldiers who have
barred their breasts against armed rebel
lion. and won the imperishable renOWn
of saving the glorious Union, for which
their fathers and their brothers died.
Signed by the Committee.
II. j. RAYMOND. Chm'n, n. y.
SAMUEL +. HERSEY, Maine.
JOHN b. CLARKE, n. Hampshire.
A. w. GARDNER. Vermont.
WIN. CLAFLIN. Massachusetts.
THoS. q. TURNER, Rhode Island.
\. ID. SPERRY, Connecticut.
MARCUS l.. WAR; New Jersey.
S.A. PuRyIANCE, Pennsylvania.
NATIf. Il. SMITHERS, Delaware.
H. w. HOFFMAN, Maryland.
s. H. BOYD, Missouri
G.. b. SENTER, Ohio.
j. ID. DEGREES, Indiana.
BURTON c. Cook, Illinois.
MARSH GIDDINGS Michigan.
= JUDD, Wisconsin.
ID. b. STUBBS Iowa.
\. W. CAMPBELL, West Nirg mia.
JAMES II. LANE, Kansas.
j. j. COOMBS Dist of Columbia.