Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1864-07-01
BY JOHN MAHIN.
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The Muscntina Courier and Representa-.
tive Men.

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The Muscatine Courier and Representa-
tive Men.
We had intended sooner to notice Il
very remarkable editorial in the Courier
of last week, relative to its particular
candidate for the Presidency. We have
carefully read and re-read that leader,
that we might not be deceived rs to its
true meaning. If we should call the
editor of that sheet Il traitor to his cOun-
try. his body would tremble with indig-
nation, and he would retort by saying
he was just rs loyal to this Government
as we. If we should modify our charge
and say that if he was not a traitor in
fact, his sympathies were all with those
who We're traitors and against his Gov
ernment, he would tell us he was in fa-
vor of the Constitutional rights of the
South, and for the Union as it was when
governed and controlled by Davis,
Floyd, Mason, Slidell and Toombs.-
Should we point him to the Jones,
Hempsteads, Lawthers, Mahonys and
Vallandighams, and say if you are not
AS these men, why do you remain in
political fellowship with them, he would
undoubtedly tell us he was not respon-
sible for the opinions ofothers, and could
not drive them out of his party. These
evasions might answer his purpose and
seal our lips. But when that editor
coolly and deliberately casts his eye over
the country to select his candidate for
the Presidency, he searches for the man
whom he would regard as q political
model, Il man who is not only the repre-
sentative of his own ideas and opinions,
but the ideas and opinions of numer-
ous GLASS. So if Mr.. Thayer was a high
tariff man, he would not select low
tariff man for President. AS in 1860 he
was an advocate of the doctrine of Popu-
lar Sovereignty, he selected Mr.. Doug
las as his representative man instead of
Mr.. Breckenridge, who represented the
opposite idea. 1t is therefore not to be
expected that the Courier man will Sc
own heart is for war.
In the editorial to which we have re-
ferred, Mr.. Thayer takes a bold, lofty
stand i'll favor of Frank Pierce for Pres
ident. He ascribes to that renegade son
of New England, once honored with
the highest gift of the nation, all the
patriotism, virtue, ability and integrity,
that any one man could reasonably be
expected to possess. He expresses the
opinion that Pierce is the only man who
can successfully restore peace to our
country, and assigns as reason for the
opinion, that he has the confidence of
the Southern people. We have no
doubt this reason is true. Now who is
Frank Pierce that he should so win the
affections of this Courier man, and for
whose nomination the recent Democrat
ic State Convention refused to instruct
its delegates by about forty majority?
Frank Pierce once cursed this nation
by the presence of his pestiferous car
cass in the Presidential chair. He bar
tered his unsightly soul for mess of
Southern cheer. He professed to be
patriot, but when the existence of his
government was threatened and imper-
illed, he had no efforts in behalf of his
country, he had no voice against trea-
son, he made no appeals to his country
men to take up arms, but long before
Sumter's walls were battered by the
enemy, and ever since, this man Pierce,
this loathsome thing onceour President,
was, and has been in secret correspond
ence with our enemies. His published
letters have contained not word of
hope or encouragement for the people
who war against treason, but full of
abuse and malignant falsehoods against
those who are in lawful authority. That
we do not misrepresent this man, when
we denounce him as an enemy to his
country, with heart stepped in infamy
and full of reasonable purpose, wepub
lish from the Biblical Record hefollow-
ing note from Rev. Mr.. Pritchard, of
Raleigh, North Carolina:
Last spring a prominent member Of the
church OF which was pastor in Baltimore
met at the ST. Nicholas Hotel, in New York, Ex-
"Mr Pierce manifested the warmest sympa-
thy Ior tne SOuth In this struggle for independ-
ence, declared that the only hope for freedom
on this continent was in the success Of the
South; that, old as he was, he should have been
his wife, and that he desired no higher earthly
honor than to be a private in the ranks of the
southern army.
Coming as this does from Southern
sources, we cannot doubt it's truth. And
this is the man whom Mr.. Thayer and
a very large minority of Democratic
State Convention desire shall be Presi-
dent. They have declared him to be
their representative man. He, who de-
olared that he desired no higher earth
ly honor than to be private in the
ranks of the Southern army" Demo-
Gratis of iowa propose to conciliate by
making him President. In what light
shall the people hold these men? What
shall be thought of those Democrats,
who in this hour of treason and national
calamity, take Frank Pierce, an ac-
knowledged friend of traitors and their
rebellion, as their model Statesman? Is
it to harsh to say that these men, like
their preferred leader, are enemies of
our Government Is traitor too harsh
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A~ Deaths Of Iowa soldiers in Gen.
eral Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee, for
the week ending June 16, 1854: .ss.
John Long, S5thregiment, F, June llth, chron.
ic diarrhOea.
jeremiah w. Carrie, I'd battery, June 18th,
consumption. ,9f.H '-tlt
John Hancock, Sd cavalry, G, June llth,
chronic diarrhoea.
Jerome B. shipman, s2d regiment, A, June
18th, chronic diarrhoea. tl.ttf
Sergt. Samuel L. Montgomery, 4th cavalry /,
June 18th, Inflammation of lungs -,
Peter Bush, 9th regiment, E, June 18th, chron-
ic dfarrhOpa