Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1864-07-29

The editor of the Davenport DemOcra
and NeUs is not made of the right ma
terial to be disloyal. He is surrounded
by most ungodly crew who woult
make him subserve their treasonabl'
purposes. But Richardson's blood is il
no degree tainted. 1t is true he conducts
a paper that opposes the measures of thi
Administration, but not in that spiri
which animates the Thayers and Mer
ritts of the press. He tries hard t.
maintain his Democratic dignity ant
retain his fellowship with that party
honestly believing in the correctness O
it's ancient principles, and, more than
all, loving the name.
On Tuesday the Democrat received
the Presidents call for 500, 900 men with
the same clustering threats that graced
the columns of the Chicago Times and
Muscatine. Courier. Its treatment of the
call was simply infamous. Its language
was in no degree less revolutionary
than that Of the papers we have named.
The nights of Tuesday and Wednesday
gave Richardson ample opportunity to
reflect upon the condition of the country
and his own unwonted course. On
Thursday, fully satisfied that his article
Of Tuesday was infamous, his mind re-
volted at the idea of giving aid and COM
fort to the enemies of his country. He
penned the following article, which ap-
pears in his paper of that day:
| THE LAST CALL FOR TROops.-The quota of the
State of Iowa under the recent call OF the PreSi-
dent for $4,000 men is about 10000. Congress
4 passed a law which will bring the under the
draft proposed. AT this juncture when the re-
| bellion seems coOped up in two places, and only
men are needed to put a quietus upon it forever
may the men be forthcoming as soon as possible.
The golden opportunity to crush the rebellion is
now. If the administration fail by remissness
! and lack of ceerity in sending reinfOrcements
to important points, then indeed will the great
anda great fear of the end fall like pail over
| the land. This war must cease, and the best
enough to accomplish the result in the shortest
| possible time. This is the only solution of the
| question. Little Spartan Iowa will do her duty
now as in the past
We have received no official statement as to
! how our authorities propose to raise these men;
or how many are required of u.s. in view of our
large excess over all former calls. We have in
the field four regiments and battalion of one
hundred days troops, whose terms of service
place. 1t is hardly to be doubted that these
| troops, whose usefulness will have about COM
menced at the end of their three months term,
will re-enlist for year or more, If the govern
| ment offers fair inducements. Nevertheless, if
our quota be not filled in this way, or by volun-
teering then let the draft go on; for the inter-
ests of every man in the country, the sooner the
| better 1t is evident to every man of sense that
| the government must have more men, and have
| them Immediately, else surrender the point, or
fight on at the risk of the determination of the
braye legions now facing the enemy. Let the
nVrAf l.
| must send Representatives.
That is the language of a loyal man.
We wish there were thousands more
like unto him still clinging to the DEM
ocratic wreck. Did the Democratic
press exhibit more of this kind of patri-
otism, they would find us less ready to
apply to them opprobrious epithets.-
Loyal is he who loyal speaks and does.
Differing as we do, and probably shall,
from the Democrats views of many
acts of this Administration, we still
believe its opposition is prompted by
honest motives, and that upon the sober
second thought it will in no instance
lend its influence to this Internal rebel
lion. To his co-laborers in the Demo-
cratic ranks we say go and do likewise.
,--sSa.
A Patriots Platform.
| If there be a languishing soul in the
| Union ranks, one who needs to be re-
newed in the spirit of his mind, we
commend to his consideration the fol-
lowing extract from a letter written by
Schuyler Colfax to his constituents
Cut it out, paste it in your hat, and
when you meet peace sneak, read it to
him. If such thoughts, and such a
platform don't invigorate you, it is use
less for us to write unto you:
"Ijustify the Administration in its denial to
suspected traitors and their abettOrS of the writ
of hdbeos corpus; for as read the constitution,
this was the express intent of its framers when
in time of insurrection, the public safety re-
quired it,
justify it, also in what is denounced by its
| enemies as arbitrary arrests" !" and only regret
| that any thus arrested, against whom there
seemed reasonable suspicion, like Marshal
Kane and others, were discharged without trial
Ijustify Butler for daring to hang traitor
| influential politician for publicly defying and
splitting on military order, deemed essential
| heartily approve the Presidents Emancipa-
| ton Proclamation, and his solemn declaration
CnaC no slave OF any state, Wnetflef on the Dor
der or farther South, who fights for his country,
shall ever wear the chains of bondage.
am for the most vigorous eXertiOns to rein
force our armies by the largest possible addition
OF colored troops and only regret that the perss-
tent opposition to them by the enemies of the
administration, their Congressman and their
| presses, has retarded their organization; when,
had they unitedly aided in the work and en-
couraged it, we might have had, ere now, 4O0, ,OOJ
of such soldiers, instead of 100000, and avoided
all impending drafts.
indorse most heartily the policy of confisca-
| ting the property of rebels voluntarily in arms
against their country; and who, guiltier than
| the parrcade, seek to involve country and citi-
zens alike in a common destruction.
| am for striking at slavery, the cause of all
our woes, and the progenitor of this gigantic re-
| belliOn, with every power under our control
war power of the army, the naval power of the
navy, and the proclamation power of the Presi-
| dent; and for its final irrevOcable eXtirpatiOn
| from the land, by an amendment to the COnsti-
tutiOn which shall make that instrument as
well as the Republic itself, forever free; and
| thus, also obey the Divine injunction, to
break every yoke and let the oppressed 60
| Free" .. ...
| am against treason whether it wears it's hid
| eOus form in front of our patriotic and gallant
| armies or under the roof of our capitol; in the
streets of New York or within the borders of In
diana and 1 am against any severance of the
| Union by the sword of rebellion by a disgraceful
compromise, or by a base surrender of the sa-
cred cause in which so many martyrs for the
| right have so sadly and yet so bravely fallen.
| And to sum up am for Abraham Lincoln
| the pilot who shranS not in the darkest hour
| and for Andrew Johnson faithful among the
faithless found for the highest Offices in the
nations gift, of which they are each so worthy.
very iso14 soHGSIER ySqlE: coLFAx.
| MARK L. MCCLELLAN Valparaiso, Ind.
Nor WELL POsTED.-The Chicago Iri-
b,ne is not exempt from a liability to