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

slaves in Florida; itmade war on Mexico to
extend slavery, on fields unblighted by its
curse. TT enacted repngnant fugitive slave
flaws, and sought by the spxtromge, power,
and .finesse Of two Administrations, to force a
slave constitution upoo the State of Kansas
and its late disruption for slavery and the
completely of the northern wing in lending
encouragement to- the traitors, is so clearly
proven by the prediction: of ex-Pierce and
promise to jeff Davis that the Fighting
would not be along Mason and DiXon's line
merely, it will be within our own borders, in
our own streets, between 4 two. classes to
whom have REFERRED" by the sympathy Of
the Mayor Of New. York for Georgia BY, the
detention Of her arms, and the avowed 'opin::
ion of jeff Davis that he should receive the
substantial aid of twenty thousand men from
that city, and the hocking of thousands, Of
Democrats from the North to the standard of
rebellion; facts taken with the declaration of
General CAN'T that while prisoner OF war
be was assured by prominent Democrats Of
Pennsylvania that if the rebels would hold
out little longer, they would be successful,
for the Democrats Of the North would arrest
the war by defeating the conscriptioni and
otherwise render the Administration power
less to prosecute it, and the earnest support
by this Congress of Vallandigham, the great
sham hero leader forebode, in the language
of the last Richmond Egdnafnsr, trouble in
the Northwest-"graci buds of promise
which with the approach Of their elections
may bloom and blossom into bloody fruit of
revolution" Such are the hopes which Dem
ocratic ,dallance and legislation, Golden
Knights, and peace resolutions inspire. And
is this the neutral or non.intervention party,
the treachery of whose leaders has as truly
passed into history as that of Judas and
whose apostasy to liberty is as shameless as
that of Julian to the Christian religion p
Yet before our soldiery, who know that the
war has been prolonged and that thousands
Of lives have been offered up In sacrifice to
love of slavery and of party, they fain, like
PLATE, would wash their hands Of guilt, when
all s'Neptune's ocean, could, not wash their
hands clean of the blood.
Sir, I should not have discharged my duty
|as member of this House had Iforeborne
going to the verge of parliamentary eproprie
ty in expressing my detestation of sentiments
uttered here which lead to dis,rust in our
Army and strengthen the enemy in arms
Our soldiers are properly sensitive, and when
speakers with popular fame stigmatize their
valor as Ca hellish crusade, = not caring
whether the country is saved or lost" will
not be silent; nor can | refrain from saying
that, had the gentleman from New York
Fernando Wood) kept his appointments in
the State of Iowa last autumn, and in the
fourth district, which l am informed has fur
nished more than thirteen thousand brave
men for our army, exceeding the number fur
nished by any other Congressional district,
and uttered the sentiments announced in this
hall in any political gathering, or on our rail-
roads in The presence of soldiers with gaping
wounds and wasted by sickness, much as
they love freedom of speech and deprecate
personal violence, could only have been as
sured that his next political conferee would
have been Charon, the ferryman, Just prece-
ding that welcome, "Hail horrors, hailr'
Since the war with Michael and the Dragon
in heaven, there never has been contest
where the character and purposes of the act
ors were so clearly defined as in this contest;
yet here we must listen to tepid if not trea-
sonable speech. q Would such be tolerated in
Richmond, where there is satanic sagaclty |?
No; and | have authority for the opinion
that such language uttered in the time of our
Revolution would have branded its author as
a traitor, and compelled him to seek refuge
''over the border in that early elysium for
outlaws and tories; and had kindred language
been uttered in Roman Senate, when her
institutions were on trial, the speaker would
have been hurled from the Tarpeian rock !;
but in the American Congress characterize
ton of our war as "a hellish crusade of
blood' furnishes the latest type of peace De-
mocracy. 4 ..-.... .. .. &c
THE crowded condition of our columns
preclude the insertion of the speech entire,
but the foregoing will give the reader a taste
of its quality. The Copperhead that wakes
up Grinnell has subsequent occasion to wish
that he had let him alone.-ED. ...-.-