Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1864-05-27
The Davcnporters Nettled.

The DavcnpOrters Nettled.
Our comments upon Scott county pa
triotism have aroused the people of Da.
venport insomuch that the Gazette
comes to the rescue and admits, to aeon.
siderable extent, just what we charged
upon the ''money-changers" of thai
great Metropolis. We suppose we
ought to maintain a respectful silence
now that the patriotic organ of Scott
! has spoken, but cannot resist the tempt
alton to speak out in meetin'.
We have travelled in Iowa to some ex-
| tent, and we cannot see the force OF
truth of the Gayette's allegation thai
Davenport possesses superior advantages
for military headquarters to any other
place in the State. We reiterate that
Dubuque, Clinton, Burlington and Keo-
kuk, saying nothing Of Muscatine, are
towns of very respectable pretensions
and just as well adapted to military pur'
poses as Davenport.
We trust our neighborly Gazette is moi
unduly excited when it charges Us with
'scurrilous abuse of Scott county,
What we have previously published has
been the free and untrammeled express
sion of opinion made by the Governor
his Adjutant General and other official
dignitaries quartered in Davenport. The
charges made by Gov. Stone, while at
FOUR levee, had been previously made at a
public meeting, from the steps of the Ii
Claire House, and endorsed by the Ad.
place 1t was then and there, Mr.. Ga.
yette, that your people were told they
were way behind every county in the
State, not excepting Dubuque; that you
were fattening upon government pap
and doing nothing in return. 1t was
Then and there that our Governor TOLD
your people that he could recruit more
women in your county than he coulG
men-the latter were so cold and unpa
trotic. at your hotels it has been {
common remark of late that owing tc
your want of patriotism, you would
probably lose the Adjutant Generals
office. The Adjutant General has COM.
planned OF the mean and niggardly treat
ment he receives from the owners OF
property.
The gazette knows that rooms tha,
were formerly empty and barren are
bringing eXtravagant rents, because the
government needs them, and so We
might go on III detail.
The Gazette alleges that cher people
have been taxed SIS, 900 for bounties and
relief of soldiers families No boun-
ties have ever been raised by this cOun-
ty, and the men we have furnished have
gone forth with their lives in theil
hands, content with the bounty OF gov
ernment. Our men have gone, not fol
money, but from higher motives. In
the meantime, our county is second tc
none in its care OF soldiers families
Scott county has taxed her people tc
raise bounties to induce men from Mus
catine and other counties to be credited
to Scott county We KNOW this fact
and when the Gazette insinuates OF
charges that the large excess of this
county is due to enlistments of citizens
of other counties, we reply that we have
furnished Scott county more than mer
enough as a set-off.
"Nocounty has done more than Scott. ,
The refutation of this declaration il
found in the Gdzette's, own figures for il
admits that Muscatine has furnished /;
per cent. of her whole population, while
Scott has furnished but s per cent, ant
the Gazette is not candid enough to STATE
that the population of Scott exceeds our!
about 5000!
When the people Of Davenport wan
to measure the fruits of patriotism witt
our people, we shall always be found a
home. We now say to them, we are no
ashamed of our record. Our interest il
this war is not pecuniary one. W.
have poured forth our men as no othe
county has done. We have sent santa
ry supplies far in excess Of any othe
locality. We never had Sanitary o
Orphan Asylum Convention and hat
our delegates sent to houses, the inmate
of which didn't know that such Con
vention was called. No, Mr.. Gazette, il
military or sanitary matters you cal
never find our people asleep.