Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1864-10-21
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= A man must be eitheria knave or an
ass to write such silly twaddle about
the recent elections, as adoris the col
umns of that enterprising paper down
the avenues We don't know which to
call the editor of that sheet, and for this
reason: Every fool in the land knows
that in 1860 Indiana gave MI. Lincoln
i; majority of only about 6,000. There
We're no soldiers absent from home then,
for all were civilians. Every body
knows that in 1852 large body of citi-
zens of that State were in the army, and
that the Democrats carried the State. by
q majority of over 9,000.I On Tuesday
last, with still larger number in the
army, Gov. Morton is elected by a ma
jority Of over 25,00O.i Now admitting
that every Indiana soldier who voted
in 1860 was at home and voted last
Tuesday, the results show that the Union
Republicans have gained $4,000 votes,
in four years, or nearly 5000 votes a
year. IN view of the charges tha, Mr..
Lincoln is Il tyrant, 'imbecile, yii1ga,
story teller, smutty, joker, despot, and
that this is an abolition war, etc.y and
so on, we think the gains are rathereen-
couraging, Admit, again, if you please,
the miserable charge of the Cousaa,,i that
70, 900 Republican soldiers were sent
home to vote. Since 1862, when the
Democrats carried that State, probably
40, 600 Of her citizens have entered the
army. So that if 20, 600 of them were at
home last Tuesday, the Democrats were
no worse off than they We're in 1862,
giving each party equal numbers. II
the Democracy had a majority Of 5000
in 1862, and were beaten $4,000 last
Tuesday, there is a Union gain of 81 600,
in two years. These are facts that no
Democrat can gainsay, and yet the
Courier is ass or knave enough to say
on Saturday: ~. -
1.-THE immense changes which have been goiny,
on, not only in that State, but all over the
North, have been in favor of Mcclellan for
President, not for,Democratic candidates for lo-
cal offices. Indiana may safely be put down for
Mcclellan in November" I'D -
Last year the Unionists carried Penn
sylvania by $1,000 majority. Since that
time that State has poured forth her
sons into the army by tens of thousands
From the manner in which the soldiers
have voted it is but fair presumption
that a very large proportion of last years
Union majority, is in the army. Every
body knows that the recent vote in
Pennsylvania was for Congressman and
Members of the Legislature, and that
no general ticket was in the field. The
Courier says: ,3E Ilar .4t.t.
"In Pennsylvania these changes are more nul-
merous than in any other state, if, perhaps, we
except New York. Even Republican candida tes
for Congress dec ared tnat they should support
the election oi Mcclellan. Two members of the
State Republican Committee are for Mcclellan
though laboTing hard for the success of the a bo-
lition state ticket .. ..lctf
AT least two positive, distinct false
hoods, which none but an ass, or knave
would attempt to gull an intelligent
people with. .' .-" o.
Whistle, on, Mr. Courier, till you pass
the political tombstone of Geo. B. Nc
Clellan, or Sammy Cox, or others like
him, don't yawn, open its mouth and
take you in, you need not fear. But
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