Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1864-07-15

teVlQeuCO O1 CIlo uoiuAouAO 'AAiAS sAAss
fills all the interstices of the heart of the
Courier editor. If the unscrupulouf
rebel who penned the leading editorial
in the Courier, yesterday, headed, "The
coming man-if he dares to be, )" is not
a pusillanimous coward, why don't he
make himself coming man," by
taking musket or an old fiint-lock and
Joining his friends, who are fighting fora
recognition of the principle he so zeal
ously advocates, to-wit: State SoVer-
eighty, or the paramount allegiance OF
the citizen to his State? II it is right
for Horatio Seymour, as the Courier al
leges, to assert the supremacy of State
over Federal authority, and to maintain
it at the point of the bayonet in the
hands of State militia, then the act of
South Carolina, in driving Federal
garrison from the harbor of Charleston,
was right, and the present attitude of
that State is right and ought to be main
tanned. If it be right for Seymour to
resist Federal authority now, it was
right for Virginia to resist it in 1861. 1t
| Is upon this question that war has been
commenced and prosecuted for three
years past. The struggle has been be-
tween Federal and State sovereignty
The South believing that the primary
allegiance of each citizen was to the
State, took up arms to resist what they
were pleased to term Northern aggres-
sion. The North, with the loyalists of
the South repudiated this idea, insist
| ing that as the General Government was
established for the general welfare and
protection, the allegiance of the citizen
was due it.
We repeat that the struggle in which
we are now engaged is upon this very
question. If the North is right why
does not the Courier say and act so ?
For the simple reason that he justifies
the South in their rebellion-his heart is
full of sympathy for those who seek to
destroy this fair fabric of government
and he prays for the subjugation of those
who feed him from day to day, that he
may resume the munching of those
small crumbs that the bloodhounds have
rejected as they fell from their masters
table. That the editor of that paper is a
rebel, in all his aspirationsand affinities,
| none can doubt who reads the illusions
of his pen:
New York only possesses the moral courage to
send sufficient force to the Sheritfof New York
City to secure the arrest of Gen. Dix and others,
he may be the next President of the United
/ States. Not that an armed conflict with the
| Government will make Gov seymour any the
more acceptable to the masses of the people, but
| because the people are anxiously looking for a
| man who has the courage to cross lances with
| the President of the United States, and to let
| that functionary understand that he will no
longer be permitted to destroy, with tyranni-
| cal and deSpotic hand, the constitutional rights
| and liberties of American freemen.
Such is the language of a thing who
pleads the Constitution of our country
to justify the most villainous libels
against our cause.
Who is anxiously looking for man
who has the courage to cross lances with
the President of the United States:-
Who is it that counsels resistance to the
President, who has taken solemn oath
to see the laws faithfully executed >
Who, when the nation is engaged in a
Gigantic struggle to preserve its own
J life, is it that advocates conflict of all
thority between State and Federal au-
thority? Who is it that desires to see
chances crossed"-tO see "GOv. Seymour
call out the militia of the State to execute
t the laws Of the State" even to the resist
ance of Federal authorities? Who is it:
Do not Jeff. Davis, Lee, johnson, Ste
phens and Breckenridge, ndevery rebel
desire these things. Who else? Every
low-lived, Bringing peace-sneak in the
North, including the miscreant who OBJ
, tains his bread and butter from the peo-
pie Of Muscatine, by publishing paper
the contents of which would make
Quantrel, Forrest and Morgan laugh fol
very JOY. 1t is the Courier man that
grows eloquent over the supposed joy OF
; angels, could they but witness the olive
branch Of peace held out by the nation
r to its rebellious children. The man
who. above all others among us, is most
declamatory for peace, is the most per-
, sistent advocate of rebellion in the En-
pire State. The rebels heart prays fol
peace toward rebels and for war towards
his government.
And yet the shiny thing is permitted
to crawl, and men who stand high in
society, who depend upon the public in
their business, take it in their arms, hug
it to their bosoms, caress it and feed il
from the profits they red from loyal
people. If the fellow wants to earn a
4 livelihood let him 60 South and be as
courageous as he would have Seymour,
and make himself "going man." with
musket in hand, and he can contribute
something toward recognition of his
pernicious theory of State Rights.
! ~ The following are the resolutions
adopted at the late Union State Conven.
ton. They are eminently sound and
practical: ....-
lions of Abraham Lincoln for PRESIDENT and
Il Andrew johnson for Vice President Of the Uni
ted States for the next term, and we pledge for
them the electoral vote of Iowa.
Resolved, That we cordially approve and adopt
the platform of resolutions presented by the
National Union Convention at its recent session
in Baltimore; and that most heartily en-
dorse the action of Congress in repeating all
laws for the return of fugitive slaves, and abOl-
ishing the Inter State and Coast-wise slave
trade.
Resolved, That to the brave sons Of iowa who
have gone forth to defend the cause OF Liberty
and Union on the battle fields of the South and
whose heroic achievements have shed imper-
ishable glory on our State and Nation, we offel
; our highest praise and our most fervent graft.
tude; and that our State government should
continue to make liberal provision for the pro-
: lection and support Of their families.
Resolved That to the women of Iowa whose
patriotic labors have contributed SO much moral
, and material aid and comfort to our sick and
wounded soldiers, we tender our heartfelt
: thanks. .t l E-- 5tt{
H. Mr.. Tracy. of Burlington, offered the