Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1864-09-30

/ order prohibiting the people from bearing arms
but nsy i DO he w,n 1t as The M,tn
want of the people was liberty; they have suf
ered much for the want OF it. We have
suffered long, hut patience ceases to be virtue.
and feel like striking for liberty. should
resistance be offered at the polls To prevent ou;
Sniirage, let that resistance be met with resist
come back ii Abraham Lincoln be hurled from
power. He has killed more men by his procla-
/ mari ions than The rebel General Lee"
! Mr.. Rollins, of Missouri, was the next
speaker. and among other things, said: !:
-Four years ago when Abraham Lincoln was
| IinaGyuruted we hsd peace, good order and pros
perily IN every department OF life-nothing but
success. He has been in office not quite foul
wears. and now We have country rent Win
civil Ieuds and a.iarchy i'll fraternal blood.
lov, our southern friends; they
are noble. a brave am! Il chivalrous people,
the government; ana However much we may
hate tiiem we must remember that they are our
, countrymen, aud cannot be >nb,iued SO long as
we insist upon depriving them of their rights.
/ At the same hour another meeting was
held at the Court House, and among the
speakers was u Mr.. Hanna, of Indiana,
&, who said:
| "By whom is Lincoln supported? Prominent
among his supporters is Hutler, half devil, one
quarter beast, aud less than one-tourth human,
! Icleers begotten by the prince OF hell. Hewed
from the rorton womb OF crime and thrown into
the lap OF civilization a deformed, unfinished
wretch. tcheers he was sent beio.e his time in
to this breathing world, less than half made up,
and is SD hateful looking and detormed that the
,iog' bark at him as he passes by. [Cheers.T
| Mahony, of Dubuque, also addressed
a crowd from the Sherman House, dur
| ing the Convention. He said:
| That two wears ago he passed through Chi
cago IN cnains. He was seized ut midnight 10y
the armed minions OF the tyrant at Washing
| ton and hurried away to his dungeon, and not
one Democrat OF Chicago d are come to him with
offers OF sympathy. and condolence. Ii he was
! to be asain seized by the same infamous power,
what would be the action OF the Chicago De-
| nlorr;lcy? cries nf we would tight No, you
with Observation-Disclosures. You have seen Val
| Etndi san torn from his home since, and you
did nos night. Johnson mas seen torn nom your
iured with a taineness and doclity that ill be-
comes a nation o freemen. There is not a pea
p.e earth, il we except the IL lgger, vino would
nave borne 81 long and 81 i,aIieHtiy-i might
say so coward y-tue roODery of their rights.
Tie Turks OF Coustantinople or the serts OF Rus
si;, would not take from the sultan or the Gar
such Insults and outrages as you are compelled
to endure, and still you supmit. [Cries of we
yet been sufficiently ground under the heel O
this infamous despotism: But you say you viii
not longer submit While trust the declara-
tiun may be honest, fear you have not the
nerve T., meet he issue with all It's grave uonSe
quemces. tCries of We nave. we nave Gen
tleillerl We nall see. There will be o,her AZ
ressionS to try your 1uettle. An infamous and
Unconstitutional cnnscrprion is about To be en-
forced an. 4 ;ou will be dragged from your homes
to night the battles uf negro war. and you will
submit. /. No We won't Excuse me, gentle
men. tut fear you will. The path of duty is
plain. \ people who submit to be slaves do not
deserve to be free. The administration to whom
you furnish the men and money, is carrying
the mos hellish war ever known to man. 1t is
everywhere striking at the root OF constitution
al liberty, and weaving a ha ter around the
necks of MS all. The wa. is not Waged for th.
preservation OF the Union, for time has taught
the widest f.ncy that the sword can never re-
store that The aggI essions OF the North, fol-
lowed persistently for thirty years. compelled
the south to with lraw, much against their will.
To get them back you must repudiate the dis
graceful Treatment they received. and thrust
from power the instruments of their attempted
degradation. We must eject our candidate and
then holding out our hands to the South, invite
| Ia voice. suppose they won Gomez! ii they
| will not come to us then am in favor of going
| to Them. Loud cheers.
| The Hon. Mr.. Whiting said:
Il suppose one may mention Abe Lincoln in
Chicago. We sometimes speak OF him in Penn
uSurper.
Mr. Kelly, of Indiana, in the Court
House Square, said: ....
"For seventy years the Democratic party had
governed the councils which directed the ma
ton. and their rule had been ever characterized
by pace and plenty. In three short years the
abolition dynasty had spread destruction
through the country. deiuged the land with
sacred laws. l'lesrsl The Democratic party
proposed to labor ndefatigably to restore The
country to its pfstne glory. and by offering the
olive branch o. peace to our seeding brethren.
bring once more peace and good Will to men,.
Isaiah Rynders followed Kelly, and
said:
Abraham Lincoln was a traitor, jeff. Davis a
Christian entleman the Federal soldiers mer--
cell:,ry minionS The rebels M red innocents.-
He c. ilsdered the negro to be the sole cause of
ST ned
him 10 cpndign vengeance. Every man of Or,'i-
IL .ry intelligence in 1851 foresaw the inevita-
bic results of i4incOins Observation-Disclosures, re.
s,arding our erring brethren
Mr.. Paine, of Missouri, was next in
troduced:
"He hailed from q State which knew some
thing of tle devastating hand of war and blood
shed. He came as a representative Of Denocra-
cy ana E 1e,s YARN r su p1psf haers e. 5na. ga. Tar
had in ileirStat felt the iron heel OF despotism,
and had seen the horrors ofstriie. Women mad
been insutrd and turned from their beds by
the light Of leicbarning houses; men had been
shot and hung without the trial by jury; the
best part of the country had been devastated
and destroyed; fiourishing towns had been de-
populated, and by the arbitrary rule Of militia
~ rulers. Did the people want draft? Not
by a d-d sight. Then they must upset the
present government at Washington. This dy-
nasty had already placed in the field 100000
and now it demanded SOC, $50 more. If these are
given they will be no fnality but only q prelude
to fresh calls, all to elevate the tist-nosed woody
hea led, long heeled, cursed-Oi-GOd and damn
ed -oi-man descendants OF Africa" +.
In the Conservative Convention which
first nominated Mcclellan, Judge Camp
bell, of Tennessee. was called for, and
came upon the platform. He said:
| "He was here from Tennessee, the most abus-
| ed outraged and d,wn-trodlen portion of the
country. The state was groaning under the
| most terrible military. despotism, more cruel
than had ever before a M yd any nation
with the terrible prosecutions Of these people =
The people of the South had been trodden upon
| like worms, and it was not strange that they
| turned against their prosecutors. Blood enough
| has been spilled in this cruel war. In the name
Of God let this blood-letting cease. Let us offer
| them terms of peace and let this war stop lust
now and here. ...... 81 ...-.
Amos Kendall, in the same Conven-
ton, said:
He asked them If their liberties were invaded,
would they not defend them at the peril OF
their lives? Must they be governed by votes
where the new-fedged voters would not dare to
vote for nybody else than the nominees Of the
was approaching, and he counselled them not to
defer the rising of the day-star by talking or
| acting violence. They must not be beaten at
the ballot box by votes out of bastard States the
offspring of an ape and an Abolitfonist.
Henry Clay Dean, the dirtiest of all
the unwashed, made a speech from the
Sherman House balcony, in which he
alluded to several of the candidates, but
omitted the name of Mcclellan. He
| was asked if he would not support Lit
tie Mac, to which he replied!
Before God, fellow citizens, if you will not
support Lincoln you do not expect me to sup
| oort his dog, who has, at his masters bidding
killed thousands of as good Democrats as the
| Lord ever made"
At the Sherman House, WV. O Brien,
Iof Peoria, was called for, and said:
! He was proud to meet the Democracy in such
| overwhelming numbers, and in such enthusias-
| tic spirits They had cause for high hopes