North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1868-03-18
WHOLE No. 500.


| EreSluency, Wn1cn we nope VIII not tax
place, We will consider it our duty to op
pose him and the party nominating him
! We are told that no politics are expected
from the Lsraelite, and it has no intention
of meddling with any. 1t has kept aloo
all the time, except when men like Grant
Butler, Wilson, Ellis, Brownlow, and 9th
ers of this kind, abused and outraged thu
jew. T. en- it did not care for the cry O
treason raised at everybody who had any
thing to say, not endorsed by the censor
in Washington, and struck with 10th fists
Worse than General Grant, none in this
18th century in civilized countries has
abused and outraged the Jews, officially
in broad daylight and most bar barously
II there are any among US who lick the
feet that kick them about. and, like dogs
run after him who has whipped them i
there are persons small enough to receive
indignancies and outrages without resent
ment, and creep about their tormentors
for selfish purposes,-we hope their mum.
Der is small, and we know it is too small
to be counted in comparison to those who
will not vote for man and oppose him
who outraged the Jew in a manner as Gen
Grant did. Here is the story in full
AkApGTARTERS 18th ARMY CONpj,1
DEPT. OF TENNESSEE,
OXFORD, Miss Dec, II, lsG2
General Order No. IL.
The Jews, as 4 class, violating every
regulation of trade established by the trea.
sury department, also department orders,
are hereby expelled from the department
within "a hours from the receipt Of this
order by post commanders.
81 Tbay will cao that all &L;s ,1o, ~ 49,,
pie are furnished with passes and requir-
ed to leave ; and any one returning after
such notification will be arrested and held
in confinement until an opportunity oc-
ours of sending them out as prisoners, un-
less furnished with permits from these
headquarters.
"No passes will be given this people to
visit headquarters for the purpose of max
ing personal application for trade permits.
by order Of Maj. Gen. Grant.
'JonN A. RAWLINGS,
{" Assistant Adjutant General.
" Official j. LOWELL, Captain and Assist
ant Adjutant General"
This barbarian order caused general
outcry OF horror all over this country, in
the public press, public meetings, and res
olutions, in any and every form. In Con-
gress, Mr.. Pendleton, of Ohio, moved the
following resolutions:
WHEREAS, On the 18th Of December.
1862, Maj. Gen. Grant, commanding the
department of the Tennessee, did publish
the following order, to wit: here follow
ed the above order rerbatim and in pur-
suance thereof did cause many peacable
citizens of the United States, residents in
said department, to be expelled therefrom
within twenty-tour hours, without allega-
ton of special misconduct on their part
and on no other proof than that they were
members of a certain religious denOmina-
ton: and
WHEREAS. The said order, in its sweep
ing condemnation of whole class of citi-
zens, without discriminating between the
guilty and innocent, is illegal and unjust,
and in its execution is tyranical and cruel ;
therefore.
" "Resoired, That the said order deserve
the earnest condemnation of this House.
and of the President as commander-i in
chief
This was lost in the House, but only be-
cause nobody paid any attention to it, and
the order had been revoked previously.-
The vote, after all, was very close one
81 voted to table and SO to pass it two
more votes would have done it. Among
those voting for the resolution were, be-
sides other republicans, also Mr.. Colfax,
the present Speaker of the House, Mr..
Low, of St. Louis, and other prominent
members of that party.
The order No. ii fell most savagely up-
on the old Jewish residents in that depart
ment; but there was no Senator from those
States in Washington, except from Ken
tucky. Therefore, Senator Powell, from
Kentucky, in behalf of his outraged con-
stituents, introduced in substance the same
preamble and resolution in the Senate,
where it was defeated in the most shame
full manner, where but 7, viz Messrs. Da-
Wis, Harding, Latham, Nesmith, Powell,
salisbury and Wilson, Of Missouri, had
the moral courage and moral rectitude to
stand by an outraged class of their fellow
citizens.
President Lincoln could net persuade
himself for long time that Gen. Grant
issued that order but when Mr.. Hasped,
of Paducah, KY, succeeded in convincing
him of the fact, he Immediately revoked it,
and expressed his Indignation at til, out
rage in the strongest terms, in presence
of Mcssrs. Gurley, Lilienthal, and Wise,
from Cincinnati, and Blur, from Louis
vile.
There was nobody, Mt the time, to de-
fend the despotie and barbarous order of
Gen. Grant not voice was heard in its
favor or defense but plenty, besides Pres
ident Lincoln, seven Senator's, and fifty.
three members of Congress, in it's condem-
nation. Every free man felt outraged by
the lawless ukase of military chieftain,
whom they now want to force upon us as
chief magistrate of the country.
We have to say this: AS a Jew, we can
not and will not vote for man who has
done US moro shameless injustice than
any man in power in this century, has done
us in any civilized country. Therefore
we hope and expect that the entire Jewish
press will come out boldly and Justly
against the movement to nominate Gen.
Grant as President of the United States.
Again, as u citizen who loves his country
and her free institutions, who considers it
his solemn duly to protect justice and free
dom as much as it may be in his power
we cannot and must not entrust the ban
ner of justice and freedom to the hands Of
Il man who, when possessing the brief
power of commander Of y volunteer army
land among them thousand. of Jews,l ab-
used it so ontrageously and trampled upon
his fellow citizens because they We're to
weak to resist. That man, in our estima-
ton, is unfit to be the chief of republic
whose citizens claim equal justice and
equal freedom. Therefore, we hope and
expect from all political leaders to drop
the scheme of nominating Gen. Grant As
q man, we feel an aversion to every person
who disrespects the just claims of human
ity and justice, and Gen. Grant. by his
order No.ll, 1862, is guilty Of that disre-
spect.
That is part of what we have to say on
this point, and We will say it over and