Iowa
Old Press
The Dubuque Herald
Dubuque, Dubuque county, Iowa
October 3, 1863
He [Governor Kirkwood] delivered himself of his usual bravado
about the draft, told what he was going to do if any resistance
were offered, and generally deported himself as would be expected
of a filthy, low-lived creature accidentally elevated to power.
There isn't a humble laborer in Dubuque who by hard toil bridges
over his week's indebtedness by his week's income that has not
more honor, more decency, more respect for his word, more sense
of obligation to his oath, and who is not better fitted for
governor of Iowa than Samuel J. Kirkwood. * * * There does not
live a man in Iowa so rich in lucre and with such an utter
poverty of character as the blustering, sweltering and doubtless
cowardly governor of Iowa. He is a pitiful partisan without a
redeeming trait.
[contributed by Dubuque co. IAGenWeb, Sept. 2015]
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The Dubuque Herald
Dubuque, Dubuque county, Iowa
October 8, 1862
The time has come when we can no longer shut our eyes and hope
for better things at the hands of the dominant party. This war is
to be waged for partisan purposes. To save the Union is not a
part of their design, but to divide and destroy it is their aim.
This war, which we are told by Abolitionists, is being conducted
to put down the rebellion, is in reality to further their mad
schemes of negro emancipation and negro equality.
[contributed by Dubuque co. IAGenWeb, Sept. 2015]
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The Dubuque Herald
Dubuque, Dubuque county, Iowa
October 11, 1863
The Dubuque Daily Times says that the resolution of the
county board of supervisors to exempt poor men from the draft is
a weak scheme to make the county pay their exemption fee for
them. That is just what the board meant to do and no poor man who
knows his interest will fail to support the board at the polls.
Mr. Knoll, Mr. Cort and Mr. O'Brien, who are running on the
Democratic ticket, voted for it, while Mr. Miller and Mr. Bonson,
who voted against it, are running on the Republican ticket. Every
man in Dubuque county who votes the Republican ticket votes for
the draft and against the exempting of drafted men by a tax.
Every man who votes the Democratic ticket votes for the
conscription to be paid by property and not by blood. Now, which
ticket will the poor man vote? Which ticket should he vote?
[contributed by Dubuque co. IAGenWeb, Sept. 2015]
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The Dubuque Herald
Dubuque, Dubuque county, Iowa
October 23, 1863
This the board has been compelled to refuse, because if the
county should once commence giving aid to associations formed for
the dispensation of charity there would be no end to the
applications made to them. They have therefore wisely abstained
from making special appropriations, but at the same time have
given the superintendent of the county poor additional
instructions for relieving the wants of those in need wherever
such cases are found, and the charity will be dispensed to
soldiers as freely as to others."
[contributed by Dubuque co. IAGenWeb, Sept. 2015]
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The Dubuque Herald
Dubuque, Dubuque county, Iowa
October 30, 1863
The Hypocrites
The Copperhead farmers of this county, who bring their
grain and other products here to sell, heap the foulest abuse on
the administration and all connected with it, as only ignorance
can abuse that which it doesn't understand. When they receive
their pay they won't take anything but the "Dirty
Greenbacks," as they call them, to carry home. This a fair
sample of the shameless hypocrisy of the party which controls the
politics of the county.
[contributed by Dubuque co. IAGenWeb, Sept. 2015]
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The Dubuque Herald
Dubuque, Dubuque county, Iowa
October 31, 1863
About two thousand hard-fisted, hard-working honest men who
helped to make Dubuque just what she is and without whom her
merchants could not live a month, who clog her granaries with
grain and her markets with produce, are the subjects of this
petty slanderer's abuse. The very life and trade of Dubuque city
is thus attempted to be rendered contemptible and driven from
her. We ask the merchants of Dubuque what they think of it. We
know some of them whose advertisements appear in the Dubuque
Daily Times regularly, who depend entirely on this 'ignorant
class' of 'shameless hypocrites' for their trade.
[contributed by Dubuque co. IAGenWeb, Sept. 2015]