![]() Papers across the state bristled with allusions to the U.S. We have but to rally our strength at the polls and see that every Republican vote goes into the Ballot Box and that every illegal vote is kept out….” “There is no doubt that the Dred Scott Democracy of Des Moines County are in a minority…. The editor urged readers to reject any Iowa politician who will not “raise his voice or cast his vote for the protection and defence of the people of the territory of Kansas.” No mention of Muscatine’s Black agronomist in the Burlington paper, but the same page told of hostilities in Kansas between Free State settlers and “invaders” from Missouri trying to “get possession of and control the election.” There are radishes larger than Rutabagas ought to be, cucumbers whose length is measured in feet, beets half as long as a lamp post, and a squash weighing 177 pounds.” ![]() It would be ‘unconstitutional.’”įrom the Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, October 14: “Big corn, big beans, big turnips, big potatoes, big everything is the order of the day. Clark about Alexander Clark (1826-1891) first appeared in the Muscatine Journal.ĭid you know the Iowa State Fair was held on “the island” south of town in 18?įrom the Muscatine Journal, October 9, 1857: “A squash raised by Alexander Clark weighed 177 pounds, but as Aleck is a colored man, we presume the committee could not, according to the Dred Scott decision, award the premium to him in preference to his mule.
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