St. Charles Republican intelligencer. (St. Charles [Charles City], Iowa) 1856-1857, 1856-11-27
CounSelS Of Moderation.
Blessed are the pcaccmakers. BILE.

The readers OF the lnteillGencer 90
not need to be informed that we have
all along counseled moderation and
forbearance on the part Of politicians
that while we would be as firm as the
everlasting hills" in the maintenance
of our own political rights, we would
not show a rctaliatory or vindictive
spirit toward any portion of our CON-
mon country it being our motto to
TASK nothing but what is right, and
submit to nothing that is wrong."-
The experience of our short life has
taught us that elimination and recrim-
nation do not mend matters, but, on
the contrary, only aggravate the evils
we would gladly escape from. The
history Of this government and the ex-
perience of all our statesmen should
be sufficient proof that our southern
brethren are not driven from their
course by threats and menace, and are
not made better by taunts and abuse.
We consider the Constitution and the
Union neutrality-suspicious. to all the
negroes on the American continent
and if we cannot have but one, name
ly, the Constitution or the abolition of
slavery, give us the Constitution
Our revolutionary sires did not estab-
fish slavery, but they did give us the
Constitution; and while it is question
able whether the negro is happier, or
makes greater advances in all that
pertains to civilization, when in state
of freedom than he does in state of
slavery, there can be no question in
the mind of any candid and enlightcn.
ed person as to the inestimable bless.
ings which our glorious Constitution
has conferred, and is comforting, upon
the people of this country and of the
world. Mark, we do not justify or ap.
prove slavery. 1t is the bane and
curse of our land and people and how
to get rid of it is a question which
has exercised the attention of the great
and good in times past as we'll as pres
cnt.
's'Tis better to bear the ills we have,
Than fly to others We know not of.
No sane man believes that immediate
emancipation would be blessing to
either white or black. Then how shall
the desired object of justice and hu
mainly be attained? This is the great
problem which our wise men would
gladly work out, but which hair
Drained dcmagogucs seem fully deter
mined shall only be solved by rasf
and arbitrary means. If there was
ever time when counsels of modcr
alton were called for, we think tina,
time is the present 1t is therefore with
feelings of the livelicst qualification
that we copy and endorse such senti
ments as the following from the Wash
ington 1ntelligcncer, written no doubt
by it's venerable editor, Mr.. Gales
awe would that we had a voice pc
tential enough to command the respect
and attention Of our countrymen, that
so, amidst the tempest of politica
passion which hurtles in the air ant
darkens our armament, obscuring thu
simple light Of truth and affecting will
dim eclipse" the glory of that con
f stitutional liberty of which it ill be
c comes us to boast unless we show
ourselves worthy Of it, we might sue
coed in recalling to the heated dispu
t tants of either party in this unnatura
contest that, in planting themselvc
upon indefensible positions, they ar
0 each in danger of purchasing victor.
e at too dear cost. In former days o
a civil difficulty and trial, when the Ma
t tional Union was straining its faster
a ings,n there were not wanting thos'
who sprang with alacrity to lay thei
peace-offerings upon the altar Of thei
country until the plague was stayed.
But, unfortunately for the country, a
the present time there seems to b
!, none who are able, if willing, or will
ing,s if able, to assuage the tumul
d which now heaves and surges urol
g the agitated surface of society. Many
! alas, are found ready, like Eolus, t
S smite the rock and let loose the in
prisoned winds to struggle upon tn
deep but where shall we find Ne[
g tune with the power and the will t
n compose our "ocean into tempes
J. tossed Z"
e 1t is to be regretted that, while s
J, many in both sections evince an una
miable proclivity in stirring up strif
and variance between brethren OF TIN
' same national household, so few in eli
' Their would seem to be emulous c
sharing in the beatitude pronouncet
!, upon the PeaceaMkers. The title Q
! "Pacificator" was once an object Q
political ambition, and, amid the leave
which composed the civic crown of tn
"Great American Commoner," none t
II this day remain more green and unfae
ing than those which, in the year
$ 1920 and 1888, were added to its char
). let in memory of country saved