The north Iowa times. [volume] (M'Gregor [i.e. McGregor], Iowa) 1856-1857, 1856-10-24
DISUNIoN.

Republican party desire dissolution of
the Union. Some Democratic papers are
very liberal in statements of this charac-
ter as an OFFSET perhaps to the extrava-
CANT charges on the part of Republican
Editors that the masses of the Demo-
cracy not only favor an extension of sla-
very into the Territories, but that they
are resolved to plant it in states from
which it is now cons.itutionally exemps +!
The Times while under it's present Edi-
torial control shall minister to the pass
ions of no party. 1t will deal with mat
ters of fact alone in politics, reserving
The field Of fancy to be explored for the
more pleasant task of catering to better
and kinder feelings than partisan acerbity
is apt to originate. We think it proper
however in canvass like the present,
standing as sentinel whose duty it is to
alarm the garrison when danger is in view,
to publish few of the sentiments pub
licly expressed by men claiming a large
share OF patriotism, and acting for the
present as the vanguard of one of the
party organizations now struggling for
power. Some of these men are recoc-
nized as leaders in party that number
in its membership thousands of as sound
Union-men as can DO found, but it seems
singular that man whose love of cov6
try amounts to worship, can affiliate with
those whose lives and language are libel
upon their professions of attachment to
our common country and its incompatible
form of government. Why are such men
petted and praised, fe:ed and flattered, il
their language is SO abhorrent to us p
Has success SO many charms that moral
treason can be winked at to obtain it p
Look at the following extracts from the
speeches Of fanatics, and carefully ask
yourselves if following such guides is
creditable to your judgment.
WIN. H. SEwARD.-"There is higher
law than the Constitution, which regu-
lates our authority over the domain.
1t slavery can and
must be abolished, and you and Imust do
it,"
CHAs. SUMNER.-''The good citizen as
he reads the requirements of this act
the fugitive slave--is filled with horror.
Here the pathof duty is clear
l AN BOUND TO DIsoBEY THE ACT.
SENATOR WADE.-"There is really no
union now between the North and the
South, and he believed no two nations
upon the earth entertained feelings OF
more bitter rancor towards each other
than these two nations of the republic"
Mr.. GIDDIkGs.-"Iloo look forward to the
day when there shall be a servile insur-
rec ion in the South when the black man,
armed with British bayonets, and led on
by British officers, shall assert his free
dom, and wage war of determination
against his master; when the torch of the
incendiary shall light up the towns and
cities Of the South and blot out the last
vestige of slavery. And though may
not mock at their calamity, nor laugh when
their fear cometh, yet will hail Il as the
dawn of political millennium"
GIN. WEBB" On the action of this
Convention depends the fate of the coun-
try ifthe Republicans fail at the ballot
box, we will be forced TO drive back the
slayeocracy with fire and sword. -
Cheers
SENATOR WILSON," Freemen of the
North have right to govern this country.
or they are the party Of the Union. Law
find Liberty"