The north Iowa times. [volume] (M'Gregor [i.e. McGregor], Iowa) 1856-1857, 1856-12-05
IS HE CRAZY? {

Henry Ward Beecher, Editor of that vindictive
INSCRIPTIONS and mendacious sheet, The N. Y
Independent, writes as follows since the election
This Reverend Politico- Religionist babe defiance
to the rules of political warfare during the can
yass, but it was supposed that he, as well as other
maignants, would become respectable when they
saw that !" it was hard to kick against the pricks
Not 50 however with the "Star" of the STowE
family. Here is the language he uses in refer ,e
to the people Of the Southern States. When it
il remembered that Washington, Jefferson, Madi-
ison and Henry, Marshall, Clay and Taylor, were
Virginians-]Marion, Sumpter and jackson, were
Carolnians, the compliment to some Of our great
est Revolutionary stock will be appreciated
How many Republicans of Iowa approve of Beech
er's mode of ''cutivatinS fraternal relations be-
tween the citizens of the several States 2" How
many are there who think the writer of the follow
ing article is sin favor of The Union ~ Win the
citizens of Iowa any longer countcnance rubliea-
tons of this character .....t b..
''In morals, manners, personal hlbita, and IDEAS
Of cleanliness, comfort, deceGcy, aHd proprety in
their dress and fluctuations, the majority of the
white people of that whole region are debased and
dehled' to an extent Which northern people who
have never sojourned among these southern
dirty white savages, can hardly imagine or be-
Geye. r. ,. '.'5
.:Ana it should be known, should be remember
cd, and blazoned, that the original cause of this
wide and deep barbarism is not wholly or largely
in slavery, but is independent Of it, and partly
anterior to it. .,,...
a, "The mass of the population of the Atlantic
coast Of the slave region Of the South, are des-
cended from the transported convicts and Outcasts
Of Great Britain. For century previous to the
Revolution, thousands of these ofscourings of the
jails and huiks of England were poured out on the
shores of Maryland Virginia, the Carolinas and
Georgia-and xo,rhere else Those were THE
PENAL COLONIES OF GREAT BRITAIN. Their leg
jslatiye history proves it. And Captain James
Cook was sent di his second voyage of discovery
to seek Al new country which might serve as sub
stitute for those lost cOnyict-sertlemeEts.
40 glorious caiyalry and hereditary aristOcracy
of the South Peerless the families Of Virgins.
and Carolina sI1Qok unto the rock whence We
were hewn, and to the hole of the pit whence We
were digged.' Progeny Of the hghwaymen and
horse thieves and sweepstakes and pick pockets
of Old England Go, vilest of the yile,' out of
all union with communities Of decent origin, and,
following your true natural and moral affnities,
seek your real kindred and political, fraternties
with those whose ancestors were turned from the
ocean path which yours took and founded their
schivalrous' colonies in New South Wales and
Van Dieman's Land. Go to Botnay Bay, with
your hereditary lawlessness, violence and muir
derous, thievish propensities, and stain no longer
the character Of that true and noble descended free
American people who have too long endured the
loathsoine connection with you. .1g#~.
$50, hereditary 0utcasts! Go with the joyful
assent of 10000, 600 Of the countrymen of FISHER
AMEs." t.' 2