St. Charles Republican intelligencer. (St. Charles [Charles City], Iowa) 1856-1857, 1856-10-09
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MEssRs. EDITORS ON taking up til
Intelligencer of the End inst, l wa
somewhat surprised to find in it yer
, lengthy and rather feeble "yarn
against the Democratic party and i
vindication Of Northern fanatics an
disunionists. My surprise was less
ened, though, when l reflected tina
yours is an independent" paper, an
that, believing in the doctrine of 'fre
press and free speech" you could no
easily and consistently resist the SO
licitation to insert the article, howev
er much you might disapprove of it
general tenor. | allude to the docu
ment signed by R. w. Humphrey, o
this town. So far as the Democracy
are concerned, l think they could vel
afford to pay you for publishing arti
cles of like character every week. The
course you have hitherto pursued in
regard to politics, has been very sat
isfactory to me and l doubt not to
Democrats generally. You have sough,
to discountenance ultraism" on all
sides, and to pursue that conservative
policy of which there is3f far too little
at the present day, This policy, how
ever, is very repulsive and abomina
bic in the eyes Of my friend Humphrey,
and upon it he makes serious and
deliberate assault, and threatens that
he will set you dangling ON horn for
the offence. Whether these two
words, horn" and dangling" have
any connection with the horn he must
have imbibed while writing, and the
fear Of Swinging from hempen line
which traitors to their country some
times have before their eyes, or not,
am unable to say. AKA .,.......s,. p |
| l do not find any very important
points in my friend Humphreys arti
Gle, that need replying to, and conse
quently what / shall have to say vii
be merely for the purpose of holding
mirror to his eyes that he may behol,
] the position of himself and friends, an,
i what really is " the duty of freemen.
A large portion of the article in .ques
ton is devoted to rindicatiom of thos,
rabid and ultra fanatics of the Nortl
who have brought themselves into no
tice and their country upon the brink
of ruin, by their reckless and desper
ate efforts to gain place and po,cer,-
such as Giddings, Banks, Chase, Bur
lingame, ct I'd genus omne, and who arr
now "hail fellows we'll met" with the
gentleman, in their efforts to elect Col
Fremont to the Presidency. Another
portion of the article is made up by
arraying lengthy quotations, (trimmed
all up and down with any quantity o.
turned commas, and excessively inter
spersed with italics from southern
gentlemen whose opinions are just as
obnoxious to the contempt of all right
minded citizens as those of Mr.. H. and
his dismion brethren at the North
Still another portion Of the article con
sists of an attack upon Mr.. Buchanan
mot origmal-but extracted from
some political slang uttered by an alb
olition orator of New, York. 54,ii hi ta.4
do not know that you, Messrs. Ed
itors, have advocated the election O
Mr.. Buchanan any more than that o
the other Presidential candidates.
Then why does Mr.. Humphrey take 81
much pains to make an assault upor
him, and that too with a borrowed
weapon? Is it the fear that the ma
tional or middle ground which he val
iantly asserts he has wiped out, so tina
| "you cannot find enough Of it upol
which to place the tip Of your httl'
fnger,"-I ask, is it the fear that'thi.
national doctrine is still SO popular
with the people that they will cleo
James Buchanan to the Presidency q!
its great embodiment and exponent?
Mr.. Humphrey quotes literally iron
the Charleston Mercury, and calls tina
paper "the leading organ Of the De
mocracy in South Carolina" Nowthi
South Carolina Democracy has usual.
been regarded as severe aristocrac.
!, and a still severer oligarchy. The.
f certainly did not deport themselve
much like Democrats in the days 0
Notification, and twas not till afte
General Jackson gave them a fey
democratic" lessons that they coul'
comprehend the meaning Of the tcrr