St. Charles Republican intelligencer. (St. Charles [Charles City], Iowa) 1856-1857, 1856-10-30
Communications.
The Last Of Politics.
For the st. Charles Republican Intellicencer.

assurance of Mr.. Vindex that he will
not trouble you again with this Gun
profitable discussion" and as this
therefore, will be my crowning eff
fort" we propose to take him kindly
by the hand and briefly review thu
question as it stands. My first arti
Gle, written l consilerd by invitation
and touching upon couple of editori
ais in previous numbers of your pa
per, was written with the design o.
showing achid party it was that threat
ened a dissolution of the Union and
achy they threatened it, and with all
due modesty we clearly showed that
the Democratic party was that party
and their reason for it was, if slavery
was prohibited from the territories
We also judge Mr.. Vindex to be some.
what of that opinion, as in his article
drawn out by mine, he let's the sub.
ject severely alone, and by not endeav'
oring to refute it, seemingly assents
to the correctness of that position.
The same may also be said about the
middle ground " which he mentions
by saying that l so valiantly assert
that have wiped OUT and then drops
it as he would a "hot potatoc," not
even deigning to tell US where he
thought it might be found, probably
for the best of all reasons, viz, he
couldn't. In fact the only portion Of
the article that he touches at all, was
the crowning effort" as he calls it,
and which he was disposed to make a
great fuss about, but we tell him that
his perceptions were so blunted that
he entirely misunderstood us. We
have no more idea that the Union will
be dissolved, no matter how the pres
ent election turns, than that the Cedar
will roll back its tide at flood. No,
sir; the extracts as before stated were
given to show which party it was that
talked disunion, and we gave the ex-
tract from Mr.. Houston's speech as a
single sensible opinion from thatparty
In regard to, the former article OF
Mr.. Vindex, we slightlyrcviewed it in
our last communication, but as we are
now told something by him about
renegade Whigs," we beg leave to
refer to it again. lie tells us:
"Horace Greeley found he could sell
"more Tribunes by declaring the Whig
"party dead, than by upholding the
pillars of his country's Liberty, and he
did So" Truly, he had formed a very
exalted opinion Of the Wing party, the
Pillars of his country's Liberty ~
We certainly think that he must once
have been a Wing, and; therefore, a
renegade " noao but he very compla-
Gently tells us that the more "enlight-
ened and patriotic" of that party support
either Buchanan or Fillmore, thereby
ranking himsel among the "enlighten-
ed and patriotic" So goes the world.
But we say nothing further in regard
to his first article but pass to see where
his second communication touches us.
He takes exceptions, in the first place,
at having his assertions dubbed un.
truths, and endeavors to extricate
himself therefrom and how !? not by
giving the bills containing the "ameli.
Grating clauses )" no, no, far from it
but by the inquiry, "what is the in
suit my statement or the passage Of
the bills" What bills Why in the
name Of Heaven don't you tell us P
We mentioned but a single bill and de
MED it's containing anything ameliora
ting if there were other bills, ach,
don't you tell as and point out the anne
liorating portions of such bills. Youl
ominous silence upon this point con
strains us to believe that you cannot
sustain your assertions by proof
Your statement, sir, was the insult.
In place, however, Of the bills which
Mr.. Vindex fails to give US, we have
more assertion that the Republican
party do not desire peace in Kansas
and charging them with "mulish anl
iahuann obstinacy" for what for no
recognizing as valid the laws passed
by the Missouri Kansas Legislature
We can tell Mr.. yindex that we dom
choose to accept his assertions as to tn
position of the Republican party.
We now come to the gist of the al
ticle Of Mr.. Vindex, who, having