St. Charles Republican intelligencer. (St. Charles [Charles City], Iowa) 1856-1857, 1856-10-16
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For the st. Charles Republican Intelligence,

MEssRs. EDroRs Il find in your pa
per of Oct. 9th, a rather. lengthy arti-
Gle purporting to be written by a Mr..
Vindex of this town." who appears
to take the /" feeble yarn in your pre-
vious issue quite at heart, and in IT,
rade of abuse and vulgar slang, seeks
to hide the real issue in the present
canvass interpolating foreign ele-
ments, such as James G. Birney, Abo-
litionism, Black Republicans, Shrek
crs for Freedom, &C.; thereby hoping
to divert the peoples minds from the
real issue, viz: Slavery Extension OF
its Non-Extension; and upon that is
sue l see but little in the labored arti-
Gle of Mr.. Vindex. After few per-
sonal slurs which we shall not notice,
lest by sometime discovering the au-
thor we should be ashamed for so do
ing, we pass to the following eloquent
untruths. "The Senate deeply deplor-
p" ed the state of affairs in Kansas and
" more than once passed bills for anne
"liorating the condition of the settlers
" in that territory" The vericst insult
that could be thrown upon the people
of that territory! What those bills
were he fails to tell us, but we pre-
sumo however that he alludcs to the
Toombs Douglas BILL That bill
proposed the repeal of certain of the
Kansas territorial laws-amending
some, and leaving still others to re-
main also enacting new laws, among
others, an election law, leaving APP
pointees of the President to determine
who are voters, &c. (Ameliorating in
deed And, had the Abolition
House, under leadership of Speaker
Banks" concurred, and passed the
bill, they would thereby have recognized
the ralidity and Legality of the laws
passed by the bogus Legislature of that
territory, which is something the Re-
publican party have not yet done; and
as for any amelioration contained in
that bill, we confess that we can't see
it.
Wen notice the ludicrous attempt
Of the gentleman to fastcn "abolitioa-
ism" (Which appears to be his hobby
upon the Republican party. He tells
us with what regard for truth we
leave the reader to judged their
leaders begali operations as immedi-
ate emancipationists about twenty
five years ago." which we deny in toto.
We recognize as our immediate lead
ers, " Fremont & Dayton" after them,
Seward, Sumner, Wilson, Chase, Ham
lin, Trumbull, Bryant, Preston King,
Beatty, Blair, Bissell, Collamer, Col
fax, &C., the good men and true of all
parties, many of whom four years ago
were leaders of the Democracy, but
not followers of Franklin Pierce or S.
A. Douglas. But we are not through
with this yet-the gentleman to trace
the connection between the Abolition
and Republican parties, begins with
their support of James G.. Birney, (who
he tells us tore little girl from it's
mother in Alabama, and leaves them
supporting Van Buren,, but forgets to
tell us that Van Buren, supports Bu-
chanan Truly, he has traced them
to his own fold! How proud must he
feel; first traducing, villifying, and
then finding them at his own door |!
But we forbear, we think Mr.. Vindex
must have forgotten himself, and we
will be merciful as we expect mercy.
We are next told something about TAB
(sweet word) in Vermont
in 1850, and what the Boston Travel
Ter said about it. Also a few words
from John Quincy Adams, which suit
us exactly, and do not war with Re-
publicanism.
The gentleman next tells us that we
. are believing ourselves hoarse about
= the repeal of the Missouri Compro-
mise ~, &c. We admit that the
North as body, were opposed to the
of that act, but after it was
orced upon us, and the South had got
heir part Of the loaf, we claim the
light to below" about it's repeal,
md our present prospect is that we
shall not "bellow in vain. OF that
Compromise we gave Jimmy Plat
orm's "opinion in our previous yarn,
about its being nell discuss
d, solid ground, rest forerer! &c. Wei
low add that of his First Assistant, S.
\. Douglas. at had its origin in the
hearts of all patriotic men who de-
sire to preserve and pcrpetuate the
blessings Of our glorious Union-an
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