The north Iowa times. [volume] (M'Gregor [i.e. McGregor], Iowa) 1856-1857, 1856-11-07
MGREGOR, FRIDAY, NOV. z, 1856.

| iond am of him. might temp
Che Society of Friends to charge at hand
sallop into the Swartz-Kop location an
'xterminate the whole kraal.
| When war is afoot among the nobl
savages--which is always-the chic
nolds council to ascertain whether it i
The opinion Of his brothers and friends il
general that the enemy shall be extermi
mated. On this occasion, after the per
formance of an Umsebeuza, or war song
which is exactly like all the othe
songs,-the chief makes speech to hi.
brothers and friends, arranged in singl,
file. No particular order is observed du
ring the delivery of this address, but every
gentleman who finds himself excited by
the subject, instead of crying Hear
hear!' as is the custom with us, darts
from the rank and tramples out the life, OF
crushes the skull, or mashes the face, OF
scoops out the eyes, or breaks the limbs,
or performs a whirlwind of atrocities on
the body, of an imaginary enemy. Sew
eral gentlemen becoming thus excited al
once. and pounding away without the least
regard to the orator, that illustrious per-
son is rather in the position OF an orator
IN an Irish House of Commons. But,
several of these scenes of savage life bear
a strong generic resemblance to an Irish
election, and | think would be extremely
well received and understood at Cork.
In all these ceremonies the noble saw
age holds forth to the utmost possible ex-
tent about himself; from which Ito turn
him to some civilised account) we may
learn, l think, that as Egotism is one of
the most offensive and contemplate little
ness civilised man can exhibit, so i. is
really incompatible with the interchange
OF ideas: inasmuch as if we all talked
about ourselves we should soon have no
listeners, and must be all yelling and
screeching at once on our own separate
accounts making society hideous. 1t is
my opinion that if we retained in us any
thing OF the noble savage, we could not
get md of it too soon. But the fact is
clearly otherwise. Upon the wife and
dowry question, substituting coin for
cows, we have assuredly nothing of the
~~"A' AAe'iiA 40At. L Hc cIllulAnce OF OcS-
poiism is one great distinguishing mark
|of savage always. The improving
world has quite got the better of that too.
In like manner, Paris is civilised city,
and the Theatre Francais a highly civil
Used theatre /; and we shall never hear,
and never have heard in these later DAYS
(of course) of the Praiser there. No,
no, civilised poets have better work to do.
AS to the Nookering Umtargarties. there
are no pretended Umtargarsies in Europe,
and no European Powers to Nooker them !;
that would be mere spydom, subornation.
small malice, superstition, and false pre-
tenee. And as to private Umtargarlies,
are We not in the year 1853, with spirits
rapping at our doors?
TO conclude as began My position,
is that if we have anything to learn from
the Noble Savage, it is what to avoid
His virtues are fable; his happiness a
delusion; his nobility nonsense. We
have no greater justification for being cruel
to the miserable object, than for being
cruel to William Shakespeare or an Isaac
Newton; but he passes away before an
immeasurably better and higher power
than ever ran wild in any earthly woods,
and the world will be all the better when
his place knows him no more,