The weekly north Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1857-1867, 1857-12-02
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COu&Te08.
The meeting Of this body on next Monday
will make political food for newspapers for
many mouths. The Democratic majority will
be strong on general questions, but We arprc-
bend a serious division among them in relation
~ the everlasting subject of slavery. Ii the
foolish idea advanced by the Union in recent
issue, that ga man may hold his slaves any
snhere in defiance of state prohibition" is going
to I've seriously advocated by any considerable
portion of the south, there will be ''blow up
Of no small magnitude at once. We are more
than even pleased now that Mr.. Buchanan in
the very outset of his Administration disclaimed
the idea that he or his opinions were represent
ed by m organ; such al organ as the Union
would play tune that could be likened to
nothing save Dead March to him who supports
it.
The Democratic party Of the Northern states
has been freely charged by its Republican op.
poncnts with being rro-slavcry, but it is TO be
hored that our southern friends have not assum-
cd this charge to be true merely because it has
been 50 Frequently and flippantly made. For
the earnestness with which we have met and
repealed invasions Of the constitutional rights
Of the south both in organized states and in
Kansas and Nebraska, the statesmen Of Ken
lucky and Tennessee must not connt
vcrts to the blessings Of slavery. Nor must
they calculate that our regard for their interests
will induce us to subscribe to the monstrous
doctrine that the barriers the free states have
erected against slavery shall be trampled down
by any planter who may choose to transfer his
tobacco and hcmpraiscrs TO northern corn
field. That kind of talk wont do for any body
up this way, and the sooner the man who wrote
it retircs from the columns of the Union the
better i'll it be for the character of the paper,
and for the real interests Of the Southern pco-
pie.
On tic Mormon question VIC cxrect That
Congress will lie Unit, as we can conceive of
no POSSIBLE justification of the course pursued
by the infamous lecher who in an evil hour was
made Governor and Superintendent of Indian
Affairs for Utah. We do not believe the Nor
mons are half so dangerous as reports would
indicate, because it is historically true that men
whose liv es are spent after the manner of Dung
e. Co., are more insolent than efficient. Indul
gences such as they boast in the songs and rites
of their damnable system Of religion. arc inva-
riably parents of weakness and effeninacy
witness the Pcrslans and other Eastern nations
in their contests with the Greeks and Romans.
Tut whether weak or strong. dangerous or con
~tcmptibls, there is but one sentiment running
through the minds of the America people, and
that sentiment is Destruction TO the wretch who
lares to insult The mqjesty of this Government
ly reasonable bravado and official Defiance
Brigham, together with his knavish and foolish
followers, must be made to know that the army
Of the United States is not 10 be addressed as
intruders, and WAR DECLARED against them by
satrop whose official existence was prolonged
out of mere mercy and whose rricstly character
is envclored in the grosscst sensualism Con-
lress will doubtless provide fer the raising OF
force that will happily "clean out" Mormons and
hostile Indians from that whole region and rem
der it suitable abode for the moving thousands
of our own people who continue to roll on to-
wards the Pacific.
The marching o twenty thousand men across
the plains next spring would do more to open
up and settle the iamense country lying imme-
diately east and among the Rocky Mountains,
than any other move that can be conceived
The Rail Road would almost keep pace will,
the settlement Who can tell if this high
handed act of Mormonism since it furnishes a
justification for thorough work on the part of
the Government, may rot ultimately prove
blessing Of the greatest magnitude! >.