The weekly north Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1857-1867, 1857-12-16

]. p. RICHARDSON. -. :. Editor.
Il Greyor. Losca. Wed'y. Dec. is. 81.
he Message.
Our columns are almost exclusively taken up
nth the Message. We have but little space
. comment I'm il, and We do not regret it,
III Who claim any interest in the affairs of the
government will read the whole document.-
Those who care nothing about politics would
x ~ little interested in our comments as they
nay be in the Message itself, and hence it is |
,ot important to any reader that zoe should |
ialiver message at all but the fashion is to |
~ something and We proceed to say:
In the main, the Message ID very good one.
very much like Mr.. Buchanan, cautious, pru-
dent and peaceful in its references TO subjects
involving sectional differences. Aside from its
Kansas policy, it will meet with very general
approval, or rather, its salient pointsi the eyes
Of opponents, will be overlooked in the absorb
ing interest which the new Kansas excitement
has evoked. The attibution of all our late
monetary difficulties to banking. suits the views
of class who are Just now denouneing paper,
but with the return of "good times most of
these specie worshippen will ego in for the
establishment of banks in which they will bs
personally or indirectly interested, trade will
flourish again, the Presidents advice will he
forgotten and business will take its accustomed
All n1,a~f %oen vtr>y
and then down will come the "cob-house' as
before. In our limited reading, we have found
no actiue nation that has avoided the expansions
and contractions of business and the consequent
fluctuations of trade. Laws may regulate
trade. but the death of Commerce, a. in Sparta,
will be the consequence We sometimes have
too much rain and sometimes too little. but it il
certain that any plan could be originated that
would work any better for the general good
than that which now governs the demand and
supply in the bank of Humidity. If too much
rain has carried away bridges, it, has also fertil-
lied valleys and removed trash which in decom-
posing might have been unhealthy. So. if "a
Fer money has stimulated the country to the
print Of collapse and great ruin has followed, it
must also be remembered that the same paper
credit has pushed the country along to an extent
Of prosperity that enables it to bear reverse
and b. much wealthior At last than it would
had the slow coach NO CREDIT boon the means
Of business INSTRUMENTATION We believe
in steam propulsion even though, Terrible
accident" now and then horrifics ~ With its
bill Of particulars.
Tho most exciting topic in the Message il
KAHsAs. and on this tho President is not charge
able with half the sins which his opponents are
disposed to impute to him. He regards the
Leconpton Convention as having legal birth,
and though he would have preferred that the
constitution prepared by it should have been
submitted in toto to the people FIR approval or
rejection, yet he thinks the submission of the
question Of slavery alone, meets the point
at issue between those who have succeeded
In keeping up three years wranglc inside,
and to great extent, outside Of that territory.
Regarding the Constitution a. subject to be
chAfgcd at amy time blythe vote of the people,
notwithstanding the provision that it may stand
till 1864 in its present shape he thinks it advis.
able that the question Of slavery" the great
est bone of the consetiou should nosc be de.
eiaed BY the people of Kansas and the State
admitted ct once, to avoid farther trouble to
the Government and to preAeut farther danger
TO the Union. He looks at this matter
not - politician so-much a. venerable
old father whose object is the pacifcation of a
fighting family. His motives are uDqueetiona.
by patriotic, and if it were not for the fact
that this Kansas discussion had showed earth
snd Hsaven" and slightly disturbed the other
place. wsvery much doubt whether there would
have been solitary objection to the mode of it.
submission to the people. But, from its organi.
zation TO the present hoar this territory and
the law which gave it political existence have
been the theme of embittered debate. The
Bill under which it was organized provided that
ito domestic institutions" as State, should
be established by its own people, and though
slavery was the main, if not the only Gin
s'itution" thenregarded az matter of differ.
ence, yet it is eminently proper-it is manifest
ly Imperative that eUery question Of domestic
policy should be alike subject to the approval
Of the people. The Democratic party through.
out the session, and most particularly at the
North, stands pledged to that line of policy; its
nationality has been preserved by continual
recurrence to that feature of Mr.. Douglas
Eill, and it will not do now to tell rs that Kan
an nm f hA Rpuoh bod int, Ill r.
Ing or not, with Constitution in one particu.
lar only, and that somewhat ambiguously, de-
cided by vote of the people. Of all applicants
for admission, Kansas should have been the
highest examplar of the doctrine of selfgov.
ernmcnt A full, and fair expression of the
Popular will il the essence of her territorial
character without that expression, she is q
standing contradiction to the doctrine which
brought her into being and which has been tri-
umphsntly sustained by the national men Of
the country.
Gov. Walker and Senator Douglas backed by
nearly the entire Democratic press of the North
. well asby leading Southern presses. ask that
the Nebfaska'kansas Bill be allowed to per-
form it, Office.
DoxEsnc-Balls will be the order a. fol.
lsws: On Christmas cve(Dec 24th) At Barn.
hardtb in Hardin and at Hales United States
IN West Unien. On New years eve Dec. 3lst)
ct Bars new Hotel Monona, and at the Amer.
lean Hall in McGsegor. The latter il to be 9
Gsrman Masquerade Ball. The ice and water
ia'stin crossed at McGregor, but a. we 70 "a
psese the old mule Beat is leaving shore COM
nanded By Admiral (Oley) Nelson and De Ha.
Won. The McGregor merchants arc badly in
want Of freight ON the other side and hence this
resumption Of boating, No such winter as this
Aas before been experienced in this latitude