The weekly north Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1857-1867, 1858-09-01
A Picture.
The Springfield (Mass) Republican is one

A Picture. -
The Springfield (Mass.) Republican is one
Of the ablest of New England Republican
Journals. In late issue of that sheet the fol.
lowing description of its own party may be
found. We would not write such an article
because it would be regarded Is originating in
party spleen, and we carefully avoid making
remarks bearing that imputation but when
respectable member q the opposition family
chooses to state just what arc known facts about
its relations, we confess to the enjoyment of
great pleasure in placing such confessions be-
fore our readers. We give the people credit
for being guided by senss and not party, and
we often persuade ourselves that nne-tenths
of the voters North and South would agree
upon some common ground Of principleif there
were not Offices to fill and ambitious and often
INSCRIPTIONS leaders waiting their turn. The
American people really have but one interest
the cotton fields of Alabama and Texas are as
important to the New England Mills as the
Pork and Beef and Lumber Of the North are
to the Southern States. We are one family,
and the man or the party that attempts to SOW
discord for present success will sooner or later
be destroyed by the masses who, for time, lie
may have deceived.
10 prove that there is a radical change now
working in the minds of our opponents, it is
only necessary to refer to the remarks lately
made by few of the leading lights of Repub-
licanism. Mr.. CoRwIs, of Ohio, lately nomi-
mated by Republican Congressional Conven-
ton Of his district, expressly denounces as un-
constitutional and wrong, the battle cry of "No
more Slave States Mr.. LINCOLN, of Illinois,
in a discussion with Douglas, saw no other
way to escape the odium of platform adopted
generally by his party four years ago, than to
deny that it was made at the time and place
which Douglas named Lincoln refuses entire.
ly to indorse it and yet its language is the
same as that used by almost every opposition
paper of the State of Iowa, Illinois and Wis
consin. CALEB b. SMITH. now of Ohio, but
lately a very distinguished leader Of Indiana
Republicanism, has also made speech in which
he processes contempt for "the sectional cry of
No more Slave States" Corwin compliments
Smith for his holiness in expressing this anti
Republican" sentiment.
Neither of these men ere in favor of creating
slave states, nor are the Democracy committed
to any such policy, but Uncommon with all men
who can se6two sidesfo question, they join
Us in Opposition - "a doctrine which must re-
suit either in failure or Acknowledgement of
the confederacy. Wehavc even higher author
ity than the preceding. HORACE GREELY, the
man who has made the Republicanism of the
North West, in a speech recently delivered said
that sit would not do to exclude State simply
because her constitution may authorize slavery.
Cuba may ask for admission-he sincerely
hoped not-but if she should ask to be enroll.
ed - a member of the American family Of
.sovereignties, he was not prepared to reject her
because Of her slavery" Mr.. Greedy also said
"there is no time at which Territory can
decide the question for Or against slavery ex-
cept on the adoption of her State Constitution
the difficulty being that at no other time in
the history of territory could prohibition or
al adoption of slavery he permanent settle
ment of the question: In this we think Mr.
Greedy goes farther than many democrats. he
certainly goes out of sight aud hearing OF the
party which the Tribune has labored to Or
game.
Looking at these evidences of the restoration
of the leaders Of the Republican party to a
national position, We would ask the rank and
tile what confidence can be placed in the judg-
ment, TO say nothing Of the honesty of men
who get up schemes for popular delusion and
when their ends are gained, they coolly inform
those who gave them Office or position that the
theories they have been advocating are value
less for all practical uses they may do well
enough to beat Democrats with once, but every
canvass witnesses change Of programme and
lies another knot in the tangled web of incon-
sistency which for the last twenty years has
marked the tactics of our opponents. Is there
safety or can there be sclf-respect in allying
yourself to party that has no better guide than
the mere expediency Of the hour2 We do not
find all Democrats to be saints, but it is unde-
aiallc that the doctrines of our national Demo
genius of our government, the rights of the
States and the sentimentsof our people. Hence
they must always prevail
But here il the Springfield picture of its own
party:
"The fact is, the Republican party isn't q
party yet, and, still worse, isn't likely to be at
present. What it needs more than anything
else, is definition of itself, discipline, .
boundary, habitation, doors TO let people in,
walls to keep them in, and recognized head
OF the house to look up to as sprovicer. 1t
has none Of these things now, but inhabiis a
SORT Of ten acre lot, half the bars of which are
down three-quarters of the time. You admit
one squad. and another squad escapes at the
same moment, Every man fights for his own
hand, like the Highland Cheftain. 1t is anti
nigger'in St. Louis, to save Mr.. Blair protec-
tionism in Pennsylvania to accommodate Hen
y C. Carey and save two or three Congress
men old fashioned whiggcry in Ohio, SO that
Tom Corwin may make hi lself at home Fill
moreisn in Kentucky and Maryland, SO that
Humphrey Marshall and Henry Winter Davis
may be reelected; truck and dioker in our State
committee, so that Burlingame may not be
beaten, and so on. A Gardnerite or straight
republican of 1857. or even Fillmoreiie Of
1856, is just as good q republican as anybody.
There is no risk in deserving, for the deserters
are not shot as they are in the democratic and
every other well regulated party
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B0oks.-HoBART has returned from Boston
and New York with Boots, Shoes and Leather
enough to shoe all Northern Iowa. His adyer.
tisement in to-days paper occupies some space
in our columns but it bears no more proportion
to the stock he is now receiving than one Of
your dull eastern villages does to the growing
active. business city Of Mcgrpgor David is q
dreadful man among Leather-he keeps both
the made up articles and the articles to make