The weekly north Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1857-1867, 1858-03-31

and in which he praised the Democratic
party for having been the means Of ad-
hitting Texas into the Union as slave
State. when it is notorious that he and
his father, and those who composed the
Van Buren party, strenuously opposed
the annexation, and by a "secret circu-
lar" endeavored to defeat Polk and
Dallas. ...
have reverted to the former course
of these gentlemen not out of personal
hostility. but to show that as in nature
the seasons change, 30 changes the
mere politician when actuated by in
terest; and to enter my protest against
the power assumed by such Democrats,
and apparently recognized by majority
ofKy party upon the floor, of reading
out the Democracy, gentlemen wio have
been consistent national Democrats all
their lives. "In these loose party
times" the line of demarkation between
party rebellion and fealty is so finely
drawn and so nearly allied that the
word "rebe" has no grating sound upon
my ear, and produces no terror. Had
General William Walker, whom the
South have sought to heroize at the ex-
pense of the noble conduct of the gal
liant Paulding, been successful in Mica
ragua, even he would have been a
patriot. Success makes patriots now-a-
days, and in politics, owing to the de-
generacy of the times in which we live,
many politicians. ! regret to say, prefer
success rather than virtue. Mr.. Chair
man. l cannot be read out of the Demo-
cratic party for my vote against the
Lecompton constitution, conceived. as
it was, in fraud. and brought forth in
iniquity; prefer,ing to be right rather
than to be indorsed when wrong by the
nominal temporary head of the Demo-
cratic church. ''Men change-princi-
Piles never" is a truthful maxim that we
should all live up to. Has it ever oc-
Cured, sir. to those new hedged nation
al Democrats on this floor who arrogate
10 themselves plenary power to read out
of the party consistent Democrats, that
seven of the twelve Democratic mem
bers from New York were Hard-shell
rebels in that State from September,
1853, down to the election of this Ad-
ministration? That they rebelled against
President Pierce and his minions, not
because he was false to the principles or
platform upon which he was elected.
but simply for the reason that he had
insnlted the national Democrats in New
York in giving the most important Fed
eral appointments to the Free-soil lead
ers who had contributed to the defeat of
Cass and Butler, thus offering an in
dignity to the true men of the party
those who had created and sustained
the national Democratic sentiment in
the North which elected Mr.. Pierce
and also for the unjustifable interference
of his administration in removing Judge
Bronson, thereby striking. as they be-
lieved, blow at State rights.
e. \
What a change, Mr.. Chairman, has
come over the spirit of the dream of the
President within few months Well
do remember reading the sulphurous
letter from one of the REPRESENTATIVES
of the South. in which he treated the
venerable Executive of the country as
paralytic, weak, old man. Well do
remember the resolutions adopted in
Georgia, Alabama, and Mississippi. de-
nouncing Governor Walker, and menac-
ing the Executive for his instructions to
him, and because he not did no, remove
him for honestly repudiating the Oxford
and McGee frauds. Shortly after Con-
gress assembled, we discovered the
President uniting with those who had
denounced him, and forsaking nearly
all the friends who had nominated and
elected him. We beheld him entering
upon acrusade of persecution and ostra
cism against his original friends who
had the honesty to maintain the princi-
pies upon which he was elected
Sir, who are, and where now stand,
some of the prominent "rebels On prin-
ciple ?" Where stands the "Warwick
OF King James," driven from court by
parasites and courtiers? He is at the
post of honor-a private station-en-
gagged in his profession the "Leggett"
OF American political writer's, modestly
yet firmly. from his powerful lever. the
Press" fighting the good fight for
popular sovereignty, and the right Of
the people 10 self-government. Where
stands the gallant and eloquent Wise,
the Bayard Of Virginia chivalry. the
Governor of the mother of Presidents,
who controlled the vote of his State for
Mr.. Buchanan nomination and election?
Where the Necker of the administration
of President Polk-Governor Walker
who left his family here, to go into the
wilderness Of Kansas, to reason with
and quiet the border ruffians and eastern
fanatics in that Territory, and to pre-
pare and fairly bring her into the Union.
under the Democratic provisions of the
Kansas. Nebraska bill? Where the
didactic. logical, and able Stanton, the
ever-reliable southern member, who
faithfully represented Tennessee on this
floor for over ten years? Where the
Gibbon Of American history, the ele-
CANT writer, and polished Secretary OF
the Navy, and Minister to St. James.
George Bancroft I? Where the able
Stuart the Senator from Michigan. and
the unrelen'ing and intrepid Broderick,
of the golden State Of the West. each
of whom controlled the vote of his State
for Mr.. Buchanan, in the Cincinnati
convention? Where the father Of the
new States of the West. tha heroic, the
honest, the able. the fearless, the deter
mined Douglas. who gave paternity to
the Kansas bill, and who should, above
all others. be capable of giving his own
act legitimate Interpretation in the
Senate. according to its true intent and
meaning" not to refer to lesser lights in
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