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Sioux City register. [volume] (Sioux City, Iowa) 1858-1871, 1858-09-30

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elemepf # the Republican Party. Although
;ndepef ent of mere Party organization, it was
the 6rsf paper TO advocate general union of
the Or onents of the Kansas Nebraska Act in
1854. Party of Freedom; took leading
mart in re formation of the Republican Party,
and. wi lie holding itself at liberty to blame
what il considered blameworthy, has uniformly
vindicated it as true to its Principles. 1t has
never besn burden to its friends, never solicit
ed. nor at anf time would have been willing to
receive, siny kind of official congressional pa
,ronage, has always been selfsustaining. From
its friep,is, then, it asks a subscription that
shall en-. bic il to retain a position gained by SO
much e. ort, and to continue to WELD an inhu-
ence y ich, trust, has not been exerted Tor
evil.
The ,ming year will be a critical one for
the Re lblcan cause. Strong efforts will be
made tc demoralize it, and accommodate II to
the vie, of those, who, unwilling to support
the Adj inistration, do not yet appreciate the
true ma, re or objects Of our movement Squat
ter Sow eighty, Know Nothingism, Conserva-
tism, N.,tional Whiggery, are all working to-
gether + the construction OF platform, from
whchs all be excluded the Anti Slavery Idea
that vel element which gave birth and gives
vitality the Republican Party. Can the Era
be disp, sed with at such period2
Able, ontributors have been secured to oul
columns and with pleasure we announce thai
we have engaged as Assistant Editor, DAEIET
r. Goo MoE, of North Carolina, one of the
abIest tiers in the country on the Question
of Slave y. :,
The literary Department of the paper will
be caref. lily attended to. The two Stories now
in coul ,e of publication, " Herman and
=" Jasper will furnish rich entertainment to
our read rs, for several months to come.
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The National Era is about to enter upon Its
Thirteenth volume.
Twelve years ago, when the Discussion OF
the Question of Slavery was practically pro-
hibited in this District, the Era was commenced
for the purpose of asserting and defending the
Rights of Discussion, and of giving falr ex-
preston to Anti-Slavery Sentiments. In the
House of Representatives, John Quincy Adams
and Joshua r. Giddings alone gave 1t moral
support; in the Senate, it found not single
we'll wisher; while outside of Congress II stood
here, solitary and unsustained, under ban and
menace. A conflict followed, in which an excited
populace undertook to suppress 1t by violence,
but it resisted the storm, maintained It's posi-
ton, and from that hour the Liberty OF the
Press was established in the District OF Co
lumbia.
Twelve years have passed, and to day, the
Era finds twenty among the most distinguished
members of the Senate, elected to carry out the
Principles il was Instituted to advocate, and
the House almost controlled by Representatives,
with whom it can consistently and heartily act
as CO. worker.
While the cause it has advocated has ad-
vanced SO rapidly, am constrained to say that
the Era, since the advent OF the Republican
Party, has suffered somewhat in Its circulation.
InHuentiai newspapers once III oPPo''
but now united in the same movement, and an
extensive Local Press, upholding kindred SEN
timents, naturally engross large portion oil
Republican patronage.
This was to be expected, but still think
there are good reasons why the Era should
continue to be sustained. Ii was the first Press
to raise the standard of Freedom In the Capital
of the Republic. For twelve years it has been
Identified with the Anti Slavery movement,
and especially represents the Anti-Slavery
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GOING SOUTH.

Hon. Mordecai Oliver, with his family, passed
through Lexington, Mo-, one day last week, en-
route for his new home, Selma, Alabama.-Er
change.
Mr.. Oliver was associated with Messrs. How,
ard and Sherman on the Kansas Investigating
Committee. He represented the Border Ruff.
fans " in Congress, and, without being addicted
to violence himself we believe that he fully
sympathzed with the violent efforts of his con.
stituents to make Kansas slave State. Hay.
ing failed, he, in common with many of his
slaveholding neighbcrs, COOS South, in order to
get as far as possible from the triumphant Free
Sellers. H
Without any feeling of personal unkindness
to Mr.. Oliver, we heartily approve of his recent
move, and We should take pleasure in stating
that Messrs. Atchison, StringfelIow, and Co.,
are following in his wake.
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extract from Lieut. Besle's Report of a recent
examination of the Albuquerque route, which
is from three to five degrees north of that Sc
lected by the President.
Lieutenant Beale says: III =
1T is the shortest from our Western frontier
by three hundred miles, being nearly directly
west. 1t lie the most level, our wagons only
double-teaming once in the entire distance, and
that at short hill, and over surface hereto
fore unbroken by wheels or trail Of any kind.
It is well watered, our greatest distance without
water at any time being twenty miles. 1t ia
well timbered, and in many places the growth
| is far beyond that of any part of the world
have ever seen. 1t is temperate in climate,
passing for the most part over an elevated re.
gion. 1t is sslnbrious, not one Of our party re-
curing the slightest medical attendance from
the time of our leaving to our arrival. 1t ia
well grassed, my command never having made
bad grass camp during the entire distance,
until near the Colorado.
alt crosses the great desert (which must be
crossed by any road to California; at it's Bar.
rowest point 1t passes through a country
abounding in game, aud bat little infested NTH
Indians On the entire road, until our arri.
ool at the Mohaoe pillages, ape did not see. in
all, over dozen Indians. and those Of a timid
and inofensiue character. At the point of the
crossing of the Colorado, grain, vegetables, and
breadstpffs may be obtained in any quantity
from the Indians, who cultivate extensively,
though rudely, the fertile bottom lands of the
Colorado. 1t is passable alike in winter and
summer. These are the advantages which |
claim for the road which we have discovered,
marked, and explored, from New Mexico to
this State.
"From the Colorado end to the settlements,
the country has been surveyed and mapped by
the United States surveyor of this State, which,
apart from the fact that it doea not come with.
in my instructions, leaves me but little to say
in relation to it. l shall mention, then, only
one important fact, that it leaves to the option
of the emigrant the choice of entering Califor-
MIA either at the city of Los Angeles, by the
regular travelled read, in the most fertile
part of the southern portion of the State, or,
turning of from that river, and by an easy road,
| fire quently travelled, and coming into the head
| Of the great Tullare Valley, and by good road
| through settlements all the way, extending TO
Stockton, Sacramento, and the more northern
parts of the State"
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BACKsLIDIHG.

On the fourth page of this paper we present
extracts from Southern presses, complaining
bitterly, not merely of Anti Lscompton Demo
Gratis, but of the Northern supporters of the
Lecompton fraud, who have receded from the
ground taken in the Conference Act relative to
the admission of Kansas. We agree with our
Southern contemporaries, that the Lecompton.
ties behaved scurvily in the premises, but We
cannot sympathize in the surprise which they
manifest. 1t would be singular that men who
had betrayed their constituents should hest
tate to recant in order to secure reelection.
But what will the Propagandists say to such
sentiments as the following, from a Massa-
chusetts " Democratic" candidate for Con-
gressf General Benjamin F. Butler, having
been rendered nomination to Congress-, re-
sponded ia letter, from which the following
is an extract:
The people of every community, who asso
ciste themselves upon the territory of the Uni
ted States, and obtain sufficient numbers 30 as
to be organized into Territorial Government,
have the right, by their legislation, under the
Constitution, to manage all their domestic in.
stitutions in their own way or, in other words,
to determine for themselves fully the status Of
society under which they will live; and this
right continues until the formation of such Ter
ritory into5s State, when it is conceded BY all.
Then, slaves being decided to be property by
the Supreme Court in the States where Slavery
exists by local law, are protected as such in
the Territories, as far as in the several States,
giving the master the right to hold them while
there is no Territorial legislation on the sub
iect, with the further right to remove them
within q reasonable time after legislation is
had, that divests him of his property by Law
declaring them free.
"This would put the rights of the South upon
their true constitutional basis, leaving the pub
lie domain fairly open to competition and emf.
grafton, permitting the question of 'bond or
free to be settled by the natural laws of inter.
est and profit, or by the newly formed commu-
nifty, as soon it is of ability to settle any other
question Of governmental policy, retaining for
the slaveholder, who had brought his property
upos the public land, under the protection of
the Constitution, the right to take it away, if in
danger of being Invested of it by Territorial
iegislstion. More than this the South ought
not to ask more than this the North ought
not to grant. Of course, from this reasoning,
no one would hold that by carrying his slave
into unoccupied and unorganized territory the
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that peri iious enterprise inspired the hope that
Northern spirit was subdued at last and that
the only ray to make victory permanent, was
to make ,lavery universal.
The s. uhern newspapers and stump speech
ca would furnish us with q superabundance OF
evidence in support of Senator Stewards state
inert, bu the following, from the most popular
political review of the South, must suffice for
the preef at.
De Z WIS Review has an article entitled
"Africa, Slavery adapted to the North and
Northwst." The following is an extract from
it: -
"If tn ;, Union be desirable, land with rigid
regard mutual rights by the North and
South, n one will deny its inestimable value, }
it is ear sstly considered that the most effect.
ual mea. of giving it perpetuity will be real.
lied in 70 opening of the slave trade, and the
Introduction of our peculiar institution into the
Western States and Territories. By this we
will COM ruct homogeneous system of labor,
and thro Ugh this bond of sympathy will be re.
establish id that community of sentiment, and
the old eatente cordiale, without which the Con.
stitutionsis rope of sand, and the Union a
shallow -nockery."
If the be anything chimerical in this pro
ject; it j because the Black Democracy is daily
losing !, ound in the free States. If the re
cent els tions had gone like those of last year
the demands of the Oligarchy would have beer
boundleEs, and every organ of the party, from
Maine to California, would have yelped in full
chorus nth the above article from the Union
T.stv. fs6iss1, 81 tks M5ss;s C6ds, xha "a I.
the traitorous in6del who should fail to see in i
ample authority to carry Slavery to the utmos
Northern verge of the Republic.
But the Black Democracy is now defeated
and disgraced. Every Northern State has re
pudiated the President and his policy for if il
one or two States the name Of Democracy still
maintains q foothold, its most odious feature
its sanction of the Presidents Kansas policy
has been Topped off. The effect will be ma
terisl abatement from the pretensions of tn
Oligarchy, and probably the OVERLAPPING of SOM
of the backer portion Of the platform with
plank from Mr.. Douglass popular sovereignt
mills. The North has been cheated 30 ofte
with such humbugs, that the humbled and de
feated demagogues still cherish hopes of cheat
ing again. 1t remains to be seen whether the
will prove successful
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CRITTENDEN ON DOUGLAS.

The friends of Judge Douglas have published
a letter, dated August let, from Senator Crit
tenden, which they claim as evidence of his
sympathy with Mr.. D. in his struggle for re,
election to the Senate. Mr.. Crittenden admits,
in reply to letter from a friend Of Mr.. Douglas,
that in conversation last April he had express
ed warm admiration for the course of that
Senator, and that he had "said, in substance,
that the people of Illinois little knew how much
they really owed him." &C., &c. But he dis
claims any desire to interfere in the political
contest then pending, and which was termina
ted on Tuesday last.
The Louisville Journal has taken decided
ground against Douglas, and utterly repudiates
the construction placed upon Mr.. Crittenden's
letter by Mr.. Douglass friends. 1t says truly
that not only many Americans, but many Re
publicans, during last winter and spring, enter
tanned very kind sentiments towards Mr. Doug
las, such as we're expressed by Mr.. Crittenden
but the editor insists that it ia now evident thai
Mr.. D. is drifting back into his old party asso
Citations, and thus has forfeited any claim to
Opposition sympathy.
We are assured by the personal and politica
friends Of Mr.. Crittenden that his sympathiet
are with Lincoln, and that his letter is only tc
be regarded as an admission of conversation
aud state of feeling, in April, which in candol
he could not refuse.
We think it probable that Mr.. e. at present
sympsthizes with Lincoln, but no one could
draw such an inference from his letter of Au
had nowhere to go but into the ranks of The
Opposition but recent developments make i
clear that he will go back to the Black Democ
racy, which has already killed the fatted calf tc
greet his return.
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THE PARAGUAY EXPEDITION.

Paraguay is little sem.barbarous, half.
Spanish, half Indian country, lying upon the
head waters of the Rio de la Plata, and is not
larger than one of our States. The population,
aboriginal, mixed, and foreign, lie about six hun
bred thousand, and in ell respects it presents
q foeman worthy of our chivalrous Administrs-
ton. The same party, under different leaders,
conquered Greytown and Lawrence, and it
would be a stigma upon these "piping times
of peace" if a Government like that of James
Buchanan should pass away without signalling
the national prowess by some equally glorious
achievement.
But we doubt if all this mighty circumstance
of glorious war has been paraded before the pa-
tons for the barren purpose of demanding an
apology from the paltry dictator of Paraguay, a
country wholly beyond the reach Of our Slavery
propagators. We have all along suspected that
the Administration would find work of more i'm.
portstnce nearer home.
The following paragraph from the Journal o,
Commerce, Thoroughbred apologist of Sls
very and of the Administration, states that " the
object of the formidable preparations is not only
to settle the Paraguay question, but to eonyinc.
some others of our American neighbors of the
determination of this Government to protect,
} &c. In other words, the Administration is dis
posed to redeem the pledges of it's Southern
supporters, who have all along insisted tina
the business of flibustering for the extension o
!. Slavery should be conducted by the Govern
o mens. The Journal Of Commerce says:
= at was not intended at first to undertake al
l. expedition on go efficient a scale, and the oh
a ject of The more formidable preparations is no
only to settle the Paraguay question, but to con
= vince some others of our American neighbor
, of the determination of this Government to Orc
tect the honor and interests of this country fror
{, the outrages to which they have been expose
!. from the brutality or the weakness of thos
States. When Congress shall meet, it will b
" PROPOSED to give the President power to carr
= ont his policy in regard to Nicaragua and Ne,
l. Graosds, and to maintain the attitude which b
zatisn of the Paraguay expedition will be foun
: to be timely and efficient for that purpose. ]
J. ia time that this Government should cease fror
r diplomatic trihing with these petty States, an
n enforce our Just and proper demands. The
~ sovereignty is entitled to respect only far
!, they regard its duties as well as its rights.
alt vas ct fret proposed to place the Par
B. gusg expedition under the command of Lieu
II Thomas ]. Page; but it ives objected to til
selection, that this officer had q personal fee
AZ ing to crafty in resort to hostilihes. IT
Government called to their councils upon th
subject the ripe Judgment of Commodore Ste,
10 art, who recommended that the command
ed given to the senior captain in the service, wi
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THE n NATIONAL ER A,
w ASHIN GTON, d. Q.
Volume XIII. January, 1859.

The Era presents weekly Summary Of
General News and Political Intelligence, keeps
a careful record of the proceedings Of Congress,
and is the repository of large portion of the
most interesting speeches delivered in that body.
G. BAILEY.
Washington, d. c., Noe. 1, 1853.
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master valves his right to him, so that by this
act he would be emancipated."
This is Squat;er Sovereignty in its most un.
mitig ated form, aud, offensive as it may be to
Southern tastes, we shall not be surprised to
see the candidates of the shaun Democracy
generally placing themselves on similar ground
in future contests. Pro-Slaveryism has reached
its climax in Northern politics.
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WASHINGTON, D. C..
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 4,
1853.

To ADVERTISERS will find it greatly 10
their advantage 10 advertise in the Era.
Messrs Peuingil Co, 8. b. Niles, and Joy, Coe, d
Co. are our authorized advertising agents for Boston,
New York, and Philadelphia.
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The following gentlemen accredited agents for the
Era: @. w. Light, Boston, Mass. J. A. Innis Salem,
Mass Thomas Wheeler, Cincinnati, Ohio L. T Park
Mount Union, Ohio.
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DUB PROSPECTUS.

We beg the special attention of our subscri'
beers to the Prospectus of the Era for the Thir-
teenth Volume.
Our voluntary agents have already been ad-
vised by letter of what is necessary to be done,
and we are receiving from many of them en-
couraging replies. Next week, the Era will
appear in new type, and we shall then issue a
general circular to our subscribers.
The time for renewing has now come, and
we would leave no legitimate means untried to
enlist the efforts of our friends in behalf of the
paper.
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at present is Commodore Shubrick, and this ad
vice was accepted"
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prefer their social condition to that Of Grs,,
Britain, or of Germany, or even of France m.
der Louis Napoleon.