The weekly north Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1857-1867, 1858-11-03
Correspondence.
CONCORD, N. H., Oct. 23d, 1858.


Eds. Times Here we are under orr Re-
publican reform judiciary with another Court
in full blast There is fair prospect for q
long term. Financial matters remain as usual.
The shoe business which is naturally spasmodic
has for some time been depressed. The tine
vas when "a well regulated militia was deem
cd the safeguard and bulwark Of our liberties,
it may become so again, but in this state il has
been demoralised, and last year our Republican
Legislature put the axe to the roots, made it
partisan matter and while seeming the "rose."
proved 'the serpent under it. Our musters
have been shame and reproach to the people
where they have been held.
The omens are that the Atlantic Telegraph
is 'soncr.' The end laid down by the British
is worthless What comment on the essays
and sareasms Of the 'Thunderer' upon Yankees
and their little Frigate We must put the
thing through ourselves the next time. We
can do it. and we shall
A murder trial is now going on at Ports
mouth before two of our Supreme judghes.-
Boston is fetid with filthy device, fomication
and "extortion" cases. Is there not some room
where we can expend our sympathy and money
save on the AfricanH
'The Greeks are indeed at our doors. As
regards the recent elections, We can truly say,
the "ides of March have come" and we fear
they are not yet over. That the great reverses
which have overtaken US have been caused in
part by other considerations than the eternal
negro question, is undoubtedly true. But the
man is willfully blind who does not see that it
has mainly resulted from the insane attempt to
crush out the friends of Douglas in the North
The present Chief Magistrate 10 an honest, able
and patriotic man, but he is an old man, worn
with the heavy cares and arduous labors of hall
century and broken with the storms of
state. Standing as he does at Washington, a
vast majority of whose population is a COM
pound of thieves. gamblers, galphinites and
fiattercrs who have higher object than their
own selfish interests, he has been far renewed
from the beating of the great popular heart
He has been deceived by swarm Of of sycho-
plants into course which had he known the
whole truth, he never would have TAKEN
They who SOW the wind, shall reap the whirl-
wind The result must aid the cause of
Douglas with all true Democrats. The next
u S. house will be black. If the election goes
to the House, we have an abolition President.
Then what folly is that corporals guard of Of
fee holders and superanuated grannies guilty
OF, when they defy the will of vast majority
of the party North and in order to further the
petty schemes of Bright and Slidell to make
themselves Presidents by running both Buchan-
an and Douglas. the first under the guise of
friendship, the other with open enmity. The
South really cared but little whether that
nuisance, Kansas. came in with Lecompton or
without. The great leaders South, have never
desired this garrotting our best soldiers and Of.
fcers. Northern men can not submit to it with
honor. This warfare of petty spite upon our
veterans must cease or as party, we are doom
ed tor 1860. We must stand upon the broad
ground that to the people of right belongs the
power to frame the popular chart under which
they are to live. Long John. you are aware,
has been for some months in the East this sea-
son. Here he made no scuple of asserting
that Douglas must succeed in Illinois, and very
many of the Republicans here are of the same
opinion. The way d. handles the LEG or.
gan. the Union, reminds one forcibly of that
old Scotch blood, which in romance, goes with
his name