The weekly north Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1857-1867, 1858-05-12
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Join CLARK. D. II sOLOMAS,
WV. BELkNAP, q. S. c. DOW,
j. D. TEST
Political.
Last week we dismissed Lecompton as of no
farther use in suggesting paragraphs, but there
is something about Kansas excitement that re.
minds one of the tabled Hydra which the Samp.
son Of profane history had such tussle with
the cutting off OF one head resulted in the
sprouting Of two from the laceratcd trunk, and
not until Hercules scared the bleeding wound
with an iron burner, did the prolific and mis-
chievous reptile cease to multiply its heads
You may run off a grist Of the excitement in
question to-day. and about the time the wealicd
public are anticipating an hour of exemption
from the eternal ding that has pealed its
tIiscordant notes over an uneasy country, the
internal jargon breaks forth anew, and at once
all the doctors of all the political colleges in
the Union rush fran,ically to the rescue, pre-
pared, not to cure the patient permanently, but
to sacrifice its present peace and future PROS
pe'i'y in experimental demonstrations of the
superiority Of one system of political practice
over another.
The Kansas question, we are told by the
Union and the Pennsylvania and their little
imitators. is Settled" the ghost of dissension
isasain "laid.' and this time by the "profoupd
craftsmanship Of those patriotic democrats" who
know more Of the lalyrinthan windings of the
Treasury thru any Set of men ever before seen
at the Capitol. How "settled ~ By returning
the Constitution to Kansas in shape more OBJ
jectionable to her than it was when she REJEc-
TED IT almost unanimously on the 18th of Janu.
airy II this is the result Of the labor which
has agonized the mountain at Washington. it
strikes US as being great cry for very small
amount of curly hair. No the question is not
settled. Congress has simply given its opinion,
and the people are asked to approve it. This
it is not reasonably expected they will do, and
40 the work Of cutting heads off for "treason''
and putting poorer heads in their places has
ended in distractiRg our own party, in acknowl.
cdging the justice of the demands made by
those who maintain the necessity of popular
approval in all cases Of Constitution making
and in complicating the difficulties which it is
boosted Ironically we surpose) they have
healed
In the course of human events, there is, we
regret to say, every prospect Of another foray
against the devoted territory this summer. All
the spoilsm and place-hunters of either par
ay are expecting to migrate thither to teach the
simple creatures there how to vote. One set
will tell her people TO Ego it" on the give
Million Ordinance and become a STATE
Another breed Of mschiefmakers will tell her
to reject every thing that comes from Wash
ington no matter how essential it may be to her
interests or conducive 10 her internal peace
Kansas is much like Sinbad with that Old Man
who made saddle of the unfortunate sailors
ncck-the 'old man" in this case is duplicated
however, because Jim Lane and "W God Pile
Calhoun are joint riders
1t is assumed in these days that to rote for a
President implies fcalty to his administration,
and the oath Of an officer of the Government
carries with it an obligation to derive opinions
from headquarters. We would not object to
listen very respectfully to the teachings of the
venerable Chief Magistrate, but it dsgusts us
extremely to have chaps that have hardly been
In the party year, read lectures to us-yery
small calibred chaps at ihat-and SO long as We
have the means of Independent support, we will
submit TO no such insults without retort II
We ever become pensioners, and no opinions are
allowed but such as may be prescribed by our
patron, We will spend the first quarters salary
for powder enough to commit respectable teio
desc.
1t is amusing to note the shouts of triumph
thasgo up from the "fure in heart" who never
had an idea that was not examined by COM
mittee, and paid for by draft on the Govern
ment. For those who do not wear the livery Of
. mental, whether ,ci'h the President or against
him. we have high respect, but when a trimmer
Starts off on one track and suddenly re-traces,
with booty On his back, we think modesty
should keep him quiet if he would escape the
loathing OF all honorable men. We confess TO
feeling not easily described when such fell
low shouts patriotism national democracy"
and oil that sort of sentiment which from his
very nature he must be ignorant of.
The Marine Band serenaded the President
on the evening of the passage Of Lecompton,
and he came out in very neat speech thanking
them and the citizens for their kind attention.
Toombs also made speech in which he said
that IN the contest just closed nobody had
sriumphed. and nobody was entitled to boast !"
This 10 good for Toonbs but such "Hark'
must have sounded dolefully" to those who
were burning "kill-seed" and waking the
<chos in commcmoraton of a confessedly
drason battle. At all events the Lecompton men
have not triuImphed. for, though the question is
not directly put to Kansas it is absolutely "sub-
mitsed' and no casuistry can explain it away.
Calhoun 4 Co, make Constitution and send
It TO Congress. It is made test of party to
accept it without change the ordinance &C.
companying it, Gas much a part of the Constitu-
tion'iiself as the tail is part of a skunk is
materially changed and then it is sent back to
the reoplc to be approved at the ballot box be.
fore it has life-without this approval it is dead
and goes fer nothing. Now who gives it life |?
Who makes it |? Who passes it? Who kills
Ut THEPEOPLE. If this is not surren-
oef OF the only principle involved, we cant un-
~ierstand English. The Hunters and Greens.
a1cr al, have been outwitted. and they have
gwen their assent to mode of settlement
WHICH they once pronounced it "treasonabcn
an democrat to advocate. The shape in which
It gees before the people is nothing. It is sutfi
c'enf for the yindication of self-royernment
snat the ooffys are called on to say what shall
bsSlseir Constitution.
For insi't'ng upon this as the only safe party
ground. many democrats have lost their official