The weekly north Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1857-1867, 1859-08-24

Milwaukee and m1asfss1ppt Railroad.
ARRIVES AT PRAIRIE DC cHIHN.
Mail Train, ............ 1850 m.
Express Train,. ............. 1902. n.
DEPARTURE TRAINS.
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Exprcss Train, 1000 4. n.
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City, Northern Light and Northern Belle. connect
Asseiy with sur Express Trains. J. LAwLER, Agent.
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Politics. !.
We have been looking over the fisld Of poll
itics for . few weeks past with ~ large IN
amount Of impartiality a. We cali Summon 10
our assistance. Believing that every American
citizen is equally interested in the perpetuity Of
our noble system of Government, and believing
also that with few base exceptions every
is anxious to assist In preserving intact the Log
acy bequeathed usby an honored and patriotic
ancestry, it q difficult for us 10 assume the o.
binary style of political discussion and blaze
away in extsavagant phiIlipio against those
who do not agree with %. Something must A.
wars be allowed for the Differences Il our edu.
cation, our locality, or intersste, and. what u
moro powerfully ciestivs 70 coatEol - than ill
Of these. our p,sisdiess-shese last motors may
be said to be the grand sum Of I'll de others
which affect the human mind. Franklin has
"a d that no discussion should take place with.
out sincere desire to get At the truth, and when
that 10 discovered Ill honest minds should faith.
fully adhere 10 it. Let us compare FOR mo
ment the situation Of parties At present, and see
what occasion there b Tor the tremendous
amount Of Evaporation which the rival presses
and parties Of the Uaited States deem it essen.
tial 70 pour out on each other.
The Territorial question. in it, effect upon
Slavery. d the great subject Of orators and
wrisers, and it may be safely asserted that Ne
groism, in its various phases, 10 the ism which
decides oil our NoStacsa elections ct least, and
though less influential ct the South, because
they are mostly Of one mind in the slave States,
il has very serious bearing in the selection Of
public officers throughout the Union. It matters
little to the Iowa politician what 10 becoming of
lie State interests, how much hs IL taxed for
the peodigacy Of State officers, or how great
the villainy which is proven to have been prac.
tiscd on con6ding public; all these considsra-
lions Of vital interest are discarded At once the
State. and County authosities can ltssally sx-.
haust yodr pockeS ana the .ptDduets cf Jr
farms. II yes are but pleasantly amused with
tune on the great American Banjo! Now how
much actual interest has citizen Of Iowa in the
slave policy Of Louisiana7 You deplore the e.
istence Of the Institution and confess yourselves
powerleaa to affect il, you sometimes indulge in
censures Of the condition of the southern negro.
and yet you eat, aud grow rich BY trading in,
Louisiana sugar and Carolina rice. chew Viz.
.inia tobacco, smoke Havana cigars, wear and
traffic in Alabama cotton, and In thousand
ways contribute your wealth of capital and ap-
pstite to the support of this same negro labo1
which political piety % whininsly dsprecates-
You dsnouncs ~ Supreme Court for deciding
,hasa negro caanotbe citizen Of United States,
and yet, on vote. you yourselves decide that
he cannot be citizen of lows. You condemn
The Law which authorizes the return Of fugitive
slaves, and yet you grow indignant il = free
negro rents = dwelling and commences life at
honest labo. BY Jour side. In brief, your sym.
psthy for the negro would deprive him of oil
rights 1t the North. civil and political, and .,
il dissatisfied 1t his abject and generally de.
spised condition hsre, you propose to interfere
with his condition at the South, and { ere de.
psive him Of what you admit he needss-a PRO
testor: y tlaers any right gooi practical sense