The weekly north Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1857-1867, 1859-10-05
ELECTION TUESDAY, OCTOBER Urn.
McGREGOR, OCTOBER 5, So: 1859.
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A Response.
Knowing how repulsivc editorial wransles
and l'air-splittings are to the public, we have
always carefully forborne to indulge in them
but thore may be occasions when few words
ofexplanation will do no harm. Our young CO
temporary and neighbor has been soliciting a
notice from the Times for several weeks VIC
have not declined to oblige it's political editor
from any want Of respect for his talents, or his
excellence rs a man. In the last No. of the
Press he uses some ugly words towards us, but
we pass that. His effort to translate political
deduction into personal insult to our readers
will not weigh much among men of sense, and
we believe that no fools take the Times.
The Press started out with an avowal of
"Non.intervention" principles. was compliment
cd BY the Times and several other papers, rela.
tive to this point it acknowledged the justice
OF the compliment by accepting them ,cith
fh""ks, in its columns. Then it got uneasy
and backed down slightly, to accommodate its
views to the anti-Douglas feeling; then. on
charge Of Inconsistency from Mr.. Dom, it dis.
claimed the support of the Congressional inter-
vention plank Of the Republican State Plat.
form, and to seal its dissent from it the editor
says he ia not "running paper for any party"
The next phase is the statement in bis Doolittlc
notice of last week, in which We are told
that t. Popular Sovereignty" is humbug But
We do not want to refer to the torgetfulmess of
our friend ; he is probably out of health ut
times. and a little inclined to be cross and va.
riable-ill.health wM produce these effects in
the best of men, and those who rely on Mr..
McCRANEy for champion will look over these
inconsistencies in the position which only eight
numbers Of the Republican paper that is not
running for any party" have shown up
Enough Of this-wc are forced to this little re.
spouse to accommodate contemporary who is
distinguished for the possession Of that quality
which induced the Irish pugilist to say, "Will
somebody phase thread on the tail of me coat :"
In other words, he dearly loves fght-DoRR,
McCLINrocK. and others, have already, felt his
steel, and We await tremblingly the doom
which this article will precipitate.
The Press wishes the Times to tell what 'tl,e
circumstances now before us" are, that would
cause Mr.. Clay, if living, to cease to be Wing
or Republican. He never was Republican.
His language is this:
If the agitation in regard to the Fugitive
.Slaoe Leu should continue, and increase, and
become alarming, it will tend 10 the formation
OF two new parties. one for the UNION and the
other against the UNION"
Has this "agitation increased
In Massachusetts, in Michigan and some other
States, Personal Liberty Bills" have been
passed to prevent the execution of this Law.
The burthen of Republican oratory and edito
rails, is in denunciation Of it. Hon. w. Den.
NIsoS, Republican candidate for Governor of
Ohio, says:
"If am elected Governor of Ohio, land |
GlTIVE BE- RETURNED TO KENTUCKY
OR ANY OTHER STATE; AND IF l
CANNOT PREVENT 1T IN ANY OTHER
WAY, AS COMMANDER-IN.CH CHIEF OF
THE MILITARY OF THE STATE, l
WILL EMPLOY THE BAYONET, so
HELP ME GODw
Hon. A. c. DODGE, is ridiculed BY your
presses throughout the State, for saying that
he "would OBEY the order of the Marshal of the
U. S., in Fugitive Slave Case, as we'll as in
any other !" while Hon. S. J. KIRKWOOD,
the man who is the exponent of Iowa Repub.
i'canism, Is ArrLAuDED by the same journals for
using the following language ut Bloomfield
Iowa:
$50 HELP ME GOD, RATHER SHALL
MY RIGHT ARM WITHER AT NY
BODY THAN BE SEEN no ASSIST
ANY OFFICER IN THE RETURN OF
Il FUCI7IVH SLAVE"
Has this agitation increased
We do not believe the masses of the Re.
publican party participate in any such feelings
as induce the above expressions, but if tn ,se
masses have not the courage to cut loose from
leaders and platforms which sustain such scnt
ments' what must be their appearance before
the world SOLITARY and alone" among the
orators opposed to the Democratic party, stand.
ing on the compromises of the Constitution, is
THOMAS CORWIN, of Ohio. In a late
speech st. Clairsville, he uses the following
most bitter language; If Mr.. Clay INDUCED in
gall, this philippe of Corwins, is certainly
wormwood:
'sIhis Is the law and We have agreed to abide
by 1.-THE law IS constitutional, and it must
be OBEYED. Young lawyers with soaped
inustaschios and cigar . foot long in their
mouths. who had cursorily glanced over Black
stones Commentaries, and who had read Swan
on Executors and Administrators, and perhaps
seen Wilc0xs Forms, had no hesitation in pro
nouncing it unconstitutional but in the face
Of such distinguished authority IT is consti
tutional. and it is the law of the land-that the
highest and most intelligent tribunals IL thu
land had SO pronounced it-so decided it, and
there can be no doubt about it. Now, it being
the law. it must be obeyed-f it is resisted, it
felony If resisted with an armed force it is
treason, and those who resist it must be shot-
must be hung Some men among US have
doctrine they call q higher law doctrine, ant
yond the Constitution, and that they will no
obey the law These gentlemen are traitors
ana must De elevated to purer atmosphere
suspended-hung up"
We again ask, has this "agitation increased? =
And has it "become alarming r. If 90, "the
circumstances are such" a. would have driven
Mr.. Clay into the ranks Of . party that is "lOH
THE UNION, THE CONSTITUTION
AND THE ENFORCEMENT or ITS
LAWS" The non-enforcement of Law is vir.
tosIly disruption Of the Union. Who oppose
ID enforcement