The weekly north Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1857-1867, 1859-12-14

in cases where our rights depend upon their
decisions; we live under constitutions, but
they decide what those instruments fneani
Theirs is q position Of vast responsibility.
There the highest order Of talent and the
most unblcmished integrity should be the
qualities sought for, in those wh6 hold in
their hands our all; and every party l.
bound by the highest duty to secure such
Judges, if they can be had. If this is not
done, the erlnine and the honor of the State
are buried together The upper bench has
been honored by the greatest among New
England names Smith, Richardson Parker,
Woodbury., Gilchrist, Wilcox and Eastman.
our jurisprudence. Then, Judges were ap
pointed because of their fitness; now, to
purchase votes. We have now six Judges
on the bench; the Chief Justice is a very
learned man-half the bar are above the
others in legal knowledge and acumcn.-3-
Babes to teach the snowy haired sages in
the law! The system for the past few years
has been changing all the time; it is writ
ten, "Unstable as water, thou shalt not ex-:
cel." No Judge, of ability, would stay on
such bench, holding his Office not by the
Constitution, but by the winds,-conse.
quently the three ablest men on the bench
have resigned within the past six months,
and political mountebanks have been log
rolled into their places, all to the disgrace
Of the State.
There is but little stirring in political mat
ters. About half the Hen-Fever men have
denounced old Brown for carrying out their
teachings; he was insane to trust in them
for aid. The Democracy are looking as
kance at the Charleston Convention as a
child would at black cloud, charged with
thunderbolts Of flesh and blood to batter
down upon it. The Northern Democracy
have suffered much-hoped against hope
for the past few years--in order to maintain
the constitutional rights of the South. Tho
moderate and reasonable men of the South
are satisfied with that, but there is another
class-the Salamander wing-that would
force on us tests that every man with
spark of manly feeling in his veins abhors.
Why is it done? These slave-code-it:s are
disunionists at heart, and they take the
course they do to hurry on disunion; they
hunger for the flesh pots of Southern Con-.
federacy When they assume the name Of
Democrats, they ''stcal the livery Of heaven
to serve the ID in" and use that name to
cloak the tory blood that fumes in their
traitors hearts. They claim that the Dred
Scott case be indorsed; they claim, really;
that decision-a wheel within wheel
shall be incorporated into that decision,
which never has been in that or any other
case. Our Northern delegates must rcmem-
Der that there is both North and South
that Abolitionism and Slavery Propaganda
ism are equally removed from true Democ-
racy. The 'observations" gang of ''aspi-
rants" with whom smooth phrases, bare
faced assumptions and sugar-coated false
hoods supply the place of history, logic and
constitutional law, will yet learn that the
people know they, unable Ito elevate angels
to higher sphere" are trying Ito drag
angels DOWNS Like the boy in the fable,
they seek to earn the Immortality of infa-
my, which is the most enduring kind of
fame for such. Our delegates, SO far, arr
radical Douglas men. If that glorious
chief is to be sacrificed at Charleston, it will
not be his cause, but that of the people, that
will be ruined. He is all the man we can
elect; if the South is stepped in madness
if it prefers Seward-they can take up the
red wampum. If he is sacrificed, 1860 will
see that "Old Guard dissolve at another
Waterloo, and another st. Helena will be Q
home to the traitors who caused it.
Yours, GRANITE.