The weekly north Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1857-1867, 1859-09-21

Tom COrwin.
This distinguished statesman and wit il
snmping Ohio for the Republican cause. /,
VIII DC remembered that his party laid Judge
swan on the shelf for recognizing the binding
effect Of the Fugitive Slave Law. Our read.
crs can judge from the extract below of y
speech made by Corwin and published in the
1r'oune OF Aug. 30th, how much "aid and
comfort" he is giving to Ohio Republicauism
IL IS just our doctrine on the subject but
We have. inexperienced the Iowa article
entreIy If the doctrine here advanced does
not strike Iowa Republican candidates SQUARE
between the eyes. Speaking of the sentiments
OF Mr.. Clay, Tom says:
almost the last speech he over made was
that he believed that that article that authorizes
me master OF slave in Kentucky to come to
Ohio and take his fugitive slave, was inst and
right, and as binding as any other provision of
the Constitution. Ills in the bond. and wa
intend to adhere to it.
II the Marshal is resisted, what is resisted
NOT the man hunting his negro, but the tyne
ana symbol OF the power Of the Government
OF the United States. The very authority
gwen py 1he constitution under which you and
l, and all of US live and hold our rights. onthor.
ICES the Marshal to do this and when we SEQ
treason COMMUNICATION it is treason to onnose
the authority of the United States-Isay. Wien
the Marshal Is resisted by force, every man il
bound to see that the law is not resisted
There is nothing to do about masters and their
negroes in this. No law could be c.ecnted
anywhere, if it was allowed men to resist !. r
it was the privilege Of the strong man to resist
the weak man who was an official. That is all
that is in it. Our people wont believe il but
have told them so, God knows, often enough !:
bus they say they don't believe it, but l tell
you that it is 80.
II You don t like the law, you must remem.
Der that you made it, You elected the men
that made the law. Some people cav that
states ought to make the law. That might
have been right enough, but in 1893 Congress
made law. Two years afterward the Consti-
tuition was made and they gave it to Congress
to do, and the South has enjoyed it ever since"
In contrast with this sort of Republcanism
let Us show you an extract from q late letter
by Gerret Smith on the "Jery Rescue" case.
The ''higher law" doctrine of Senator Seward,
the advocate Of the ''irepressibls conflict" be.
tween the north and the south, is here exempli.
fed
"We delivered Jerry in the face of the au-
thority of Congress und Courts, and az most Of
sss tel.eued, IN contempt Of a provision of the
eo"se'tuflon itsey. On that occasion our hu.
mainly was up; and in vain would all the au-
fhorIties on Garth, even the Bible itself incud.
ed, have bid it down."
The wide and irreconcileable difference in
the too classes of sentiments above quoted
should set men to rejecting. The reader is
with one or the other and sooner or later he
must follow Winthrop, Choate and hosts of
others to the Democratic union theory or he
must join Hale, Giddings, Smith, Banks and
other "union sliders" in their onslaught against
the fraternal concord md National integrity
Of confederation OF states the grandest the
earth has ever seen and the last hope Of Con.
stitutional Liberty. The alternatives are be.
fore you. Choose yc!