The weekly north Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1857-1867, 1859-04-27


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A Platform.
1t is contcndcd by some Of the Democratic
papers of Iowa that the approaching State
Convention shall avoid reference to national
issues and confinc itself to the construction
Of platform embodying home or State
policy only. The object Of this exercise of
prudence, which, in this case may not inapt-
ly be called ''rascally virtue" is to enable
those who have derived fat from Federal
corn to hold on to their Offices or their print
ing orders and still retain the support Of the
Democratic masses whose opinions they
were required er cDic;o to condemn. Such
a maneuvrc may be all very well for those
who profess the thcologic notion that the
end justiies the means, nor do we feel like
complaining of it because Of the certain de-
feat it will bring to US; but we object to it
strenuously because it will not only defeat
but disgrace US. In 1860 we will have no
record to which we can refer as evincing the
existence of opinions among us during one
Of the most exciting periods which the party
has kaown since the detection Of Van Buren,.
It will be said, and truthfully too, that the
rank and file entertained but one opinion
that there never was question agitated on
which there was so little diversity Of senti-
ment as this question which it is now pro-
posed to blink, but that to save our tender
hearted brethren who had not the stamina
to take position against the tremendous in
tluence Of small Office, or the overpowcr.
ing attack Of Mail-route or Landslide
publication, we deliberately sold out tho
organization and forfeited public confidence
by adopting the convenient and fatal policy
Of silence. If the Democratic party was
guided only by negative propositions it might
do to follow the example Of our opponents
and show no flag but one covered with
platitudes; but upon US devolves the gov.
ment of this country and we must neccs
sarily indicate the policy which we propose
to carry out, or we must give way to an or
ganization that has the courage to avow and
the honesty to practice those principles
which are known to be cherished by four.
ffths Of the people Of the Union.
It's probably not our province to talk
much to State contemporaries of eight, ter
or twenty years standing, but then news
paper is expected to say something on such
matters and we beg to plead duty as an
apology for our temerity. The actual diff
ference to-day between the voters Of Iowa
on National policy is SO trifling that it re-
auircs the continual barking of the hydro
phobic press and the unremitting oratory
Of aspiring patriots on both sides to con-
vince the people that they are in state Of
terrible hostility to each other. The Re-
publicans Of the whole country arc commit
ted to the policy of Mr.. Douglas, by the car
nest and repeated Endorsements Of their
presses and by the action Of their Congress
ional representatives. They say "his bred
Scottish conflicts with his territorial posi-
tion," and that he cannot sustain the one
and support the other; but they have no.
where refused to admit that his idea Of
popular sovereignty as embodied in all his
Anti-Lecomption speeches is the only idea
that can be practically adopted. This be-
ing the case with the Opposition (that is
the new name of our opponents) and the
masses Of our own party indorsing Douglas
as not only practically but constitutionally
right, there can be given no good reason
why we should be either afraid or ashamed
TO stand up to his position anywhere and
everywhere--we want no puffery of him,
hut his position is one which we may not
safely ignore. One thing is sure: when a
party becomes SO polite as not to announce
its principles, it will soon be charged with
holding only bad ones, andindependcnt men
now growing numerous, will step from its
ranks till it acquires backbone enough t.
be respectable. The guerrilla system may
do for scctionalists and political trimmcrs
but it will never commend itself to the ap
proval of the 'Old Guard This is truth
and it had better be said now than talked O
after election.
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