St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1860-01-26
Spoudencc of the ST. Charles City InteLgencer.
Illinois Correspondence.
MoNr MEACHAM. Ill Jan. 2. 1850

MoNI MEAIiah, H., cah' ioop'
EpIroR OF THE INrEIiIGENCER Some
months have elapsed since last wrote
you. The greatest cause of delay
has been barrenncss of interesting
incidents. No political or religious
movements Of an extraordinary char
actcr have occurred to mark the roll
ing year. Times have been excess.
lively hard, and, as a consequence,
stagnation of nearly all branches of
business As to agricultural inter
csts, however, the Autumnal harvcsts
have wrought some change. The dcs
ponding feelings of many of the op-
pressed class of our small farmers has
been cheercd by fair product, and
an unusually large price for the arti-
Gle of
Broom Brush. This crop has been
means Of helping many poor, low
spirited and hard-up farmer out of the
SNAPS" into which he had needless
ly slidden during the more prosperous
years. One hnudred and tmentyJfre dol-
lars Ton has been handed over for
this commodity with readiness, and
the demand is still high.
The packing season is about in its
zenith, 1913 have been paid for the
heaviest pork, though about from 50
to S., so, has been an average price
1t is not probable that it will ever be
below this average hereafter. The
railways offer such facilities for trans
porting live stock of all kinds to dis
tant markets on the seaboard, that
but small amount is now slaughtered
at home, comparatively, to what there
would be otherwise. Even thousands
of Mexican and Texan becves, (thougl
prodigiously lean, are trundled oye1
our railways to the Atlantic cities
That exciting and thrilling incident,
The Erecution Of Join Brotcm, ha'
failed to call forth the emotions o
stirring interest among the massc
with us as it has in some other part
of the country. And what does thi
denote Nothing further than tina
, the people neither feel nor care niue
about it. Some make it a matter OF
+ little mcrrimcnt, and now and the
b one betrays a slightly serious aspec
when the subject is introduced. Th
general feeling, however, is that
hanging he enjoyed IA luxury con
pared with what his deserts demande
at the hand of justice. Your reader
: will not be surprised at this state
feeling when they call to mind the hi
h torical sketch given in some of m
former contributions to yonr column
as touching the nativity of the fir
settlers of this portion of country, al
:, the predictions of their dcsccndent
making a majority Of the present i
:. habitants.
al How passingly strange it is tn
10 some men can see two beans to be
nearly alike as not to be able to dl
tinguish them, and yet, between tv
80 peas of as full and perfect resem
lance, they can see wide distinctio
To apply this: some OF our good al
gracious Republicans can see 1t
enormous sin to brutalizc man III
slavery, and yet it is wicked, We
:, wicked, to set him free. That it is
= sin against God for man to make
slave of his fellow, and yet it is
. equally to free him, because a set
st wicked men and scoundrels have cl,
els bed together to hold him in bonda9
- Beautiful consistency 1t is nothi
more nor less, than it is right to
wrong, and wrong to do right. /
wa is just the consistency Of about t