The weekly north Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1857-1867, 1860-11-07


principle because violation of it might result
once for our good was not the style of states.
manship he professed he demanded for the
people the right to make their own election
untrammeled by any outside dictation whatever.
Mr.. Seward disgraced himself at Chicago by an
inuendo relative to this language of Mr.. Doug.
las.
Mr.. Douglas in his celebrated New Orleans
speech said, "The owner Of slaves the same
as the owner of any other species of property
has right to remove to Territory and carry
his property with him." This sentence is
quoted by itself to prove that the Territories
could not exclude slavery but after this sen.
tence and Immediately following, he said, "But
Iapprehend when you arrive there with your
property you are subject to the local lav of The
Territory" How convenient it is to leave out
this last sentence, and claim a conviction of
the statesman they knowingly malign!
The most ridiculous Of all charges however
was got up last by the Breckenridge party, we'll
advertised and endorsed by the Republicans
1t is That Mr.. Douglas was the real author Of
the LEcoMPToN Constitution Letters were
paraded from the bitterest ana most unscrupu.
lous government hirelings in Kansas, stating
that Gen. Calhoun had informed the authors
(some of whom were members of the Kansas
Constitutional Convcntion,) that Douglas had
written the saiG Governor that the Lecompton
Constitution must be submitted in the manner
it was and that he ,raS pith the Governor in this
plan. Nov it will be recollected that Douglas
announced, in advance, that he would fight this
plan of submission, he went to the Senate, op.
posed it. met the united hosts of Buchanan's
train.band, CALHOUN andaH, and yet not man
Of all these present Kansas-libellers had the
courage to come out and expose the double
dealing of him who was daily and hourly in the
Senate, charging for weeks, on oil the friends
Lecompton could scare up! Who but COM
bnation Of fool and knave would state such
an absurdity and affect to believe it Mr.
Douglas, at Milwaukee, riddled it to pieces and
scattered it to the winds ; Attorney General
WEER Of Kansas, the intimate friend, and of
necessity the confidential legal adviser of Gov.
Calhoun, has recently blown the whole tabrica-
ton out of the state of possibility, and Greedy
with all his political spleen towards Douglas,
condemns the miserable ele,entA hour inrention.
But even this most glazing of all canards has
told against Douglas and those who have used
it chuckle at the success which has rewarded
their villainy.
These are the more important "infernal
machines" with which our candidate has been
willully and maliciously assailcd. There are
smaller ones which the puppies of the kennel
got off in club rooms and aired in the columns
Of characterlcss negro organs, held to party
fealty by promise of official position on the
underground railroad. We do not include all
Republican organs in this denunciation because
in our exchange list we number many who hold
too high the head Of honor to get down to such
baseness or who would sell their manhood for
so reasonable reward.-These smaller lie,
were, First: "Mr. Douglas threatened to kick
a Republican reporter from the stand at Cleve-
land and Informed him that "Mr. Sheridan is
alone authorized to report my remarks" Sc.
cond: "Mr d. requested his friends to cheer
loudly" at Tiffin when the cars with himself,
were departing. Third: HE offered Yancey
the Vice-Presidency at Charleston to conciliate
him." Geo. Saunders upsets this little affair.
Fourth "He quit public house at Lafayette,
Indiana, because the proprietor was Republi-
can, and took his meals at a low doggery across
the street." Fifth: ale was so drunk in many
places while speaking that he could scarcely
stand up the clearness of his logic on cpery
occasion does not prove much arrangement OF
the mental organs. Sixth she is Catholic"
The proof is that Bishop Hughes wrote to a
priest at Iowa City that such was the fact but on
Inquiry at Iowa City neither priest nor letter
could be found
This is enough to show the general charac-
Ter Of the warfare made in this canvass. Large
lies ard small ones, we'll sandwiched, were sure
to 60 down somebody throat they were put
in market by the city dailies and the penny
whistle tribe took them up for local consump.
ton. The effect has been that you see some
quite respectable men making assertions and
doubtless believing them, when little time
only and quiet reflection will convince them
hat, unwittingly, they have been the dupes of
SANDERS concocted at headquarters and meant
to make the impression that "the
noblest Roman of them ALL" the ablest defend
er Of the peoples rights, is as arrant knave
as the scheming leaders of Northern and South
nrn Sectiona!sm which he has met, and in ar
gument at least, has triumphantly overthrow.