The weekly north Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1857-1867, 1860-07-11
McGREG0R, IOWA, WEDNESDAY, JULY H. 1860. WHOLE NJ
Written for the North Iowa Times.
A New Dodge.

Written for the North Iowa Times.
New Dodge.
1t is we'll known that our Republican
friends, on the stump, denounce the doctrine
OF Popular Sovereignty, as the sum of all
political villanies, but after finding out that
the great popular breast sustains Douglas
in his contest against the foes of self-gov
ernment, they privately change their tactics
and in their button-hole electoneering
speeches, declare that they are for Popular
Sovereignty to the fullest extent of the
term, and denounce Douglas because he
does not 60 far enough.
This is characteristic Of the party and
the men. They vibrate between the ex-
tremes, and never will settle down on the
golden mean of human conduct.
They boldly proclaim in their platform,
Congressional Intervention to Danish sla-
very from the public domain, but failing to
sustain their position by reason or argu-
ment-Presto Change!-they out Douglas
himself, in their admiration of Popular
Sovereignty, and say give us Popular Sow
ereignty in its purity and we are with you.
Leave the territories without any organic
act at all, entirely disorganised, with no rule
of action, no boundaries, no laws, let them
struggle on through misfortunes, civil dis
cord and inevitable anarchy, and we will
hold up both hands for such Popular Sover-
eigntv. NJ
These bat-blind politicians will not see the
difference between popular sovereignty and
popular anarchy, between liberty and
license.
There is necessarily limit to all free
dom; each must give up a portion Of his
natural liberty for the good of the whole
The necessities Of the case require Con-
gress to initiate Order in the territories, to
set the machine of sovereignty in operation,
and then tell the people thew arc ''free to
regulate it in their own way" This is the
rational idea of popular sovereignty. The
other is az, abstraction and an impractical
bility.
1t can not and never will be applied to
human affairs. The science OF human gov
ernment is not like the science Of mathe-
mates. The rules of the latter are as fixed
as the eternal nature of things. The for
mer has to do with the changable affairs of
life. Popular Sovereignty means the intel
ligent conduct of affairs by rational men
taking man as we find him-having due
regard to the time, the place, the facts and
the accidents of his surroundings.
Gentlemen, stick to your teXt-stand or
your own platform manufacture your owl
thunder-cOntinue to denounce Popular
Sovereignty. Don't be mean enough tt
denounce the principle until an intelligent
public rebukes you, and then pretend you
were from the first for Popular Sovereignty
You have boldly emblazoned on you
banners, Congress must legislate for tn,
Territories. Your whole platform depre
Gates every idea Of Popular Sovereignty
and you deny the principle that ''the people
in tile Territories should hleft perfectly, fire.
to regulate their Orn domestic affairs IA
their o@n acay, subject only to the Constitu
tion ef the United States"
mo standing on our platform" while thu
cars are in motion. SQUATTER SOVEREIGNTY
w1If Lincoln was the choice of thu
Republican party, and if there is such un
bounded enthusiasm over his nomination
and unity in his support, why is it tha
this great harmony is being continually
disturbed by such paragraphs as the follow
ing, from the Detroit Daily Tribune;
leading Republican paper:
Destroy His Fangs.
| If ever man deserved the condemnation
and abandonment of those who nourishet
him into life, and gave him position ant
influence, in our opinion that man is Horace
Greeley, of the n Y Tribune His base
ungrateful desertion of Mr.. Seward and his
friends--his mean and contemplate resorts
before and at the Chicago Convention, tt
defeat the nomination of Mr.. Seward anG
his friends, deserves the execration of every
true Republican who regards honor anc
gratitude as virtues, and dishonor and in
gratitude as base and contemptible Hi
tangs and power for evil should be destroy
ed, and we hope every Republican will hell
do it. Cut him off!
The fact is, the leading Republicans arr
heartily ashamed of their nominee, and
the only way now 10 vent their spleen i:
to pour it out upon poor Horace Greeley
whom, as they drive without the camp
they endeavOr to make the scapegoat of al
their sins and follies. They had bette1
let Greeley alone, and keep their quarrel
from the public, if they would convinc'
the people that there is any popular ia
vor in the present campaign for Lincoln
1t would have been better for the Seward
ties to have withdrawn, and made sepa
rate nomination, than 20 enlist under tn
Lincoln banner, and then commence war
| fare on those who made him their captain