The weekly north Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1857-1867, 1860-12-12

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Mr.. seward.
1t is reported that Mr. Seward will offe,
a compromise of some sort involving sur
render Of the. active elements composing
the platform and preaching Of the late Re.
party. Mr.. Stewards speeches in
the late canvass were 80 singular in many
respects and 50 contradictory, one with the
other, that more than one person of our ac-
quaintance thought him to be monamaniac
in the invention Of theories. He was one
day for limiting slavery and another day
he was predicting that all the continent,
(north half) Spanish possessions included,
would ultimately come under the American
flag He has said, in the Senate, TINT even
the slave could not get better government
for himself than the ono we now live under,
and yet the life of Mr.. Seward has been
devoted to a cause whose object is the
nanumissioa Of the negro from servitude.
II he is not wild, at times-if "too much
learning hath not made him mad" how
can we account for his proposed surrender
Of the views which entered into the late
canvass and were successful? We speak
respectfully of him, because we believe him
70 be man of enlarged sympathies, differ
ing in this respect from the mass Of aboli-
tionists who throw up their caps in his
honor--for it is a fact, that, we never per-
sonally knew thorough going, political,
negro-sympathyz$r but who was as cold as
wedge to all the objects Of charity immc-
diately surrounding him. Timbuctoo or
Kansas absobed all his christian love so
that blind man or starving family across
the street failed to awaken copper from
its pious sleep at the bottom of his pocket.
But Mr.. S. is a genuine philanthrophist
and we hope that he now sees, what the
democratic party has always told him and
His followers, that this irrcpressible conflict
when pushed to practice can result in
nothing but ruin to both negroes and whites.
His unreasoning supporters, those fellows
whose motto is "rulc or ruin," will con-
denim him, but he is wise enough to know
that the party which he has just been in
stumental in Heading to victory is not at
this hour, the party which voted in Novem-
Der! Thousands Of men who were march
cd over the country as though some great
enemy were before them now see that they
were misled. The breaking up of CONNER
cial ties, the sundering of friendships, the
depression in trade and that terrible pros
pect Of DIssoLUTIoN-with no resulting
good to North or South-no benefit to the
poor blacks-have had talsmanic effect
on the public mind. The prophecies Of the
Union men Of the late canvass are realizing
themselves more rapidly than any one ex-
pected. Already the funeral pail of this
great United Republic is being woven-thc
warp and wool" are in the political loom,
Southern fire-eaters move the treadle
while Northern fanatics play the shuttle
1t bchoves every man now to forget party
and remember only that we yet have
Country. That the distinguished New
Yorker has decided to throw himself into
the breach and face the terrorism threaten
ed by many of his late northern admirers,
we most devoutly hope. He and Douglas
should do the talking in the Senate and not
leave such inflamable hot heads as WILSON
of Massachusetts, and IvERsoN of Georgia to
excite each section with their poisonous re-
ordinations. Seward made the Republic
can party-he alone can exercise influence
in the necessary work Of receding it from
its Objectionable and sectional POSITIONS
Douglas has hosts of friends in euery State
and to him the country will listen, however
the JEFF Davis's and the Hales may dis.
charge their shafts of malice at his patriotic
breast. We hope much from Douglas and
Seward.
That the rumor Of Stewards intention to
recedc from the radicalism of his party is
true, we have evidence from the Albany
Journal, a paper recognized as his organ
and edited in part by one Of his sons The
Journal, in the course Of an able and care
fully written leader advocating concession,
and the repeal Of unwise legislation on the
part Of the north, lays down the following
facts:
I. There is inincnt danger Of dissolu-
ton of the Union.
III. This danger originated in the ambi-
ton and cupidity Of men who desire a
southern despotism; and in the fanatic
zeal of northern abolitionists who seek the
emancipation of slaves, regardless of con.
sequences.
The danger can only be averted by such
moderation and forbearancc as will draw
out, strengthen, and combine the unior
sentiment of the whole country.
The Conservative Republican papers
throughout the commercial and manufac
turing States are unanimously in the en-
dorsement of the Journal in its proffer o
conciliating legislation and it looks now a
though Radicalism and VIM. H. Sewart
have parted company. When this separa
ton takes place the patriot may begin t
take courage and look forward to day Q
peace and prosperity under the Flag Of tn
whole country. Let US pray that such