The weekly north Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1857-1867, 1860-12-19
what Did Ita

What did Ita
1t is not the mere fact Of the election of
Mr.. Lincoln that has caused the bitter dis
satisfaction of the South, though it must be
admitted that the selection of candidates
from the North alone, implied, on the part
Of the Republicans, disposition to compel
the submission ofthe South without consult
ing its views or it's interests Thirty thou.
sand votes in the Southern States, and
nearly tuo millions in the Northern, does
not present a great. show Of Union senti-
mcnt in the canvass; but this alone would
not have produced the connection had not
the canvass been marked by an intemper-
ate hostility on the part OF Republican ora.
tors and editors towards the South which
virtually amounted to declaration of So.
cial, and, SO far as tho Government under
Lincoln could practice it, Of political war
against the inhabitants of fifteen States of
the Confcderacy. When it is remembered
that each of the original States was once
an independent government, not bound to
any power, and that the Federal Govern
eminent was agreed to on certain kasis
recorded in CONSTITUTION, binding
alike upon all in matters Of general welfare,
and binding, not at all, in matters of domss-
tic regulation, it is not strange that these
States should look ba.k to the position
originally occupied by them, and to desire
a withdrawal from family circle which
denies them equality of rights and treats
them as polluted members of the sisterhood.
Some Of our Lincoln supporters tell us
the North has done nothing that can fairly
be construed into justification for the
present rampancy of the South, that the
canvass was conducted fairly, and that
hence everybody should abide by it and be
content Do they remember none Of the
vindictive language with which their press
es and campaign documents recently groan-
cd? Do they recall the eloquent appeals"
made by their most favored orators, ScuURz
and others, sinking the South and Its
Northern doughface friends to the lowest
grade of social and moral contempt? Have
they forgotten that the inoendiary Helper
Book was advertised by the Tribune and
the smaller lights as the best campaign doc
ument cxtant, and that this book was in
dorsed by s1xrx-EIGur Republican Con-
gressmen as proper work for general cir
culation? Some Of the presses and Con-
gressmen now deny that they approved the
Infamous language of that book, but it was
not convenient to make this denial until
the poison of the Crisis had penetrated
the minds Of the people and produced its
fruit, in the success Of Mr.. Lincoln. Let
us quote few lines from Helper and see
how much Kindness they express towards
these STOOLS down South who are making
all this "bluster:"
Shareholders are nuisance"
1T is our imperative business to abate
nuisances.
"We propose to exterminate this cata-
logue from beginning to end"
1--WE believe that THIEVES are, as a
general rule, less amenable to the law than
SHAREHOLDERS"
SHAREHOLDERS ARE MORE
CRIMINAL THAN COMMON MURDER
ERS."
Shareholders and slave traders are, as
general thing, unfit to occupy any honora-
BILE station in life"
ut is our honest opinion that all the pro-
slavery Shareholders, who are alone respon-
able for the continuance Of the baneful in
stitution among us, deserve TO be AT ONCE
REDUCED TO A PARALLEL WITH
THE BASEST CRIMINALS THAT LIE
FETTERED IN THE CELLS OF OUR
PUPLIC PRISONS"
"Werc it possible that the whole number
Il. .. of the slaveholders) could be gathered
together and transferred into four equal
gangs Of licensed R-ROBBERS, RUF.
FANS, THIEVES and MURDERERS-@
society, we feel assured, would suffer less
from their atrocities than 1t does now"
Would Iowa men and women admire thu
people OF Maine or Wisconsin if they shall
got up an infamous work about the ''Hawl
Eyes," circulate it in every family at home
and in adjoining States, and insist upon tn
right to come to Ioua and read the accursel
thing to every crowd that might assemble
here? Please to remember, good reader
that the South is filled with people of on
own blood; our brothers, and sons, and sis
tiers, and daughters are there, and they ar
as lndisposcd to pocket insults as are wc.-
Mr.. Toombs, Of Georgia, is reported to hav
once said, in an offensive style and manner
that he expected to see the slave-drivcr'
whip in the vicinity of Bunker Hill.-
Toombs denied making the remark, but
you rccollect how the cool, law-and-orde
North took the report. Did not your news
papers blaze with indignation, and were tn
people not appealed to in every possibl
way to resent this ''insult to our free inst
tutions" by voting against all men VIII
claimed any sympathy with the South {
who insisted on strict observance Of h
rights as political partner? We do n
think the South is blancless. On the col
trary, she has done great many FOOLS
acts; she claims that they were done in r
taliation for Northern injuries; it isa di
putcd matter now as to who threw the fir
stone, but it is well known that the Sou
is the most susceptible Of injury in this W
OF Abolitionism which we are considerin
She has peculiar property. We do II
want it here as slaoc or FREE. 1t is not d
sired by the North to invite negroes to 0
villages. The South have inherited inc
Of this property and it is impossible to ma
unit it with safety to white or black. 0
reproaches Of her do no good but to irrita