The weekly north Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1857-1867, 1860-09-19
The New York World.

This new Daily is very ably conducted.
1t does not disguise its hostility to Mr..
Douglas personally but it is too elevated in
tone to get down to the trashy expedients
resorted to, by many of its contemporaries,
to beat him. In late issue of The World
we find the following excellent language,
and as lover of our whole country we
earnestly request its perusal by those who
have been working themselves into fury
on account Of the institution of Slavery
If our fiery quarrcling goes on, these States
must separate, and after separation, who
will have the profits The negro will not
be bettered, the South will lose, and how
much will the North have gained by cutting
loose from an alliance with the cotton fields
of the South? We leave New England
spindle owners to calculate. Why will not
Union-loving men come up en- nsasse to the
aid of that party which dares to denounce
the sectionalism of each and every portion
of our common country:
Ninety out Of every hundred men at the
North. if appealed to in their calm moments,
whatever their opinions of slavery, will tell you
tina: they have not the least wish to interfere
with the constitutional rights Of the South
Ninety out of every hundred men ut the South,
If in like manner appealed to, will say that
they ask nothing more than faithful observ-
ance of the Constitution. These are the honest
feelings Of vast majority in each section but
in each, unfos tunately, there has been noisy
tribe of politicians, such rs are found in free
governments everywhere, so we'll characteriz d
by BURKE: "a species of men to whom 4
state OF order would become a sentence Of OBJ
scurity, nourished into dangerous magnitude by
the heat Of intestine disturbances )" and OF whom
he said ..it is no wonder that. by sort OF snis-
ter piety, they cherish in their turn the disorders
which are the parents Of all their consequence"
1t has been the trade Of these men for years,
each in their own section, to make the most OF
sectional differences and to keep agitation up to
the very highest mark p0s-ble-they we'll know.
ing that their political existence depended upon
it. The incessant elimination and obloquy
which these decaimers have been venting for
years against the other section could in the na-
ture of men have no other effect than to pr
vert both feeling nd judgment. This result is
South now is that Northern men are not only
are practical ab0litionists, and that their design
is to wage war upon the institution wherever it
exists, without any regard to constitutional re-
straints while at the North the general feeling
is, that the South is bent upon extending the
area Of slavery at all costa, and that, dOnneer.
ing and reckless, it is resolved to run, ii it can
not rule. In the Southern mind, the represent.
alive men men Of the North are Philip Tar.
rison and Sumner while in the Northern mind.
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Rhett and Yancey. The sayings OF the former
constitute the favOrite quotations Of Southern
stump orators, just as the talk OF the latter is
banded about here ut the North as AN exponeu:
OF Southern sentiment This generalization
from extreme cases is all wrong. The North,
as body, is not tanatical against slavery nor
is the south, as u body, mad for extending it.
Both sections, in the mass, AS We have said
mean honestly to be faithful to the Constitution,
and. if let alone, will govern themselves, in
their treatment Of each other, by the laws OF
good feeling and good sense which should
shape the practical life of citizens Of one com
mon country.
The North has grievously erred in counte
nancing the widest declam .tions against South
ern institutions. and fostering state of feeling
that at last made possible such an act as John
Browns bloody raid into Virginia. Many oi
its important States our own happily not
among the number-have erred, hagrantIy
erred, in practically nullifying clause of the
Constitution by personal liberty bills-bills not
designed simply to protect the black men of the
North, but specially planned and calculated to
deprive the Southern master Of his indi.putable
constitutional ri ht While it might be admit
ted that both portions Of the country have been
more Or less to blame-human quarrels are rare
where such is not the case-it is to be hoped
that they will both become sensible Of their
mistakes, and endeavor to move on more con
sistently with their high duties and destiny. Il
| is idle for either section to imagine that the
Constitution can be perpetuated except in the
spirit which gave it birth /; and that, nobody de
will. 1t is as wicked as it is futile to presume
that either section will submit to be humiiatcd
or wronged by the other. 1t is not in american
blood to endure that, and We are proud that il
is so. Should it ever become clear, that any
State or set of States in this Union could no,
remain in the Union except by u base surrender
OF its constitutional rights and Of its legitimate
civil dignity, it will then become clear that the
Union has failed Of its purpose, ana isno longer
worth preserving. But the American nature
must completely change before that time can
come. 1t must lose all the practical good sense
that has characterized its regard for fairness-all
its love OF order. here is no danger of any
such transformation. We may rely upon it
that the American people, in spite Of all their
dissensons, still realize that they are essential
ly one people and that though they may for a
timo and to a certain degree do each other wrong,
there are constitutional restraints beyond which
they will never think of going, and a self-rec-
flying power which must sooner or later prevail
to restore good feeling and right action.