St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1860-04-26
American DeSpOtiSm.

III many important particulars tuc
lespotism of Austria and Russia is
by the despotism of the
United States. For instance, by the
decision of the Postmaster-Gcneral
the mails are placed under the esplon-
age of the petty functionarics OF des-
potism. Not only are newspapers
from subscribers at the will
Of Southern postmasters, but private
correspondence is inspected with u
view to implicate citizens in an al
legged conspiracy against the Govern
ment. The channels of the book-tradc
are INSTRUCTED, and the circulation,
either by ordinary sale or Ivy special
colportagc, of books deemed injurious
to the institution Of slavery, is made
a penal oifrnsc. The right of locomo-
ton is denied to citizens OF the United
States who are supposed to entertain
certain opinions on the subject OF
slavery. Spies are employed to re-
port the conversations of gentlemen
in the cars or at the hotels. For Civ
ing his private opinion as to the inva-
sion at Harper's Ferry, a citizen OF
Washington is arrested and put under
bonds to keep the peace. A magis-
trate of Philadelphia discharges from
custody man who was arrested for
melting a riot against an anti-slavcry
lecturer, and volunteers the opinion
that had the lccture-hall been destroy
ed 10y a mob, "the owner could not
have recovered from the city, as he
had rented it after full knowledge
of the inccndiary character of the adj
dress to be delivered there, and of the
excited state of the public mind on
the subject" There wants but one
thing more to make the dcspOtism in
augurated in these United States "a
perfect counterpart of that i'll Austria,
and that is what Governor Wise de-
mands. that the President of the
United States shall distribute a mill
tary force throughout the free States
to prevent discussion and comhina-
ton for the overthrow of slavery.
Silently, stcalthily, but with alarm
ing swiftncss and certainty have these
strides Of DcSpotism been taken. Be
ginning in the idea of a centralized
Federal power, taking advantage OF
the timidi,y and cupidity of one sec
ton of the country, and the dom'nccr-
ing and rapacirus spirit OF another
using the occasion for arbitrary and
military djrtation in Kansas, suhordl-
mating the Snprcmc Court to its be
hcsts, this Dcspotism has cncroachcd
upon the dearest rights Of citizens
till it threatens to crush them all
The past is full of warning; the pres
cnt is full of peril. The trcasonah!:
faction of Shareholders which now
dom;nccrs over the South, knows
+ what to exact of the frightened cupid
: ity of Northern mercantile and p"ilti
s cal capitalists, and knows also tina
the Democratic party will be its phi
ant tool. Only the most rrsO!utc re
sistance of the Republican and Oppo
sition members Of Congress can ar
rest the strides Of despotism toward I
military occupation of the whole coun
try for the protection and advance
f ment of Slavery.
The people of the Northern States
are rcaping what they have sown
They who are Indifferent to the rights
, of others, dcpreciate and finally for
= felt their own. By conniving at the
: outrages of Southern slavery, North
, ern men have prepared the way fo
t that Despotism which now assumes t,
:. control the trade, the travel, the Cor
respondcnce, the literature, the dis
cussions of the whole country, ant
. which is ready to uuShcath the swor,
for civil war. To overthrow Despo
tism already So rampant, will require
the united energies Of all true friends
Of the Liberty and the Union we hav,
inherited from our fathers. The oppu
sition must be aimed at the seat 0
the usurpation. The Federal Govern
mcnt must be thoroughly reformed
, and purged Of all completely witt
Slavery, that true patriotism in TIN
South itself may be liberated from tin
terrorism which keeps it down. ant
that the North may be emancipate,
from that political bondage to SLAYER.
n which has wel!-nigh crushed out
n it's manhood. The man who in thcs
If times lends himself to any party o
l. measure contrivcd in the interest O
G Slavery, surrendcrs himself to a Des
If potism which vii! soon destroy ever.
;, right and hope which he has cherish
e ed as a citizen of these United States
DR.. Tottrn, the newly appointe,
, President of the Iowa State Univcrs
is tN, says:
Il Let the University be opened next Septen
, Der, as well-.ppointed institution of learn
u ing, to which young men from all parts Of tn
# state my resort.
d To which the Iowa Instructor r;
e spends
~ I've will inform DIR. Totten that the Stat
~ of Iowa has no institution of learning f,
e young men alone, but for the youth of both sere
We are as anxious as Dr. Iotten can he I
have our State University tilst class Insttl
ton. We hope the day may not be distar
- | when we sh al bphnIu il filed with Young me