The weekly north Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1857-1867, 1860-10-10
New York.

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consented to be withdrawn, has tended ma.
terlally to the alarm of the Republican par
ty. Here they affect to care nothing for il
it, but not so with their leading journals in
New York. The Independent, the Post.
the Times, the Wora, the Courier and En-.
qufrer, have all INDUCED in unpleasant
dreams about this "fusion," and though
they do not plainly admit that the State is
lost beyond remedy, they sound the tocs,n
OF alarm on so a high a key that it is plain
to see they arc in mental fear. A Repub-
llcan gentleman, passing west through Nc
Gregor, a day or two since, assured us that
the croaking of these leading papers twas
only intended to arouse the masses" We
asked him what meant the T,ibune's
boasting them" He admitted that the tao.
tics of the organs were somewhat at vari-
ance, but insisted whether Weed growled
or Greeley and Seward bowed, 'the State
was good for Lincoln" 1t may be so. We
don't hnoao, nor does any body else; but if
the testimony of such papers as we have
referred to may be regarded, there is a job
of work before Republicanism in New
York which will call for all the hands, the
presses and the e~xertion which that locally
divided party can call into the field. Men
often look complacently and almost scorn-
fully at an opponent and say, '.Oh! we arc
going to beat you easily !" But such talk
does not alarm an old stager. 1t takes
ootes to beat, and we are confident that the
WHITE PEOPLE of New York, like those of
the West, are not yet ready to follow the
lead of Horace Greeley in support ola par
ty growing bolder and holder in its advoca-
cy of the doctrine that negroes shall be ad-
mitted to the rights of citizenship. "To
this complexion it must come at last" if the
black sentimentalism of the few is to be
honored with the lead of the conservative
element in the Republican party. In the
city of Providence, so we are informed by
a Republican gentleman now at McGregor,
the negro voters invariably stand round the
polls and await bids openly made for their
ballots! In New York there is a property
qualification of $3.50, which excludes near
ly the whole race from voting, but in the
approaching election it is proposed to
amend this exclusion and admit them all to
rights of citizenship. Do the people of
Northern Iowa desire to see this policy
adopted? Our acquaintance with Republi-
cans of town and country authorizes us to
answer NO. And yet orators and editors
from Lovejoy and Greeley, dozen to a class
who are useful only as the clowns and
blackguards of the political ring, arc taxing
their powers of language to persuade their
hearers and readers that it will be SO beau
tiful and SO noble to open their arms to,
chat they themselves call "the degraded At
~rican," and place him in the front rank of
American voters. The question is not yet
before the people of Iowa, but it is before
the people of New York, and it is our re.
spect for the conservative anti-Jlack portion
of the Republican party of that great State
which forces the conviction that a party,
whose leaders and presses are too time-serv-
ing to condemn it, will be excused from a
participation in tho victory to be won there
in November. We would ask no better
club to WELD in Iowa than "a~nti-fusion Of
the blacks and whites at the ba%llot-box."-
We believe New York will do as would
Iowa under the same circumstances
The Independent says:
"For weeks past we have endeavored to
arouse the Republicans from the lethargy
of a false confidence. This feeling is owing
partly to the character and position of the
candidate, and partly to the feuds and d.
visions of the opposition. The name of
Fremont stirred the masses to a chivalric
enthusiasm like that of an army marching
under a tried, admired and generous leader.
After conceding to Lincoln some ability
and considerable sagacity, it adds: "But
outside of his own State his name is SO lit
tie known, and so little identified with the
great conflict for freedom, that it fails to
kindle that enthusiasm SO important to sue
cess in political campaigning"
The Post says:
In proportion to the chances of c~lecting
our candidate for the Presidency nave per-
sonal jealousies and animosities been de-
veloped. Every newspaper that we take up
is obliged to reflect these selfish strifes in
its chronicle of current events, and we re-
greet to see on the very eve our State con-
~vention an effort making to distract its
counsels and waste its energies, required for
the battle with our common enemy, in in
testine broils. y x X
Our adversaries have taken courage from
the indications of disorder in our lines, and
of bad blood among our leaders, and are
taking steps to unite upon a single electo-
raj ticket in this State, in the hope, by con-
centrating all their energies of their several
parties and factions in the Nation upon this
State, todefeat Lincoln.
Nothing but the folly and s%elfishness of
that class of men which is to be found in
all parties, whose interest in the success of
the Republican party depends entirely up
on the elevation Of the seat to be assigned
to them in it, has made such a thing prac-
ticable. Now, it is inevitable. There will
be, practically, but two electoral tickets run
in thisS State 4 y X X
We cannot but regret the cause which has
brought about this combination of our adj
versaaies, for it may continue until the State
itself is in danger. If We read the signs
of the horizon Alright, we have now before
us, and we say this in no croaking spirit
one of the most desperate political contests
that has ever been fought in this State"
A Contrast.
, Mr.: Seward, at Detroit, is reported Il