The weekly north Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1857-1867, 1861-01-30

EDITOR TINES: Here We are cold enough
to put Nova Zembla in the shade, the
South end of the Union running wrong
everybody's stomach uneasy, and every
thing as if eternal smash was culm'nat'i'g'
Ssme say that times look "b,ae," ent NAV
is a direct insult to indigo and charcoal :,
few years ago our Republican member G.
Congress (Tappan,) cursed the fugitive
Slave Law, declared it violation OF ''.s
Constitution, that it was the duty OF az
men to dcnounce it and resist it-that he
'rejoiced at the murder Of Batcheider III
| Boston, that his fate should be tIat OF al!
who attempted to enforce it, concluding
| with demand for its unconditional repeat.
A few days since this same man was put
upon the concliation committee OF thirty
three. No wonder that Southern men have
no confidence in such mems promises, or
the regard Of such men FOR theie oaths. Ut
| is the talk and actions Of just such fhcT5
that has furnished powder for Soutie'n
traitors to blow up the best government
ever on earth Since the seed of Abo!l-
tionism was sown twenty-five years ago
| in the North by British cmissaries, TIE cnr-
| rents of irritation and counter irritation
have kept the whole land in a ferment, un.
| til almost all the statesmen of the country
have been exiled from power and ambitious
madcaps and gloomy fanatics have taken
their places And now madness rules
the hour" The crash will not affect tho
rural districts much till Spring. But else
| where the withered hand Of panic has half
palsied the popular heart. Eminent r.
publicans are now counsclling repeal of
personal liberty bills, and with Wise, pray
ing God "to revive our revolutionary feel
ings." The impending calamity has bro't
with it calm, which indicates conscious
ness of "coming events which "east shad
ows before" The shoe business is dead
manufacturing half dead, trade Of all kinds
depressed, thousands in vigorous winter
thrown out of employment. The worst
| phase of the whole string is that most pee-
pie seem to have lost all confidence in every
thing, and very many have arrived at the
conclusion that it has been left to us to
prove that the experiment Of self govern
ment is a failure. The dread here is not of
the secession of South Carolina or other
Gulf States, which is regarded as settled
thing, but in the evil aspect Of the prece-
dent, which, in process Of time, will render
the Union mere rope Of sand, that by and
by, when something does not suit them, the
Pacific States will run away, and the central
States kick the eastern States out Of bed.
In an evil hour madmen North and South
get the control Of public opinion, and with
reasonable designs in their hearts have
pitted the passions of one section against
the other, and now what we most feared is
upon us. Unless extremists in both sec
tons shift drag-ropes, the central, light
giving sun of the republican armament
mus. plunge from the mid-heaven into the
gloomy maclstroln of State dissonancc and
civil war, to re-appcar and gladden. us as a
great, free and united people no more for
erer. In this crisis what is the East doing?
Like India beyond the Gangcs," genera
ting political malaria. In Vermont Repub
licanism refuses to repeal it's laws which
annul the Federal charter. In Massachu-
sets John A. Andrews is Governor. Let
US hope that Hancock will not turn in his
coffin at such prostitution of a title Of which
he was once proud, and the old Bay State
likewise. And who is John A. Andrews?
A Garrisonite Massachusetts, lawyer, who
drafted the personal liberty bill of that
State to nullify the Fugitive Slave Bill Of
1850, and who now in his message cool!y
tells us what he and every other man of
common sense knows is untrue, that it was
not mainly for that purpose, but to protect
citizens Of Massachusetts,. How can a
Southerner help hating Massachusetts, when
he remembers that her Chief Magistrate
was main spoke in her John Brown meet
ings and who believed with Emerson that
Browns execution "made the gallows glo-
rious as the cross Of Christ" And here in
the old Granite State they have nominated
for Governor renegade Democrat OF 1874.
The candidate Of the Liberty party-the
Abolition party for ycars-who has laid
upon the shelf for years because he was
too rabd for the Know Nothing fungus, or
even Republicanism till now to tolerate,
and now under the lead Of Fogg and the
'yield not an inch policy" in the very hour
in which of all others we need conservative
men at the helm Of State, he, a rank Aboli-
tionist, is eAhumed and put forward for the
most prominent position in the State, as a
fitting exponent of Republican principles;
and the course and opinions Of Tappan,
| who gloried and rcjoiced in the murder Of
Batchelder by mob, is indorsed by the
convention which nominated his successor.
Arc not our people mad, stark mad? The
Republican State Convention was large and
determined. The Democratic Convention,
one of the largest that that party has held
for thirty years. A very popular man, one
Of the kin of ''Molly Stark" was nomina-
ted. The convention was very enthusias-
tic. We shall, from present look, have a
vigorous campaign on both sides. This
district has been as shades" with contest
among the Republicans as to who should
succeed Tappan, who wishes to be United
States Senator Rollins won at last. 1t
was literally purchased. We read that the
power in the Roman Empire in its most de-
generate days, was set up at auction.-