The Iowa transcript. (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1858-1866, 1861-05-02

forgiveness. His regrets are a. inso-
len'ly rejected, as his appeals for toler-
alton in his own opinions. Where then
are the men Of the North to go? What
i ne duty Of all our people? Clearly
to stand by the Government.
/ President Lincoln and his Cabinet.
having waited to see if there is any
chance or prospect Of peaceable ad.
jnstment OF the strife that has lost US
seven States Of the Union, are now
forced to rescue the Government itself
from dissolution. It is not whether We
shall recall the Cotton States, or hold in
the Border States, or maintain the Can
ital at Washington, but whether we
shall have vcs'ige OF = countrve-
Whether our civilization is fraud p
Our prosperity sham? Our public
credit a counterfeit? Our liberty lie :?
If Abraham Lincoln were not pledged
to do right in regard to common inter
ests, the gravity and Importance Of the
obligations now resting upon him, and
demanding action--instant, rcsolute
! and perseyering action-would convert
him INTO hero, or, if not fulfilled, COW
er him with an ignominv more lasting
even than that which has settled like
an incnrahle plague upon the character
Of his Immediate predecessor, which
has blasted him living. and will make
him immortality infamous, even when
death hides his form from the gaze Of
men, and removes him from nation he
has ruined
What is the evidence Of our daily
senses? Disnnion, and Reputation,
and Secession, having become formida-
bic in the South, are t,'arel;i"y ike an
epidemic tato the free .Stotes! The idea
that Southern treason may be extended
into the very States it seeks to cover
with lasting bankruptcy, is not only ac-
c"ptei, bat advocated, aud l have no
inubt that even in Philadelphia, as in
New York, secret associations are
formed dedicated to the crime of COW
ering secession with the shadow of
great names, and looking directly to
the betrayal Of the North into.the hands
, of JEFF. Davis and his followers The
mock philanthropy that excuses the
Cotton State i'll their revolt, is in hap
py accordance With the formation Of
midnight associations to make the re-
volt natural The easy casuistry that
defends reputation and robbery is ap-
pronriately set off by that which tells
enfssivania how much more happy
She would be if welded to the States
guilty of this dishonor Is it not no
torion< that the Democratic organiza-
ton Of Pennsylvania is at this. day in
the bands of men who act in conc ert
vi Il those who have lefaced our flag,
expelled our citizens, and plundcred
our treasury, III the South ? What arc
the ca!umnies nron al who are for the
execution Of the laws, as they fall from
the lips Of our recent Breckinlidge lead
ers, but so many preparations for the
universal downfall OF our liberties p
Even now the agents Of the Southern
Contederacy are at work all over the
Free States, and especially in Pennsyl-
vania, New Jersey, Ohio, Illinois and
Indiana, to secure popular vote, d.
rectly or indirectly, justifying Secession
or declaring the experiment Of the
Southern Confederacy worthy Of the
imitation Of the people who livcin these
States.
Behold the entertainment to which
we are invited; and which the party
leaders who dislocatcd the Dem ocracy
At Charleston and Baltimore are now
gloating over AS if it were feast Of the
gods! We are asked 10 take part in,
or to sanction BY law, Government
founded upon slavery alone--impovcr-
ished by an aristoeracv as naughty as
any the world has ever seen--torn away
from the parent tree with murlerous
hands, IS if to, kill both trunk and
brsnch-despised cvca by the nations
that may be compelled to trade with il,
and only capable Of temporary exist
rncc by shrouding the whole laid with
sorrow, and by converting the capital
Of the county into Golgotha, '.run-
ming red and hot with blood" In this
emergency, l call upon AL good men
and true to take sides with the Govern
men, in the periIs before it and our
whole people. If blood shall flow, our
hearts will not accuse us, and God will
forgive us, because we arc contending
for a Union and Government better,
and freer, and happier, than any that
has ever tlourishcd since He created the
world.