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


A Compromise.
We scarcely meet a man, or hear of one
through the papers, but who asks earnest
~, "Will there not be a speedy settlement
Of our national difficultics?' A settlement
implies concession of opinion, and in
that sense every man who looks to an es-
cape from the trouble with which our polit.
ical and financial interests arc surrounded,
admits the necessity Of compromising. All
the greatani good men South who arc exert
ing themselves to stay the hasty tide Of folly
which marks the extremists Of their Sec
ton, favor either the Crittendcn or the bor-
der State propositions, and while Northern
papers urr commencing Crittenden and his
patriotic compeers to the eulogistic notice
Of their readers, they must also tell them
that these same mon are firm as the firmcst
against the Northern sentiment which talks
Of coercion without concession" The
truth is, there is not man of note in the
fifteen States Of the South but who bases
his Union sentiments on the prc.supposi-
ton that Greeley and his pro-revolutionary
followers will soon be everpowercd at home
by the broad and saving sentiment now
cropping out among the most distinguished
as well as the most respected members of
the Republican party. Mr.. Seward began
it. Mr.. Corwin's report, as chairman of
the SO, continued it. Mr.. Cameron, of Pa,
made recent speech which the Tribune
(Chicago) correspondent at Washington
calls ''silly;" this is good omen. The leg
islatures Of Indiana, Rhode Island, Massa.
chnsetts and other States, arc moving in
the same direction. Mr.. Lincoln is author
itatively reported as asserting to the bor-
der State plan Of adjustment, or any other
enc Of similar import-in fact, the general
tone Of the real men Of the Republican par
ty is assuming conservative, compromis-
ing form; and so soon as the rejecting
among them can get away from the brawl-
ing nonsense and bloody appeals of negro
equality infuriates, we will see radical pat
riotism that will sweep from all places of
trust, position or influence that class of in.
cendiaries who are of no use except to
rouse naob-the Dantons and Robespier-
res of society. II will be observed that the
great lights of Abolitionism are now for
hidden to speak or hold meetings even in
Western New York and New England
This is most strange and gratifying re-
yersal of public taste. What does it indi
cate I? Nothing less than that the people
have learned, and at a most bitter cost too,
that listening to the REASONABLE harangues
Of these madmcn and mad women, has well
nigh ruined the best government on the
earth, without single redcening cores
ponding benefit to any human being, black
or 'ohite. Every man knows this is so, and
it will not be long before nearly all men
will be bold enough to own it. Party con-
sistcncy is one thing, but the country is
no~ to be saceW If Mr.. Douglas and Mr..
Seward can afford to ignore party and Join
hearts for the restoration of Peace, Order
and Fraternity, there need be no hesitation
in the smaller officers Of the two great bands
OF politicians in dismounting from their
hobbies and taking rank in the columns of
that patriotic army now commanded both
North and South by GENERAL CoMMoN
SENSE. This army is bound to conquer
Pride, Hate and Insanity may continue the
uproar for brief season-it is possible
that some blood may flow in answer to the
appeals of the reckless men in both Sec
tons who take pleasure in seeing city
fired, fort RACED, garrison butchered,
and community wailing the loss of its
bravest men; but, at last, Common SENSE
will conquer, and we shall then agree to do
precisely what, but for bad counscls, We
can much more easily do now.
There are reoona moves on the board that
show Enthusiastically the reaction now agi-
tating the public mind An address was
recently issued to the South, signed by
the oldest and most vcneratcd Divines of
New York city, pledging the people of the
U. States to return to the old plan of wor-
shipping God and minding their own bust.
ness. This, from the clergy, is glorious
smen. Add to this, we observe that the
Masonic Fraternity in all sections of the
Union are urging the membership to exert
themselves in counsels Of peace and conces-
sion. We are not member of any secret
order, but it has been habit with us to at
tribute almost Herculcan power to the An
cicnt Order of which we are speaking. Let
she Fraternity whose influence has been so
commanding for ages past but put its Shout
der to the wheel-let each man of the
mystic tic" be compressed with the idea that
his personal et0rt is. required to avert the
blly of our crazy countrymen, and there is
no calculating the value which such CON-
bined influence will have in restoring broth
srhood to the dissentionists.
There is still another significantly valua-
bic indication: The New England and Mid
die States, together with the States of Ken.
lucky and Virginia, were recently assem-
bled at Washington in the persons of their
neutrality-suspicious., and after agreeing
upon's line Of policy relative to the i'm
mediate business Of their convention, an in
terchange Of opinion relative to the political
troubles, developed the fact that they unaE-
imously favored settlement on the Crit
tenden or Border State basis. The intima-
cy existing in the railroad interests of the
North and South, the East and West, the
smount Of capital invested, render the ex.