The weekly north Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1857-1867, 1861-07-17

discharge of duty. There Is but one feel.
ing animating every manly breast. One
sentiment breathes from every patriot lip
The Constitution must be upheld, the fede-
raj Union must be preserved; and he who
dares to breast the will of the people in
sustaining the Constitution and the laws in
their fullest extent, falls, crushed as beneath
the Car Of Juggernaut. Here and there.
it is true, a solitary Arnold, stands ready
to betrav. or blood thirsty Danton ap-
peals to the lower passions Of men hoping
that amid the ruins of law and order, he
may stand upon the stills Of brief authority
Let no man however, say that because
Of these things our form Of government
has proved to be failure. No govern
meut was ever instituted, but has passed
through scenes of trial like these. No
authority was ever established human or
divine, that has not had its ordinances vio
lated, and its power defied the same ar
gument, that proves our government a
failure, proves the same Of others. Rebel
lious angels even plotted treason within the
domain of JEHOVAH, and attempted to "se-
cede" from the Great White Throne. Their
fate, was typical of those who rebel against
just governments and righteous laws
Adam, fresh from his Makers hand, re.
belled and "seceded" from Paradise, yet
Gods government has not failed The
strongest despotisms, have been overturn-
ed, and many Belshazzar has seen the
handwriting on the wall, "thy Kingdom
shall pass away" The empire of the
Caesars is no more, while a thousand others.
have almost perished from the page of his
tory. What form of government has not
proved failure, if ours has failed! The
constitutional monarchy of the British EN-
pire, has undergone thousand vicissitudes
of fortune. At one time, we see King
John suppliant at the feet of his Barons,
suyiect rather than King. At another,
Henry the VIII dispensing life and death
to dependant subjects. At one time, the
war Of the red and white roses raging with
savage ferocity, among nation of broth
ers; at another, Cromwell and rabble
soldiery, bringing the head of the deposed
Charles to the block. Yet can it be said
that the British government has proved to
be a failure? .-,a a. .-.
The history of France is full of warning
to the American people. Running a wild
career of political dissipations, She has
vibrated between the extremes Of anarchy
and deSpotis,n King, convention, consul,
Emperor and King again, fiji the pages OF
her history like the quickly shifting images
of the Kaleidoscope. Our friend and ally
in the first war of the revolution she at
tempted to follow our example. Through
fields of carnage and slaughter, from one
battle field to another. in hot chase after
the Phantom of military glory; her vine
clad hills and fertile Wales untitled, her
provinces laid waste and her cities in ruins.
her noblest sons pining in foul PRISONS or
dying or the guillotne, sh, finally sought
for safety bercath the shadow of arbitrary
power; forgetting, that the voice OF Free
dom had died away alaid the clash Of arms
and that the commanding tore of imperial
bulletins, and the ornate language OF an
hereditary senate, was destructive OF ruth
and justice. 1t is the tragedy Of that
bloody period that Davis and his coadju-
tors are attempting to re-enact Like the
Jacobins in the convention, they plot the
bloody days Of September, and institute a
"eign of terror throughout one half Of the
republic. Go read the history of that
eventful period, and you will behold in
the glass of prophecy the shifting scenes in
store for us, if we fail to rally around law
and order.
Not only is the integrity of our empire
threatened, but the government is menaced
with subverSion. Treason at the South
makes open war, while extreme men every
where, not less dangerous to liberty and
order, dissatisfied with the cautious action
Of the President Cabinet, urge on the gov
prnmnnt m Inv he
llshed landmarks of the Constitution; to
cut the Gordian Knot Of the present with
the sword, to demolish the past, and on its
ruins establish new order of things
Fellow citizens, let us frown down these
lnclpient manifestations of anarchy, lest
gathering courage from our indifference,
they boldly sow the seeds of sedition in
our midst. ...
The rebellion in the Southrcn states
shows us how few crafty, bad men, by
playing on the passions and preiudices Of
honest masses, may hurry them into max
ing war on government, whose power
was never extended over them but to pro-
tect
1t Is gratifying to know, that In the very
hot-bcd of secession, there are tens of
thousands of men still loyal to the Union
who, regardless of the dangers that sur
round them, with their lives and property
in peril still stand fast to the traditions of
the Constitution. There are men through.
out the entire South who still cherish a
holy reverence for the Union of these
states If social order is ever re establish
ed, it is to those men we must look to set
up the altar of the Union in the seeded
states. 1t is to the hands Of these men we
must return the stolen archieyes the plum
dered treasures and the usurped reins of
state authority. To these noble men, soci.
al order, the Union and the Constitution in
its ancient integrity, are, if possible, dearer
than to us, for they haye suffered next to
martyrdom to sustain them inviolate-
They are responsible for none of the efforts
to overthrow the government Let us
then give them no just cause to fear, that
after shedding their blood in cause COM
mon with us, zoe shall deny to them sin
gle right guaranteed to thon, by the rery
Constellation zoe are en3eduoriag to uphold
Let US indulge in no utopian dreams that
the Constitution once demolished, and the
edfice of the Union torn down, W. can
build Of its blackened ruins, a structure
half SO fair or noble. In the language of
Washington's Farewell Address. ''Let
there be no change by usurpation, for
though this, in one instance, may be the in
strument of good, it is the customary wea-
pom of usurpation, by which free govern
ments are destroyed"
Let us remember that aside from the OBJ
legations in the Constitution there is moth
ing to bind together the states of the
Union, and that violations of that Consti-
tuition coming from the north or the south,
are equally unjustiiiable and reprchensih!e
Treasonis nothing more than a violation OF
the Constitution of the United States
Jefferson Davis is traitor to his country
and his government, simply because he has
violated his oath to support that Constitu-
ton in all its parts. els simply seeking
to dissever states held together by Consti-
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