The weekly north Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1857-1867, 1861-05-29

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Enibcrali,y.
There is a.story of a lawyer Of great
ability who was somewhat elevated and
went to church. The officiating minister
had not the most unbounded confidence OF
his hearers but he was man of very high
prctcnsions and could not brook the sight
of poor mortal who was cvertakcn by ap.
petite. When the radiant face of the dis
ciplc Of Coke turned up at the divine in a
halfcomic, halfinquiring manner, the dem
inie became cxaspcratcd at his simple stare,
and pointing his finger at the sinner, re-.
marked, there is a wretch against whom
will testify in the last day." The lawyer
deliberately arose, zigzagged toward the
door and as he stepped from the portal
turned to his clerical censor and remarked
between hiccoughs: eve always been
aware, sir, that the greatest rascal is the
first to turn States evidenced"
In these times there arc few men who
have not had an opportunity to see the
lawyers remark illustrated. There is a
class of persons, few in numbers we admit,
but very noisy and very prctensious who
are now INDUCING in an agony of patriot
ism which no tongue can describe. They
have heretofore spoken very contemptibly
Of Law or Constitution when it conflicted
with their views, but now they arc so much
troubled about the honor Of tho Flag that
they busy themselves to hunt up the birth
place of men to draw the inference that
such men must necessarily be opposed to
the Government Of the United States
They do not remember that the Border
Slave States, at least, contains thousands
Of hearts as truly loyal as are those Of Gen.
Butler or Major Anderson, and so soon as
the reign Of terror which lords it over the
Southern unionists is broken, as We trust in
God and our Armies it soon will bc-thcrc
are other thousands of true men through
out all Secessia who will rise up and shout
their admiration for the "Star Spanglcd
Banner" The inquiry "Has he relatives
in the South and the inference that he is
therefore opposed to the Federal Govern.
ment is as unmanly as it is impolitic and
unjust. Mr.. Lincoln himself is tied to the
South by host Of relatives in the matri.
monial way, most Of whom if report be true
are in the Confederate army, and yet no
one talks about "Old Abe's" being in con-
spiracy with jeff. Davis. Why should the
private citizen be annoyed in his business or
his social relations by such inquiries and
innucndoes. We want harmony in back
ing up the Government to vindicate its hon
or bat we cannot obtain it by spying out
and reporting who may have been south of
Mason & Dixon's or by slandcring every
unv uiro does not admit the immaculacy of
the rulers at Washington or the Napoleonic
character Of the military chiefs now in the
field. The United States, disguise it as we
: may, is now in terrible commissions; its
commerce destroyed, our mercantile men
are trembling on the verge of bankruptcy;
our banks are in fair way to 60 by the
board, carrying with them nearly all the
confidence that man has in man, spreading
destruction in every quarter of the "a States
and involving all in National and State in.
debtedncss from which this generation will
probably never recover. These are facts
and it is useless to listen to the Sirens of
either section for consolation. Songs wont
save the Union or the people who live un-
der it. Fighting is the order, and it bchoves
us to "go in'-launch out our money and
hurrah for short, successful war and an
honorable peace. We can only get tn Sc
by acting brotherly toward each other and
stralnng every nerve, physical and pecuni.
airy, to effect it. Let no insults be offered
those who are doing their part like men,
but who own to an attachment to the State
of their nativity and love for those friends
south who are perhaps at this hour com.
PEELED to honor serpent flag which in their
hearts they dcspise.
We write this not for home application.
We do not believe there is liberalism
enough here to indulge in the meanness to
which we allude; but we have seen in our
exchanges frequent references to such work
and it is proper that in the long and bloody
strife which is possibly opening upon us we
should stop to remember that all men among
us Of military liability may be subject to
serve in the ranks before this war is over !:
how necessary then to cultivate harmony Of
feeling and Of action that we may have no
domestic discord to divert us from a proper
punishment Of the common foe. The South
evidently intend to fight guerilla fashion
to retreat before our armies, to devastate the
country, to draw our troops into ambus-
cades or induce them to hazard climate
more destructive to Mortimer than the steel
which that pompous Catalina, JEFF. DAVIS,
has threatened A war Such as This will
require million Of men from our side and
no word or act should be used here to rem.