The weekly north Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1857-1867, 1861-02-20
McGREGOR IOWA. WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 90 1861

sylvania, and the States west Of Ohio
Maryland is, you know-neutral from tern.
permanent, and divided from her geography
Her connections North and South are thou.
sand-fold. She will hold on to the Union
while there is hope make every honest ef
fort to preserve it, and that falling, 60 South.
The struggle will be fierce. The State will
be kept from acting until LINCOLN is in pow
err He will garrison our town, fill up the
forts and arm the mercenarics his patron.
age will buy. The cowardice Of property,
Of age, of sex will then be appealed to. -
We will be told, you cannot get out with
out war. The North will crush you-it
must conquer you because it must, or will
have the National Capitol. 1t is useless to
make the struggle. The odds are too great"
Such will be the appeal made; and all cow
ardicc, all patriotism, all conservatism, all
cupidity, will be on that side. For besides
these threats, they will hold out promises of
pay and agree to buy and manumit over
$50, 200 900 Of negroes. But it will be
vain. The North NAV hold Maryland, but
it will be bleeding corpse, charred and
shapeless ruin. IF the Capitol is the priz'
for which we are to be sold, as Dutch
cut the dykes of Holland so will We raze
every public building in Washington. Lib
erty is higher than architecture, and peo-
pie may live too long. 1t may outlivc its
honor! A nation that submits to wrong
through fear, is worse than dead To the
latter there is the resurrection; to the for
mer, no hope forever more. These noun
tans sent MICHAEL CREsuP and his Riffs
to the tow N Of Boston as soon As the news
Of the Concor fight passed through here
My grandfather and yours, Christmas l777.
rallied and sent 1900 men to succor WASH
ington in the Jerseys In ten days he got
them together, aud led them without arms.
and many without clothes or shoes,
the blood of the mountains runs pure and
red still. Catoctia still cleavcs the air,
pointing to heaven and admonishing her
sons Of the eternal right, and her lessons
will be needed now as before. But God
knows ] hope it may not come to that
The decision is with the North Forbear-
ancc, justice, magnanimity noac, may yet
restore the Union, and save the crimson
stream Of fraternal blood. We are still ar
ardently attached to the Union. In JAN,
l774, our grandfather, then % years old,
was appointed in the Court House here a
uCPuty " IToNI1CIdl COHVcutlOU 1C All.
napolis. The first act of that body was to
declare its loyalty and devotion to King
George III. In less than two years, it de-
posed the Royal Governor, declared its
independence, and placed the infant State
with arms in its hands, against its blood,
kith, and kin. Yesterday, in the same
place, was elected a delegate to State
Convention, for the purpose of saving the
Union, if possible, without dishonor, every
man feeling and expressing the the most
ardent attachment to the Union. Coercion,
''the execution of the laws" and "preserv-
ing the Union Of America with Britain"
in 1875, cost England her colonies. Cam
not Northern men perceive the rcpetitions
of history?
IF we can have peace for four years, we
can escape our difficulties, and reconstruct
the Union-and peace lies with the North,
but coercion means war and war means
di.union.