The weekly north Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1857-1867, 1862-04-09
correspondence.
WEST UNION, Iowa.
Anril 18th 1850 (

Xessrs. Editors II am so we'll satisfied
with your last issue that desire to &C.
knowledge the pleasure that it afforded me.
The outside of the TINES always suits me
short story, generally; matter or two
of fact and column Of joke or fun shows
the reader that you are careful in selections
and that you want people of all sorts to
get the worth Of their money from its pc-
rusal. The inside columns read with
much qualification. "Home and other
items" is an old feature in the TINES, and
in its perusal we learn all the gossip of
your lively little city. "Anythings' gives
US the news of the dry, sandwiched bo-
tween the jokes Of the season. Your cor.
rcspondence is usually Of the best quality
Il have noticed that very few softs OBJ.
trudc their ideas through your columns
But | am particularly set up just now with
your brief leader Of last week, on Wendell
Phillips. If he, the eloquent and gifted,
can travel over the country and fclicitate
himself on the destruction of the "Union
as our fathers made it, what improperly
is there in calling upon Yancey, also the
eloquent and gifted, to come up here and
show us the folly Of endeavoring to main.
tain the constitution and laws except at the
sacrifice Of New England manufactures ?
a diversity Of pursuits in nation does
not necessarily involve the question Of un-
avoidable separation on the contrary it
argues the propriety Of UNION.
The productions of the South, have all
been handed over to New England for man.
ufacture, change and re. shipment to that
same South, with commissions, Transports
ton and various other expenses added to
the bill. The rocks and streams of the
Eastern States have been made to grow
money by the intimate commercial relations
existing with the cotton, tobacco, and hemp
plantations Of the South. Some districts
in England are all manufactures, some all
agricultural: in France the south is all
wine, silks and brandies in the north all
is grain and heavy manufactures. Nobody
ever thought of the two sections being
naturally opposed to each other. Shall we
commend men then Cor running over our
late happy and united country and sowing
the seeds of discord by pcrsuading each
section that it is wise to hate the other be-
cause one produces cotton and the other
deals in the machinery necessary to put
cotton in mercantile shape? l wish our
countrymcn would read more carefully and
frequently the parting advice Of the Father
of his Country. lie saw where the d. vii
would enter ths Paradise Of this Republic,
and excite our fellow citizens to deeds of
evil. He knew that the distresscs which
would follow a war of sections would be
deplored by all those who really have their
country's good at heart, and that they wo'd
be pleasing only to miserable set of
knaves north and south who have neither
character, position or money to lose by
national disruption. Like the canaile of a
large city they are glad to see fire, be-
cause, first, they cannot lose anything, and
because, secondly, they may possibly steal
suit of clothes during the confagration
| confess to you, gentlemen, become i'm
patient with such men az Phillips. He has
no earthly excuse for preaching disunion
and treason except it may be poverty
Burns says "these things called wife and
wrans, wad move the heart of very stancs,"
and if Wendell is poor and needs the
quarter he gets per head to keep his family
from starving he is somewhat cxcusaLle;
but how much more profitable to the gov
crnment it would be to pension him for
life and bind him to the limits Of Boston.
God has given him a fine mind and he can't
rest till he expresses its workings; but,
Don Quixote like, he isnasincs that it is his
province to settle all the difficulties in the
world, ard he starts off to intcrmcddle
where his services do more mischief than
good.
If the South has furnished its Calhouns,
its Rhctts, its Yanceys and its Davis. the
North, equally cursed, has had its CARR.
sons, its Greclys, its Browns and its Phil
lips, and here we are thinking, con-
sentative Union men Of the North and the
South, with debt Of e'epen hundred mil
lions Of dollars, a taxation almost unpaya-
BILE for the next generation, a country di,
vided, brothers alicnatcd, disgraccd before
the world, popular government almost a
failure, business prostrated-and all be-
cause VIC have allowed demagogucs in both
sections to rule the roast l do sincerely
hope that such sense as you write as to
Northern disunionsts may be met by cor
responding sense in the South, and that
VIZ may again become united people.
Yours, l..