Sioux City register. [volume] (Sioux City, Iowa) 1858-1871, 1862-12-20

respect Tor those conpacls ana LOT the
obligation you voluntarily placed yourself
under, to respect, uphold and sustain
them in their relations, not only TO Ame'
rican citizens, but to every person.
You have not only become taithless and
recreant to the Executive trust reposed in
you by the people Of Iowa, BY suffering
the State Sovereignty to be violated, and
citizens of your commonwealth TO be out
ragged, but you have betrayed both State
aud people to the arbitrary power at
Washington. which has srrogated to itself
not only all the power of Executive Des-
po,ism, but the Judicial aud Legislative
functions. vested by the people in other
persons and Departments of the Federal
Government. In doing this you have
earned for yourself in the estimation Of
posterity, a place in the history of your
State. which, when the despotic tyrants
and faithess rulers of other nations are
thought of and referred to as examples of
confidence misplaced and power usurl ed,
and people betrayed will bring your
name to the peoples recollection to be
despised and execrated, as the Governor
of Iowa who refused to surrender a muir
derer and traitor, flying from the Offend
ed majesty of sister State, and yet the
frat Governor who not only permitted a
citizen under your Executive Jurisdiction,
accused of no crime known to the laws,
to be abducted from the domain of the
State by arbitrary and illegal power, but
who became the voluntary means Of hav.
ing this outrage committed.
l hand you over to the maledictions Of
posperity for being one of the means of
snbverting the free Institutions of your
country; but before leaving you, | arraign
you before the bar Of living public opin.
ion, and demand Of you to answer why it
betrayed the people of this State. violated
oy your own acts, and permitted the viola.
ton by others of the Constitution you were
elected to support against all assalants
and a duty which as a condition Of beng
invested with Executive power, you swore
solemnly, or pretended to swear, that you
would faithfully perform.
And failing, as you cannot otherwise
do, to give better reason to the people
for the acts Of which arraign YOU than
such as tyrants and tratorr to their coan
Try offer as pretexts to justify their crimes.
| invoke upon your outlines of crime
and your shamelessness Of intamy, such
an Indignant retribution of the popular
Judgment as will make you, tyrant as You
have become, tremble with fear at the
wrath of an outraged people, and shame
less as you are, bring back to your mind
the recollection of your oath of office to
torture you with remorse.
leave you here; man, faithless to per-
sonal friendship; fellow. citizen, base to
the relations which the Constitution Of our
common country conters and imposes upon
us all Governor, false to your oath of
office and treacherous to the people of
Iowa, who honored you with dignity, who
invested you with authority, aud placed in
your control Executive power to be used
tor their security, protection and happiness,
but which you have perverted to the de-
straction Of their rights and to the subyer.
sion of their Government
As loved you once as friend, res
pected you as fellow citizen, honored
you as my Governor; for the violation you
have committed Of the Constitution of our
common State, and the outrages you have
suffered to be committed on our ae
Sovereignty and rights of persons entrust
ed to your care, loaIhe YOU as Their b..
traytr, scorn You as "a citizen Of Iowa ana
de>Plse YOU "a a IaiLhless public servant
am one Of the victims # hiirarv power
and your Executive treachgry and faith
lessuess ID. a MAIIONI.
4 COMMERCIAL TRAvfLER.-A country.
man went lulU IA store IN Boston the other
day. and told the keeper that neighbor
of his had entrusted him with some mon.
ey to be spent to the best advantage, aud
he meant to do it where lie would be treat,
ed the best.
lie had been very we'll treated IN Dos.
ton by the traders, and would not part
with his friends money until he found a
man who would treat him about right
With the utmost suavly the trader says:
u think | can treat you to your liking
How do you want to be treated
"Well y says the farmer with leer in
his eye. 'ln the first place, want glass
of toddy;' which was forthcoming. snow
l will have nice cigar, says the coun-
tryman 1t Was promptly handed him,
leisurely lighted, and then throwing him
self back, with his feet as high as his head,
he commenced pu:hng away ike Dutch
man.
"Now what do you want to purchase ?"
says the storekeeper.
MY neighboc handed me two cents
when | left home to bug him plug of
tobacco answered the farmer, have you
got the article -
The storekeeper stopped nstanter, and
the next thing that was heard from him
was that his sides were shaking and his
face on fire as he was relating the sell to
his friends down town.
Modesty in a woman is like color on
her Enthusiastically becoming if not
put on.
A young lady in the city says the
reason she carries a parasol is, that the |
sun is of the masculine gender, and she
can not withstand his glauces.
-"Well. Sambo, how do you like your
new place p "Oh, berry we'll, massa -
"What did you have for breakfast this
morning p why, you see misses billed
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