The Iowa transcript. (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1858-1866, 1862-07-17

proclaim soo,s after. his election his to-
tai dissent from the mad schemes Of his
abolition supporters, no ~ to avert the
tlisrup,ing tornado which ! saw before
/ left New York last November was
about to cause dissolution Of our there
fore glorious Union. believe from !
the course which DE had pursued with |
Douglas in his campaign for the Senate |
IN 1858, that he was not imbned 80
thoroughly With abolitionism A. bis
Republican supporters supposed, and
therefore l really preferred him then
and last fan 70 Douglas whom knew
10 bs an unprinciplcd Le,nagogne, and
was making speeches in the North to
please abolitionists and would then go
South and make 'discourses Of M oppo
site character. To him more than any
other man in orr country protesting
Democratic principles OF oven abolition
doctrines, is our country indebted for
the agitation il not destruction Of oMr
Union. But for him and his friends
who broke up shs Charleston Conven.
ton, Democrat would have been elecs-
~ last fall to the Presidency and before
another contest such an arrangement
could have been made 10 to have pre-.
vented dissolution Of the Union, and
perhaps civil war. My latest datcs
are The 22d Of February, am, I trsmb'c
at the thought Of receiving other dis
patches, &C., )ert they shall announce
TIC existence Of civil war. My prayers
arc regularly offered mp for the rc-rnioh
Of the States and for peace, concord and
happiae.'s of my country. But let
what msy come to pass, you may rely
upon it, rs y,u say that neither ! var
mine ,c;W ere. be josa,5 IL tie ranks ef
o~r (your) esem;f.s May God A.
s;yhtg aoert c;y;a soar, bit y snhopp;.
y Il shall come, 20. m',y 1 think 'cos'd
doubt (donbtlcss] cosrt ne & "''"e Z
mine hosts Of OTHER friends standing
shoulder to shoulder ~ IT, 'anAs 'c'fA
you ant our other southern Jrtse.s,ls az ret
atires rhose rights like my o,o.s haze
been disrcyar,led by the Abolitionisss. -
love Iowa and Wisconsin for the hon
ors conferred by them on me, and be-
cause always served them faithfully
but will not make war with them
against the South whose rights they
shamcfully neglected. Nor will | ever
sanction any effort to coercc the South
to submit to the North in refer cncc to
question Slavery with which the
North has no right to interfere AMI that
too in palpablc violation Of the Con-
stitution Of my countryside treaty
with Francc-tho law , of God himself
and every principle Of justice, reason,
and experience Of the world. The his
tory OF the world shows that negroes
arc wholly unfit: ftsr' self government
that they arc Thousand times happier
in the United StStes and elsewhere
than when free in their own native
land. Even those who are freed in the
Unite,lssStates. and those stolen from
the South and run OF into the. North
and in Canada arc lin = worse cOmli
tion--as in this Republic aMi in the.
West I,mlies-t than when slaves. Il
was and is 90 with the slaves whom
took with me to the North, aud Paul
admitted to me that he never was 30
well fed or clothed or provided. for after
re got his freedom ~ he was whilst
he. was my slave. lie denounced the
Abolitionists who cheated him out of
his earnings, and he begged me and
my wife to let him return TO us, but we
would not because he sued me, though
I boat him in the case.
thank yon for your efforts. for my
son William, for your letter ard for the
Congressional Directory. May God
bless you, your family and your own
Sunny South which I will still hope and
pray shall be reunited to the cold
North. When you see them mako my
warm regards to all my Southern
friends and especially to Clay and his
father, Toombs, Mallory and their fam
ilics.
The dissolution of the Union will
probably be the cause Of my own ruin
as well as that of my country, and may
cause me and mine 10 go South.
Your friend sincerely and feryently,
Gro. w. JONES.
H,s Excellency Jefferson Davis, of
Mississippi, President, &C., at Mont
gomery, Alabama.