The weekly north Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1857-1867, 1862-11-26

Radicals W. the President.
IF there are unforti nate civil and politi
cal divisions in the loyal States, the Repub
cans must know that the fault is fully a,
much theirs as anybody's. Indeed it is, ",
think, principally theirs. Certainly in SOM
Of the States, the Democrats, SO called, pro
posed, in view of the elections, that they
and the Republicans should meet together
and, as means of preventing any division
Or contention, agree upon tickets, loya
tickets, to be supported by all alike. The
Republicans uncerenoniOuSly rejected the
proposition and resolved to keep up their
distinct organization in the conflict
Even the great exigency of war for the
quelling OF rebellion Of mighty mag
nltude was not enough to induce them
to forego the pursuit of the petty objects
of partisan or personal ambition. They
insisted on going to the polls as a party
and so as party they are beaten.
The Republicans must themselves see,
that, IN the management Of the affairs OF
the nation in the great crisis that has been
and is upon us, they have filled, signally
and utterly failed. They have no, met the
courtry's just expectation, or come up to
their own. And in their public conduct,
they have been getting worse and worse
With every new disappointment of their
hopes, they have thought only of r,sorting
to some new measure Of radicalism or ul.
tTaisu, as a remedy. They acknowledge
the necessity OF energy, declare that it
must be put forth, but, in practice and even
in theory, they direct all their energy
against the fundamental laws, inalicnable
rights, and the great Institutions of
the country. They mistake war upon
the Constitution and upon slavery as war
against the rebellion. Consequently their
vast strength is all expended in the wrong
direction. They cannot but see that the
country, if it were satisfied with their ad
ministHtion OF affairs after its experience
OF the last eighteen months, would b. gull.
ty of criminal weakness and folly.
The people want the constitution as it is,
the constitution unimpaired, and the Union
as it was the Union unbroken and I'M
changed, and they are resolved to have
both, be the cost what it may. They wiU
have both or perish in the effort to have
them. They have shown the South, by
the late elections, that it has nothing to
apprehend from the destructive spirit of
radicalis'n, and. having shown this, they
will, if the South still persist IN the REBEL
ion, throw into the war deeper, mightier,
und more terrible energy than was ever
exhibited by any country, not even reyo.
iutionary France excepted.
~, We have never doubted for an instant
and we do not doubt now the devoted pat
riotism OF The great Tass Of the Rcpubli.
cans, but, most unfortunately for them
selves and for the nation, they have given
themselves up in a measure to the udance
n ianatical and half crazy leaders, and
they behold the consequences in their own
overthrow and the miserably protracted
Strugg!es of our beloved country. Now let
them start up from the ground to which
they have been hurried, start up, not as
Republicans, not as radicals, but as reso-
lutte and high souled patriots, intent only
on rendering to their country the great ser.
vice that it needs in this awful crisis of its
destinies.
We trust that the President himself,
when ne shall have calmly looked around
him and reflected dispassionatcly up IN the
past. the present, and the future, will see
ample reason to rejoice that the late cleo
tons resulted as they did From the day
Va hiS Ah"a s-ui"l'ou VIC ANtpuoiiSaiIS nave
been pressing hard upon him to make him
act in many things against his own convic-
tons. They have pursued him with re-
lentless pertinacity. They have hourly re-
minded him that to them he was indebted
for his high office. They have given Meth
er his soul nor his body rest They have
prosecuted him. They have threatened
and tried to bully him. They have held
back in the furnishing Of materials for the
war in order to compel him into the adop-
ton Of their policy We all know that he
was induced to Issue his emancipation pro-
clanation in opposition to his own frequent.
Ky and forc:bly expressed views, and now
when be sees that it is denounced and con.
denned even by the foreign powers who's.
favor it was expected to win, we think ht
cannot but be glad that those, who almos
literally forced it upon him and have beer
bcsetting him and asserting control owe,
him, are sternly rcbnked by an aroused
people. Let him, as he can now most ca
silly do, reject their counsels. repudiate tn,
radical measures that under their pesti
lent influence he has sanctioned, and Civ
all the energies Of his honest mind and hi
nigh office to the prosecution Of quick
,harp war waged upon constitutional prin
ciples for the preservation Of the constitu
ton. and he will be nobly and cordial
sustained throughout the whole of The re
naming portion Of his administrations
Louisville Journal.