Sioux City register. [volume] (Sioux City, Iowa) 1858-1871, 1863-04-11
.i' VI
THURLOW WEED ON THE WEED.
'-'' 'ti MEN, pa. 77- ~,

'etteF, eai1eu OUT py ghe Insane ravlnge OF
Greeley over the result of the local elec-.
tiops in New York, and upon current
events and aspects. We make the fol.
lowing extracts
lie lGreeleyl finds the, people nowin
their own in 'own and city elections, repudi.
attins the issue he has ,fqrced. ,snd hs dis
appool'nitmnept ana rage. eadeayors to shirk
the responn;fi1ility,, . lBqpt te cannot dodge
eithher ih's Or more lppSore fearful eonsequenees.
EFe eslhonpg slhonpg tbqse who are berenved Of sons,
husbands. and brothers, will begin to ip,,
qiire who iaritfd the cotton States, to Sc
cede who told 'hem they had the right
TO withdraw from the Union? who stig.
matted ard ,aapted the border States I?
who intensified the rebellion and perverted,
th4e,wsr who connspiteS. With yallandipgr
ham twth0, when the lifss of ,he patton is
dependant upon rnien, deals forth ribald
oeih.un<siation against the Democratic par.
ty?, who, in the darkest hour Of the war,
tra'torilously, proeltaiimfesd that we must put
down the rebellion in sixty days or make
peace upon the best a;tanable terms?-
The day is coming, | repeat, when these
and other questions viii be sternly asked
of an editor who won the confdcpce and
betrayed ,bs welfare Of hundreds of thous.
ands Of readers. The day is coming when
an insolent journal will no, indulge lis
l'centious tongue or apply its indiscrini-
nate lash With impunityp when an editor
who intrisues secretly with . Foreign Min.
lister and a disroynl member Of Congress,
for peace upon The best a,taiaableo
terms may not shower bis foul accuga, ace =
tons upon Sf4er and and truer men when
those Who DO not wear the rlritune ST Stripe. i
and support Mr.. Greeley for Governor .
Senator and President, will not be aniAthe'.
ma.ized 10 its columns and above all,
when a frantic dazed, mudale headed as :
pitant for office may NOT srrogan,ly lee
.uss the President, defame his Cabinet,
instruct Congress, depose Generals and
assume to command,
, Happily. the public mind is reac.ing. A
healthier tone is discernable. Ultraism
subsidies. Neither opdyke, nor Field, nor
Greeley thrust their abolitiopism upon the
meeting at the Cooper Institute on Friday
evening. The resolutions and the speech
es were patriotic and sensible. :, Let this
spirit be diifused among the people let
us heur less Of epithet and denunci a,ion,
and we may hope for return Of that
union and devotion to the government
which, during the first year OF the'rebel.
lion, sent half ambition of geilan. men, Il
irrespective Of party. to the heid,. Ale re.i
mains Of one.third Of whom are now fer. 4.
tilizng the soil they sought to rescue from
rebellion. But if, Tor not wearing AL abo.
litiop livery, men are to be ipdiscgiminate.
ly stigmatized as "Copperheads,' we are
hopelessly divided, and our country ire,
triveably lost. ia ,.n,,
Congress has arued the government
with all the powers that its exigeucies re-
quired. The Administration 10 clothed
with extraordinary financial and military
authority. he Federal Government is
now its own banker, and it's armies are to-
be levied independent OF State agencies.
In the first year of the war our young
men men rushed voluntarily to the field, and
our banks as voluntarily supplied the Gov.
eminent with ways and means. Mark The
change, aud read not .fls lesson it teaches
caretessly. .Onerous ksws can only be car.
rIed into effect with the con sent Of the
governed" Sincs the Congress was cho:
sen BY wtiolr the tcenscrlptions la~ was,
enacted, there HAS been a pstisical revolu>
ton in four of the LARGEST States id the
unnsoQn. There are, CAUSES for such rs@c-
tion et Let those who are responsible ;fpr
the country. welfare seek and nd profit ~
'nnS''''iI ad4 81, heu,d =, hs5tsdx 10 rnn
lh4e ~, fYprpuIlsory laws laws, Of n, last Con.
gress, ii beueiicialIy executed, must have
the concurrence ofthe pdpuletb tb~ill. .rl'he
phbiico sentiment must Improve tsem.1o
This approves cannot be obtaited byor+Jy'
scriptnh ana 'dsnanciatong Half n NH.
lion Of men will not asain"t' 20 to their
srayffss ike sbedA'n Under the II threats eats of
poltiGg hyqpAs whe rsmqpin mpqi a' home howl
ing This, y. the NAY, IL . aepocuIari'y Of
abolition fanntieisn-. The zone idea
n',m" do their utmost to assrsvats the
horrors Of war, but take precious care iio,
to expose their own acravcn eafcnses. L. J
They are tonnd, net wIh the " grappliug
viror, and rough froNn Of war; Bit IL In
ltt rure' trooihs,r r1f66 rbs,raiasc ana deyht6F
rial, chsdrs, bab5 5has aBbas ~ re srJ fed:sf
mehss," "Hhat onfy etdve iih ilahh ssNdGG,r =