The weekly north Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1857-1867, 1863-09-09

Pretty High.
Gen. LOGAN Of H., a gentleman who was
almost proven to have aided, in Egypt" in
getting up recruits for Davis, has radicaliz.
ed on the other extreme and now out. Her.
dds Herod in adulation Of the President
He is so jealous now for government"
which he but recently assisted to destroy
that he gets off the following fine passage
"Beforc would see this war stop until
the Government is restored to all its former
power and supremacy, would rather see
the graves of ourselves, our sons and our
brothers mountains high. would rather
see carcasses sufficient enough to make
| bridges across the widest streams, before
this war should stop, until the true
| soldier Of the Union could we've his sabre
| in his strong right hand and cleave the
head from every traitor in the land.
All very well perhaps, for one who ours
ed Douglas for the Conservatism" of his
last speeches, to make great noise in
proof Of his conversion to the government
faith, but men who do not suspect them
selves of double. dealing seldom rant much
in expressing opinions. Santa Anna
died several thousand deaf in Mexico
before Scott drove him to Cuba, and brag-
CARTS are daily telling what torments they
wouldsubmit to for this Unicn, but we doubt
the windy professions Of all such fire. eaters
of whatever section. The Government of the
United States is the noblest on Earth and
the Union is its greatest shield, but all who
think at all must know that each State
Government was Republic prior to this
war and the severance Of the Union even
would not destroy the principles which
underlie our institutions. The States ex.
listed before the Union, and if political light
ming should have riven them assunder
years ago it would not necessarily have
destroyed the basis of equality in rights
which is the ground work of our theory Of
government. Such an event would have
been deplorable then as it would be now,
because there would be danger Of our laps
ing into tyranny which is now almost
foreshadowed; but much as we desire to
see the old family Of States again zone and
indivisible' we are not ready to appreciate
the beauty of seeing "mountains" of sour.
seloes'', our sons and our brothers in ghast.
ly corses, nor are we convinced of the policy
of "bridging our widest streams with the
carcasses" of our people to secure politi-
cal convenience which leaders of-the, pre-
sent Administration have been doing their
best for years to render contemplate
The General has an Indian name of very
great historic celebrity, but we do not believe
Mr.. Jefferson, if he were living, could find
as many gems of poetic eloqusnce in. the
speech Of Logan of illinois, as ,he.liSsn
the address of Logan the Mingo Chm"
The Apostle of Liberty might smile tri-
fle in reading the modern Logan's stretch
Of fancy where he proposes, in the quota
ton, to "see the graves Of ourseloes'' but
the oddly of the sentence would lead him
to judge thai tbe Suck slNtor had drawn
more extensively from the genius of the
Denny brook piper than from that Of Phil
lips, Curran, Plunkett, or the other great
men whose talents have made Ireland I'M
mortal.
The more yelling and stamping one now
does the greater he is charged with. ardor
for the Union, but there is vein of sense
running through the public mind that tells
the commonest Of thinkers that the loudest
professors n fsoyaitY- and patriorsstn are-
those, who, like the claquers at French
theatre, or the mourners at Chinese fune-
raj, get the largest share of the pay. The
Union is a.holy institution and it should
neither have been ridiculed by Abolitionists
nor severed by secessionsts but it is only
valuable as it secures the blessings of Lib
erty: when it fails of this great end it be.
comes destructive of the design of all free
government and is no longer worthy of our
worship. Let but the ideas prevail and be
engratted on our system that the President
can do no wrong--that differing from those
in authority is worthy of insult, imprison.
ment and death, and what have we left
but the shadow of what we are now con-
tending for?
Query.