The Iowa transcript. (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1858-1866, 1863-01-22


from the slumbcrs in which we have
lain since the last Presidential election.
We;know the cry, soon after that cleo
ton, and at the commencement of hos
tilities was sent forth and universally
acqniesccd in, especially by Rcpub1i-
cans, to bury political differences and
present united font against the mon
stc- rebellion.
It is now sufficiently demonstrated
that this cry was Of Democratic paren.
tage for the express purpose Of luling
Republican ambition, caution and ac-
tivity INTO an incautious rcpose so that
by their Wiley arts they could place
themselves eventually into national
power, iy first carrying county and
State elections, and then turn and say
that these are evidences beyond all
contradiction, that the administration
is unpopular and carrying out its mea-
sures against the known and expressed
wishes Of majority of the people
Has such not already been the case :?
In Illinois, proud, Wanting Illinois, the
people were induced, in the strong Re-
publican districts, to discard party in
voting for delegates to frame new
constitution, and what was the result
The Democracy had 4 majority, and
made constitution So strongly odious
and Democratic, that the people reiec.
ted it at once. And this is always the
manner of doing business with the
Democracy. They will promise golden
haryesfs and lovely fruits as the result
Of their labors, but when the time
comes for the development Of these
things, they are found 10 be sickly,
blasted and barren.
The elections of last fall in the east
~ere also more or less, the result Of
this quiet aud reposing spirit Of Repub.
Leans and no sooner were they over
than the cry was raised at once, that
the administration was unpopular and
not endorsed BY the people. Many, very
many believe to this day that that was
the only inference to be drawn from
these elections, but we are convinced
that they were more the result OF mac.
'ivity on the part Of Republicans than
anything else.
Now it is well established fact, that
the Democracy, rs led by Valandigham
Mahony, Cox, John Van Buren, and
the Woods-and they arc the real lea
ders-are not only opposed to Rcpub.
licans, but to almost every act Of the
administration. 1t is their business
and study to descry the administration
70 that they can be successful in the next
Presidential election. They are not
laboring to have the war closed. This
il not their object nor desires. They
in fact are determined to prolong it
through the present administration for
two reasons First they intend to
make it hobby horse upon which
TO elect their next candidate for Presi-
dent and maj ority Of their ki,h and
kin to Congress Second that when
once in power they will make sufficient
concessions to the South, by giving
them Of course nearly all they ask, to
induce them to come back into the
Union, and then they think as a party,
they will be enable to forever command
the influence and helps Of the South, in
retaining them in power, in after years.
These are the motives that now
nctuate them and there is no Disgusting
them.
Iftlis is not true why do they con
stantly find fault with the Presidents
emancipation PROCLAMATION, the admis-
sion of Western Virginia, the imprison.
mont Of traitors, and numerous other
acts Of the administration?
We say to Republicans that we have
been dupcd by this cry Of mo more
party" and the result now is, that the
administration is effected, its influence
is not rs great at home or abroad as if
we had kept up our organizations. Let
lis then 60 10 work and for the sake of
our country be political patriots of the
right stripe, and not quietly slumber on
and let the Democracy impair the ad-
ministration, retard the progress Of the
war until they elect the next President,
and then settle our difficulties and for
ever boast of it, as they intend to do.
The Supreme Court of Wisconsin has
decided that the act Of 1861, suspend.
ing civil proceedings, against volunteers
ID unconstitutional