The weekly north Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1857-1867, 1863-02-18

From TIE chicago Journal (ksbubueanI
The "Hhs IN in., the !.ss Ssssss' sreaE shs
The Chicago Tribune, in its editori.!
verbosity, says many things we don't read.
for want Of time and inclination. Cur
tastes don't 60 in the direction Of the gas.
eous, and our patience soon becomes ex.
hausted when reading nonsense. A friend
Of ours, who thinks, as we do, that the
Administration at Washington should at
this time receive the strongest possible sup
port from its professed friends, has called
our attention to number Of furious edito.
risls that have appeared in its columns
quite recently, assailing General Halleck,
Secretary Seward, and others Of the Ad.
ministration, in indecent terms, demanding
their removal, and splursing terribly, much
to the qualification, doubtless, Of the seces-
sion sympathizers, who have been reading
that paper regularly and carefully, since
this war commenced, in order to find new
arguments with which to prosecute their
crusade against the Government. They
have found them in abundance, for no pa
per in the West has done as much AZ the
| Tribune towards furnishing ammunition to
the "fre-in.the rear" Democratic politi-
clans. in their paper and lip war against
the Administration.
The Tribune style Of political wiseacres
and stay at. home warriors were the first to
set in motion the rcbel-aiding crusade
| against the Administration, which is now
eliminating in an open and defiant opposi-
| ton. They commenced their assaults upon
| the President while ali other men and par
ties in the loyal states were united in q
strong and vigorous support Of the Prcsi.
dents war policy and the crazy and wick
ed marplotS, in and out Of Congress, in
whose pay the Tribune is, having, by clam
er and pressure, under the hypocriticaf pre-.
tense Of speaking the sentiments Of the
masses Of the North, succeeded in bringing
our public affairs into q state Of confusion
that is fearful to think Of, they are aot
even yet satisfied with the awful mischief
they have wrought, but, to crafty their
personal hates and greedy ambition, seem
bound to "rule or ruin" what there is left
Of hope and stability in the Government
The war must be conducted according to
their narrow. factious notions, and they
~''l cct and slash and make "the confusion
worse ccnfoun,lsd' if it is not so conduct
ed.
We must confess cur lack Of faith in this
sort Of patriotism. We have heretofore
denounced and exposed this class Of mis-
chieycus politicians, ard have as yet seen
not the first particle Of reason for changing
our opinion Of them. They ere just as
bad, in effect, as are the Nalandirsham
tories. The latter could not exist for y
single day if the Tribuneitts were silent.
1t is the indiscreet and i'll timed clamor of
the big and little Irijuaes and their fol-
low crs that has furnished big and little
"Dcmocratic'' newspapers and politicians
Of the Times and Dick Mcrric,s style with
their pretcxts and their capital in trade
The TEibunes "agitate the tories re-
tort. The 1rijaaes vociieratc-and the
tories groan. The 1rt1uaes demand
and the tories resist and oppose. And so
these two clements Of discord. conducted
on both sides by small souled, corrupt an,i
unrrincipled politicians, have ''ag,ated"
and schemad and clamored and flied the
country with political din and iactious
turmoil, until now the Lord only knows:
whittier We are drifting! Our chief trusts
tha: the Lord is on our side-we have an
abiding confidence that he is-for if there
is no power higher than that Of the po,iti-
cal schemers, who have brought our coun.,
try to the very brink of ruin, and are doing.
their utm ost to make the work Of disaster
complete, to interpose in behalf Of our
cause, we don't know as this war would
ever end, or if it will ever end in anything
short of civil anarchy at the North as we'll
as in the success Of the South.
The Tribune pretends, has all along pre-
tended, to support the Administration in
the prosecution of the war. But it bell :.
and it has all along belied, its pretenson>..
1t all along has, and does now, pick at, dc
tate to, and clamor against the Admins
tration, as if the "Democratic' malco,.-
tents were not doing enough Of that SOFT
of thing. The democrats demand the
overthrow Of the entire Administration.
from the President down 10 the smallest
clerk in the Post Office, in erder that til y
may have all the good fat offices. IIas
7ribuneites demand the removal Of all
Cabinet officers who do not worship Wen
dell Phillips and believe in Greeky's divin
ity, in order that their hungry little faction
may get possession and control Of GN the
official loaves and fishes This is the Sc
,ret Of the whole matter. by this course
did they bring about Republican defeat at
| last falls elections. BY this course will they
help the rebels to destroy the Republic, it
they can.
Is it not mean, despicable-nay, treas on
ahe-for set Of greedy politicians to be-,
have themselves thus unseemly and
w,ckcdly in this time of national peril p
Do they possess any patriotic instincts or
manly henora Or have they become SO
brutalzed by excessive greed that they are,
insensible to aH personal! shame or national
pride? We pretend to no unusual quail
ties Of heart or soul, but with all honesty
and sincerity We can and do say, that un-
der the present circumstances Of the nation,
before STOPPING to such vile and distracting
tricks and Vaccinations of faction as those
in which these reckless politicians Of both.
extremes are exchanged, we would cut off
our right hand, or have some merciful
friend pAt bullet through our heart. This
is as zee feel, and we cannot, with the
hardest strain Of the imagination even, ap-
prcciate the spirit Of any American citizen
Of the North who feels otherwise.
AMENs.-Says DR.. Eddy, in the last