The weekly north Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1857-1867, 1863-12-09
Henry Winter Davis.

kAehEy "lntcE OoVlos
tits comfort to find a man with ths
c'urage Of his convictions, one who des-
piSes shufains and equvocation and dis.
guises, and tells what he thinks, what he
wishes, and what he is determined upon.
Such is WINTER DAVIS. He told his hear
ers that he was bred in the old Hamltonian
ideas, that he believes in them, and is \
partisan Of this administration because it
carries them out He thinks the United
States is a consolidated government that
state rights are state wrongs :" that the
lie of osr system is the absolute right OF
majorities; and that the rights OF mnori.
ties form its banc. He also believes that
VIII atever an administration feels the public
safety requires, it has not only the right to
do, but that dissent is a moral offense Of
the deepest dye. lie does not mince mat.
ters; h. does not let II dare not wait up
on would" but incarnates force. lie
consequently is careless about causes, and
only looks to results. He lashes suck
pseudo Democrats as JOHN CoCnRANE aud
LOGAN unsparingly, as part Of the causes
of the war. They talked abont the rights
Of the South, as if it could have rights
they assented to its claim of limitations to
the power of the government, as if lirnita.
tation Of power were practicabfties they
were spinning political cobwebs and binding
the Samson Of numbers with the green
withcs Of law; and now that the giant has
swept away these cobwcbs and burst these
green wi.hcs, their contempt for the cob.
webs and witbes does not save them from
the ridicule he heaps upon them He mocks
a, people who talk Of the Cons titution, or
Of any constitution and laughs at the idea
Of the Union as it was. He SAYS to the
Republicans: Fut away that miserable
pretense, which has deceived no one. Show
your colors; fight under your own flag
The South knows what you mean, and tho
cy is not to be argued into the hearts Of
the farmer, not into the intellect of the lat.
ter. You must strike at both with the same
power. You must conquer opposition
equally in all sections of the country. That
which has all rights is the government-
You can neither admit the rights Of indivi.
dual liberty, nor Of property, nor of law,
nor Of states. If you do either you are
lost, for revolution that looks backward
is a failure. You have started with prin-
ciple which must crush either others or
you. You have di>lodged the rock, and
you must roll it over. 1t has either to 60
forward or to go backward; if backward,
afford to lose power, for you have given to
power attributes and functions hitherto un-
known. You may have them applied to you,
if you do not continue to apply them to
others. We recognize the true ring in the
DAVIS mctal-the ring of MARIUs, of SyLLA,
Of CRoMwELL, and of BoNAPARTE. His
notion of propagating faith is that Of
MAHeMET. It is refreshing, after the mis-
cradle plattitudes about the Union and the
Constitution and the laws by the Repubi-
cans, to find one Of them who, like BREN-
Nus, haughtily throws the sword into the
scale. There is nothing of the petty filch-
er about DAVIS; he doesn't propose TO
waste time in dodging and watching an op.
portunity for snatching piece Of proper
~, but he puts the pistol to your breast
and bids you stand and deliver Your
liberty or your life, he says to man; yeur
rights or ysur destruction, to states.-N
Y. World.