The weekly north Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1857-1867, 1864-04-13
McGREGoR, April 18th.

McGREGoR, April 11th.
EDS. TINES The following communi-
cation was handed to Mr.. Tenney, of the
Neacs, for publication. Upon locking i!
over he expressed doubts as to its propriety
and declined, at present, to insert it. If
your space will permit, will you oblige me
by its insertion in the TINES?
THE WRITER.
EDITOR McGREGon News:
The undersigned finds himself not alone
in being made sick with the fulsome, con.
tinued bowling and screeching in favor of
Mr.. Lincoln's reelection to the Presidency,
and as there seems to be no prospect of an
end to this 'unseemlv clamor it is believed
few candid questions submitted to these
would-be leaders and opponents of public
opinion may have a salutary influence in
awakening in their minds some little degree
of reason and common sense. Therefore,
with your permission be would submit:
Question LIST. Why shall the Republican
party abandon that principle or position
which many hoped to see proposed during
the present session of Congress as an
amendment to be adopted to the Consttu-
ton, to wit "ONLY ONE TERM OF THE PREs1-
DENcy TO ONE MANI" The reply to this
question is anticipated. You say, Oh, Mr..
Lincoln has not had a fair chance; he has
bod a u.r ar, b;c hands
The rejoinder is this: So much the
worse. Mr.. Lincoln was fully appraised
before he entered upon the duties of the
station, of the kind of work he would have
to perform and pledged himself to speedily
do that work, prouided the men and means
were not withheld from him. Now the
men and means were not withheld, but fur
nished in excess and rejected, and if Mr..
L. has failed to redeem the pledge thus
given, it has not been from any want Of
hacking in men or means; both have been
furnished with an alacrity such as the his
tory of the world, in either ancient or mod
ern times, affords no parallel, and hence the
following question: .aal
I'd. Is it proper or right to give Mr.. Lin
coin four gears more to spend, in expert
menting with the lives Of our fathers,
brothers and sons who have gone forth to
fight the battles of their country he vainly
hoping the while that the "Rebellion will
Play out" .,5n
Sd. What has Mr.. Lincoln done that he
should be re.instated in the chair of State
Again the answer is anticipated. You
say, "has he not issued bis Proclamation
/ Of Freedom and stood firmly by it!" OF
course he has, but whose thunder is this
you are pounding our ears with Is it Mr..
Lincoln's, or is it Gen. Fremont's?
9Th. Has not Mr.. Lincoln given unmis-
taxable evidence that he failed to compre-
bend the character and magnitude of the
work required at his hands in putting down
the rebellion?
9Th. Has not Mr.. Lincoln labored under
the vain hallucination that rebels in arms
could be induced to return to loyalty by
means other tl.an a thorough whipping, and
does he not still cling to this phantasy?
9th. Has not what good has come from
Mr.. Lincoln been forced from him as you
would extract q sound tooth from the jaws
Of a strong man?
| 7th. Has not Mr. Lincoln relieved Gen
erals from service in the army for conduc
/ which the people very uniformly approved
Off And has he not persistently kept mer
in high places whose conduct was con
demned by every unconditional Union mer
in the country, and above all does he no
now persist in retaining man as his prin
cipal military adviser who is great eye
sore to the great majority Of thorough,
loyal men?
A REPUBLICAN.