The weekly north Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1857-1867, 1864-08-24

TOO BIG A FISH STORY

Fsom the N. Y. Com. Advertiser, q republican paper
We strenuously advise all loyal men o
substance to emigrant at once from this af
flicted and foredoomed land. The Who'll,
Republic, from st. Louis to Cape Cod, i.
I undermined and filled with powder. Mr.
Clement Vallandigbam sits like fiend sip
ping cobhlers with George Sanders, at the
| Clifton House, and if he fails to be nom
mated at Chicago, will quietly drop spark
| from his cigar on the train Of this terrific
subterranean battery, and blow US all int,
chaos and black night
This is no laughable matter. The pro
vost Marshal General of st. Louis, so the
truth telling telegraph informs US, has fer
re,cd out, in part, the secret which further
inquiry enables us thus horribly to com
ple;c. Were all onr information inaccurate
(which is of course impossib!e,) the revc.
lations of the telegraph would themselves
suffice to warrant the advice we have given
Fancy an "Order Of American Knights "
half million strong, armed and organized
and bent on bloody revolution OF course
none of those Williams will respond to the
next draft. That will drain the loya
States of an equal number Of reliable citi
zens, and so leave the field clear to these
conspirators. With Lee in our front, and
these half million in our rear, what hope
or refuge have we? Here in New York,
! says the telegraph, the conspirators call
themselves Mcclellan Minute men, and
number tUO hundred thousand men ~
This, after the draft, gives them an over
whelming majority in the State. They
will at once seize Wall street and it's banks
ho- Gan nixr ,.,,fl
impartial scorn, proclaim Fernando Wood
Dictator, make an alliance with Canada
an Dixie, and, marching madly upon Mas
SachuSettS, annihilate the last hope of free
dom Plainly it is the part Of wisdom tc
"skedaddlc" while there is yet time.
From the N; Y. Times, republican paper.
We shall require great deal more evi
dence than We have yet seen to become
convinced that the order Of American
Knights, is such formidable body Of trai
tors as some of our western contemporaries
represent. That there are thousands G.
men in nearly every loyal State who would
| readily join any secret organization calcu
lated to bring the war to n close, is certain
That there are politicians malignant and
desperate enough to engineer, il possible
such an organization into positive resist
, ance to the national government and overt
treason, is just as undeniable. But that
| all this has been actually going on, 70,
months, both through the West and tht
East, so that now the numeric strength o
the order is 'over half Million" embrac
ing many Of the leading men Of the party
| opposed to the administration, is utterly
| improbable. The Provost Marshal Gene
raj of the Department of Missouri, we dare
| say, is a very sharp fellow, but it dom
follow that every other loyal man is ar
| idiot
Likely enough he has "been taking testi
| mony for months,' but other peopl, have
not been all that time mapping We think
| and plenty Of eyes and ears beside his owt
| have been open, and that had this traitor
! Gus work been carried on to the extent re
presented, somebody else would have go
wind of it too. "Over a haf- a million o
| men, some Of them married doubtless
| are great many to Keep dead secret
| Flatly, we don't believe it.