The weekly north Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1857-1867, 1864-10-26

platform than one against the asoemblT0
catechism, 40 q condition Of voting il Ten
nessee. It is to disfranchise every demo-
cratic voter in the state.
ut is isimpossible to say one word in justi-
hcation, or even in palliation Of such acts.
II they are mere blunders, they are Of the
sort that are in effect worse than crimes
A great fault of Mr.. Lincoln has been that
he has trusted too much to the discretion Of
subordinates, and has then generously
taken upon his own Aroad shoulders ths
burden of their errors. But there ID danNs
that he may in this way take on . larger
load than he can stand under, and from
motives both OF justice and sound policy
be should hasten to correct these last add
most extraordinary mistakes Of Gen. WAL
lace and Gov. johnson. A weeks dis
cussion Of them viii damage the republican
cause moro than al the stump speeches and
campaign documents can help It between
this and November"
The New York Commercial Advertiser.
after citing these just remarks of the Spriag.
field Republican, adds:
"Mr. Lincoln has already virtually ap-
proved the outrage in Marylsn BY refusing
to see the newspaper proprietor who caune
to him with letter from Senator Reverdy
johnson, and he lacks the courage, even II
he had the disposition, to repndiate the con-
duct OF his associate on the ticket, and 20,
unfoose the fettered ballot in Tennessee
The unscrupulous dishonesty Of party and
politicians is such that any advantage, no
matter how much in violation Of law and
sound policy, is made to seen, entirely JUST.
M riu
mlsdecds, and the sooner they arc repudi.
ated the better for it and the country.-
They are feeble but significant limitations
Of the established despotisms Of Europe,
and offer as little prospect of free election
as that by which the present French EN-
peror reached his throne" q = Ais-sC = ~,
And now we ask all di.passionate citisens
what they must think OF an administration
which tolerates such abuses Of arbitrary power
abuses manifest, fragrant, and reiterated? Il
IL hoped by such means to cOnciliate the sup.
port OF wise and good men who respect them.
slves and venerate the constitution of their
country2 Or can the republican party. 40 g
present constituted, be the proper home for
such men, when, with here aid there an hon.
orable exception, no man Is found in its ranks
courageous enough to lift his voice in amin.
adversion on such abuses and assumptions Of
powerf AS we have before taken occasion 70
remark there is among the presidents support.
ers no public sentiment which has sought TO 70.
strain him within the limits of the constitution
and the laws. Every transgression he has made
beyond those bounds has been excused, palliated
where it has not been encouraged and defend.
ed by his retainers, until at last generals in our
armies do not scruple to 60 before an intelli-
gent audience in Boston and openly hold the
following slavish language. We quote from
some remarks made at a republican meeting
in that city on Monday last by Brig Gen. Til.
ton He said .
81 don's want any peace except on such
terms as Abraham Lincoln will make-I won't
say under the constitution, but under such
terms as he chooses to make, for don't know
where the constitution is ... ...rfs.r-1 g
Well may Gen Tilton say, in view of the
authorized by the present admin.
that he ''docs not know where the
is" 1t certainly is not Installed
IN much authority among us. At the south il
is trampled under foot by an armed sediton
1t the north it is so cast out out as an effete
and worthless thing that a derisive reference
to its dis ppearance is received with "cheeras
~ men in Boston calling themselves "loyal."
There is much food Tor thought and for peo.
|ound solicitude in such declarations-hs out.
growth Of only three years Of military rule
ander the forms of . republican government.