The weekly north Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1857-1867, 1864-01-13

NcGREGOR, JAN. 10. :::: 1864.
Z what Of the Night.
We pretend To no phropetic gifts. It is
difficult to form an opinion unobjectionablc
to ourselves, even when the facts from
which II may be deducible are all before us.
We have predicted some-ycars ago, how
ever, and before fire eating and fanaticism
had cultivated their respective sections to a
hatred which nothing short Of extermina.
t,on will crafty. Our predictions as to
results in case Of civil war were simply
those Of Douglas and his supporters Of
1860. Many of these predictions have ar
rived and the others are on the way, ac-
comranied, We fear, by worse passengers
Of evil than former confidence in the good
sense of our countrYmen permitted rs to
imagine. We used to read the warnings Of
Washington and jackson; the cloquence
of Henry and Madison and Clay; the ad-
vice of jefferson, as 6ne writing and very
appropriate from those who stood long q:
the head c. puao,,ic affairs, we'll posted in
the rise and fall Of nations and all that, but
there were none who ever imagined that,
in three years from the precipitation of that
sectional conflict which their patriot coun.
and its Constitution would become the play.
thing of political empires and the jest Of
all Anti-Republican governments on earth.
When Presidential Proclamatons take the
form Of LAW, and Provost Marshal's or
ders are superior to the decisions of our
Courts, we may well inquire: "Where is
that written Instrument and the Civil in
situations growing out of it, which it was
our wont to boast stood like beautiful GASES
in the great desert Of European and Asatic
despotism?' But our fellow citizens do
Lot see it in the light we do and we care
not to disturb them in the dream which
they so tenaciously insist on regarding as
the reflex of one Of the brightest pages of
History, and, in its effect, the most ennob-
ling which can engage the attention of
mankind 1.-THE world moves" is favor.
tic expression Of those who are enraptured
with the crumbling Of the edificc built by
our fathers and the prospective construc-
ton of one more in consonance with the
laws Of God and Humanity" The world
does move, and this particular portion Of It
is moving very rapidly, but whether away
from the Niagara, which cngulphed Rome
and Greece and other great republican ma
tionalit;es or towards this mighty cataract
Of Ruin, we leave to the observation of
those who stop to reflect. Not to be face
tious on SO serious subject (though all our
people. are laughing) we may say as the
Irishmsn did when told the ship was sink.
ing, "Fhat the divil do carey I've paid
my passage' Our passage is paid through
to the last station and for good or i'll we
design hanging on to the willows till the
waters subside or one mighty wave buries
our idolized Government in oblivion.
But "What Of the nigh? What's ahead
In the language of tie fell W who was at
tending cheap exhibition, but who was
thrown BY the accidental explosion Of key
of gunpowder, into the chimney of an ad.
joining building: What the meet perform
ance?' Well, we don't know what it will
be. Congress is again in session; halfa.
dozen corruption committees are appointed
to ferret out the smallest thieves and gal
vanize the greatest. The draft will proba-
bly, be postponed till March; the Govern.
ment wants one million 90 day volunteers
to take Richmond instanter, under the lead
of Grant; no exchange of prisoners will be
agreed to by Gen. Butler unless colors are
identical and hence the demand for this
small army to rescue our dying friends in
Libby and in Castle Thunder; the rccog-
milton of negro inferiority to save our suf.
fer:ng prisoners or to avoid the raising of
this Xerxes-likc army Of white laborers of
the North, will not do at ALL We have
gone too far for that and General B. never
looks back.
Senator Wilson Of Massachusetts, offered
a resolution to cxpcl Senator Davis, of Ken
lucky, for hoping that the people would
rise at the polls and take the government
into their own hands. Wilson distorted
Davis remark or resolution and pronounc-
ed it reasonable, and hence the expulsion
o. the latter was demanded. 1t is probable
that law will be passed forbidding the
employment of substitutes among those
liable to draft. In other words the object
is to hold every American subject to draft
If not this month or this year, next month
or next year. None but aliens can be EN-.
ployed as substitutes if this bill passes and
hence soery american will have chance
in the great Lottery till the Southern States
are subjugated, their country occupied by
loyal men and slavery broken up root and
branch. In the mean time all propositions
for peace, for settlement Of this trouble
were recently cut off by resolution of the
House condemning "aH negotiation"-no
matter of what character or what objects.
With these pictures before them the
Northern men need not be jealous Of those
who first draw prizes from the wheel of the
Provost. All will get one, ia time. The
plan Of sutjugation and ,efusal to listen to
any proposition-evcn one of return to
the Union-must necessitate call for all
the able bodied men of the North and the
sooner they make up their minds to this