The weekly north Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1857-1867, 1864-02-10

our mind the question of restoring the Gov
ernnent 10 its late standard of Constitu
tional right, and the States to their regula
orbits in the plane Of that Union establish
ed by the Heroes and Statesmen whose
names the ''loyal' affect to venerate, ha
long been settled. Nocffort has been mad
to restore the Union proper, unless tn
slaughter Of hundreds of thousands of GU
fellow citizens, and the expenditure o
thousands Of millions Of dollars in endeav
oring to hold our mere territorial heritag
intact may be called restoration or prescr
walton. But when we, in common will
the democratic party Of the North, tell tn
pretended patriots, who in an evil hour hav,
been intrustcd with the authority to direc
public affairs, that the ambitious and selfish
idea Of land.aggra rdizement for the prop
asation Of opinions Matched in the school.
of New England and nurtured by the per
sistent aid Of our worst national enemy
the British Government-are the real mo
tives of their political schcmers, and mon
ey-making the highest actuating rul,
Of many OF their intensely loyal profes
sors, the orators and presses in the inter
est Of "God and Humanity" roll up thei,
visual organs in Pharisaical affectation and
call on the world to witness how desperate
ly wicked and disloyal are Ill men who dc
not indorsc the crudities, not to say follies
or crimes, of the most successful Constitu
'cn.destroycrs ever invested with power
We do not mention this complainingly
but historically rather. While men profes.
sing to be imbucd with hatred of officia
assumption bow down in ahject awe of those
who, by popular voices, were elevated tenn.
pora.ily to the position Of managers of our
public affairs, and while majority of our
countrymcn seem to be tickled with the
subscrvient position which they occupy
while, in the language of the il!ustrious
Col. FoRNFY, Prince Of toadies and trim
mers, the American people feel compelled to
prove their loyalty by public boast that
they ",cear the honorable LIVERY Of the
President" We are in no humor to argue
with them, even if our capacity were sufii.
cient to justify hope Of their conversion.
Regarding ourselves as too light in calibre
to succeed in contest with the political
wind-mills Of our acquaintance, who wor-
ship Government officials for the partzan
and sectional hates such worship enables
them to crafty, and, what is equally i'm,
portant, the money it puts IN their purses
as the price Of fawning, we prefer to let
them float their shallops in that sea of ad-
ulation on which they have embarked and
run the chances Of seeing them in few
years converted to that old and once. hon.
ored, but now almost obsolete maxim that
Governments instituted among men dc.
rive their just powers from the consent Of
the governed" rather than from the dicta
of a military chieftain or the manipulations
of an adroit Secretary of the Treasury.
We hope our country,nen have been too
thoroughly indoctrina,ed with the p,inci
PIES Of the saints of &c to forget forever
the inestimable glories which hallow the
able and unanswerable declaration of rights
which distinguished the initial proceedings
of cur Great Revolution, and marked the
era that made our once-revcred Constitu-
ton. Time and Experience-the last in.
calculable in cost and bitterness-may cure
them, but argument just now is thrown
away. We could recite instances of per-
sonal knowledge near home-particularly
since the last call for troops-which 60 to
show that even now change is coming
over the spirit Of some dreams, but lately
so pleasant to our opponents, and these
changes give us hope that, if let alone, the
good sense of the masses will in time resume
healthy action, and will be as sound as it
is possible to be after the present raid of
fanatics and charlatans has well.nigh des-
stroyed all that was once deemed worth
having.
We cannot get back what is lost in life
and in property, but our hope is strong
that the American people will soon return
to the old guide Of principle as established
by our Fathers, and drive from position
the barpies, who are, by their own tsstimo-
ny, iattening on the blood Of our country
men. The destroyer Of Constitutional
Liberty, whether South or North, is equal
ly detestable-thc guerrilla and cut throat
of either section-the robber Of Jennison
band or Of Morgan rcgiment-the hated
disscminator Of Treason whetherthc resides
South or North Of the Potomac, is Of equal
value in the estimation Of men who have
been educated to regard our Constitution,
the Laws growing out Of it, and the decis-
ions Of our Courts as the only safeguards OF
the citizen. Small dealers in the political
bazaar call these sentiments Ceppery,-
and those who insist on an actual restora.
ton of this Union, "Copperheads," but
such writers are OF to blame for resorting
like the little spotted cat of the hedges, to
their only means Of defence. They are
paid for their labor and it is their duty to
do the best they can for their employers
while in service. Where q paucity oil
brains forbids the elaboration Of argument
or facile spine enables them to bend frox
one position to another after the manner O
q gymnast, it is not proper to hold then
accountable for the use of epithcts. Wha
other weapon has mental yaeuity to defenC