The weekly north Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1857-1867, 1864-10-12

From the Frcport Bulletin. !
- The Republican speakers and editors
falsely charge that the Democratic party is in
favor of disunion-of vie ding the contest to
the rebels. We say falsely, because they know
that two Democratic party, throughout its
whole history, has been the devoted friend of
the Union, not only when it was assailed by
Calhoun and his dcluded followers in 1892, but
when attacked by the more deluded followers
of jeff Davis and his associates in inquty.
They know that the Democratic party will
never consent to peace which is not based on
the integrity Of the Union and full recogni-
ton of the authority of the Constitution and
laws OF the United States. But how is it with
the Republican leaders Take Horace Gree
ley, for instance, who has been the head and
front Of the Republican party ever since its Or
ganization, and who now heads the Republican
Electoral Ticket in New York. He said, on
the Goth OF November, 1860: f..
IF the cotton States unitedly and earnestly
wish to withdraw peacefully from the Union,
we think they should and would be allowed to
do SO. Any attempt to compel them by force
to remain would be contrary to the principles
enunciated in the immortal Declaration Of In
dependence, and contrary to the fundamental
ideas on which human liberty is based"
On the 18th of December following, while
South Carolina was in the very act Of seeding,
Mr.. Greeley declared:
Gift (he Declaration of Independence jus.
tilted the secession from the British Empire of
three millions Of cOlonists in l776, we do not
see why it would not justify the secession Of
five millions of Southerners from the Union Of
1867
On the 23d Of February, 1861, after seven
States had already seeded, Mr.. Greeley said :
whenever it shall become clear
that the great body of the Southern people
have become conclusiyely aienated from the
Union, and anxious to escape from it, we will
do our best to forward their views!'
Greeley defn ed his position very clearly at
"If the cotton States shall become satisfied
that they can do better out OF the Union than
in it, WE INSIST ON LETTING THEM
GO IN PEACE!"
But if evidence of the falsity OF the charge
these men prefer against the Democr. tic party
il desired, we submit the following fro,l the
speech of Conway, of Kansas, a radical Repu.h-
lican, delivered in Congress on the 9th OF
January, 1869. He said !;
"The Democra IS will not, of course, listen to
separation for an instant. Such suggestion
in their eyes now, is treason, proposition to
dissolve the Union, for which one ought to be
hanged.
They expect the question whether the Union
shall be restored by force Or compromise to be
submitted to the people in the next election,
and upon that to carry the country. Their plan
is to oppose the administration simply on its
antislavery policy. They put in issue the COW
fiscation act, the Missouri emancipation act,
and the proclamation Of emancipation. These
measures they pronounce unconstitutional. deny
their validity. and everything done or to be
done in pursuance Of them. In addition to
this they attack the administration on account
Of its suspension of the writ Of haJeas corpus,
false Imprisonment, imbecilty, DC, and a thou
sand other incidents. But on the war and the
integrity of the Union they are like adamant
itself. They claim to favor the war for the
sake Of the Union, but to be for compromise
rather than war. They say very truthfully that
the Republicans have tried force for two years,
and exhausted the country, and upJn this claim |
the adoption of their method all that is left |
to be done.'