The weekly north Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1857-1867, 1864-09-28
NO. g. McGREGOR IOWA, WEDNESDAY, SEPT 2o, 1864
John wentworth.

People sometimes forget what their "lead-
ers'' told them in the past. AS reminder
we publish to. day some Of the rawlings Of
Long John in the Autumn Of 1860. If
his rant was sound patriot SIN or prophecy,
then it is advisable to send him to Con-
gress now. just keep on electing such
braggarts and demagogues and our country
will soon be in such condition that it will
not be worth saving:
From the Chicago Democrat, Nov. s, 1860.
The election is over and Lincoln is elect
ed, by larger majority of the popular vote
than was anticipated, and by the electoral
vote Of every free State.
Thus not only has the consummation
years proclaimed as the inevitable prelude
to disunion been attained, but the job has
been done 50 effectually, completely and
emphatically, as to leave no doubt that the
free people Of the North meant they should
be understood. When eighteen millions Of
freemen speak as they spoke on Tuesday,
they make noise that even the most stupid
secessionists cannot fail to hear
Thus the people of the free North say to
the slave oligarchy, "We can endure your
insolence, suffer your tyranny, bear with
your assumption, no longer! We have
listened to your threats, as insulting as
they were cowardly, of what you would do
| if we dared to carry out our convictions of
| right, at the ballot box, and elect a man
who would not bow the knee to you, and
who would place your accursed institution
of slavery where the public mind would
rest in the belief that it would become f.
nally extinct.
| "You have sworn that if we dared to
elect such man you would dissolve the
| Union. We have elected him, and now We
want you to try your little game of seces.
sion. Do it, if you dare! SO long as you
remain in the Union. peaceably and decent
ly, you shall enjoy your constitutional
rights. But every man Of you who at
prize so dearly, will be hung as high as
| Haman. We will have no fooling abou,
the matter! By THE ETERNAL THE UNION
MUST BE PRESERVED !"
| Such is the lecture read By the people o
the North to their Southern brethren on
Tuesday. And now what will the chival
ry do about?
Viii. they eat dirt? Will they take back
all they have said about disunion, South
ern coniederacy, the rights Of the South,
the blood Of our enemies, and all that SORT
.Eof thing? What will the Yanceys, the
iRhetts, the Keiths, the jeff. Davises, and
'all that noble army Of traitors do? Tc
what dodge will Wise, the doughty cham.
Ipion of the Hay Stack war, resort, in order
to cover his ingloriouS retreat? Where is
the army with which he was to march on
/ Washington, and seize the Federal city
The chivalry aoiU eat dirt. They will
back out. They never had any spunk any.
how. The best they could do was to bully
| and brag and buster. John Brown and his
wse g sn wsas snSSsh q ashs sns
| out of its propriety, and to hold it as a
eor,uered province until recaptured by the
fed,ral troops, and to this day John Browns
phost,s more terrible than an army with
banners. in the eyes Of every Southern cav
aher.) These knights of the Sunny South
are i,st such heres as Sancho Panza was.
They are wonderful hands at Dragging and
telling ,antastica lies, but when it comes
to action, countthem out
As if to add,he last cap-stone to this alb
surdity Of disanion buster, the telegraph
Yesterday br,usht US the news that the
Legislature O Slulh Carolina on Tuesday
elected her Ptsilen,ial electors, and that
they had concluded to postpone arming the
State Until they hal asc,rtaIned that LIN
coin was really Jeced! Poor devils The
smallest kind ola iaot hole will be suffici
ent for them toc craY through now.