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

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apaper protesting politics, It may be e,
pected that our columns should be loade
i with appeals, in italics, SHALL CAPITALS an
LARGE CAPITALS, to our countryme
To RALLY! To "vote early and often.
To "watch the corruptions of the enemy,
and do sundry other things which rnemor,
just now will not permit US to recall. W.
are not unintercsted observers of events
We kno'o that our Country, in 1860, the,
in the hands of the Democratic party
where it had been with very few exception.
since it's political birth-from position tn,
proudest on earth, has fallen to degraded
place in the eyes Of all cotemporaneou.
nations. We all feel this and feel it SEN
sibly. 1t is visible in the contemptuous
sneers Of trans atlantic journals against the
doctrine Of Self Government. 1t is visible
in the establishment Of an Empire in the
late Mexican Republic It is visible in our
weakness on the ocean-in the depletion oil
our population by battle and disease to the
amount Of four millions of men-in the
devastation Of one-half Of our late happy
Union-in the manned walk of our return
ed soldiers-in the mourning widows and
weeds that becloud our streets-in the
naked feet of innocent children whose
fathers have fallen in battle-in tho multi.
tude of government agents who swarm each
locality, demanding LIFE Of one half OUT
people to retain them in Office, and BREAD
from the labor Of those whose age or mfr
nifty permits them at present to remain at
home. But why detail All who have
eyes see this, and in our opinion all who
have hearts should exert themselves to re-
verse the engine which is carrying US still
farther toward Ruin. o."
The Constitution Is nov but "piece Of
dead sheepskin." The liberty of Inc citizen
depends, not upon his conduct before the
law, but upon tis opinions of the Admins
tration policy with regard to emancipation,
con6scation and sutjugation. The best
men in the world in private life, and the
best men in the world politically, are de-
nounced by official upstairs as TRAITORS to
the country" and some excellent men,
socially, are pleased to indorse such
language as properly applicable to their
most tried friends and neighbors, and to
affiliate in opinion with hired travelling
mountebanks who seek to derive living
from the distresses of the deceived.
Tho time for argument has passed
Action, strong and determined, is now re-
quired. The reader of this has the same
interest in restoring the government to its
ancient place among nations, and in recov.
efing that civil liberty and right of opinion
which as individuals were once our boast,
as we have. The blow that levels the lib
erty OF Democrat, also destroys the free.
dom of Republican. With LAW we
have LIBERTY. With Law over.ridden, and
Constitution ignored, We have the will Of
One Man as our shield Of safety, and what
is this but despotism. a.a
To show, in language unexcelled in truth
and force, how free people ought to feel
when usurpers are clanking chains around
them, we quote below from one of the let
ters Of "JuN1us," an English writer Of
ITO, whose real name is not yet and prob
ably never will be known. He was friend
to his country not for Fame He sought
no applause, but his pen shook the occupant
Of the British Throne, and his language of
purity in style and patriotism in express
ion, will be guide to the scholar and tho
friend Of liberty while governments exist
among men. See how the extract FORE
shadows our situation, and be manly enough
to heed the warning: g...
1.-The ministry tell us plainly, that this is
no longer a question of right, but of power
and force alone. What was law yestc, day
is not law to-day: and now, it seems, we
have no letter rule to live by, than the
temporary discretion and fuctuating integ
rity of the house Of commons.
Professions of patriotism are become
stale and ridiculous. For my own part,
claim no merit from cndeavoring to do
service to my fellow subjects. have done
it to the best of my understanding; and,
looking for the appreciation Of other
men, my conscience is satisfied. What re.
mains to be done, concerns the collective
body Of the people. They are now to de.
termine for themselves, whether they will
firmly and constitutionally assert their
rights, or make an humble, slavish surren.
der Of them at the feet Of the ministry
To generous mind there cannot he doubt.
We owe it to our ancestors, to preserve
entire those rights which they have deliver.
ed to our care. We owe it to our posterity,
not to suffer their dearest inheritance to be
destroyed. But, if it were possible for US
to be inscHsible of these sacred claims,
there is yet an obligation binding upon
ourselves, from which nothing can acquit
us; personal interest, which we cannot
To slienate even our .. n rights,
would be crime as much more enormous
than suicide, as q life of civil security and
freedom is superior to bare existence
and if life be the bounty Of Heaven, we
reject the nobiest part Of the
gift, If we consent 10 surrender that certain
rule Of living. without which the condition
Of human nature is not only miserable but
JUNIUS."
PosTyILLE.--We meant to give an ex-
Ieuded account of the Postville Republican
Barbecue and waited till the Ne,os issue to
get the material, but at this writing a P.
w. the Ne,0s is not issued and there fore
the notice viii be short. Neither Of the
editors Of this paper were present, and re-