The weekly north Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1857-1867, 1865-08-09
WHOLE NO. 46O.

kind Of teaching has been the result which
| is so evident and want to say now in
| no spirit Of boasting, to my friends cas-,
and west, north and south; that the time
has arrived when encroachments on the
| institutions of the south should cease; the
| the time has arrived when we have well
nigh done making appeals to you on the
subject; but all we ask Of you is that, as
brothers of the same great confederacy, you
will understand and carry out the constitu-
ton as it is, and let US cease this pickering.
Let US cease this agitation, and stand upon
the constitution as the common altar, and
maintain all its guarantees shall be pre-
served ; and, in doing so, we shall preserve
the Union; and, in preserving the Union,
we shall have peace and harmony and the
unexampled prosperity which has visited
our country will! continue to 60 on"
Radical Intolerance.
During the progress Of the war, certain
policies and acts of the Administration met
the displeasure and therefore unfriendly
comment of the Democracy CT the country
If man was arrested, and no charge made,
confined in prison for months, and then
discharged without trial, Democrats said it
was wrong. When the Administration
suffered its military officers to prevent
privates in the ranks from exercising their
right Of suffrage, because they feared Gen.
McC C!ellan's election, Democrats denounced
it. When agents, sent from New York
with tickets to accommodate the soldiers
who desired to vote against Lincoln, were
arrested and sent into the prisons of Wash
ngton, kept there until after the election,
and then discharged aud pronounced guilt
less, Democrats justly assailed the Admin.
stration as tyranical. When presses were
suppressed merely for the expression of q
difference Of opinion, and orators were
silenced for commenting on acts they
deemed anti republican and dangerous to
the personal liberty Of the citizen, Demo.
Gratis ventured to say that the Administra.
ton was assuming powers not conferred
upon it by the Constitution. For these,
and other respectful evidences of opposition
to Lincoln's policy, Democrats were de-
nounced by the 'loyal' press as TRAITORS"
rebel sympathizers," &c.
Now, the opposition to tho Adminstra.
ton does not come from the Democrats.
Its most bitter enemies are those who
falsely pretended that the Administration
was the Government. Leading radicals in
Massachusetts, who two years since were
in favor of imprsoning every man who did
join them in supporting Lincoln's Admins.
tration or "Government," are now declar.
ing that the proclamations of President
johnson leading to reconstruction, are
"hostile to God, ''inhuman, "unbecominc
the age" &c, and threaten to use their in
huence to induce the two Houses Of Con.
gress to refuse to admit Senators or Repre-
sentatives from Southern States elected in
pusurance Of or agreeable to the plan now
being carried out Of establishing govern
ments in those states. And this opposition
Of the radicals is growing more and more
intense. These rampant "loyalists" forget
the lessons they taught during the war, and
are now really an embarrassment to the
President who is so zealously and patrioti-
cally striving to harmonize the sections
The truth is, as New England was the in
stigator and fostering nurse Of Abolition,
the real cause Of the rebellion, so that
fanatical section Of the North is now de.
termined to prevent reconciliation which
will give to the Southern States their fair
ohu JuSs ohoSi tbc ISueldl UOVeTn.
ment. The radicals boldly declare there
shall be no peace until their ideas of negro
equality and rights are established. They
wish to place the regulation Of the right Of
suffrage in the hands of Congress. Thus
placed, it can be shaped or modified by
the party in power as circumstances may
require. 1t will aid them in their efforts to
make this "strong governmental favo-
rite idea with New England radicals and
their adherents elsewhere.
1t is the duty of all in the West to unite
against this intolerance and dictat;on of New
England. Slavery is abolished, and the
country at peace. A plan is proposed to
make more perfect Union," and the
President should be encouraged, not EN-
barrassed, in his efforts to carry it out. If
Massachusetts wants her negroes to vote,
she has the power to decide in the matter.
Congress has no power to say word bear.
ing upon the subject. And the right guar.
ranteed to that State by the Constitution,
cannot be denied to any other State.-La
Crosse Democrat. ...