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The weekly north Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1857-1867, 1866-10-03
Choice Radical Extracts

d" Uittout the right of suffrage in the
late slave States, / believe the slaves had
far better been left in bondage .'-TAad.
SecenS.
"The fallen rebels cannot, at their op-
ton, re-enter the heaven which they have
disturbed. AS flaming swords
are set at tho gates to secure their seclu-
sion.-Thad. Sterens.
"This Congress owes it to its own char
acter to set the seal of its reprobation up
on a doctrine which is becoming too fash
ionable, namely, that this is
Merhite man s gore,nment.-Th0d.S Sterens.
"4U, without respect to color, should
stand equal before law."-Charles Summer.
"We claim an equal right in the three
boxcs-the witness box, the jury box, and
the ballot box. Fred Douglass.
"The Constitution is league with he'll
and a covenant with devils. - Wendell
Phillips.
81 believe that the time will come when
every man in the country, white and black,
will have the right of suffrage, and that
suffrage should not depend on color, that
there is nothing in that which should make
a distinction.'-O. r. Norton.
81 would divide the people into three
classcs-in the hands of the first, would
place arms and let them sweep the rebels
from the face of the earth in the hands OF
the second l would place fire and pine
knots and let them burn up the remains
in the hands Of the third | would place
the surveyors chain and compass to re-
mark and again dispose of the land
BrounlOr.
"If the cotton States shall become salts
fed that they can do better out of the Tn
ion than in it, We insist on letting them e
in peace. ."-Ner York Tribune.
ave hope never to live in republic
whereof one section is pinned to anothe
by bayonets. "-New York 7l-ibune.
They know very well that if they ar
determined to leave the Union no Repub
lican will care TO have them stay."-h'
dianapolis Journal. tsat
'.We do not believe in resisting any sc
cession movement in the least. ."-Lndian
dp0lis Journal.
The weekly north Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1857-1867, 1866-10-03

European papers are publishing most
fearful pictures of suffering in India caused
by the famine and cholera. Emaciated
men and women--living skeletons-are
seen in every road. Heads of families are
struck down by cholera, and the children
flee to the country only to be overtaken by
the famine and die by degrees. Beneath
the shade trees of every highway are seen
the dead and dying lying side by side. Old
and young, father and son, mother and
daughter, are taken by the destroying
angel of the pestilence, or cut down by
the slow and terrible a@onies of hunger.
Dogs and iaekalls old high carnival over
the helpless living as well as the skeleton
dead. Mothers are found dead with living
children at their cold breasts, and the rap
aciouS vultures lowering over waiting for
their prey. The misery thus begotten has
brought out all the worst qualities of the
natives, and they often leave helpless wives,
mothers and children to starve and die.
Starving mothers beg for their starving
children, and when successful sit quietly
by and see the little ones devour the food.
At least 200 die day, and most of the
bodies are left to rot by the roadside.
The weekly north Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1857-1867, 1866-10-03
How Much makes a Man Rich

ITO be rich,'' said Mr.. Marcy, formerly
Secretary of State, requires only salts.
factory condition of mind. One man NAV
be rich with hundred dollars, while an.
other in the possession Of millions, NAV
think himself poor, and if the necessities
of life are enjoyed by each, it is evident
that the man who is best satisfied with his
possessions is the richest"
To illustrate this idea, Mr.. Marcy relates
the following anecdote
"While l was Governor of the State OF
New York. said he, 81 was called upon
one morning, at my office, by rough
specimen of a backwoodsman who stalkcd
in and commenced conversation by inquir-
ing if this was Mr.. Marcy?' l replied
that was my name.''
bill Marcy? said he.
81 nodded assent
"You used to live in Southport, didn't
your
l answered in the affirmative, and began
to feel a little curious to know who my
visitor was, and what he was driving at
"That's what l told 'em," cried the
backwoodsman, bringing his hand down
on his thigh with tremendous force. 81
told 'em you was the same Bill Marcy who
used to live in Southport but they won t
believe it, and l promised the next time
came to Albany to come and see you, and
find out for sartin. Why, you know me,
don't you, Bill?"
l didn't exactly like to ignore his ac.
quaintance altogether, but, for the life of
me, | couldn't recolleet having seen him
before; and so l replied. thai he had a
familiar countenance, but that was not
able to call him by name.
My name is Jack Smith, answered
the backswoodman, "and we used to 90 to
school together thirty years ago in the lit
tie red school house in old Southport
Well, times have changed since then, and
you have become a great man and got rich
l suppose -.
shook my head and was going to con-
tradict that impression, when he broke in :
go! yes you are know you are rich
no use denying it. You was comptrol-
ler for long time and the next time we
must of had a heap of money, and am
glad OF it-glad to see you getting along
so smart. You was always smart lad at
school, and knew that you would come to
something
l thanked him for his good wishes and
opinion, and told him that political life
did not pay so we'll as he imagined. ~ sup
pose," said l, "fortune has smiled upon
you since you left Southport?"
"Oh! yes" said he, ~ hain't got moth
ing to complain Of l must say l have
got along right smart. You see shortly
after you left Southport, our whole family
moved out into Vermont, and put right in
to the woods, and reckon our family cut
down more trees and cleared more land
than any other in the whole State.''
Sand so you have made good thing
of it. How much do you consider your
self worth? p | asked, feeling little Gu
rious to know what he considered for
tune, as he seemed to be well satisfied with
his.
"Well," he replied, 81 don't know cx-
actly how much am worth; but think
straig ghtening himself up if all my debts
were paid, should be worth three hum
dred dollars, clear cash." lie was, rich,
for he was satisfied.
The weekly north Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1857-1867, 1866-10-03
Evidence Of a Repub ubIic an,

Mr.. Noell, Representative in Congress
from the Third District of Missouri, made
a speech in ST. Louis, in response to a ser.
anadc, in the course of which he exposed
the programme Of the Radicals. We ex-
tract:
"When l went to Washington expect
ed to cooperate with the Republican par
ty. went into Republican caucus the
day before the session of Congress. had
not been there five minutes before reso-
luton was offered to break up this Govern
ment and destroy eleven States in this I'm
ion. withdrew from the caucus imme-
diately. still hoped, however, to keep
in the ranks of the Republican party, and
as soon as Congress was in session voted
for the Republican candidates for Speaker
and other Offices. But, on the very first
political measure that came up, l found
that the Republican party, as an or
ganization, had fixed upon course of des
tructiveism which could not but oppose
and from that day forward found myself
compelled to oppose all the measures Of
this dominant party and ! expect to op.
pose it until it ceases to exist.
The two theories which the Radical par.
ty upheld in Congress from the beginning
were first, that these States had gone Out
Of the Union; second, that if we allowed
them back it must be as republican gov
ernments and not with a large portion ol
the people of the States disfranchised
meaning our colored brethren. This was
the burthen of all the speeches on the Re
publican side. A Committee of Recon
struction was appointed, and all measures
which looked to restoration of the Unior
were by rule of the House referred with
out debate to this committee.
The Radical party was deliberate con
spiracy to revolutionize this Government
and usurp all power for the perpetuatior
of the commercial and financial policy O.
New England and other States where capi
tai and manufacturing monopolies abound
ed. But the honest masses would not des
troy the Government of their fathers for
commercial policy.
The Committee on Reconstruction mad,
report. 1t is anomalous in its character
1t abandons both propositions which tn
Radicals declared their fundamental dog
mas. 1t acknowledges that the Southern
States are in the Union, and invites then
as States to adopt this report rs constitu
tional amendment. 1t acknowledges til
right of these States to withhold franchis
from the negroes, and holds out induce
The weekly north Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1857-1867, 1866-10-03

One great evil which the Freedmen's 8
Bureau serves to perpetuate in the South
is the countenance and implied protection
it gives to disbanded white chaplains, and
subordinate officers of negro regiments,
who vagabondize about the country, fra
ternize with the negroes, eat, drink and
sleep with them, win their wages by gamb-
ling, hatter them with notions of their i'm
portancc, and incitc them to acts of insub-
ordination. In this way the cunning of
the meancst and most dissolute order of
whites is made to supplant the natural
faithfulness of the negro with an effect
which may easily be conceived.
The result is that, in many parts of the
South, the whole negro population is in a
state of anarchy. No planter goes to bed
at night with any assurance that the force
which wrought in his fields to-day will not
have deserted before tomorrow; nor with
any assurance that his ripening crop will
not all be stolen and transferred during
the night to one of the many harpies who
hang about, lying in wait for such transac-
tlons. a--. .......
In the mean time, white vagabon,ls keep
the negroes fully advised of all the party
agitations whicrare taking place for their
The negroes are made
to believe hatinlluences are at work to re-
lievc them from labor entirely, and instate
them in the dwellings and plantations of
their late masters, with food and clothing
at the public expense. Even the Bureau,
which they regarded as a protector, and
the representative of abolition munficence,
they are beginning to look upon as the re-
mains of a rule which is about to pass in
to something far more desirable; and with
the hope of millennium of laziness and
sensual Indulgence, they cherish the inn
preston that the more worthless and un-
faithful they are the sooner it will arrive.
.Er
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REJOINDER BY MR.. TURNER.

FREEpoRT, I'LL, Sept 2l, 1866.
Hon. =. B. WAsHBuRNE, Gal ena, ILL.,.
DEAR SIR-Your favor of the 18th inst,
in which you neither accept nor decline my
proposition for joint discussion, came to
hand after it had been published in the
newspapers.
You ask, with apparent sincerity, ''what
Congress l am candidate for. For the
information any of your friends who are
ignorant of the provisions of the constitu-
ton of the United States,and to crafty the
curiosity of those who, like yourself, disre-
gard the binding obligation of that instru-
ment, l reply, that l am candidate for
election to the fortieth Congress of the
United States, provided for by the first and
second sections of the first article Of the
constitution the congress to succeed the
one which will expire on the 4th Of March,
1867, and which, at its first session, voted
tow thousand dollars ertr0 pay to ats mem
bers, but failed to make any provision for
the payment of bounties to the soldiers.
l Iam gratified to learn, from the fact that
you have made political speeches at Eliza
beth and Frceport, that your "healM Is
sufficiently restored to enter the canrass."
| therefore again invite you to meet me in
joint discussion at one or more places in
each county in the district, before the ap-
preaching election. am prepared to ar,
range at once with you for such discussion
am, very respectfully your obedient
want. Tnos. j. Turner.
The weekly north Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1857-1867, 1866-10-03
LOVE-.
Br KATE AULD

What make thy beaming eyes so brighta
Why glow they with that tender light
When ecr they look on met
Thy smile is sveetcr; nor can
Divine the vericst reason why
This change should ever be-;
Yet still know the change is there;
mark thy blushing, bright and fair,
And cen would prove
The cause for all these smiles so bright,
And wherefore fills thine eye with light7
Is This LovEe
You brought me, once, sweet boquet
Of tender blossoms, bright and gay,
And placed it on nv brow
thought not, then, it e'cr should prove
The Offering of thy tender love-
May believe it no,c
know not, nor ask not, why
My hanrt throbs so when thou art nigh!
NoE'e'er shall rove
My fShcy from its idol THOU
Alone reign'st in my bosom now
Is this LOVE!
Art though beside mo ?-how the blood
Flows to my cheeksr-a scarlet Hood
Which fades when thou'rt away;
And kindled eye and burning cheek
Their tale of love will ever speak
Palmer than words can say.
tremblc when thy glance meet;
None other than thine accents, sweet,
My heart can move;
And, oh I! tis happiness to me
To think of, live for, dream of thee
This is Love!
Missouri, Sept. Is, 1866.
The weekly north Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1857-1867, 1866-10-03

A few days ago, at St. Louis, a thief was
about carrying off a large quantity of sill
YER ware from dwelling house, when he
was detected and foiled by courageous
servant girl. He harbored revenge in his
heart, and shortly afterwards armed him
self with pair of shears, and knocked at
the kitchen door of the same house. When
the girl opened the door he threw his arms
about her neck in such manner as to
prevent all outcry, and rapidly and rough
ly cut off all her long, black hair, of which
sic had been very proud. Having thus
vented his spite by destrying her beauty,
he threw her down and strobe away in the
darkness.
The weekly north Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1857-1867, 1866-10-03

Many of our readers will remember the
great meteoric shower of November, 1888,
which was visible through North America.
These mcteoric showers are said by astron-
omers to be periodical, returning at inter-
walls of about thirty-three years. Profess
sor Newton, of Yale College, who has
devoted much time to the investigation of
the subject, states that similar phenome-
non will probably occur about the 18th or
l4th of November next, and SO confident
are astronomers that it will then appear,
that extensive preparations are being made
by scientific men in Europe to observe it.
But thirteen appearances of meteoric show
ers are recorded since the year SO3.
The weekly north Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1857-1867, 1866-10-03

The WoRKINGMEN.--Surely the work
ingmen of the North must be blind to their
own interests if they fail to perceive in
what is daily and hourly passing around
them. The unmistakable determination of
the Radicals to make the negroes not sim
ply their equals, but finally to secure for
their black allies position which will not
only degrade the white workingman, but
seriously impair his abilities to earn for
himself and those dependent upon him n
means of support. Workingmen, this is
not mere fancy, it is stern, undisputed
fact, which e'er long you will find practi-
cally and painfully realized. Be warned
in time. The Conservatives are your true
friends, and as such are entitled to your
encouragement and support.
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REILLY Ef MR.. WASHBCRNE.

GALENA, ILL.,. Sept. II, 1866.
Hon. THoNsJ TURNER, Freeport, ILL.,.
DEAR SIR--I am this moment in recent
of your favor of the l4th inst, handed to
me by Mr.. Baldwin, advising me that YOU
have been nominated by "National Tn
ion Convention" which assembled at Free
port on the 18th inst, as candidate for
Congress in this district" You invite me
to meet you in joint discussion before the
people of the district. Before accepting
your invitation, wish to know from YOU
what Congress you are a candidate for. If
you are a candidate for the Congress to be
composed Of Northern copperheads and
Southern rebels, which it is semi-ofiicially
proclaimed that President johnson is to
recognize, to the exclusion of the constitu-
tional congress Of the United States, then
desire 30 say that am not candidate
for any such Congress, and that do not
propose entering into canvass for any
Office for which am not candidate.
If, on the other hand, you will certify to
the people of this district that you are a
candidate for the legal and constitutional
Congress of the United States, and for a
member of that House of Representatives
for the 40th Congress which shall be called
to order, according to established precedent,
by the Clerk of the present House, and to
which no member shall be admitted with
out taking the ''irOn-clad OATH of loyalty,
and that you will repudiate the illegal and
revolutionary Congress which President
johnson proposes to recognize, then have
to state will accept your invitation with
great pleasure, and, as soon as my health
is sufficiently restored to enter the canvass.
! will meet you before the people of the
district for joint discussion of all the
great political questions of the day. If
you wish to commence a canvass before l
am able to do so, would suggest that you
can proceed with your own appointments
and the very moment l have sufficient
strength to enable me to canvass with you,
l will advise you, and will meet you at
such places as we may agree upon and
where you may have made appointments.
l have no doubt we can then arrange as to
our discussions in a manner satisfactory to
ourselves and our political friends.
Yours, very respectfully,
i. B. WAsnBURNE.
The weekly north Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1857-1867, 1866-10-03

About o'clock on Saturday night a
Prussian tailor, named Rosen Quist, was
accused of having stolen sum of money.
The accused denied the fact, and said he
hoped his head would fall off, his tongue
drop out, and that God would strike him
dead if he had the money. The last word
had hardly escaped his lips ere he fell to
the floor a corpse The parties in the
room ran to raise him, supposing he had
simply tainted from the excitement, but
they found that life had fled. On search
ing him this morning the money was dis
covered in his pockets.-Chicago Journal.
The weekly north Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1857-1867, 1866-10-03

During the past winter little girl of our
acquaintance attended the wedding of her
brother, and judging by the sequel, was
very mnch struck by one line of the mar.
riage service, that she understood literally.
A few days after she was passing through
the room, where the bride was sitting in
the lap of her liege lord, and exclaimed,
with all the simplicity imaginable: "To
have and to hold"
The weekly north Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1857-1867, 1866-10-03

STAND BACK, WHITE SoLDIERs!-White
soldiers, remember that the last congress
voted that the sum of $500 each be appro-
priated for the negroes, although none of
them served three years, and that only the
sum of 500 be set aside for the white sold
ie1s of 1861 and 1862 for three years SER
vice. Negroes to the front, three steps,
march Wis. Union.
The weekly north Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1857-1867, 1866-10-03

A little girl after having been to church,
was very fond of preaching to her dolls.-
Her mother once heard her one.day, repro
wing one for being so wicked. 30, you
naughty, sinful child" you'll just 60 to
that place of birthstone and molasses, and
you won't burn up--you'll just sizzle.'
The weekly north Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1857-1867, 1866-10-03

An unhappy French husband complains
to his mother-in law that his wife had
paint on her face to prevent his kissing her,
and that. "when she went to bed she
immediately fell to sleep, without thinking
of either God or her husband!'
The weekly north Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1857-1867, 1866-10-03

"Neycr be critical upon the ladies'" was
the maxim of an old Irish peer. remarka-
BILE for his homage to the sex; 'the only
way in the world that a true gentleman
ever will attempt to look! at the faults of
pretty woman, is to shut his eyes,"
The weekly north Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1857-1867, 1866-10-03

An eccentric Englishman, just dead
left large sum of money, the interest of
which is to be given quinquennially to five
young maidens who arc to dance round
his monument.
The weekly north Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1857-1867, 1866-10-03

For five or six years the radicals boldly
proclaimed that any opposition to the Pres
ident was ''disloyalty." At present they
believe that everybody is ''disloyar' who
don't dcnOuncc him.
The weekly north Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1857-1867, 1866-10-03

WHY is a lawyer like one who is long
getting to sleep? Because he lies first on
one side, then on the other,
The weekly north Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1857-1867, 1866-10-03

The annual consumption of intoxicating
liquors in England is equal in value to the
entire national debt of the United States.
The weekly north Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1857-1867, 1866-10-03
FREMONT HOUSE,

ELI GEORGE, PrOpr., DECORAH IOWA.
would respectfully inform my friends and the pub
lie generally that the FREMONT House is now open. 1t
has been thoroughly finished and throughout
and large addition built on, including Ball Room
Connected with this house is the largest Barn and
Yards in Northern Iowa. No pains will be spared to
make this irst-class hotel.
NN- Stages leave this house daily for all parts.
Having secured the services of THOMAS POWERS, the
vorite clerk of the fremont for the past eight
hope to merit liberal share of your patronage. asa
The weekly north Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1857-1867, 1866-10-03
EVANS HOUSE,

LATE AMERICAN,
Opposite Ferry Landing McGregor. Refurnished and
fitted in good style for guests Patronage respect
fully solicited.
E.P. CLARKE, Proprietor. 474
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A man recently wrote shoemaker
"Cend me pair Of esq. Toad Shooze."
The weekly north Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1857-1867, 1866-10-03

A sermon in four words "Shrouds have
no pockets
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]. S. GREEN, M. D.,

POSTvILLE, Observation-Disclosures CO.
Tenders his professional services to the public. Par
tcular attention given to Surgical and Diseases
of the Heart and Lungs
Former favors gratefully remembered and future
ones respectfully solicited
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- M BEZER LODGE No. l35.
ASyAN Holds its Regular Communications on
HZ8AX Monday evening preceding the full moon
~H- in each month.
Z2l ALFRED WINGATE, W. NJ
HORACE BAKERS ecy. 44S
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WHISPERS! wIzIsxHRs!!

DR L. O. MoNrEz C6rrolo, the greatest stimulator
l in the world will force Whiskers and MOustaches
TO grow ON the smoothest face chin; never known
TO l sample for trial sent free to any DESTROYS Of
testing ts merits. Address. REEVES Co., 7s Nassau
| 81, NY 0o1 Sm
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cLAYT0 HOUSE,
CLAYTON ,.....--.- ..-......".."..-."-..
TH0S. G. DRlPS. PROPRIETOR.

This house is large, well furnished and conveniently
located to accommodate the travel both by river and
wheels, and the proprietor will spare pains to
make it comfortable home for all guests. Stages
rive and depart daily. 5l3
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CHARLES A. oPITZ,

C41AEH4GS u. VE1VZ,
mia Has moved his Shoe Shop down -
XWv Main Street. one door west of the Wes-
tern Hotel, where he may be found at all times
ready to accommodate customers with welmade Doors
and SHOES ofany size, style quality. He respectfully
solictS share of public patronage Repairing neatly
done McGREROR, IOWA.