The weekly north Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1857-1867, 1866-08-15

VIC AHoW ouiy DIS pelooHai iiehuo A0
peatcdly wait upon the editor Of the News
and urge him to discontinue" his un-
called-for personal abuse through that
sheet; and unable, as it unfortunately for
them proved, to guide his pen in this case
as they have done in other matters, they
then, in fear of their party pet losing pow
er, resorted to this kind private letter.
We have equally good authority for saying
that it was not intended to address any
member of this Office, but was originated
solely for the News man, and only dupli-
Gated by the unyielding efforts of one
possibly two-of the thirteen. We repeat
what was said in our last issue, and more,
that Judge Baugh refused to sign said
communication, and when urged for the
purpose Of taking g the curse Of a square
party reproach from the shoulders of the
News editor" signed it, protesting that
"our folks had never given cause for such
a charge"
This letter was spread before number
of our citizens-kindly, of course, -and
known to many before it prirately reached
the individuals addressed and yet Mr..
Noble seems to think we ought not to have
referred to it. We think we did right in
doing so, and therefore don't quite agree
with him in that particular.
This article was intended to have been
done in few lines, but it is already being
put into type. Let others do as they may,
the TINES will, "as in the past, SO in the
present and in the future not fill its col
umns with personalities, but will pass by,
unnoticed, all low-bred, unprovoked per-
sonal abuse, save, perhaps, few words in
answer to such unjust and uncalled-for as
saults. 'ra.
At a recent term of court, setting at
Palmyra, Mo-, bills of indictment were
found against fourteen ministers for
preaching the gospel without license
The constitution of that state, cooked up
and forced upon an unwilling people, by
government hating, negro loving poll
t.cians, makes it ,r.me under the
law, professedly created for the govern
ment of a free and intelligent people, to
read and expound the Word of God with
out first obtaining a license. Under that
beautiful affair, plastered over the entire
state, negroes and whites arc allowed to
marry and intermarry with no other re-
strictions than the ordinary legal cele-
monies required in cases Of marriage be-
tween whites. That Missouri curse, which
every man knows, has driven and kept
away from that riddled, fanatically ridden
and most unfortunate state, thousands of
the best patriots of the land, is the sickly
instrument bayoneted into existence by
the very class of cowardly shoddy poll
ticians and their tools, who now denounce
as traitors, such men as Andrew johnson
and host of those who shed their blood
on the bitterly contested field consume
the hard earnings of the honest laborer in
passing congressional enactments which
enables them to appropriate thousands to
themselves, while the soldiers and their
families are left out in the cold /; deny the
right of a state to secede, but hold that
their citizens are good enough to pay tax
es without the right of representation and
that congress may ratify secession by hold
ing states as conquered provinces. This
IS the state of affairs to which we are ask
ed to tamely submit, and because we seek
more wholesome laws, we are branded
with copperhead, traitor and all the other
sweet sounding epithets contained within
the catalogue they have been for years
dishing up to serve their devilish purpos-
es. The storm is thickening and the re-
ports of the coming elections will thunder
about their ears with such force as will
convince them that the voters of the coun-
try wall no longer bear such extravaganza,
abuse and wrong. @a'