The weekly north Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1857-1867, 1866-08-01
Bogus Patriots.

Bogus Patriots.
a correspondent of the n. y. Nercuyy,
literary paper recently painted a large
class of 3. P's to the life we have space
this week for but three pictures. DR..
johnson, the sententious old English bear,
once said 'Patriotsm is the last resort Of
a ,scoundrel." This has been most glar-
ingly verified in this country by the loud
mouthed declamatory nuisances who voted
for corruption and grew fat by national
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. who had no charac-
ter at the start and who now have nothing
but the results Of cotton stealing and the
conceit to suppose they are deceiying
public now fairly enlightened to their in
famies.
Bogus Patriots are of many shapes and
various names. Selfshness is their COM
mon characteristic, and their impelIing mo-
tive; though sometimes the 3. p. is a mo-
nomaniac who has brooded over one idea
until his mind has become 50 imbued with
it that he is willing to sacrifice everything
in its propagation. This latter u. p. is
the most dangerous Of his species, and has
probably done the most harm.
The Earnest Abolitionist b. p. is the
long pole that stirs up the wild-beast pas
sions of our national menagerie. His sole
business is to poke practically -inclned
humanity in the ribs till it becomes fierce
and carniycrous. The L. A. b. 2. is de-
termined to fiddle out his Africaine over
ttt,n n Il a 49,
around him. Devastated districts, burn
ing cities, wholesale slaughter, and ruined
fortunes, are nothing to him. His princi-
pies, he claims, are from heaven there
fore he cares not if the result of his teach
ings be hellish. lie would not have the
least hesitation in burning his house down
for the purpose Of smoking out a half
dead rat; and then he would turn round
and say that he had a perfect right to light
the fire, and il it destroyed other peoples
property, natural laws could only be
blamed for it. His duty was to smoke out
the halt-dead rat and come what may, he
will always do his duty. Thus taking all
the credit of well-doing to himself, and
throwing the blame Of the consequent evils
of his impolitic measures on his neighbors,
or even on the Almighty, the Il. A. A. p.
sets up great pretensions to philanthropy,
and blesses God for the agitation which
has sowed discord among all civilized ma
tons, and cursed the world with war,
while it has benefited a mere iota of IA de-
graded people. The Il. A. b. p. views
every other subject than Aboltionism as
trivial or unphiianthropic. The CONNER
cial interests of the world, the domestic
comforts of all the nations of the earth.
even the progressive civilization that is to
influence generations yet unborn; thcolo-
gy, science, political economy /: all are
nothing to him, unless tincturcd with his
dogma. Great and wise men he reviles if
they do not favor his views, and bitterly
denounces those who fall short of his
standard ond he questions the wisdom of
the Almighty and the laws He has made
for the government OF the universe. There
is nothing too high for his fierce denuncia-
tions, and nothing too low for his wither-
ering contempt. lie would amend, to suit
his views the National Constitution, and,
if he could, would send the Holy Scrip
lures back to their Author, to have the
pro-slavery portions altered and he would
abolish egro-minstrelsy and negro-cara-
cature, as offensive to his abolition
taste. The term "Sambo'' makes him
CRATE his teeth, and the eolloquial "ngger"
almost throws him into commissions. 70
utter either, he thinks should be made
felony.
The Covetous B. p. has made money by
the war, and would have no objection to
another war to add to his fortune He says
that he is glad the Rebellion has been