The weekly north Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1857-1867, 1866-10-03
The Jewel Consistency.

| DoSo hiy oiiC, III lnlS time Oh CXcltc1ncnt.
seek an adviser on whose calm consisten:
, cy he may rely, and in whose deliberate
judgment he may rest his confidence Let
him not look for the guide among Radi.
calls. They haze been only desirous to ac-
complish disunion, and for that end have
used any means, fought under any flag
and been on any side of any question
which seemed likely to aid in the over.
throw of the Government and Constitution
just now they are excessively alarmed lest
meetings to sustain President johnson
shall bring conservative men together, and
they advise their followers not to sign any
calls for such meetings. OF course, they
represent all who are not of their faith as
traitors, hoping thereby to escape the dc.
nunciation which the President has given
to Stevens and Sumner, and "others ol
that stripe" as original enemies of the I'm.
ion. The value of their warnings may be
measured by the following paragraphs.
which we venture toput into juxtaposition,
and which will show just how much re-
lance may be placed on Radical advisers
IN this or any other time of national trial :
DON'T DO IT.
When one who declared that Lincoln s
election provoked and justified secession
and Union, asks you to sign a political
call, don't do it !-Tibune, March Sd.
1866.
We insist on letting them 90 in peace. -
" The right to sccede may be revolution
ary one, but it exists nevertheless. .''-T,iJ-
une, Nov. 9, 1860.
When one who declared the war for the
Union unjust, and proclaimed on the streets
that the rebels were fighting for the de-
fence of their rights and their homes, asks
you to unite with him in an avowal of po-
litical sentiment and purpose, don't do it !
Tribune, March 3, 1866.
If the cotton States unitedly and ear
nestly wish to withdraw peacefully from
the Union, we think they should and
would be allowed to do so. Any attempt
to compel them by force to remain would
be contrary to the principles enunciatcd in
the immortal Declaration of independence.
contrary to the fundamental ideas on which
human liberty is based Tribune, Nov. 26,
1860.
When one who wanted to coax traitors
to desist from firing on the flag, scizing the
fortresses, &c., asks you to
unite with him in a political movement.
don't do it it!-Tibune, March 8, 1866.
Whenever it shall become clear that the
great body of the Southern people have be-
come conclusively alienated from the Un-
ion, and anxious to escape from it, we will
do our best to forward these yiews.-7,ib-
ume, Feb. %, 1861.
When one who steadfastly insisted
throughout our great struggle that the
rebels were always victorious-that our
arms made no progress, \ that the
Union could only be restored by first Civ
ing it up as lost and asking the victors to
let us creep in at the back door of their
triumphant Confederacy, now urges YOU
to sympathize and fraternize with him in
denouncing as traitors and disunionists the
foremost champions of IS Liberty and Un-
lon now and forever, one and inseparable,"
don't do it.-1ribune, March 3, 1866.
1T three months more Of earnest fighting
shall not serve to make serious impress
sion on the rebels-if the end of that time
shall find us no farther advanced than at
its beginninS-if some malignant fate has
decreed that the blood and treasure of the
nation shall ever be squandered in fruit
less efforts, let us bow to our destiny and
make the best attainable peace Tribune.
January 20, 1862.
We have reproduced these old and well
known quotations for two reasons-first,
to show the dishonest and partisan pur-
poses of those who now advise their follow
ers to keep up old party lines and retain
old animosities, SO as to prevent united
support of the President; and, second,
because they are illustrations of the Presi-
dents assertion that these radical men are
old enemies of the Union, and it is well to
remind leaders of their existing record.
The principle of Union in this country
is based on mutual affection and mutual
for mutual interests. 1t was al
ways the object of Northern and Southern
Radicals to destroy the Union, and the
recorded evidence is abundant that they act
ed together. While the New York Tribune
is generally and rightfully quoted as the
exponent Of radical views in this part of
the country, it must not be supposed that
it was alone in these disunien avowals.-
The radical press in all parts of the North
harmonized with the radical press in the
South in desiring disunion. In both sec
tions radical men expected to gain political
power, office, and spoils by division, as the
present object of the Northern Radicals is
to retain those benefits.