North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1867-04-10
The Maryland Lesson.

The Maryland Lesson.
Revolutions never 60 backwards and
the war having placed revolutionists in au-
thority at Washington, it is in the nature
Of things that they should proceed to act
out, ad infnitum, their revolutionary in
stincts. Having tramplcd the constitution
under foot, and found journalists as we'll
as politicians to sustain them in regarding
that interest as "effete" and "obsolete )"
having set aside as 8. fossiliferous prin-
ciple" that the judicial, executive, and
| Legislative branches of the federal govern
ment are co-equal in authority, and hav-
| ing established to their own satisfaction
the doctrine that Congress is omnipotent,
there is really no limit to the ambition of
these disorganzers, and none to their ca
pacity except the ballot box-which they
know exactly how to manipulate so as to
produce certain results. Revolution is the
order OF the day, and as its chosen instru-
ments they are disposed to give us enough
of it. They have placed ten states outside
the pale of the Union altogether. They
have reduced the federal executive to an
important cypher in the calculation of ma
tionai government. They have bid def
ance to the Supreme Court. They have
taken the purse in one hand and the sword
in the other, and by dint of idly squan-
dering millions of money and legistating
the head of the army out of all obedience
to any dictum of their own, have made
their usurpation almost complete and ire
sistable.
The only thing that stands seriously in
the way Of these revolutionists to per-
feet dictatorship, is what little is still left
to us of state rights. One by one the
''loyal . states, in their anxiety to punish
the rebel ones, have yielded up their state
rights and assisted to erect paramount
central power in the national capitol, until
they begin to discover themselves nearly
helpless. They have surrendered almost
every weapon they possessed under the
constitution, and they stand defenceless.-
Congress may now compel them, and with
the irresponsible power they have them
selves supplied, to whatever principle it
may choose to dictate, and if the Maryland
movement mean anything, it means that
Congress is disposed to summarily set aside
other state governments besides ex-rebel
ones whenever those governments are not
! en- rapport with its own system of national
| authority. If Congress can exercise its
power to "crush the statehood y Of Ma
ryland, it can exercise it to crush that of
New York, or, Pennsylvania, or Ohio
and if New York, Pennsy and Ohio
concede to Congress the power to wipe out
the constitution of Maryland and govern
that state at Washington, they clearly con-
rcede the right to wipe out the constitution
of New York, Pennsylvania, and SO on,
and also govern those states ut the federal
capitol. No wonder, then, that even the
radicals pause in dismay to contemplate
this very natural conclusion to their own
political argument. 1t is one thing to
enjoy the sutferings of other people, but
quite different thing to become victim
yourself.
Still, revolutions never 60 backwards,
and, having both the inclination and the
| authority, the revolutionists at Washington
| will not be likely to yield to restraint
Under the pretense of q constitutional
right to seenre to every st"4. republican
J san crnment the friends in Congress of each
| aspirant for the next presidency propose to
! overthrow the state government Of Mary
land, abolish its constitution, confer the
franchise upon every negro, and deprive
every white citizen Of vote who does not
belong to their political church. Mary
land thus g reconstructed it may be our
turn next and who shall say that we do
not deserve that species of justice ourselves
| which we made out to others We are in
voluntarily assisted to manufacture, and
we must accept our share of the conse
quences. Doubtless there are thousands
of good honest people who, when they
commenced to play the radical game, had
no idea of the extent to whoeh their un-
scrupulous instruments might push it.
But they will be enlightened by events be-
fore long. Necromancy tells US that it is
| easier to raise the devil than to induce him
to 60 back again to his sui phurous home and
our republican friends who have so sue
cessfully elevated revolutions into authori-
ty are in fair way to realize the circum-
stance. In the mean time, alas? for our
country.-N Y. Sunday Times.
Cattle. - :
Tom Williams, the cattle buyer and
partner in the Butchcring firm of Williams
4 Bro. Of McGregor, has recently made
some purchases at paying figures to the
Lraisers. al4 ..g ~.. .r ~.
To Isaac Russell of National he paid
1926, for head averaging ll5O lbs, and
also 5 head to weigh 1000 lbs. each at
$50 per hundred, deliverable by the Goth
of April. To DR.. Little Of Farmersburg
he pays $3.50 for two head to average HOO
deliverable April Goth. 10 John Hulver-
son of Marion 1885, for 4 head weighing
1900 pounds each. 10 Thos. Anderson of
Strawberry Point S5O5, for head weigh
ing 1900 each. 10 James Miner of Little
Grant, Wisconsin, 6 cents pound for 10
head weighing 100 each. In all he has
paid out not much short ofn $4,000
for beef for the McGregor Market. Cav
elti L Bergman also keep well-stocked
shop Of choice meats of all kinds, but we
have no report of their purchases. Our
meat markets are of the A No. kind
1t is complained sometimes that beef is
very high by the steak, but beef is not all
steak and it is only the choice pieces which
are sold at so much profit. Figure up the
amount of waste, take into account the
value now Of hide and tallow (equal to not
much more than the gross cost Of the ami
mal) count how great portion Of the car
cass that is sold quite low-and you will
see butcher must make his average come
up by getting good, paying price for
choice cuts. We have examined this mat
ter somewhat and since that examination
We are better satisfied with the knights Of
the Cleayer.
WILLIAMS & Bro. have removed to the
room recently occupied by Woollis-
croft 4 Lacy on Main street. In the mean
time they will commence tho new brick