North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1868-08-05

We are in receipt Of a handsomely.
printed and most able Democratic paper,
dated Middletown, Conn.,, entitled sour
Country" and edited by TOWNSEND p.
ABELL. For the benefit of our readers,
and to show our appreciation of this val
ued exchange, we clip from it the following
editorial and extracts. Connecticut star
ted the ball of political reconstruction in
the North and all the Democrats Of the
West rise up to call her blessed:
Sick OF R%adicalism.
They arc coming out for Seymour,
Fire hundred thousand more!
EVERYWHERE exchanges are going on
| from the Radical to the. Democratic ranks.
| Among the latest of those who have re-
nonnced Grant and taken ground on the
true Union side, is Major Gen. w. L.
Ward, of KY, who was a gallant Union
soldier in the recent civil war. lie comes
out for Seymour and Blair. Gen. Ward
is known everywhere as a gallant soldier.
! lie served honcrably in the Mexican war;
has represented the 4th Kentucky district
in Congress, and distinguished himself in
the late wal as one of the bravest, and
most efficient generals in the Federal ar
my.
The Clinton Co. (Ill.) Independent,
formly q Radical organ, has abandoned
that party and advocates the true repub-
lican principles of Democracy. The editor
of the Independent has heen,a Republican
ever since the organization OF that party,
but he says he ''can't standit any longer
A recent number of his paper had the fol-
lowing sharp but true paragraph:
"Nearly all the decent men who ever
belonged to. the Republican or Radical
party have left, and many more will leave
it as soon as they learn the truth. Chief
Justice Chase, Senators Trumbull, Grimes,
Ross, Fessendcn, Cowan, Doolittlc, Dixon,
and even the President of the United
States have left the party since it fell into
the hands of such dirty thieves as Beast
Butler, Dirty Work Logan, and the original
fanatics and abolitionists like Stevens and
Sumner
And the Church Union, q ''progressive''
religious journal, which is certainly not
Democratic, thus abandons Grant to his
ung.dly associates: i
"Gen. Grant is not n fit man for q Chris
tan to support. = Il Here now IS this
speechless sphynx enveloped in a cloud OF
tobacco smoke-silent, stubborn man OF
the world. Suppose he takes it into his
head to convert his four years. grant OF
power into a life-lcase, or any other whimt
He has the army at his command and
every evil influence in the land will sup
port him. We do not say this will be.
but is t proper for Christian men to give
over the executive power of this nation
into such hands?'
The Providence (R. H. Journal a stiff
Radical paper, has the followining per
tinent paragraph:
"Scnator Doolittlc, Andrew johnson
Edger Cowan, G. A. Browning, William
II. Seward, Gideon Wells, Frank Blair
William II. Evarts, Montgomery Blair
and Chief Justice Chase were among thu
most trusted and radical leaders of thu
Republican party, in the beginning Q
1861. More in sorrow than in danger w
have to concede that these men are nov
acting against the party which honorc'
and trusted them.
A Western German paper, the organ o
the Turner's Society, likewise deserts tn
Radical party, for sufficiently strong rea
sons, two of which arc added:
3. We will not vote for Grant, becaus
the Chicago platform is not a forward, bu
a retrogade step. We will here only ca
5 attention to the plank which declares 3tha
negro suffrage must be carried out in tn
$ South but not in the North. BY this scul
rilous pusillanimity it is sought to inveigl
conservative votes, but this delusion wi
soon be dispelled. Whoever is opposed t
negro suffrage in the North will wish t
E see the South exempt from the sam
, blessing.
4. We will not vote for Grant, because
by the result of the recent Impeachment
trial, the powers ofthe President have bee
enlarged that to place them in the hand
of a soldier, in case of a revolution {
foreign war may prove the destruction
the Republic. Silent, ambitious Grant
best adapted to carry out treasonable. d
, signs, more so than a Democratic Presidel
from the civil ranks. Democrats cann'
!. make matters worse than they now ar
Let them exert themselves to this end;
will bring the public ooner to its sob
sense.