North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1870-04-27
To the Point.

10 the POlnt.
Hon. George I. Cults, one Of the
ablest jurists of the country, and who was
a bosom friend of Daniel Webster, gives
the following account of the last words of
that great man upon the subject OF poll.
tics. Mr.. Webster died just before the
close Of the presidential canvass in 1852.
when the race was between Pierce and
SCOTT. lie was himself supported BY
few old national wings, a Mr.. Jenkins, Of
Georgia, being on the ticket with him,
and Mr.. Webster was voted for even after
his death few days. Mr.. Curtis says Of
his last political conversation with Mr..
Webster:
Scaling me to his bedside by my Chris
tan name, he said: 'The whig candidate
will not DC elected. You love your coun-
try, and you think its welfare involved in
wing success. This has been so but let
me warn you, as you love your country, to
give No .cauntenance to- a sectional, geo.
graphical party. The wings, after this
election, will break up, and upon the ruins
Of our party sectional party will arise.
The stability Of the Union wiU hereaf ier
depend upon the Democracy.
Was there ever anything uttered by
mortal man more prophetic than this ?
Did net the old wing party so to pieces,
and was not the union broken as soon as
the democracy lost the control of political
affairs, and it has not yet been restored,
and never can be upon the Old basis Of
state sovereignty and individual protec-
tion.-BTlington Aryus.
The American Bishops ut the Council.
According to the London TINES
correspondent, the Bishops are getting
tired of Rome and the Roman prelates.
"There never is an ordinary sitting
now without application for leave to
return home. Twelve American Bis
hops have gone of, and all the rest
would if they could with any decency,
They avow, without the least reserve,
that they are utterly disguised with the
whole affair. 1t is quite out of their
line. They can do nothing except say
Amen to what is done. They don't
want the DEGREES, but know that they
must help to pass them. They have
always most faithfully and honestly
assumed the Pope to be infallible, and
don't see the necessity of sayingit in a
more express and destinations manner,
and so provoking quarrel with people
they now get on well with. As for the
Cardinals and prelates really doing the
work Of the Council, the Americans ad-
nit that they are wonderful men in
theology and in the Canon law, in books
and ia Latin but call them children in
business and in the affairs of the world.
They feel themselves hulnbled to be
acting the parts Of mutes and dummies
when such persons have the lead, and
most certainly will carry of all the
honors and prizes. Anybody who made
it his business to cultivate the acquaint.
ance of either the American or the
Irish bishops could send you columns
of such complaints but of course you
would never learn much Of the inten
tions or the strategy of an army from
those who admit themselves to bt
common soldiers and no more. l see i,
boosted, by the by, notonly in the ultra
montana papers, but also in the liberia
Italian, that all the ability, all thu
learning, all the eloquence of the Coun
Gil, is in the Italians first, then tn
Spaniards, and after them the Frencl
and Germans; where as, they boast
the English, Irish, and Americans don
know what to do, having nothing to say
and are simply lost here. 1t is tn
Latin race, they conclude, that is tn
soul OF the world" 0
Mr.. George w. Bungay, in an article j
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