North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1870-04-27
The Divine Goddess.

demands of the Office hold less impera-
tive, should certainly be present at the
meeting to be held in New York on the
9th inst, to commemorate the ratification
or the Fifteenth amendment to the con-
st;tution of the United States. This is
the crown Of glory upon the entire anti
slavery policy of the country. 1t is a
marvel, miracle, that in ten years such
changes have been wrought! Slavery
abolished, and the slaves raised to citi-
zens, and the nation changed in its ideas
and purposes. Liberty is of Gsd, and
cannot perish. Very truly,
''GEeRGE s. Boutwell,"
Some seven or eight years ago, the DEM
ocratic party said it twas impossible for
a State to get out of the union, and the
republicans replied by pointing to the fact
that about u dozen were out, and it was
requiring vast amount of Cat stall strat
egy to get them in again. The argument
was with the democrats, and the facts
with their opponents.
The theory of Mr.. Boutwell,, thai
Liberty is of God and it cannot perish, y
is undoubtedly correct. 1t can be dem
onstrated to be true as easily as an old
school Presbyterian divine can establish
the verify Of ualvanism, or Methodist
can prove that free grace is the essence OF
Christianity, or Baptist Can show, be-
yond peradvcnture, that immersion is a
saving process, or Universalist that hell
is humbug, or an infdel that the many
great and eminent, and pure men who
have believed in the bible as divine rev.
elation have been the victims of delusion
and propagators OF priestcratt.
Propably there are thousands of men
in the United States to-day, who for the last
six years have been living under military
rule so absolute in its character that it was
amenable to no law, and the fountain OF
authority of which was the will of sin,
Gle man, who believe with Mr.. Boutwell,
that liberty is both divine and immortal,
in spite of their own experiences, proving
that she may be assassinated by the men
swern to her guardianship.
oday, congress is debating whether
State in the union shall be placed under
the absolute control of a man of infamous
character, convicted upon incontrovertible
testimony of having employed his Office
of governor of the State to rob the State
Treasury. How do the attributes which
MIR. Boutwell, ascribes to liberty protect
the people of Georgia?
The question whether the State of Ten
nessee shall be remanded to the military
rule will not be decided by any rights
guaranteed to her by the federal consti-
tuition, or inhering in her people as an
independent community, entitled to the
privilege of self'government by virtue Of
their manhood, and all of the principles
underlying and composing our political
system. Congress declares that it has au.
thority to override all these, and ut its
own pleasure annihilate the State govern
ment. Whether it will so exercise the
authority claimed depends largely upon
the report of single committee, under
the control of Il man whose name is the
synonym of all that is meanest and most
vicious.
There now scarcely remains doubt
that it is the purpose Of Congress to defy
law and Justice by refusing seats to the
lawfully-elected members Of Congress
from Louisiana, and g'viag seats to men
from tina, state whom the people rehuksd
and rejected, in voting them down by
overwhelming majori,ies. The people
declare that they will have certain men to
represent them, and that they will not
have others and Congress rejects those
whom the people approved, and admits
those whom the people condemned. This
is done in contempt of law, and of facts
concerning which there can he no contro>
versy among candid and reasonable men.
Are people thus controlled free
people? Does liberty exist for those who
have over them master with authority
to reverse their decisions in elections fair
ly conducted under the forms appointed
by the constitution and laws of the State
Ii congress may exercise such power in
dealing with Louisiana, why may it not
be exercised ..in dealing with Illinois,
or any other State Of the Union
General Garield-good republican au-
thority-says contested eiectlens in Con-
gress are not decided by the law and the
evidence, but by partisanship.
81, Adelbert Ames, brevet major gener
al United States army, provisional gov
ernor Of the State of Mississippi, de-
hereby certify that Adelbert Ames wal
elected United States Senator by the leg
islature of this State on the 18th day o
January, 1870"
This is not bogus certificate. 1t is a
true copy Of the original, bearing th'
seal of the State of Mississippi, and BY
virtue OF which exBrevet Major Genera
Adelbert Ames, and ex-provisional govern
or of Mississippi, now holds seat in th'
United States senate. He was not an in
habitant Of the State at the time he wa
elected, and the judiciary committee o
the senate said he hai no valid CLAN t,
a seat. He boasts that as a prOvisiona
governor he SO arranged matters that th'
majority of the people Of the state can
not obtain possession Of the state gov
eminent in five wears