Year: 1861

handed US last week Tor publication, bat
owing to crowd of other matter, was left
over for this issue:


Editors Times II notice in the McGre.
gor Daily Press Of the 25th inst, an attack
Of the most outrageous character on the
Hon. Reuben Noble, which judging from
its style Ihave no doubt emcnstcd from
the prolific brain Of the senior editor Of that
very interesting sheet Were it not for the
fact that this is not the first time this has
occurred, but is a repetition of what has
taken place before, and that too in more
aggravating terms, it might be we'll to pass
it by as unworthy Of notice-considcring
the character of the paper in which it ap-
pears, and more especially the editor who
penned it-as the Fress for the last few
weeks has teemedwith slurs and irsinuations
toward Mr.. NOBLE for the course he has re-
Gently pursued in regard to the coming
State and County elections. las Repub.
lican and as one of Mr. Mobiles numerous
friends, protest against this unrishteous and
unmanly attack upon citizen whose char
acter is above reproach, anil to whose dis
interested labors more than any one else
the Republicans Of Northern Iowa are in
debted for their victory last fall.


The editor Of the Press very sapiently
remarks of Mr.. Noble, that since 'he knew
his private sentiments he never looked up
on him as Republican" This may all
be true, and if SO is the only item of truth
which graccs this whole paragraph Of ca.
lumnies. Looking at Republican princi-
Piles from the stand point, which the en-
lightcned editor of the Press erjoys, who
looks upon this war as not for the preser
vation Of the Union, and the liberties Of
the people, that we may be able to trans
nit to our children unimpaired the bless
ings Of great and good government
hut as for the absolute freeing Of every
slave in the land whether the Union is saw
cd or mott say that calling these Rcpub.
lican principles, probably Mr.. Noble does
not come up to the standard, and is not a
Republican. Mr. Noble looks upon the
preservation Of the American Union as the
only vital issue now before the people, and
the question Of slavery one that should be
left to take care Of itself in the mean time


Perhaps the charge that Mr.. Noble is not
now and nscer has been Republican, Eek
cept through policy" is so trivial a charge
as not to require notice. But this charge
comes with i'll grace, though very naturally
from the narrow and contracted mind Of
the editor Of the Press, who never had a
practical ,dea in his life, when We consider
that his miserable sheet was only saved
from the clutches Of the Sheriff short
time since, through the disintercsted cxcr-
tons Of the same man whose character and
principles he now maligns and traduces in
this ungrateful and untruth'ul manner.


But Mr.. Noble is only Republican EEK
cept through policy" Perhaps it is unne-
cessary to call the attention Of the editor of
the Press, and the people to the fact, that
the Hon. Reuben Noble has spent more
time and more money for the purpose Of
advancing Republican principles, than any
other man in this part Of the State, that
he has spent dollars where the interesting
Editor of the Press has spent prnnies,-
that he has spent days and weeks of time
in the same cause where that individual
has devoted as many minutes, and that
he was one Of the very first men in Clay
ton County who organized the Republican
party here. And now can the Editor OF
the Press point to the 'policy" that has
dictated all this expenditure Of time and
money save devotion to the principles
which he advocated? When and where
has he ever asked for Office L? Has he not
repeatedly been urged to permit his name
to go before the people in connection with


important Offices, and invariably refused
Was he not offered the nomination by the
republican party to Congress, when there
was no doubt of his election? Has he
ever intimated that he desired any Office of
any kind. 1t is pity that he would not
run for Office, for he would be triumphant
ly elected, and the lies and slanders of the
Press would assist very materially in the
operation. The editor of the Press very
well knows that he tells gross falsehood
when he says that "scores of good and true
Republicans in this and other counties have
told him that they never believed him,
(Noble) reliable, and hence are prepared to
see him now at the first opportunity at
tempt to divide and dis ract the party which
he has evidently served only in the hope
that it might serve him." He cannot pro-
duce ten men in the city of McGregor and
not fifty in this Judicial District, who are
acquainted with Mr.. Noble, will respond
to his proposition, and he is at liberty to
count all the personal enemies Of Mr.. No.
BILE he can can find in his extended search.
! Such unmanly, miserable falsehoods as
these which tho miserable editor of tho
Press has coined will only recoil on his
own head, and he ought to blush for his
own reputation, and hide his head in shame
AFTER the utterance and repetition Of these
ungrateful and base charges. A paper and
an editor who has so little regard for truth
and dccency-to say nothing Of the en-
dowmcnt Of common sense, ought not to
be tolerated in any community who have
the slightest regard for any of the common
but noble instincts of human nature The
Press has long misreprese"ted the Republi-