New Oregon plaindealer. (New Oregon, Iowa) 1859-1866, 1859-12-23
inculcatcs and the measures it recon.

The author publishes the writtc:,
recommendations of VIM. Fl. Seward,
Theodore Parker, Cassius M. Clay, ard
Joshua r. Giddings. It's, moreover,
sent out on its mission with the writ
ten appreciation Of sixty-eiglt RepubIi
can members of Congress. 1t bears
with it the incontestible proofs Of its or
igin, its character and its objects. 1t
is offered by the Republican leaders as
a rude nccum, for the individual! -ac,:,-
bers Of their party. 1t is textbook
|of Republicanism. .....
On the title page We ind the follow
ing quotation from Shakespeare, as in
dication Of the ends at which the author
and the party for which he speaks,
aim:
"Coun.ry,nen! quo for simple justice at
your hands,
Nausht ese ask, nor less will have;
Act right, therefore, and yield MY claim.
| Or. bu The great God Mat muds oil things
ri fsht till from my bones my flesh be
! Aack'I"
| This is tho authors text. He as
sumcs that the party which he repre-
sents "has claim" fer which if not
yielded submissivcly, it will fight to the
bitter end. AS an illustration of the
ncture of this "claim," and the means
threatened to be used in yindicating it,
we give the annexed extracts from the
work before us:
- "For ourselves, as white peo-
pie, and Tor the negroes and other peo-
sons of whatever color or condition: we
demand ali the rights, interests and pre-
negatives, that are guaranteed to cor
responding classes OF mankind in the
! North, in England, in France, in Ger
many, or in any other civilized country.
any proposition that may be offered
concedinS less than this demand, acaH
he promptly and disdai'yully reject
| ed.'
| CAT once ie. the good and truo men
Of this country, the patriot sons o! the
patriot fathers, determine that the sun
{ which rises to celebrate the centennial
anniversary Of our national indepen-
dence. shall net set on the head Of any
slave within the Limits Of this KepuD-
lie. VIII not the non-slayoho!ac-s OF
the North, of the South, Of the East
and Of the West, heartily, unanimously
sanction this proposition! viii 1t not
be cl.ceriully inlorsed by many Of the
Shareholders themselves? Win any re-
spectacle man enter protest against
| it! On the 4th Of July, 18:6-soon-
or if we can---lct us make good, q. least
so far as we are concerned, the Decla-
ration Of Independence, which was
proclaimed in Philadelphia on the 4th
of July, 1716.
"To turn the slaves away from their
present horncs-away from all the prop
crty and means of support which their
labor has mainly produced, would be
unpardcnably cruel-cxceedingly un-
lust. Still more cruel and unjust would
it be. however, to the non-slaveholding
whites no less than to the negroes, to
grant further liberation to the existence
Of slavery. In any erent, come achat
acW, ira~spirc what nsay, the system
mast be abolished. The evils, if any,
which are to result from abolition, Can
not, by any manner ofmeans, be half as
great as the evils which are certain to
overtakc us in case ofits continuance.
The perpctuation of slavery is the eli
maxofi niqulty.
For the services Of the blacks from
the goth of August, 1920, up to the
4th of July, 1S69-an interval of pre-
ciscly two hundred and forty-eight years
ten months and fourteen days-their
masters, If unuilliny, ought, IN our
judgement, to be compelled to grant
them their frecdom, und TO pay each
{ ami epery one Of them at least sirty
, dollars CASH IN hand. The aggregate
: sum thus raised, would amount to abou'
3 two hundred and fifty millions Of dollars
which is less than the total market