New Oregon plaindealer. (New Oregon, Iowa) 1859-1866, 1861-06-28
For the Pl0!n DeG'er'
THE Memoir or SENi-
TOR DOUGLAS.


THE MEMORY or SENA-
TOR DOUGLAS.
To the Editor of the New Oregon
Plain Dealer,
Dear Sir:
I had the pleasure to day, for the
first time, of seeing your paper, bear
ING date June seventh. Pleasure ?
Yes--in reading its varied and spicy
contents, giving evidence of ability in
tcllisence, true patriotism in its edito-
rial department, and of business ener-
~ in its advertising patrons, who take
the right path to success in keeping
The people, who read your paper thor
oughly posted up where their wants
may be supplied and 'bargsins"may be
had. In such manner alone can prop
ertv owners and business men best ad
vance their private interests-by liber-
ally sustaining through advertising in
aNd subscribing for the local Journals
of their own town. and Away paying
the Printer promptly.
Yes; all these afforded me pleasure,
hut, as "there is no rose without
ther,,'' no JOY for mortals without some
tinge of sadness, so was it in this case.
Your paper was in mourning as fit
ting expression of our grief for the
death of that truly noble son Of the
West-Stephen A. Douglas, who,
though s.nall..in statue. was Giant IL
intellect, craftsmanship and patriotism
compared with his political co-tempora-
ries, overlapping them all not only in
genius but in that spirit of nationality
that scared high enough to view and
provide for, by wise legislative fore
sight, the material, moral and political
welfare of every section of our believed
Union. housing politicians could not
appreciate his far-seeing policy; they
could but try to defeat it, thus bring
ing ruin on themselves, misery and civ
il war on their country, breaking his
great and loyal heart!
All henor to you. as true Demo
crat, for your just euloslum or his life
long devotion to his country's interests,
the integrity and perpetuation Of this
still glorious Union!
You say, "political hatred with itsven
om-tonguel and raucorous bitterness,
that so madly beat against him, is hush
ed into perpetual oblivion" Would that
it we're. for the honor of humanity;
but, alas! Dear Sir, it is not so: even
papers protesting to be Democratic (O:
not satisfied with having virulently
slandered him while living, have, since
his death, invented or uttered the vi
lest calumnies, "picking oat the glazed
eyes of the dyin "gnawing like hun
CRY and Unsuitable vultures at his hard
ly cold remains; backing the still liv-
ing memory of his heroic Efe-battle
for his country's and mankinl's peace
and well being, by the most vile SLAM
ders and basest insinuations. Fore.
most, almost alone here, of all papers
in this course towards the lamented
Douglas. has been the Brooklyn Eagle.
which, for the interests Of its pr0prc-
tor, of the power and influence of the
Democracy in this City of Churches;
and of the advancement of every noble
cause local or national, is unfortunately
edited by toady on aristocracy, a
subrosa enemy of Democratic institu
tons and prosecutor Of all who, like
Douglas, springing from the people
dare to raise an Independent voice in
advocacy Of popular rights.
In one Of the issues Of last weeks
Eagle, he gave currency to the SLAM
derous statement that Senator Doug
lass made his recent great Uniol
Speech, not from Patriotic intentions
but in hopeless submission to threats
made by Union men holding mortgages
on his estate, that if he refused the,
would punish him by foreclosure o
these mortgages. Than the utterance
as if it were a truth, of so vile and ma