New Oregon plaindealer. (New Oregon, Iowa) 1859-1866, 1861-08-09

ment and people Of the United States
have become involved in civil wal
which threatens to be alike disastrous
to the form Of government which expe
rience has proved to be the most con
ducive to the happiness Of mankind
and to result in imposing upon the
present and future generations onerous
burdens which it should be the duty Of
a government having any regard fol
The we'll being of the people to avoid
1t becomes an incumbent duty upon the
people for whose benefit alone govern
ment is instituted and who having the
right to alter or abolish when it ceases
to be administered for their happiness
and prosperity, have also the right to
determine and to direct how it shall be
administered when they find it depart
ing from the principles upon which it
was founded and to be prcc;pitating III
to war and ruin the fabric Of civil soci-
ely instead ofp1cserring the people in
peace, promoting their prosperity and
securing their rights. Viewing, there
fore, dispassionatsly, the present con-
dition of our distracted country, and
with the single purpose of making an
effort to avert impending and other
threatening calamities and of restoring
peace, founded upon that fraternal pat
triotism which gave birth to the Amer
lean Union, and which preserved its
integrity till the election ola President
upon principle which was hostile to
the Constitution of the United States
and antagonistic 10 the vested rights Of
the people Of nearly half the States of
the Union, do declare.
1st r solved. That VIC regard the present
condition of the country, the civil war in
which the people are engaged, the effort to
d;smcmber the Union and all the concomi-
tant evils which aGlict us as a Nation. as the
legitimate result Of the successful teachin OF
the doctrine and policy Of the "Errepressible
Confetti a doctrine and a policy which ar
rayed Northcrn s,nt:mont in ntag,nism to
the Constitutional rights ofthe people of the
sla 'e States, and which proclaim an 'srrepres
sible' and unceasing hostility to the domes-
tic institutions Of our bretheren of the South
End. Resolved, That notwithstanding the
provocaton given to the people of the South
by the manifestation Of hostility towards their
Institutions by a minority IF the people of the
North: we unequivocally con denim the course
they have pursued to obtain redress of their
grievances, believing as we do that aided by
the conservative people of the Northern
States, their grievances would have been
redressed and their rights and interests re-
spected and secured in Constitutional man.
ner and by Constitutional means.
Sd. Resolved, That we are heartily op.
posed to the doctrine of Secession a politi cal
hcresy, unwarranted by the Constitution, det.
rimental to the best interests of the whole
country, and destructive of the Union and
that glorious heritage Of liberty bcqusathed
to us by our f.thers.
4th Resolved. That our obligations to
government, the duty we owe to posterity
and tho advancement of political freedom
throughout the land, alike command of us the
preservation and perpetuity of our Federal
Union, and we hereby pledge the whole pow.
er Of the Democratic party to every just and
constitutions! means to maintain the same
whether its destruction be attempted by the
nsidious teaching of the higher law doctrine
Of the Abolition Republican party. or by the
open attacks Of men in armed rebellion
aga. Hst it.
5th. Resolved, That as we are taught and
admonished by the experience of every free
people whose political existence was extin
guished by the assumption Of arbitrary pow
or and the violation of fundamental prinsi
pies to resist the encroachment of Executive
Prerogatives, we, therefore, emphaticaly ant
uneqnvocaly coad9 ann the assumption o
unauthorized power by the Executive of th
United States or by any officer ofthe Govern
mont.
9Th. Resolved, "That our Union was forme'
in peace, and can meyer be perpetuated b,
force of arms and that a republican govern
ment held together by the sword becomes
military desf fotism."
7th R.solyel, Tat The Democratic part
are in favor of q Convention Of the diteren
States ofthe entire Union, as soon as the sam