New Oregon plaindealer. (New Oregon, Iowa) 1859-1866, 1861-08-23

VI tne SCaJeS, nor tne1r Otner peaceaDl0 10
habitants who may veI&e % reclaim ths
constitutional, rights liberties of the
States, and people, or va. pr other causes
good or bad, may b e6hoIiaSg to the view
or marked by tie suspicious Of tlfe President
or to be theugh .dangerous to his or their
elections or otheENhterest, public or personal,
that the friepdl4 has been selected
as the safest sIbJect Of first experiment,
but the citizen will soon follow, or rather as
already followed; for, already has seditlon
act marked him for prey. That these and
successive acts ofthe same character, unless
arrested on the theshhold may tend to drive
these States into revolution and blood, and
will furnish new calumnies against repnbli-
can governments, and new pretexts for those
who wish 1t to be believed that men cannet
be governed but by rod Of iron; that would
! be dangerous deluslon were confidence in
the men Of our choice to silence our fears for
the safety of our rights; that confidence is
everywhere the parent of dsspetisu,; free
government is founded in Jealousy and not in
confidence; it is the jealousy and not conf
dence which prescribes limited constitutions
to bind down those whom we are obliged to
trust with power, that our constitution has
fixed the limits to which and ne farther our
confidence may 60; aud let the honest advo
Gates of confidence read the alien and sedi-
ion acts. and say if the constitution has not
been wise in fixing limits to the government
it created. and whether we should be wise in
destroying those limits! Let him say what
the government is, if it be not tyranny,
whichtthe men of our choice have conferred on
the President, and the President of our choice
has assented to and accepted over the friendly
strangers, to whom the mild spirit of our |
country and it's laws have pledged hospitality
and protection; that the men Of cur choice |
have more respected the suspicious Of the |
President than the solld rights of innocence,
the claims of justification, the sacred force of
truth, and the ferns and substance Of law |
and Justice
In questions Of power then let no more be |
said OF confidence in man. but bind him down |
from mischief by the chains Of the Constitu.
tion That this commonwealth does there.
fore call on its co-States for an expression of
their sentiments on acts concerning aliens,
and for the punishment of certain crimes,
hereinbefore specified, plainly declaring
whereby these acts are Or are n0t authorized
by the federal compact. And it doubts not
that their sense will be SO announced as to
prove their attachment to limited government,
general or particular. and that the
rights and liberties OF their co. States will be
exposed to no dangers by remaining embark
ed on u common bottom with their own, But
they will concur with tAis commonwealth in
the said acts as so palpable against
the Constitution as to amount to an uhdis.
guised declaration, that the compact is not
meant to Re the measure of the power of the
General Government but that it will proceed
in the exercise over these States of all powers
whatsoever. That they viii! view this as siez-
ing the rights of the States and consolidating
them in the hands of tho General Govern
ment, with q power assumed to bind the
States mot merely in cases made tederaD but
in all eases whatsoever, by laws made, not
with their consent, but by others against their
consent and this would be to surrender the
form Of government we have chosen, and liv.
ing under one deriving its power from its
will, and not from our authority: and that
the CO. States recurring to their natural rights
not made federal, will concur in declaring
these void and of no force, and will each
unite with this commonwealth in requesting
their repeal at the next session Of Congress.