New Oregon plaindealer. (New Oregon, Iowa) 1859-1866, 1861-05-17
WHIT PATRIOTISM DEMANDS.

For the nrSC tllnc III Tire ulStOEv VI
governments do we see the people rush
ing to the destruction of government,
against the forms Of which there is no
complaint, and in the execution of
whose laws all sections alike have en-
joyed the largest liberty, and the most
perfect protection in person and prop
erty. Is it not the highest duty of
every enc that cherishes this govern
ment, Of every one that cheerfully o.
beys all its laws, to look into the caus-
es of this wide spread and devastating
alienation of the public heart, and cure
the evil that is fastening the disintcgra.
ton Of the oest government in the
world by removing its causes? Over thir-
ty years ago political party was orea-
nizcd in the New England States, re-
eeivins its prin ciples from Exeter
Hall, pledged to the determination of
African slavery. During all this time
no opportunity mas been suffered to pass
unimproved for impressing these views
upon the northern mind. 4 systemat-
ic course Of falsehood has grown up and
been fosterel all resulting in the one
general object the extinction of Slavery.
At first the institution was represented
as only moral evil, but now it is said
to emhody in its range the sum of all
villainies. Still it was not the slavery
question that enlisted their sympathy;
it has only been used as means to ac-
complish an end, and that is the con-
troll of the government. But, one step
in revolution begets the necessity for
another, and has really made the re-
publican press Of the country a mouth
piece for an armed mob, comprising
directly and remotely all the elements
of Northern society. They pnt mp an
abstraction; Slavery prohibition, to
hide the eleven foot and when the time
for action arrives organize the terrific
ries upon the principle they have COM
bntted all their lives. And so with
the secessionists, they too put up an
abstraction ;-protection of slavery in
the Territories, like the Repub-
licans in regard to prohibition voted all
action upon it unnecessary. 1t is the
salvation Of this class of men North and
South to dissolve the Union. and their
ruin to fail. Neither side could afford
to avow their cherished purpose. 1t
would not do to tell the people of the
real purpose. s. Yancey & Co. "pre-
eipltated the Co ton states. while
Seward Il Co." have educated the Nor
thern mind. and fired the Northern
heart" Both sections have proceeded
step by step, controlled by radical
ambitious men and struck at the right
time. Mutual proyocations have been
furnished by each to stimulate their
constituents up to point sufficiently
aggressive. The traitors of the South,
and the radicals of the North, both
saw from the commencement that It
would take the sword to divide the
Union, hence they must have war. 1t
was dangerous to their purposes to have
peace. To have peace would not fire
anybo'ly's heart; for each section to
hold the language of Cancellation, the
seeded States might return; and 9th.
ers might not secede that would be dam
geroas to the powers ambitious to he.
10 talk of the merits of the questions
producing these results is worse than
folly, for really they are without merit.
The wrongs complained of by the
South are really less now than they
have ever been before, while the North
IN fighting against 'the cncroachments
OF the slave power" has been contend
ing against power that has never
since the formation of the Government
extended slavery over one foot of terri
tory that was no. slave when we obtain
ell it.
Enquire Of any sensible man if this
Union has not been most glorious and
happy one, with the utmost freedom
and protection to both property and