New Oregon plaindealer. (New Oregon, Iowa) 1859-1866, 1861-08-30

| turning prophet, and predicting q mil
tary dictatorial government in this
country. He had no faith in the sta
bility Of free institutions He said:
Il can conceive ola time when this Cousti-
tuition shall not be in existence; when We shall
have an absolute military dictatorial govern.
ment, transmitted from age to age, with
men at its head who are made rulers BY mil.
itary commission, or claim an hereditary
right to govern those over whom they are
placed
Mr.. Banks anticipations and desires
are about being realized. He conceived
ola time when the Constitution should
cease to exist, and when an absolute
military dictatorial government should
take its place, and behold how his con-
ceptions have taken form and substance,
and how he himself is made ruler by
military commission under this new
form of Government. Need we inter-
rogats Mr.. Banks further? No, so we
pass on to another witness. Whom
shall we call next? Suppose we take
Horace Greedy. Well, Mr.. Greedy,
what did you think Of the Union? l
thought, answered Mr.. Greedy, speak
ing in my Editorial capacity pending
the Kansas Nebraska Bill, and wrote
as follows:
we urge, therefore, unbendins determi.
nation on the part of the Northern members
hostile to this intolerable outrage, and de.
mand Of them, IN behalf of peace, in behalf Of
freedom, in behalf Of justice and humanity
resistance to the last Better that confusion
should enuse-better that discord should
reign in the national councils-better that
Congress should break up in wild discord-
nay better that the Capital itself should blaze
by the torch Of the inceudiary, or fall and
bury its inmates beneath its crumbling ruins,
than that this perfdy and wrong shall be
finally accomplished
Was there not disunion and treason
in these sentiments, to say nothing Of
q thousand more similar expressions
sent forth for years through tho New
York Tribune. Yet, Mr.. Greedy is q
Unionist now, it seems, although he
has never changed his sentiments nor
principles. We cannot quite see how a
man or party can be for the Union
now, and without changing their prin-
ciples, have been disunionists and trail
tors. Being disunionists once and not
having changed their principles, the
conclusion is Irresistible that they are
so still, and we so regard them.
We next turn to Senator Wade, Of
Ohio, and put him on the stand. Hear
his testimony in 1856. lie said:
There was really no Union between the
North and the South and he believed no two
nations upon the earth entertained feelings of
more bitter rancor towards each other than
these two sections Of the Republic. The only
salvation Of the Union, therefore, was to be
found in divestingit entirely from all faint Of
slavery. There was no Union in the South.
Let US have Union, or let US sweep away
this remnant which wo call Union
Another leader is Senator John P.
Hale. on the 31st of May, 1848, he
said:
Let the consequences be what they may, I
am willing to place myself upon the great
principle of human right; to stand where the
word of God and my own conscience concur
in placing me. and there bid defiance to all
consequences. And in the end, if this Union,
bound as it is to the hearts of the people by
50 many endearing associations, has no other
principle Of cement than the blood of human
slavery, LET 1T sUNbER.
And at various other times in the
Senate and in the Forum he reiterated
disunion sentiments. YET John P.
Hale is now regarded as staunch
friend Of the Union, without having
changed his principles an iota.
We have another example of
the ''no-party" ism of the admin