New Oregon plaindealer. (New Oregon, Iowa) 1859-1866, 1861-12-20
WHAT DOES IT .Nr.tN

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WHAT DOES IT .NEAN?
1t is one Of the miSiortuncs oi the country
that So vile an abolition;>t rs Simon Cameron
of Pa should bc permitted 70 sit another day
AS a member of the Cabinet.
There is either an evident c,ashins between
the views Of the President and his Secretary
Of War or the report Of the latter Is but the
illumination Of the Presidents views in init
mating to Congress that the Executive. il
Congress should pass law OF emancipation,
it would be considered.
If there is radical difference in their
views. it is surely 4 pity Tor the welfare OF
the country thas the President lacks the back
hone Of Old hickory, for in that event the
hoary-headel old traitor would not only have
his walking papers. hut would be domicilei
a, Fl. Warren with the other celebrates Of
the land
If the policy the Administration is to be
eman :ipation, then we have tie entire peo-
ple of Va. Ky. Tenn. Nd. De-. and No.
transformed from lovalsts into rebels; all for
the qualification of the aboltNuists Of the
country. and who as a general thin@, stay
away from fighting the battles Of the coun-
try.
Eurhcr than this. We believe that the att
thortative promul CATION of such q damnahle
doctrine ~ the settled policy Of the country
in the conduct of the war would result in the
immediate disbandmen, of the Federal army.
All conservative men every where admit that
the Constitution ofthe United States rccog.
nizes and protects tie institution Of slavery.
in all sections of the union where it exists by
the local law o! my particular State, and
such we know has been the practice of the ex-
ecutive the legislative and the judicial de-
rartments Of the government down to the in.
auSuration Of the present executive. And we
cannot do Mr.. Lincoln the injustice to believe
Tor Il moH.ent that he seriously contemplates
placing the government in position so false
to the rights of loyal Union men in the South.
as TO favor such ruinous course. We all
know how the editors of loyal papers in the
South have contendei right in the face and
ewes of the rebellion for the Union the Consti-
tuition and the Laws: how they have retained
their hold upon the sympathles of SO large
portion of the South and held them loyal to
the Federal Government: that this loyalty
has been fed and kept alive only hy assurances
of the strongest character from various sourc-
es of high authority all ndins to show that
the Federal Government recognized slaves as
property-that the proclamation of the Gen.
erals commanding its armies must recognize
and respect the binding obligations of the
law and the decisions of the courts in rela-
ton thereto; and all rejecting men can see
at glance that if the government attempts
by one fell swoop to destroy forever all this
property disregardins alike the claims of
rebels and loyalists to protection, that these
mighty influences viii all be welded against
the Federal Government.
1t seems to US that they will insist that If
the Federal Government is unable to protect
them in the quiet and peacab!e enjoyment of
their property in should let them 60 in peace
and provide for their own safety and protec-
ton.
With what show of truth and business
they might urge this view Of the case we
leave others to determine, but certain it is
they will plant themselves upon this seemns
immutab!e and self-evdent truth. We leave
it for our readers each fer himself to make a
similar case for his own dcar.self and testing
his patriotism by that standard tell US frank
~ if the government acknowledged itself IN
able to afor'l him protection uader it AIDE
quate to the enjoyment of Ms rights Of prop
erty, and rights Of person, if he would not
claim in his own case that society had be-
come resolved into its original elements and
that the highest duty of every man was to
provide and take care Of his own person and
possessions and he governed accordingly.