New Oregon plaindealer. (New Oregon, Iowa) 1859-1866, 1861-08-16
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ATROCIOITS,

eW:
The grand result-the only solution of the
qnestion--is fast coming up: the emancipa.
non q me siopeS by the nation. What other
escape Is there from our difficulties! Why
should not our people and our statesmen
look it fairly IN the faee9
The South is far stronger and better sup.
Piled than we suppose. She is IN earnest
She believes herself bitterly vronged. She
is not likely to think herself less so after a
blockade and q campaign She is encour,
aged by the base sympathy of England She
never could feel any surety fer slavery in an
other Union with us. She hQtes u.s.
Il
Evidently there is but one path of safety
ana Y'ctory-one to pertinent settlement
One TO quiet subjugaton of the South.
Do not fear it! Look it 10 dly in the face
name J: the emancipation orthe slayes.
let our a,mies as 4 military necessity,
and styategical act, declare freedom to ALL
and N moment we have an army o! 1000
O0J human beings On our stde-allies in eve
ry house and on every plantation The ene-
my is demora}ized Panic sweeps through
due southern land Here is foe more dread
FIJI than northern armies
| Fighting 80 near our own forces we may
hope the revengefUl feelings Of these poor
oppressed creatures would he restrained
| Still, there would inevitably be desolation
and destruction sweeping like a tempest
otter the southern land. dnd 1t wculd be
just. These men have borne the wrongs Of
centuries. aud why should not their their up-
rSing be bl0odyl Let them have their f, ee-
dom If they can win it--e,en though it he
oSer the corpses of their masters and the ash
es Of their homesceids. After this tempest
OF fire and havoc would arise better era
ior the South. Free labores would pour in;
wasted fields would he cu!iSated by new
hands, ruined cities wjutu be bxiit up tc.
northern capital and il uAy, and tlt
problem and the task for the civilization OF
the coming age would be the education and
preparation OF four millions of blasks-per-
aaps through some system of apprenticeship
Tor the rights and privileges OF free labor
ers.
For such glorious result, eren If 1t come
through tears and bood, DO ,re deroutlg praY'
There never was contained i'll the
same space 80 much undiluted wicked
ness as in this article from the Mdt-
pendent. It bristies with crime in ev-
cry word. Each sentence contains the
mahgnity Of murder, The remarka5le
feature Of it is the declaration that IL
,0M be Just for the slaves to rise upon
their masters, and therefore for the
government to declare freedom to them.
Let ii be remarked that this language
applies to the South and to slaceyy.
No pains are taken even to confne it
to the rebels and their slaves. Now,
what .n idea Of just!ce the Rev. Henry
Ward Beecher possesses we are at loss
to determine. In this particular case
he regards everything as just which
good men hold as unjust. Here he as
sumes that southern men arr RESPONSE
bic for the existence of slavery in their
midst; yet history teaches US that the
present generation found the institu-
ton among thenl-lid not create it.
We all know, too, that shareholders are
educated in the belief that property in
negroes is as natural and UNSUITABLE as
in anything else. These are two facts
which would impress just men with
great force, and would, even il they be-
lieye human servitude wrong, cause
them to hesitate great while before
they would dream of the torch and the
knife, and all the horrors Of scrvile in
surrection, as a remedy. Yet this
blooly-m'nlel Beecher has no patience
with what he esteems a sin in others.
Whoever does what he deems wrong
should be butchered at the first con-
venient opportunity. The earth, ac-
cording to his creed, belongs to the
Saints of the Lord, and all who do not
agree with Beecher are not his saints,
and therefore should be exterminated by
the shortest process possible. We all
see how easy this would render the
work of conversion and reformation to
the reverend gentleman. Sinners would