New Oregon plaindealer. (New Oregon, Iowa) 1859-1866, 1862-05-30
ABOLITION AND SECESSION ;
... OR,
CAUSE AND EFFECT,
TOGETHER WITH THE
REMEDY FOR OUR SECTIONAL
TROUBLES.
BY A UNIONIST.
BY A UNIONIST.
ART II.
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THE FFECT.
The election 81 Mr. Lincoln, by an anti
southern party, ombodying the delusions W.
have been considering, and based on the as
sumption that southern society is fundamen-
tally wrong and Immoral, and that this society
should be reyolutionizcd or "abolished," with
the declaration that it designed to use the
government to accomplish this object, was
the greatest insult, indeed the greatest (moral
wrong ever inflicted (uncons ciously) on any
people, and when, as in this case, it was
done by portion of their own countrymen,
there are ne terms in our language that can
adequately express its enormity The in
suit of the Abolitionis's proper, for thirty
years past, have been grieyous indeed, and
hard to bear.-They charged through their
innumcrable tracts, lecturers, books and
newspapers that the eight millions of men
and women OF the South were living in the
daily practice of crime and immortality, and
labored, with the energy of devils incarnatc
to make the world believe their absurd state
ments. .- .. ..-a ... g. -s.sy r
But whatever tic lnsults and wrongs ofthe
Abolitionists proper, except to corrupt and
annually to entice away some hundreds Of
negroes from the South. they did not resort
to any practical means to irjurc the southern
confined their labors to the
of their foolish distractions in
respect to southern society, and when they
had thoroughly impregnated the northern
mind with their notions, they hoped to dis
solve the Union by inducing the northern
States to withdraw from it. When they be.
gan their enterprise" they expected to zen
lighten and purify" the South, and in.lEce
the men and women of that section to sabol-
ish' their supremacy over their negroes, and
affiliate with the subject race; but they have
long since abandoned any hope Of this kind,
and labored solely to prepare the northern
people for secession and separation from
those they charge with the practice of such
stupendous crimes. .g.
So far, then, as they were concearned, the
people of the South had no substantial reason
for coNsplaint, for free discussion and free
dom of opinion, however erroneous or even
should be, or might be, tolerated,
SO long as they took no practical steps to force
their absurd theories and assumptions on the
South. But when political party is organ
lied to reduce these theories to practice---to
get possession of the common government
and to make that an instrument for forcing
their dvgmas on the people Of the South-to
use their own government for doing that
which, could it ba done, would bring a doom
more horrible than any mankind have ever
known on the people of that secticn, then, it
is repeated, an insult and moral wrong was
inflicted that has no parallel in history
OF course such an issue, as that presented
by the party supporting Mr. Lincoln,
could not be accepted or tolerated in the
South, and Though few scattering votes
were cast in the bsrdcr, States, no cam
vass was admissible, and therefore, as
regards MIR. Lincoln's election. the people
o fourteen States were disfranchised as abso-
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lutely as if .hey were Cubans; or Mexicans
If, for example, as predicted once by Jo.
Smith, Mormoni.m should become so domi-
nant in the South and West as to enable its
followers to set up Presidential ticket
against the martial relation, surely New En-
gland, unatained by the delusion, would
mover consent to such a canvass with
in her borders. If it was assumed that the
present relation of the sexes was fundamen-
tally wrong and immoral, and though, as a
State institution, marriage might be tolerated
but the instant, the husband and wife passed
within federal Jurisdiction, the relations
should no longer be recognized, and the pow
er and prestige of the Federal Government
should be cast against it-surely, under such
circumstances, Massachusetts, would not on
ly refuse canvass of this kind within her
own limits, but would refuse to recognize a
President elected on such an issue.
tits not necessary to eater into any proof
in respect to which would be the greatest
OWL, abolition Of marriage in the North or the
abolition of slavery in the South /; the per-
version of the natural relations of the sexes,
or the corruption Of the natural relations Of
the races but every rational mind that shall
truly understand the unavoidable consequen.
ces wrapped up in the latter, will be unable
to even imagine any condition Of human ex
istcnce SO fraught with boundless and un
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nameab.e horrors as Impartial freedom
with negroes. But, indeed, We ncod cnly t