New Oregon plaindealer. (New Oregon, Iowa) 1859-1866, 1862-09-26
its utter waste anC desolatiop.

The people in 1860, had submitted
to the'r decision questions of grave i'm
port, and the verdict seems to have
; been that the people of the Territories
have not the right of making their own
laws upon the question of slavery
"that slave. holders we're outlaws crimi.
nails and murderers," and finally "that
slavery should be put in the course of
ultimate extinction" At least such is
the understanding of the popular de-
cision among the common people of all
classes ofthe South to day, and so it was
when the result of that election was
made known. With the principles and
policy the party triumphing in that
election sought to inaugurate the
| people were assured that civil war
with its vast train Of misery, want and
woe would devastatc our land, ending
perhaps in the destruction of the Union;
certainly in destroying our national
wealth, and individual prosperity, We
have lived to see this prediction veri-
fed in part-in the destruction of our in
dividual prosperity and national wealth
we have witnessed the grief it has
carried to nearly every heart the desc
lation it has made at nearly every
family altar in the land.
And now the question occurs with
which We set out, ''Can the Union be
saved ?" Has the bitter school of ex
perlence taught the American people
wisdom ? Answer us this, and we will
tell you whether the Union can be saved.
We must as a nation return to the
first principles of Republican people,
that governments derive theirjust pow
err from the consent of the governed
One section must cease in it's efforts to
legislate and shape the local affairs for
the other. All laws upon the Statute
books ofthe nation must be obeyed un-
til repealed, or rendered null by the de-
cision of the Courts, and such decision
when rendered must be not only obeyed
but respected. The idea that Horace
Greedy, or Wendell Phillips, under
stands the wants, necessities, and in
terests of Kentucky better than 10.
Holt or John j. Crittende,n must be
abandoned, and the effort to force their
ideas upon the southern States must
cease before the Union can be restored
in letter or spirit, whatever our success
upon the battle field.
If the rebellious Sites should lay
down their arms to-day believes
that the present Congress has suffi
cicnt wisdom or patriotism to settle the
questions that as Mr. Lincoln tells us
in his Inaugural will still be uponus-
as to terms of intercourse Who has
not observed the conflict between the
radical and conservative members of
the republican party, upon the ques-
tons involved in the war Is it not a
duty we owe to the country, to our
selves and to posterity, to elect men
to the next Congress, who can and will
while sustaining the administration
with the men and means necessary to
suppress the rebellion, have the judg.
ment. discretion, wisdom and patriot
ism to settle the difficulties, still re-
naming, after both sides shall cease
fighting? Every republican candidate
for Congress from this State is from
the radical wing Of the party. With
them the conservative men Of all par
ties disagree as essentially as they do
with Wendell Phillips, on the one side
or jeff Davis on the other. The I'm
ion cannot survive if such men are
elected to the next Congress. Will
not the American people pause and re-
fleet upon the past two years Of our
history, and the gloom Of our future, if
radicalism shall again triumph in our
government councils d? 1t is for the
conservative men of the free States to
decide at the ballot box, for veal or
woe. the fate Of this Republic.
NO FAITH IN THE PARTY.