New Oregon plaindealer. (New Oregon, Iowa) 1859-1866, 1862-05-30

| VIC SOutN Amerlcan hc'hl' NcS to UNNECESSARILY
that, however unnatural and monstrous may
be a perversion of the natural relations of the
sexes it does not involve such abhorrent and
frightful results as the destruction Of the
natural relation Of the races. To the people
ofthe South, therefore, the election Of a Presi.
dent by the North, on the assumption that
1.-THE relation ofthe races common to the South
was immoral, and pied sed to WELD the gov
ernmcnt for its ultimate extinction. was, tes
ted by their standard, or viewed from ue,,
standpoint, as has been remarked, the great
est insult and moral wrong that ever was or
ever could be inflicted on a civilized people
They said to themselves awe have strug-
gled for many years, not against foreign enc
mics or open foes, but against our own
countrymeu, our proiessed brothers who seek
to use the government-thc common govern
ruin and DISSOLUTION Of all that is sacred and
| valuable in human society!' They said -
''We, of the South, have never asked. or
dreamed of asking, any special favsrs from
this government. We are planters and pro-
ducers, and need no favors from government;
and, in our whole Federal History of eighty
years, there has never been single bill intro
duced in Congress that, directly or indirect
ly, Immediately or remotely, benefited any
southern Stat, or any southern community,
at the expense or to the detriment of any
State OR community at the North. That, on
the contrary, the northern States have asked
and have received vast benefits at our ex-
pense-atoye all, that Massachusetts,, the
leader of the crusade against us-from the
hour the government was Termed, has made
it an instrument for her benefit, or the bene-
fit of certain classes others, at our expense;
that her commerce. her manufactures fisher
les &C. have drawn millions upon millions
from the pockets Of the producing classes,
through tariffs, fishing bounties and special
protection while we have neither asked for
nor desired anything whatever, and sought
simply to confne the government to the lesit-
imate purposes for which it wss orig ginafiy
dc4igned But worse than all this, the North
damage our interests and endanger our peace
and we have struggled, session after session
and year after year, to prevent our own
government from being perverted into an in
strumcnt for our ruin, until at last they have
succeeded, and elected "a President pledged
to wield it for bringing doom on us or our
children the most monstrous and terrible that
could be inflicted on human societyw
Such was the argument of the southern
leaders, walters and the universal organs of
opinion and should we wonder that it was
overwhelming? TWAS not the mere election
of MIR. Lincoln, by q sectional vote which
virtually disfranchised the rotcr of the South;
that they said, though an intolerablc insult,
might have been borne with, but it was fa
tai symptom that signalled the depdly hostil-
ity of the North. With majority in the
legislative and judicial department of the
Government against him, Mr.. Lincoln was
poweriess, and incapable of any serious mis-.
chief to the South. But the anti-southern
party, beginning few years ago with half a
dozen members Of Congress, had steadily in
creased in power. 1t had obtained possession
of nearly all the northern States, and few
years hence, with the admission into the Un-
ion of the several nor western Territories,
its contrel of the Senate was certain, and with
its loudly proclaimed design of taking pos
session of all the departments of the Federal
Government, and Of frcmodelling the Supreme
Court and reversing the Dred Scott Decision,
the time was not distant when the South
would be utterly helpless in the grasp OF this
fearful power thus welding the machinery
of government for the destruction OF all that
it cherished as sacred and valuable. 1t was
said slf the South submitted to this dssumpt-
ion by the North of the executive department
it wou d become precedent for submission
when the legislative and judicial departments
were also monopolized, and moreover, if sub
mitted to in one Presidential election, it would
become precedent in future elections, and
thus the strange anomaly and startling spec
tacle would be presented to the world, OF
combination of northern States usurping per-
mancnt rule over the States of the South, and
under system based on the great principle
of self.government, rule over them as absolute
! " as Russia does over Poland, or France over
Algiersr' Now was this danger, ominous
as it was or seemed to be, to the great pr'n-
cipIe of selfgosernment, the most to be dread
ed by the South !; for back Of all this, or ra'h-
or the motive for all this usurpation of power
was the universal ayowal Of using it Tor. the
ultimate extinction Of slavery" and for for
cling the white citizenship into Impartial
freedom" with negroes! :..f...' f....
The terrible mistake of the northern mind
| that the "South" and slavery" arc distinct