New Oregon plaindealer. (New Oregon, Iowa) 1859-1866, 1862-10-10
THE ENDENCY OF FANATICIsM.

period, were led by the condition IN which
they found themselves and the Circumstances
surrounding them, to confer together not
only as to the terms Of future intercourse be-
tween themselves but as to their relations
with the external world. Those who had
immortalizcd their names in behalf Of consti-
tutional freedom felt that the mutual interests
Of each of the Colonies demanded that the
union Of these separate and independent SOW
crc;gutics she uld be made as perfect as posi-
Die. Union for national purposes was felt to
DC necessity. But unity was acknowledg.
cd to be an hn1cssibility for not single
Colony. outside of Mass, thought OF creating
a central Government and abandoning State
powers. The local interests of the Colonies
were too great to have tire proposition Of her
politicians received with any degree of favor.
Consequently, the great problem bef-re the
Fathers of the ration was, the establishment
Of one Government for all purposes in which
union of action and interest was possible,
while the local Geyeruss ents of the State re-
manned Independent. and in fact, supreme
rs to all objects and powers where a union
ofintc-est was unnecessary or impossible
The same great principles that were founc
net only expctficnt but necessary to the for
nation Of the G. overnment, must he respected
and observed, thst it may, with its countless
blessings. be perpctuated. III now, more than
ever. becomes US as me, and patriots to
study the principles upon which the Union
was formed. in the adoption of the Constitu-
ticr, and upon which alone the one can be
sustained or the other enforced. 1t is idle tor
rsen TO reach that all our difficulties will end
with the abolition of slavery. The real Diff
ference that has caused the land to be over
~hsaowcd with gleen, has grown out OF their
into ercnce to slavery. The class OF men who
b. .sv are too deeply ilnbued with lsve OF
freedom to live in Government tn ut toerates
slavery viii ultimately he too holy to live
under one TINT tcleratcs Catholicism. They
will, rs in the past declare ''The Cons:;tu-
ton eoyenent with hell and an agreement
with DEATH" because it toerates any other
than the popular and established Church If
their idea # a union is adopted by the
American people as sound, just and wise, we
shall soon be cngulphel in religious wars, it
only requiring one section of the country to
become infected with religious mania, IS it
has with political fanatic;~m to introduce
religion into politics attempting to elect men
wpon Church instead Of party platforms f; and
If this class of men should obtain power, VIC
<hould have Catholics, Jews, Episcopalians
l'resbyterians. Quakcrs, and other religion
lists in surn burned at the stake, for advo-
eating religious opinions which these fanat-
les believed tended to neutrality-suspicious. to
treason or rebellion.
In this view, the imagination is not over.
taxed or the picture oycrdrawn. A large
Portion of the Clergy Of the North have
preached for years that we deserved. and
would yet receive the punishmcnts Of a just
God for our national sins-one of which sins
consists in the adoption Of our present Con
stitutiou, aud they now preach that this wal
il that punishment sent by God for the awfu
ria Of toleratiug slavery under the Constitu
tion 81 The United States. How soon win tn
same class of fanatics preach that the Con
stitution deserves Gods wrath for toleratinI
Catholic Cl,urchs, or Jewish Synagosues
Tho only difference in the Constitution II
those respects is, willie 1t prohibits the Gov
crnment from interfering with the religious
belief OF the people, it by its silence fails t.
give fanatics any control over slavery. II
anything moro needed to convince the people
that those who have such tender conscience'
about slavery this year, are not likely to bt
lust as tender because the Consultation toler
.tes any religion but such as accords with
heir peculiar notions The great danger is
md has been, that the unthinking people tot
eadily adopt til opinions Of these radical:
.svsr pausing to see the result Of carryin,
ut their notions.
I What ia the deduction drawn from this
! IL this, and only this, that if the ideas o
snti-slavery men arc TO be adopted by thu
ovcrnnnent AS the essential principle ofpeac'
,d union, both are impossible |! The ap
aren't adoption of their views by one sectio,
,stroyed the Union destroying the Unio'
sstroyed the public peace. In no way cal
have Union worthy OF the name but il
optng the principle, and policy Of tn
Tiers Of tho Republic, which il simpl
At Of mutual concession and goodwill
! man that cannot, because he is oppose
slavsry, tolerate union whose Consti
ion permits slavery to exist is 81 to be Gil
4 ef this Republic. This eternal and in
table truth men may a. well understan
r. as hereafter. lt5 handwriting is .