New Oregon plaindealer. (New Oregon, Iowa) 1859-1866, 1862-05-23
ABOLITION AND SECESSION
OR,
CAUSE AND EFFECT,
TOGETHER WITH THE
REMEDY FOR OUR SECTIONAL
TROUBLES.
BY A UNIONIST.
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T II E c A U S +.

THE CAUSE.
But inumcrablc books, tracts and pam
phlcts and hordes Of crazy lectures like the
frogs of Egypt, have oyerhowed tho land
and deludcd the so-callcd educated class into
a bcliefor notion, the most absurd most dis.
gusting and debasing that ever corrupted the
mind or perverted the moral instincts of man.
kind. 1t is now some thirty years since an open
and direct effort was made by British agents
and their tools among u.s. to propagate these
debasing theories. At first popular in
stinct prompted the people to mob them, but
after certain time they were thonght to be
harmless, and, by common consent. were
permitted to propagate their disgusting TOM
fooleries without let or hindrancc.
Thirty years of steady iteration, however,
of the same absurdities with an apparent
profound conviction of their truth, backed by
British influences, British literature and
British policy-indeed, by the common SEN
timents of the ';civilized world" that is, of
kings and their Rmkies-these abswdities.
these miserable tomtoo.eres of Jlack-whte
men and imaginary slavery, and impossible
shareholders, have resulted in the formation
of political party organized for the purpose
ofreducing them to practice ! This party be.
gan Its existence several years ago, and was
led by writer's and orators who, setting out
with the assumption that the negro was a
man like themselves except in color, and
therefore, naturally considered, entitled to
the same liberty or rights was not merely
ignorant, but necessarily as utterly ignorant
Of ercrything in one half Of their common
country as they could be of the internal af-
fairs OF Japan or other countries that none Of
them ha! ever visited, and yet, under Con-
stitution designed to secure the common well
fare, these ignorant apd deluded men aspired
to govern the South! Unfortunately for the
country, Cor this party even, for all of us, the
writer's and politicians ayowedly opposed to
it in the North, not only failed to expose and
explode its delusions, but such was the uni
versal corruption of the northern mind, that
they actually assentcd to It's miserable ab-
stractions as admitted truths The "anti-
slavery" writer assumed the negro to be a
man with the same (natural) rights as him.
SELF and four millions of those negroes were
consequently slaves at the South, and slavery
being wrong, AMI great evil, it was the
duty of every citizen to aid in the removal Of
this evil His opponent admitted all these
assumptions, but professed to have somekind
of specifc-popular sovereignty, Lecompton,
or some contrivance or other, which he in
listed would, in time, produce the same re-
suit; that is, remove Or neutrshze the ad-
mitted evil, but to do so in some mysterious
way satisfactory to the South. The people Of
the North, thus left without guidance, and
fairly buried for years under an avalanche Of
falscheod and folly, finally elected Mr.. Lin.
coin to the Presidency, not from any real
belief in his party creed, but because they
were disguised and indignant at the insincer'
ity and want Of candor, if not of honesty, in
'hisparty opponents.
Here, then, is the legitimate elimination
Of the great "anti-slavery' delusion of hall
century, q man elected to the Presidency by
a sectional party, on a platform las claimed
by this partly of avowed hostility Of the South
If, after the election, Mr.. Lincoln's part,
had disayowed this hostility, Virginia. Ten
nessee. sc, would doubtless have submitted
to the sectional aed constitutional action O
the northern States, however indignant thci
feelings at the gross injustice done then l..
their brethren at the North. But the leader
and party organs utterly refused to do this
and declaring that the people had decide
against the ''cxtension of slavery" er any fu
turc expansion of the population Of the South
avowcd their design to stand by that decision
at all hazards, and to the last extremity
This election, and especially the interpreta
} ton given it in the Peace Convention by tn
'anti.slavery'' leaders, brought the question
to crisis, for between the North, as repre-
sented by this party; and the South, ther
'ras, and is, no ground for poace or pessibl
settlement, and yet such is the width, an
breadth, and lcagth, and depth of the ant
slavery" dclusion, that few, Or any of til
public men of the country understand thl
startling and terrible truth.
We need scarcely to refer again to tn
causes underlying the national troubles; br
brief consideration of the certain, indee
+. unavoidable consequences of reducing, or {
striving to reduce the "anti.slaycry' notion