The Buchanan County guardian. (Independence, Buchanan County, Iowa) 1858-1864, 1862-08-26
For Representative to Congress,
WIN. B. ALLISON,
Of Dubuque County.
The Cause Advancing.

E-y' ROBERT DALE OWEN, Of Indiana,
one Of the most eminent as well as one Of
the strictest Democrats of that State, has
recently published letter addressed to
Secretary STANTON, in which he advo
Gates, in the strongest terms, measures Of
confiscaton and emancipation for the
suppression Of the rebellion. Thus grad
ually appears the evidences of the ad-
vance of public sentiment to that posi-
ton of right and of duty taken by the
opposers Of slavery at the commence
ment Of this contest While the leading
minds Of the Democratic party are thus
opening to a perception OF the soundness
OF, and necessity for, an emancipation pol
icy in this war, there are still found
among Us a few men, wonderful in men
tal resources and acumen (f we take
their own estimate of themselves) who
talk glibly of violations of constitutional
rights, Of the abominabe character of
abollionism the infamy of enamel
patton, and Of the absurdily Of confsca-
ton. Every day we see these political
oracles, these military Solons, standing
at the street corners, with countenances
red and swollen with the venom Of party
feeling, as they denounce, in filthy terms,
the men who look to the extinction OF
slavery as the means, or the result, of the
suppression Of lie rebellion. Every day
we hear these men cursng with bitter
curse the purest men and noblest minds
of the continent for desiring the destruc-
ton Of that wretched system of human
ser,itude which alone has imperiled our
national life Men, soft and kindly in
feeling, pure and gentle in life. as babes
men of giant intellects-men whose
sp ech is constant song-men Of be-
nevolence unlimited, Of integrity un-
questioned, Of moral worth unbounded-
are every day sent TO perdition, in words,
by persons who. for sense or principle,
have no respect among their neighbors,
and all because these pure minds and
great inlellects seek to labor for the anne
Iteration Of the human family-because
they pray that ever, in the struggles Of
humanity, right and justice may come
uppermost, and wrong and injustice go
down.
Is it not a humiliatins spectacle that
here, in land dedicated TO civil free
dom, to the cause of human rights, that
men are to be found who regard the
rights of property in man as defensible.
either within or without the pale of our
constitution-who look upon slavery as
too sacred to be touched, even when
warning upon the government, and threat
enng the very existence of the nation ?
Slavery is confesSedly not only the cause,
but is now the strength, Of this rebellion.
AL hHo" Aiht iHStSud VI DClUD lI6
strength, it mi sht be made the weakness
Of the traitors. In the name Of all that
it sensible why not make it that weak
ness Why not strike treason through
this most vulnerable point? Every
prompting of self-delerce, every duty to
coming generations. every regard for the
country's welfare. every obligation Of
humanity. demands that we shall use this
most potent power to subdue the rebels
and crush the rebellion. Never was
there, in the history of the world. so
great a necessity, and SO glorious an OPP
portunity, for people TO rid itself Of a
great curse and great crime, and yet
we find men SO thoroughly in sympathy
with this INDUSTRIOUS outrage upon human
itY, that they call down fierce impreca-
tons upon those who dare propose itsex-
tinclion. But the march OF events is