New Oregon plaindealer. (New Oregon, Iowa) 1859-1866, 1862-09-05
THE ApOLOGIsTS FOR NAHONI.

THE APOLOGIsTs FOR NAHONI."
Under the above caption the Nc
Nregor Nems copies an article from
the Dubuque Herald of April %, and
INDUCES in remarks intended to prove
that Mr.. Mahony's heart was festeri, e
With treason. Below we produce the
Herald article entire, with the remark
that if it contain any treason. or indulg-
-:s in the uttcrancc of opinions not
warranted by the Constitution, ;'com
mon people will have to cudyel their
Grains long time, to discover and
paint them out.
"WnAr SHALL BE Done TO REMEDY THIS
c1.r. OF Times We have answered this
question often before. We have mono other to
give that the pco pic will acquicscc in. 1t lis a
long time To wait for the election of Congress
men next fall, and still longer, even if the
reople should elect Congress of statesmen
sad patriots, to wait till they could meet at
N-ashin gton to take measures for the restora-
sion Of the Union and the preservation Of the
e9hTh Hh'o5tuug be done IN the mean time
Nee, but the pcopla will not do it. Thew
gould, if they would, meet and demand OF
Congress and the President that they should
roase to commit aggress:ons on the Consti;u-
Ton that they should cease the performance
End the commission of acts of government
which incite rebellion instead of putting it
down: that they should so coaduct the Gov
eminent as to preserve the blessing, of politi-
cal liberty. instead of roofing up from tie
very foundations every vestage of political
RICH. claimed tc be theirs inherently by the
american people.
This, and much moro, the people might
IN, ifthey would. But they Will not. Like the
people Of all ages and of all nations, they
will suffer their ri ghts and liberties to DC ia
Ken from them, They will suffer their pub
l'c servants to usurp the power and use the
I,rerogati,es of their political masters, and it
is cnly when it becomes too late to remedy
'hc evil that the people will become conscious
81 its enorrpity and magnitude.
""c L:cs !cc: confidence in the political
virtues OF the people. They might be breugh
70 zen Of their duty when they experience
the effect of their Indifference to their po,iti'
cal interests, but not before Then most of
Tie harm will haze been done. Then it will
'-s 100 late to remedy the evils which fore
thought and the exercise Of American citizen,
ship would have avsrted.'
In commenting upon this article, the
,News mysteriously asks; "What Mr..
Mahony means by saying it is long
time to wait for the election of Congress
men" The Herald editor says he has
,ften answered the questions suggested
Ivy his article; and had the Ners editor
rs much anxiety to state the position of
An opponent fairly and truthfully: as he
has to nystify facts FIR partisan ends,
hc could have found and published
some one Of these several answ ers.
But what were those answers p?
That the people should pea cably assem-
a'ic ami petition Congress for redress Of their
grievances"
That they Should demand Of that body,
with the stern voice Of frecmen, twenty mill.
ions strong, that Congress respect, obey, en-.
sorce and abide by the Constitution of which
itisAho humble crcaturo'
THAI it cease from partisan motives, to
violate its sacrel provisions
That it should perform nc more acts of
legislation, whose only tendency il to incite
rebellion, instead Of putting it down."
That it should SO administer the govern.
n,cnt rs to preserve and perpetuate to tbs
american people, the blessings OF civil polit
ical, and religious liberty, in all their purity
and with all tho ,igor they possessed. wher
heeneathed to us by the Patriot Sagcs of tn
American Revelation
For all this, and much more, we fin,
abundant warrant in the Constitution
Article 1st Of the amendment says:
o"Sress shalt make nolaV