New Oregon plaindealer. (New Oregon, Iowa) 1859-1866, 1862-06-13

domestic slavery, which seek to embroil the
States and incite treason and armed resist
anco to law in the Territories, and whose
! avowed purposes if consumated, must end in
civil war and disunion. as
| Such, democrats was the ancient and the
recent policy of the democratic party, run
n,ng through period Of sixty years-a poll
cy consistent with tho principles Of the Con.
stitution, snd absolutely essential to the pre-
| servatioa of the Union.
II OUGHT TO BE ABANDONED?
"By their fruit yc shall know them" Sec
tional parties do not achieve Union triumphs.
For sixty years, from the inauguration OF JEFF
ferson on the 4th of March, 1901, the demo-
cratic party, with short intervals, controlled
the power and the policv of the Federal Gov
ernment For forty eight years out Of these
sixty, democratic men ruled the country for
6fty-fo years and eight months the demo-
cratic polity prevailed. During the pariod
Louisiana, Florida Texas New Mexico and
California were successfully annexed to our
territory, with an area more than twica as
large as all the original thirteen States to-
gether. Eight new States were admitted un-
der strictly democratic Observation-Disclosures
under the Administration of Fillmore. From
five millions the population increased to thir-
| ty one millions. The revolutionary debt was
extinguished. Two foreign wars were sue.
cessfully prosecuted, with moderate outlay
and small army and navy, aad without the
suspension of the habeas corpus without one
infraction Of the Constitution without enc
usurpation Of power without suppressing a
single newspaper; without imprisoning a sin
gle editor without limit to the freedom Of
speech in or out Of Congress, but in the midst
of the grossest abuse OF both !; and without the
arrest of single ''traitor," though the Hart
ford Convention sat during one of the wars,
| and in the ether Senators invited the enemv
to greet our volunteers with bloody hands,
and welcome them to hostipable graves
During all this time wealth increased, busi-
ness CT all kinds multiplied, prosperity smiled
on every side, taxes were low, wages were
| high the North and the South furnished q
market for each others products at good pri-
ces public liberty was secure, private rights
undsturbed; every mans house was his cas-
| tie; the courts were open to all no passports
for travel, no secret police, no spies, no in
formers, no Bastiles; the right to assemble
peaceably, the righ, to petition freedom of
religion, freedom of speech, free ballot.
and free press; and al this time the Con-
stitution maintained and the Union eff the
States preserved.
Such were the choice fruits of democratic
principles and policy, carried out through
the whole period during which the democrat
ic party held the power and administered the
Federal government. Such has been the
history ofthat party. 1t is q Union party:
for it preserved the Union, by wisdom, peace
and compromise, tor more than half centu-
ry.
Then, democrats, neither the ancient prin~
c,ples, the policy, nor the past history of the
democratic party require nor would justify
its disbandment
IS ru,sE Asr THING IN rns PRESENT carssls WHICH DE-
| MAxps IT?
Tie more immediate issue is, to maintain
the Constitution as it is, and to restore the Tn
ion as it was.
To maintain the Constitution is to respect
the rights of the States and the liberties Of
the citizen. 1t is to adhere faithfully to the
very principles and policy which the demo
cratic party has professed for more than half
century. Let its history, and the results,
from the beginning, prove whether it has
practiced them. We appeal proudly to the
record.
The first step towards restoration Of the
Union as it was, is to maintain the Constitu
ton as it is. So long as It was maintained in
fact, and not threatened with infraction in
spirit and in letter, actual or imminent, the
Union was unbroken.
| To restore the Union, it is essential, first
to give assurance to every State, and to the
people ofevery section, that their rights and
liberties and property will be secure within
the Union under the Constitution. What as
surance so doubly sure as the restoration tx
power of that ancient, organized, consoli da
ted demscratic party which for sixty years
did secure the property, rights and liberties
of the States and fthe people and thus d.t
maintain the Constitution and preserve tn
Union, and with them the multiplied bless
ings which distinguish US above all other ma
!. tions?
j To restore the Union is to crush out sec
tionalism North and South. To begin tn
! great work of restoration through the ballo
boz il to kill Abolition. The bitter water
secession flowed first, and are fed still, irou
the unclean fountain Of abolitionism. Tha
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