New Oregon plaindealer. (New Oregon, Iowa) 1859-1866, 1862-10-03
AFFAIRS IN the SOUTHWEST.
The Country in a State Of Des
Olation.
THE PRESIDENTS EMANCIPATION
PROCLAMATION.

THE PRESIDENTS EMANCIPATION
PROCLAMATION.
| Special Correspondence of the Chicago Times
Dies MONIES, Iowa Sept IS.
In my letter of yesterday [ alluded to a
conversation had with gentlemen recent
ly citizen Of Tishomingo county, Mississip
pi, and, as his statements are perfectly re-
liable in regard to matters there, and en-
brace some things not generally known, and
most certainly not heretofore published, I
send them to you.
Let ME preface them, howcv or, by saying
that the name Of the gentleman is Kinyon,
who has been engaged for fifteen years in the
Practice Of the law in that county in Mississippi
pi. Some months since, and soon after the
battle Shiloh, MIR. X, driven by the war and
the force of circumstances from his old home
caue to this city, where he was an entire
stranger, to reside. After the Union victo-
ries in Tennessee, Northern Mississippi and
Alabama, he returned to the South. with his
family, in the expectation that he would be
enabled to resume his business and look af-
ter his property but he informs me that it
is impossible for Union man to live there,
although under the protested protection of
Federal bayouets. He represents that coun-
try as presenting one scene of general and
deplorable desolation. Matters, so far as
the cultivation or restoration of Union sem
tiraent there is concerned, have grown and
are growing worse day by day. The South
is becoming more united in feeling more bit
ter in their hostility, and more determined in
their resistance to the Federal authority
There is no such thing as Union sentiment
left there, nor is the course being pursued by
our officers and armies calculated to produce
one. Mr.. X. says that our armies make war
upon all alike and burn, desolate, and des-
troy the property Of every inhabitant as &C.
casion may require or a spirit of wanton
mischief and malevolence may dictate, with
out stopping to inquire whether the victim
was Union man or secessionist.
My informant states that he knows of scores
of as good and loyal Union men as the coun-
try can produce, who are confined in the
guard-houses within the lines of our armies,
while their families, in many instances, are
destitute, not only of protection, but of the
necessary provision for their support. All
| the loyal families who could get away were
leaving there, So far from receiving encour.
agemeat and protection from the Union arm
les, it seems that these people who have not
only periled, but in the adversities of war,
have sacrificed their all in the manifestation
Of their devotion to the Union, have been
made the victims of its cruelty, and of that
mercless military despotisnl which is raining
its terrors upon the people.
Three days ago, in commenting upon these
facts, should have been led to inquire if
such course was calculated to reasssure and
build up Union sentiment in the South but
such an Inquiry is no longer pertinent or
necessary to be made.
The negro emancipation proclamation of
the President has swept away every vestige
Of hope for the rekindIing of that sentiment,
and feeling, to the existence of which we
could alone look for restoration of the Un-
ion. In regard to that proclamation there is
but one sentiment among democrats and
conservative men here-that Of unqualified
and unsparinS condemnation. With I'M
AFFINITY that constitutes an anomaly in histo-
ry the political opponents Of Mr.. Lincoln
have rallied, in the field and out Of it, to his
support. as the constitutional head of the
government, for the suppression of this re-
bel!ion, believing that its suppression would
give back to u.s. in all its integrity, the Union
as it was framed and handed down to us by
our Fathers. The support that has been
given to the adm inistration by the democrat
ic party, in all it's constitutional efforts to put
| down this rebellion, has been as unselfsh as
patriotic. Denied even the right Of the Sc
lection of their own officers, column after
column of the members Of that party have
been moved down in the harvest of death
which has so signally characterized this war
while at home the press, the leaders, and the
masses, shaking hands with conservative
republicans to save the government for the
sake of the government, have stood by MIR.
Lincoln Tor the Union and as against that
pressure" of abolition fanticism to which he
has at last yielded. Whether simply weak,
or both weak and corrupt, Mr.. Lincoln has
demonstrated now, if never before, his unfit
ness for the position he holds, and by his own
acts has forfeited the confidence of that con-
servative element of the country, the active
cooperation of which would have enabled
him if he really desired it, to save the Union.
But he no longer has or can expect to have a
hold upon it. Harmless as his proclamation
may be in other, it will ALLEVIATE from the