New Oregon plaindealer. (New Oregon, Iowa) 1859-1866, 1862-12-12
FROM NORTHERN IOWA.
of The Chicago Times.
McGREuoR, Iowa, Nov. 19, 1862.


McGREGoR, Iowa, Nov. 19, 1862.
The democracy hereaway are supremely
happy. The pressure of abolition insolenct
has been lifted from the shoulders Of the peo
pie by the all-powerful agency of the ballot
Praised be God! Who that reveres tht
memory of those old men of Monmouth and
Of Yorktown does not rejoice at this soul in.
spring consumation ? They fought for wha
the masses have just asserted, and the recol
lection of their trials and their courage will
long be green in the chambers of American
thought We, their descendants, must moi
forget that the patriots of '76 marked thei,
pathway in blood ON the SHOWS of Valley
Forge: he who would be untrue to the cause
for which they suffered should 90 to the dcs
pctisms of Europe and beg to become the
sycophantic defendant of lordly maste,
who would provide food, clothing, aud opin.
ions for the sell.elected inferior. Verify
there is a God in Israel! What joy thrilled
the heart of every true American as the re.
port of the great civil engagement Of Novcm-
Der flashed along the iron nerves Of intelli
gence stretching from Saco to San Francisco
How nobly did the democratic center, with
the aid o the conservative wing, come to the
rescue Of constitutional liberty. Did you
fee! that you were recovering from a horrid
nightmare, and that once again you could
draw breath from the far hest cell in your
respiratory apparatus? This was the feeling
ofhundreds and thousands of men-.men,
even who voted against us-who have for
months past looked on with astonishment at
those who, dressed in a little brief authority.
have cut such fantasies tricks before high
Heaven" 1t was not fear which so long
restrained conservatism from bursting the
bonds that for rbade the existence OF freedom
of speech and of the press, tied up by some
ofthe noblest. patriots of the country, and
treated our courts with contempt No, TO :
fear was not the motive that induced the
long silence and suffering of proud people.
Government pets and spies may have deem
cd this to be the cause, but away down in
the hearts of the masses was q firm resolve
to try the Iegally-provided remedy for their
wrongs-a change of policy through the
baIlet-box. Had that failed, God only knows
where the usurpations of this administr aton
would have forced our countrymen. They
had born more already than was healthy tor
their tyrannizers, and but for the prospect
of speedy release from the infamy with
which they were threatened they would have
copied the eyeless N Nazarene in his rage, and
not one column of this Republic would have
stood to tell the tale of it's former existence
Negro freedom, with all it's painted glories,
is not so lovely that the personal liberty OF
twenty millions Of whites must be sacrificed
to secnrcit and upon this issue the Chases,
the Stewards, and the Stantons went down
to rise again not till the return of such eras
ar are m 'rked in history by the names of
Nero, Bomba, and of George III 1t was not
respect for the persoas or the politics of the
wretched men who would destroy the rec
ords Of the temple under specious rever-
encc for the mere walls which inclosed them
that caused the silence of the voters. The
Republic was assailed by foes in arms civil
liberty was ingored b. those who were IN
trusted with its guardianship between the
Of the South and the unclean
birds that infested the court-rsoms of the
North, and forbade the exercise of justice,
Conservatism stood. quiet and unmoved, bid
ing her time. That time came in October,
and again in November, and the result is as
we have it-a proud record for the people.
'The constitution as it was" was jeered at
by those who for many years have ceased
not in expressions of contempt fur it, and,
with sadness, be it said, by many others who
carry the price Of their apostacy on their
shoulders or in their pockets. The cstar"
actor of the Brooklyn Sunday Theatre calls
our great charter "a dead shcep-skin." The
voters of the last two months pronounce it
the rock whence flow the waters of civil lib
erty. Beecher's expression is the embodi-
ment af abolition craftsmanship. The report
from the ballot -bexesis the concentration of
American patriotism. The TINES recently
stated that the patience of tn @ people under
late inflictions of wrong is the highest evi.
dence Of their confidence in free institutions.
1t is fact the consciousness of their power
to regulate all these matters by law and not
by the bayonetis is the highest proof of the
excellence of our government and of the
capabllity OF the masses to maintain it.
Esto perpetua.
The removal of Mcclellan caused many
remarks in our section Of the country, but
there seems to 10 desire on the part of ey-
erybody that some one identified with the
erazinsss Of the administration should take