New Oregon plaindealer. (New Oregon, Iowa) 1859-1866, 1862-09-26
The Arbitrary Arrests.

The DEBORAH Republic sets us dow,
as opposed to the Administration be
cause we oppose the Arbitrary Arrests
being made from one end of tn,
north to the other.
If to support the Constitution of ou1
country is to oppose the Administration
then we are opposed to it if the Ad
ministration is the author of these ar.
rests: then it opposes the Constitution
ofour country, and it is not only con.
stitutional right, but duty we owe to
humanity and to posterity to oppose its
acts in legal and constitutional man.
ner,-by free Press-by free speech,
and an unintimidated ballot and to in
tcrpose these barriers against every
illegal interference with the personal
rights, and political freedom of the citi.
zen will be pride and q pleasure to us.
Unlike the senior of the Republic
we have never belonged to any politi-
cal organization that had for its avows
ed object the dissolution of the Amer
can Union unlike him, we never had
the control Of an abolition journal in
the State of n. Y, or elswhere and
unlike him in our journalship we have
never belonged to. and advocated the
cause ola party that adopted such a
resolution as this :
"Resolved, That the Abolitionists
Of this country, should make it one of
the primary objects of this agitation,
to diSsOlre the American Union !n'
and thank God We contemplate no act
against the Constitution and laws of
our country to win the applause of any
such traitor to its institutions.
Of him, we do not believe he rever-
ences the American Union more than
when he belonged to, and espoused the
cause ola political organization adopt
ing the above resolution; and of his
party we fully coincide with Daniel
Webster, in the Inference of the fol-
lowing sentiments for time and expo
rience has verified their truth to the
last letter. He said:
"Ifthese Internal fanatics and abolitionists
ever get power in their hands, they will over
ride the Constitution, set the Supreme Court
at defiance, change and make laws to suit
themselves, lay violent hands on those who
differ with them in their opinion, or dare
question their infallibility. and finally, bank.
rupt the country and deluge it with blood!n
Our first acquaintance with the SEN
Tor of the Republic was as an occasion /
al reader of an abolition paper, edited
by him in the Empire State, and which |
adopted all the heresies of that party /;
next he turns up as States Prison In
spector, being indebted to the repubi-
cans of that State for his nomination
and election he IN the mean time
having never renowned, but they hav-
ing. we suppose espoused the principles
Of the above resolution and finally he
comes out simon pure Union man if
the advocacy of principles that have
rent it asunder can by any possibility
him such.
In all candor we ask the Republic
to name single individual ofthe thous-
ands arrested for political opinions,
arbitrarily or otherwise, that have been
convicted of treason, or in fact IF any
crime, known to the Constitution. The
senior of that paper has grown grey in
the arrest of colored men
under sanction of constitutional law,
and upon warrants of arrest properly
issued, yet he has no word of condem-
nation for the arbitrary arrest and de-
portation of a0hite men, charged legally
with no crime, and who are as guiltless
as any of the thousands who daily walk
our streets in safety. We might pub
fish list of the most fearful indict-
ments against the administration, all
from conservative republi-
can journals but content ourselves with
the following from the N. Y. World, a
republican sheet, as the
true history of many thousand cases
extending from the lakes to the rebel