New Oregon plaindealer. (New Oregon, Iowa) 1859-1866, 1862-10-10
NEW OREGON HOWARD COUNTY, IOWA OCTOBER TO- 1852.
WHO ARE TRAITORS

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WHO ARE TRAITORS
Since the commencement of the rebellion,
Republicans have been very profuse in their
denunciations of Democrats. One would natu-
rally suppose, in listening to them in their
abuse of Democrats, that they, the Republi-
cans, were simon. pure patriots, and always
had been-that
"Neer yet did foul dishonor blur their Names"
Now, the leaders of this party have q rec
ord, record Of vituperation against the
Federal Union and the Federal Con stitution.
A portion of this record we now propose tc
submit to the people, and ask them to de-
eide whether such o party, with leaders who
have such record, are to be permitted to
brand men who have during all of their lives
been battling for the Constitution and the
Union, as traitors.
In the slst Congress, petition of John J.
Woodward and others, was presented, pray
ing that plan might be devised for disso-
luton Of the U"ton. The yeas were Solaman
P. Chase the present Secretary Of the Treas
ury, William H. Se,card, Secretary Of State
and John p. Hale, now United States Senator.
(Senate Journal, lst session, 3lst Congress,
p. 129 .-.r
These men are now acknowledged to be
leaders OF the Republican party.
At the Buffalo convention in lS43, the fol-
lowing resolution was unanimously adopted
reported by committee of which 5. p.
Chase was Chairman
Resolved, That we hereby give it to be
distinctly understood by the nation and the
world that as Abolition,sts, considering that
the strength our cause lies in its righteous
ness, and our hope for it in conforming to the
laws of God, and our support of the rights of
man, we owe to the sovereign Ruler of the
Universe, as p'ocf of our allegiance to Him,
in our civil relation and Offices, whether as
friends, citizens, or as public .funetioncries
s'corn to support the Constitution of the Uni
ted States, to regard and treat the third
clause of tn ut instrument, whenever applied
in the case Of q fugitive slave. as uteriy null
and uoid: and consequently forming no part
Of the Constitution Of the United States, uhcn-
ever are are called upon, or srorn tosrpport ii.
This sane doctrine was reiterated at Ra.
vena, Ohio, in 1883, bya mass meeting of
Free Sellers addressed by Chase, Giddings,
Samuel Lewis and Judge Spaulding,. The
same doctrine was again announced by 'Chas,
Sumner, in 1854, in the United States Senate
Mr.. Butler ofSouth Carolina, asked:
live repeal the Fugitive Slave Law, viii
Massachusetts, execute the provisions of the
Constitution without any law Of Congress?
To which Sumner replied
Is thy servent dog that he should do this
thing!
Mr.. Butler continued:
Then you would not obey the Constitution!
Sir, standing here, before this tribunal where
you swore to support it, you rise and tell mo
that you regard it the Office ola dog to en-
forseit. You stand in my presence as CO.
equal Senator, and tell me that it is dogs
Office to execute the Constitution of the United
States
Tc which Sumner replied: I recognize no
such obligation.
This doctrine, which makes private notions
or prejudices of each individual the promi-
ncnt law of his political action, is but a prac-
tical developement of the ':higher law" no.
tious as applied to American politics by Sec
retary Seward, who, in speech delivered in
the United States in 1850, said
The Constitution regulates our steward
ship the Constitution devotes us to the Un-
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liberty but there is a Qighea Law than the
Constitution. which regulates our authority
over the domain, and devotes it to the same
noble purpose. .a.
Wendell Phillips, in ls49, at a Free Soil
meeting said: n.
We confess that We intend to trample un.
der foot the Constitution of this country.
Daniel Webster says, you are w-abiding
people. that the glory of New England is
that it is law-abiding community. Shame
on it if this be true--if even tho religion of
New England sinks as low as its statute book.
But say WE ARE NOT law.abiding COM
munity. 1'
Joshua R. Giddings, one Of the foreign
ministers under this administration, in the
House of Representatives, in May, 1854,
said:
s look forward to the day when there shall
be servile insurrection in the South. when
the black man, armed with British bayonets,
and commanded by British officers, shall
wage war of determination against the
white man-when the master shall see his
dwellings in flames, and HEARTH-sToNs
POLLUTED; and though may not laugh ut
their calamity, nor mock when their fear
cometh, yet shall hail it as the dawn of q
political millennium.
Horace Mann, in 1850, expressed his love
for the Constitution and the Union as fol-
lows:
have onlv to add. under a full sense of m