New Oregon plaindealer. (New Oregon, Iowa) 1859-1866, 1863-11-27
NEW QUESTIONS.

nf the country have been in the habit
of quie1ing all troublesome questions of
policy in their own minds Ivy adopting
that sweeping heresv, ''it is our duty
to sustain the admins ration in whatev-
er it wants to do" This idea was in
geniously kept forward by the radicals,
and accompanying it was the bold &C
cusa,ion of treason against anybody
and everybody who dared to differ from
the administration. To such an ex
tent has this plan been carried out
that in Missouri the President himself
is accused of copperhealisn and treas
on because he does not keep up to his
own proclaimed policy, and the mem.
bers Of his Cabinet who oppose the
ferocious radicals of Kansas and Mis-
souri, are everywhere denounced as
traitors. The idea Of saving men the
trouble of thinking about the policy of
the administration by persuading tn EN-
that whatever it did required the sup,
port of every loyal man, was a good
idea to secure votes during the contin
uance Of an administration in office,
but it is useless for the purpose of the
campaign now opening before us. The
questions now presented are: ::Slall
we have the same administrationY and
shall VIC continue the same blunder
ing, changing, failing policy ?" The
people must now face the questions and
answer them, every man for him.
sl:. No Ia lical will dare cry traitor
at the man who opposes the admins
tration, since the very attempt to stiAe
opposition would be next thing to trea,
son.:
Men must now review the whole
course of this administration, the frst
plunge into wa~ tho foolish call fnr
seventy-fve thousand men instead OF
seven hundred and Fifty thousand, the
horrible blunder of Bull Run, the ter
rible frauds permitted and perpetrated
in every department, the awful expense
Of the war, thrcefold as great as it
should have been; the interference with
generals in the field, the failures to
support them in the hour of need, the
arbitrary treatment of citizens at home
the arrests, imprsonments, and crimes
against liberty innumerabIe: the dis.
grace of the American name, the ele-
walton of the negro to the level of the
white man, the entmty to State rights,
the creation of new States without the
consent of those from whose territory
they were made, the countless list of
blunders, follies, errors and wrongs of
this administration. Shall we have
four years more of this state of things?
Does this Administrations know how to
make war! Dies it know how to gov
crn country during war? Are its
financial measures healthy and strength
ening? Are its paper money schemes
calculated to preserve our credit and
to outlast financial crises? Shall men
who don't believe in negro supremacy
or even in negro equ'lity, be sent tc
dungeons for expressing their opinions!
Shall the nation g. plunging onward
and downward as heretofnre =? Shal
the test Of patriotism in America here
after I've rs it has been for three years
past, the profession Of love to the Negro
and the reality of love for shodly con-
tracts ? Shall brave generals be re-
moved from command and disyracel,
for political rca sons +? Shall the brav.
est of the brave be summoned before
court .nartials to be tried and con
dcmnea by secret arguments, agains'
evidence, against truth, against honor:
We pause, for the questions crowo
thick and fast on us. All these ques.
tons and hundreds like them arc nov
presented to the American people fo1
their discussion, and they must listen
must examine, must decide. 1t is val,
any longer to keep them down by say
ing "You must support the admins
tration, y for the question is What ad
ministration2" 1t is in vain to attemp