New Oregon plaindealer. (New Oregon, Iowa) 1859-1866, 1864-06-10
a PITHY SENT TENCE.

The following two columns comprise
just one sentence from the speech o
Hon. A. J. Rogers Of New Jersey, re
Gently delivered in the House of Rep
resenta'ives. Its great truthfulncs
relieves it of tediousness. It is a no
bic vindication of truth and history.
The party that are libeling and as
sailing every Democrat and trying t.
destroy our liberties are men who open
ly proclaim that the Constitution is
covenant with death and leag cue wit!
hell; that the Union as it was is ma,
stealing; that the insurgcnt State:
shall not return unless they set ths
dear negro free aud comply with con
ditions and degradations at which hu
man nature shudlers; mcn who crawl
and cringe around the footstool Of des
potici power,ss and falsely putting On
Union principles as Disguise, have
procured for themselves Offices Of otficia
emo!uments and national trust, anC
cheated and ticfraulled honest conscry-
ativc Republicans while they have been
engaged in their usual avocations tc
earn their daily bread; who: in compa.
nv with the radical Secessionists Of thc
South have been the means Of over
throwing this great and glorious Union;
men whom the people will yet consigr
to odium and oblivion for prostrating
the Constitution, ana breaking down
the Union, and destroying the rights
and liberties of the people of America
men who have used the fratricitlal arm
Of military despotism, usurpation and
tyranny to strike down the liberties Of
the people, and trample upon Il blec l.
ding desecratel Constitution, and by
their acts driven from the laal where
the bones Of Washington an Jefferson
repose all emotions Of love, gratitude
and admiration for the old Union: men
who have cried traitor and coprcrhead
ii the ears Of every MN who has IN
voked the aid Of a just God in our eff
orts Of compromise to restore national
unity and pence; and have by THEN.
conduct initiated the bloody treason
Of John Brown, who proclaimed from
the fatal battlements cf Virginia the
doctrine of one portion Of the party in
power, whose first lust for blood was
satiatel at Ii,rper's Feriy's first
bloody scene: men who have allowed
their cowardly and heartless satellites
to farten upon the wealth coined from
The blood and misery Of the land, and
oferwara wall; boldly and fearicssly
among the people they have robTcl and
and wronged; who by their Legislation
are lniticting upon the people Of the
broder States, VII, have suffered the
most in this contest and shown the
no1lest and purest patriotism under
the terrible trials through which they
have passed, further and deadller cy-
lis at the hanhs Of this Government
which they are struggling to uphold;
men who have closed their eyes to
frauds which have nearly, in some in
stances, destroyed our armies, and for
minor offences against military law per-
mited poor son or father to be SEN
fenced with death; men who have al
lowed and caused loyal citizens, some of
whom were at the dea:h-bed of dear
friend and the grave Of a dead wife, to
be seized without authority of law and
dragged to distant prisons, bastiles and
dungeons, and there incarcerated with.
out trial or redress, and without gran
ting them that which two thousand
years ago was the birthright of every
Roman citizen, the right to know the
offence with which he was charged,
men who have dared to proclaim in de-
fance of the Constitution an insult to
the majesty of the law, and have caused
great political trade sales to be opened,
and intrigue and corruption to put on
their lepulslve and despotic robes, in
which they have caused to- be sold the
Offices of the army and nation, like the