New Oregon plaindealer. (New Oregon, Iowa) 1859-1866, 1864-11-25
THE RESULT OF LINCOLNS EIEC-
TEON.
From the Richmond Dispatch

| The completion of the returns from
the North leave no doubt with regard
to the reelection of Lincoln. For our
own part We arc in no way disconcer-
ted or disappointed, for we have never
for one moment, entertained doubt
that the result would be precisely such
as it IS now evident to all that it must
be. Nor to speak tie truth, are we
displeuscN with the Issue. We have
always regarded Mcclellan the most
dangerous man for the Confedcracy
that could possibly have been put iii
nomination for the Northern Presiden-
| cy: nor DO We sec my reason now to
doubt that our opinion was we'll found
ed. lie has proclaimed himselfa q war
candidate. although placed upon 4
peace platform. lie avowed at the risk
of losing many votes, his determina-
tion to prosecute the war to the rest0-
ration cf the Union. He avowed his
determination, if elected, to place the
prosecution Of hostilitics upon footing
consistent with the usnges CT civilized
nations.
Had he been elected, there is every
probability that the policy of armisti-
ccs and peace conventions-the most
dangerous policy that could possibly
hrve been iraugurated for our cause
would have been pushed to consum-
nation. Beside all this, he is & man
of lurge military experience, and
knows much better than Lincoln how
to handle.the immense forces placed at
the command Of President of the
United States. We are gratified then
at the escape We think we have made
l. might have been infinitely worse
We arc, indeed confident that it would
have been.
We now are pretty sure to have
vlst we expect. Not only is Abraham
Lincoln President for the next four
years after the 4lh Of March 1865. but
he gees i'll with a majority large en-.
,ugh to sustain HIM in any atrocity
he may mediate. The majority of
the North have pretty clearly declar-
ed themselves we'll pleased with the
war and With the manner of conducting
it. They indorsc all the atrocities Of
Sherman, all the cruelties Of Hunter:
all the crimes of Sheridan, all the mur-
ders of Butler, all the butchery and
barbarsm of Grant. The conhagra-
tions Of our towns and villages, the
deportation Of our women and children,
he..starvation of whole populations,
the ins'igations of our slaves to mur-
der and robbery, an aggravation of all
the horrors of war in it's most horrible
aspects, where the passions are left en-
tire y without control, and every ap-
pliance is used to stimulate them, until
by their indulgence, men become dev-
ils~-all these things, the virtuous, in
telligent, civilized: Christian, rell gious
North-the heirs of the best govern
ment the sun ever shone upon-have
deliberately approved of as applied to
us. And we accept the application
Indeed, there is no way of escape, did
we even wish to avoid the issue.
There can be no shuf1ling in the ranks
now. Every man must know his
place, and must keepit. The issue is
not peace or war, but freedom or sla-
very, existence or extermiaation..
Tits best for the people of the Con
federacy to understand, once for all,
that their hopes consists in their arms
alone. II vlctorius, they can command
the issue; if defeated, the issue will
very certainly command them. They
are contending with an enemy who
will listen to no terms short of abso-
lutte submission. Let US hear no more
cries for peace, but let every man make
up his mind to war. We have hither-
to been extramely averse to regard the
war as anything more than a sort of
episode in our existence. We must
in future look upon it as the main bus,
, mess Of our lives. All our thoughts
rnust turn In that diractinn nc thar