New Oregon plaindealer. (New Oregon, Iowa) 1859-1866, 1864-07-22
a z EsCE; CONgENTION

The Editor of the Des Moines Sta
tesman makes the call for a peace Con
ven,Ion, the occasion for a bitter per
soual attack upon Le(irand Byington
The Statesman professealy condemns
all the policies Of the war but sustains
the administration in its prosecution
notwithstanding. This aposta.e tc
Democracy asks: "IVhat kind of q
peace does Mr. Byington wa't, and
what is it expected to acc ompl'sh by
this peace?'
AS friend and advocate Of peace
we reply that "the kind of peace" that
peace men desire is one that will re-
store to the American people the free
'lom of speech ard of the press; the
right Of trial by jury and the right Of
great writ Of habeas rpus; a pe"ce
that will give the people their rights;
one that will give them known and fix
ed laws; one that will deprive men Of
their liberties only upon preseatmt ut
or Indictment before grandjuries IN
stead Of upon the arbitrary will Of one
man claiming state Of war as iustlfi-
cation: one that will secure to them
speedy and pubic trial; one that will
give them counsel in their defence an Il
permit them to have Sitnesses in their
behalf: one that will give them the
light peacabty to assem- lie and petit
ton f'r tie redress Of grievances; oro
that will secure them, in ,heir homes
their persons, their papers. and their
effects; one that Will gi We them q free
and undisturbed election and govern
ment administered with constitution
and laws limiting and restraining off,
cial authority, and protecting the citi-
zen in the full; quiet aud peacable Ell
joyInent of every personal, political
md religious right. "Wh't is expec-
ted 10 accomplish by this peace",is the
expulsion OF fanatics and demag gogues
from place aud power, reinstat'ng the
real friends Of the Constitution and
Union; filing the councils of'he Repuh-
lie once more with men Of enlarged un
Outstanding; with sound practical sta
tcsmen, thereby opening up way for
the restoration Of lhe Union with every
State restored and in the full enjoy
mcnt of every right, privilege and pow
er at any time by them enjoyed in the
government, rs administered by tie
fathers of the republic from the days
Of Jefferson to the unfortunate election
G; Lincoln. This is what peace men
desire. They prefer securing their
own liberties in the North, to sacrifi-
cling any more blood and treasure for
the unworthy purpose of blotting out
personal liberty and State ipdepcnd-
ence in the South.
The people are at length becoming
aroused. They behold the country
distracted, torn and bleedipg-the ru-
raj districts depopulated Of their young
and able bodied men, beguiled into the
service by War Democrats, or dragged
off by the minions Of power, and now
sleeping the last sleep in the swamps
Of the Chickahominy and of Mississippi,
and upon the hills Of Georgia, Tenn,
Virginia, Missouri, and Arkansas
They bcholA the flag Of their country
which once foated upon every sea, and
in every cline, hailed by the oppressed
and down-trodden, as the esis Of Pollt-
ical, personal and religious freedom te
the worId.-respected and feared by all
nations-they behold that flag now
scorned and deriiel by the weakest
and most degraded nations Of the earth
They behold the once happy and pros
porous North buried beneath an ap
palliug and almost incredible debit
Town, County, staternd Fe leral; the
poorer classes deprived Of many of ta'
absolute necessaries Of life-in a wore
contempt for US abroad-imbecillty
want, suffering and tyranny at home
aud high above all, at the head Of tb'
Administration sits creature elevatei
to a posi.ion he has not brains enousl