New Oregon plaindealer. (New Oregon, Iowa) 1859-1866, 1864-03-04
BREAKERS AHEAD! BACK HER

leaders'who control its action, that they
are goir too fast and too far in their
mad and wicked attempt to revolution
ize this Government. The people de-
not va, t, and will not tolerate rcvoIu
ton at their hands. They mean t"
holn and enjoy thcir civil rights as
freemen, and their political ri ghts as
citizens, under the safeguard Of their
several Sa'ao constitutions, as our
fathers intended. They mean rs our
fathers inten ed to maintain the SOY
riereigntv Of the States against the
secret and insilinus. as well as the
openly avowed and audacious encroach-
ments of the Federal Government. -
They hold rs our fathers intended. that
the Federal Government is but TIL"
agent Of tho Sovereign States that the
Federal Government and the State
governments arc equally the creatures
If the people Of TIE several States
the Federal G vcrnment Of the people
Of the several States acting together
for all and the State governments of
tn" same people acting separately, for
themselves. Thew h Id that the Fed
eral government is in no sense the su-
pc, ior Of the State govern ment: hnt
that Federal and State governments
arc coordinate, co-cqual, snl indcpend
ent, each in its appropriate sphere
that no government either State Or
Federal, is souereiGM; nor exercises.
in this country other than dpl"9at"'l
powers. the people held that Tie only
sovereign po1cer In wa to Amcrica"
political Institutions, resides in the
people ofthe several separate States
co0aposing the Confederation an&
that while obeiieHce IS dse to the GOV
ernmcnts-- to the Federal no more and
no less ,han to the State governments
allegiance is due to the State alone,
to each State by the citizens thereof.
This is American constitutional doc
trine, as it was understood in 1871 by
the patriots and sages who framed the
Co7stitution Of the Uuitcd States.
This is Ame,ic lean doctrineas re.asse ted
in 1889 by Jefferson and Madison
against the old Federal party Of New
England, and which trlumphed in 1901
by the election Of it's chief apostle Jcf:
ferson. as President of the United Sta
tes. New England federalism is stri-
wing now to effect, by fraud and vic
lence, the revolution which it failed to
accomplish in 1901. But We warn the
party which has obtained possession of
power, and especially the junta Of its
leaders who control its action, that they
are going too fast and too far in their
mad and wicked attempt to rcvolution-
ize this Government. Stop! You are
driving the ship Of state under full
head Of steam, stra ight upon the break
ers. We can see amid the darkness.
and not far ahead, the flashing of THEN,
foam, Back her!'' Yes, President
Lincoln, since an lnscrutable Proyi-
dence has permitted YOU to be foundat
the helm in this fearful crisis, order
your engineers to ,,back her," or the
gallant ship intrusted to your care will
be hopclessIy lost. During these three
years Ct your administration, the peo.
pie have been signallv exhibiting that
,.prudence': which dictates forbearance,
till forbearancc ceases to be a virtue.
More s,graliy-more signally we say
1t deliberately even than our ante-re,
volut,onary fathers, have the people Of
the United States during these las
three years, been proving that man
kind are more disposed to suffer while
evils are suf'erable than to light them
selves by appeal to violence. But
when long train of abuses and usur-
rations pursuing invariably the same
object, evinces a design to reduce them
under absolute despotisu. What Pres
ident Lincoln! what we ask you is the
teaching. is the recommendation, is the
solemn charge enjoined by American
political doctrine in such emergency:
Read. for it is written doctrine
! have MT invented nor interprcted.- buj