New Oregon plaindealer. (New Oregon, Iowa) 1859-1866, 1864-09-16


,he country. lave these immense re
s urces, placed withou. restriction .
the disposal of the President, bee
used for the purpose Of reins:asing TIT
authority Of the Federal government
or for restoring the Union under tn
Constitution Or. have they bee1
used to further the partizan views o
the President and the party in power
and to inaugurate and make such chan
ges in the local institutions Of tho Sta
ties Is they desired! At the com
me N cement the President said he hac
no other desire, and pledged himself
that the war should be conducted for
no other rurl c,s than ".he restora
! ton Of the Union, with the rights Of
al the States unimpaired,' and tina,
he had no inclination, and no power tc
interfere with the institution f slavery
any where. Uuder this r.e'e- AZ
people filled his first csll for 100000
men, and as soon IS he had them in the
field, Congress begin to pass laws in
terferins with slavery, being approved
by hir. Ii ,coIn. Here was a pledge
made to the Republic and the world
Voluntarily broken. If this broken
faith has had \ tendency to restore the
Uuion Of our f. hers under the Cons j.
tuition; if it has caused a single individ-
u.l or State to return to iss allegiance
to the constitution; then there is rea-
soa for i: that might perhaps excuse
i: LefMe the people. If it's tendency
hs5 been the reverse Of all this, then
in tina: degree is he the more culpsble,
and the more deserving Of punishment
But what has been the effect Of the pol
icies of Mr.. Iincoiu1 On the 4th Of
July 1861, he declared in his message
70 Congress, that he had the best Of
reasons fox believing that, with the ex-
sekt;on Of South Csrol;no, q majority
Of the people il the 8, called CoGisde-
rate States, were oct only opposed to
Secession in the first instance, but
vera ia favor Of . restoration
Of the Union. Those Of the
South openly advocating d.sunion, aver
ed tina: Mr. Lincoln designs waging
war agains: our domestic institutions,
that he intends to blot cut State insti-
tutions aud State Rights" The
friends of the old Union asserted that
MIR. Lincoln had neither the power
or inclination to interfere with the in
stisusions Of the Soath, and that when
the armed opposition to the general
government. should be suppressed the
var ought to cease"
Does he occupy that position to-day?
On the contrary he declares that the
war shall not cease until the South
Abandons slavery. Should no. Mr..
Lincoln have fostered the Union senti-
ment Of the sou-h, dividing them ard
uniting our people2
Has he Rot attempted to do Ill that
the d,sunionis;s predicted he would
do9 Has he not used bis !agh prerog-
alive TO blot out state lines? Has he
not sought to destroy the institutions
of the Southern people? Has he not
wartcnly laid waste the homes Of n',n-
eomhAtant citizens Of the South! Has
he not united the South IN nearly s,l-
il ph.Ianx, and divided the north?
Has he not destroyed our commercial
Inter course and the interchanges Of
trade? And to-day the country be-
holds him assuring toward the North
an attitude az hostile ~ at the COM
mencement Of the war, be us sumed to-
wards the South.
In the North he has failed to pro-
tect person and property. The citizen
is entitled to this for tho taxes Of vari-
Gus kinds imposed and when the g,v-
erument fails to give TINS protection
Its object has in measure failed.
What the people demand is protection
Of life liberty and property. With Mr.
Lincoln as Pre- sident none Of these
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