New Oregon plaindealer. (New Oregon, Iowa) 1859-1866, 1864-07-08

ciples Of our government, should ever
have INDUCED in using phrase invol.
wing 50 grave an absurdity. WAR for
the Unios," i. e. kill the people, piilage
and dcvastate the country to promote
harmony and good will among the con-
stituents elements of society. "War
for the Union,' i. e. to rob q man Of his
property and murder his wife and chill
dren because you desire to live on terms
of friendship with him. The Union
that we venerate is not the Offspring
of war; but of mutual concession, COM
promise and good will as shown in the
bond of Union the Constitution-to-
tally ignored by the present admins
tration. A Union, either made or pre-
served by war, in the very nature of
things becomes despotism. If sue
oess!ul it will he such Union as Rss-
STA asks with Poland, as Austria is stri-
wing for with Italy or Hungary, such
as the wolf seeks with the lamb, or the
hawk with the chicken.
Congress has repealed the $500 COM
mutation clause in the conscription bill,
This is as We anticipated months age,
and 50 published and wrote our friends.
TIE truth is New England runs the
political machine now, and at her sug-
gcStion that clause was inserted in the
bill. The draft has been had in that
section and the Communication money
paid, and now to get men and not green
backs the $500 clause is repealed
for the benefit If the west.
Orestas 4. Drownson noted New
York Abolistionist, in recent speech
delivered in N. Y. City regulates
Mister Lincoln for the Pathfinder.
lie Processes to be in favor of free
speech, free thought, and freedom for
ali men, black, white red or yellow"
Brownson asked pardon from the meet
lis for having voted for Lincoln in 1860
Better ask pardon for having beslav-
cred him all over with fulsome praise
through the columns Of your Reviev
during the past three years Of despotic
rule. p.
Lieut.. Col. Bowman has been reno
we'd from command at West Point for
allowing Gan. Mcclellan to deliver his
Grafton on the OCCASION Of Defeating
the monument to be erected il memory
Of the officers of the regular army. So
it would seem three men we're disgra-
ccd in consequence Of the pro ceedings
Of that day-Col. Bowman and the
President by the acts Of Mr.. Lincoln,
and Geo. 3. Mcclellan by his own act
and speech. Gen. Mcclellan in this
expressly regulates the Virginia and
Kentucky resolutions Of 1893 & 80,
and hence rejects the democratic creed.
Among the causes Of going to war he
says was 'to maintain our very exis-
tence as a nation" Having never
been "a nat;ou" but republic of Fed
Grated states, we don't see the propricty
Of going to war ::o maintain" what
never existed. Again he is DESTROYS
of prosecuting the war, "to complete
the work begun" by Mr.. Lincoln.
His words are, to complete the work
begun" "to keep straight on.' We
beg to be excused The country has
kept straight on in the present blood
strewn path long enough. We have
no desire to see it travelled longer.
We ask fo~ PEACE. He says "the
people of the South feared: or protested
to fear, that injury would result to their
rights and property from the elevation
of a particular party to power" II
Gen. NJ cClellan would look at the per,
sonal liberty bills on the statute books
Of nearly every northern state, nullify-
ing the Constitution wherever they
had the power, he would see som ethias
besides idle fear, The South saw that
this same party would "kecp straight
on in it's work of multiplying the Con.
stitution, wherever it had the power.
With Cen. Mcclellan it is DESTROYS
''to complete the work thus begun