New Oregon plaindealer. (New Oregon, Iowa) 1859-1866, 1864-02-12

words:
"That in the mile, ial future, the
most perfect and highest type of man.
hood will not be white or black, but
brown, or colored, and that whoever
helps to unite the various races Of men
helps to make the human family the
sooner realize its great destiny"
All this shows us where we are go.
ing under the lead of republlcanism.
HOW WILL THE PEOPLE REsPOND'
Ever since the active operations of
the last campaign closed, and the
troops went into Winter quarters, the
organs Of the Administration have
sung 10 triumphe! and have assumed
the exultant and self-satisied tone of
those who have accomplished a diff
cult enterprise. They have endeavor-
ed to impress the people with the idea
that the war is virtually at an end.
They haye insisted that the South has
no longer the means of resistance and
but very little of its spirit. On one
occasion. seven metropolitan war jour
nails simultaneously commented on the
apparent signs Of despair throug ghout
the Confederacv, Starvation, nokedness
and insubordinatien had reduced the
Southern armies to condition incap-
acitatins them from efficient action in
the field. The Confederate authorities
were represented as being conscious
that the struggle was over, that their
fate was sealed, and that nothing re
mained for them but to fv from the
wrath Of the infuriated masses, who
had determined to give up the sinking
Con federacy asd, under the amnesty
proclamation, return to the Union.
Well, it turns olHt that not only the
true condition Of the South was the
opposite of all this, but that the Ad-
ministratlon were aware Of it. 1t now
appears that to complete the sr!jug,-
ton of this starving, impoverished and
hroken-spirlted people, detected, der or
allied, disorganized and ready at the
first opportunity to des ert their cause
and betray their leaders to the scaflold,
an immediate draft of FIVE hundred
thousand men is necessary, to he ad ed
to the fifteen hundred thousand that
have already been lured or driven to
the field.
Mr.. Lincoln, whllo the organs Of his
party were deceiv,ng the people with
idle promises of Southern submission.
knew that the fcderacy, in moral
point Of view, was firmer on its base
thnn ever, and that in physical respects
the most thorough organization existed
and the most earnest and hopeful meas
ures were being taken to continue the
etruggle with success. There is an &C.
tivity and determination il the various
departments of the Confederate CIV
ernment. and busy note Of prepara-
ton, gathering up Of strength for
the coming conflict, throughout tne
camps of the veteran armies that are
vet arraved against the Federal power,
that betokcn anything but submission
or despair. Reverse and disaster have
had no effect upon them except tc
strengthen the already iron will ant
to intensity the already indomitabl'
nature. The next campaign promises
to outrival all that have gone before
in energy, in desperation and, we fear
in the waste of human life. The five
hundred thousand additional instru
ments of slaughter, even if the eartl
should TEEN them full-armed from it
soil, may hell to exterminate, but can
not subdue the South. But the fv
hundred thousand exist as yet only il
. Mr.. Line ,ln's intention. His sig,
: manual cannet create soldiers ad ltbi-
, tuns; there must be a point beyon
{ which human nature will refuse to b,
, goaded. The people of the North, ex
Guiding the New England States hav
e for months been 10 condition of sub
l dued but feverish and dangerous es
t citement. They have looked on, til
3 apparent tame and submissive spe eta