New Oregon plaindealer. (New Oregon, Iowa) 1859-1866, 1864-10-07
NEW OREGON HOWARD COUNTY. IOWA, OCTOBER r. 1884,


good but vulgar joker. ....-.....
While Mcclellan his tie interests
Of the Union only at heart, Mr. Linceln
has the fsnatical object Of freeing ne.
gros for his aspiration. Between 'my
plan" as Gen. Grant has conducted il,
and one by Gen. Mcclellan, there
could not have been the same success.
that has already attended our arms
for We lost more men fighting the SCI
ence Of Mcclellan on the Peninsula
than we have in repel'ing the furious
and i'll conducted assaults of Gen
Grant. > r.
Thus, whether we look at the nom.
ination IN the light ofpeace or war We
prefer lincoln to Mcclellan. We csn
make better terms of peace with an an.
t,-slavey fantic than with an ,earnes,
Unionist. We can gain more military
success In a war conducted on 'smy
plan" than one of a real soldier like
Mcclellan, and sooner destroy the re-
sources of our enemy where they are
managed and manipulated by the light
fnsevel gentry of Messrs Chase and
Fessenilen, than when hushanded and
slillfuNy controlled by such man a.
Guthrie. Our best hope is from the
honest fanatics Of the United States,
men; who believe in their hearts that
slavery IL the "sum Of all villsinies,"
and who really aud sincerely believe it
to be their duty to separate their coun-
try from this 'yelic of barbarism."
Such men when they find that their
people are tired of the war, will end it
by a peace that sacrifices territory to
freedom, and will let the South 80, pro-
vided she carries elavery with her.
These men believe no less that the
Just powers Of the government are de-
rived from the consent Of the governed,
than 'that all men are men are crea-
tee free ani cquel." The two postu-
lates are Of like Importance to the abof
'tionsts. ""s - ~
Both the bolitionists and the Dem
ocrats isour eae,ny-the one, because
We have slaves, the other. because we
are Gsuni,nlsts. N)r l,es their ea-
nifty differ in degree; they hate us
most intensly: The Chicago platform
is that "peace may be restored on the
basis Of the Federal Union Of the
States''-that is: reconstruction of the
Union as it was-with slavery protect
ed by national laws, bat warred upon
by real sentiment, aggravated and
embittered by the war. The recon-
structea Unioi Of the Chicago plat
form would be the certain destruction
first Of slavery, aud the next Of
olders. With Lincoln and the
Baltimore platform we of the Co,'feder
Bte States know where we are out
eide Of the pale of mercy, devoted to
ruin and destruction, with no hope save
in the justice and protection Of God
and the courage and ,nanliness Of our
soldiers and people. With swords
and muskets and cannon we fight Lin
coin, and the past affords no reason Of
apprehension of the future. But in
the reconstructed Union of the ChicA-
90 platform we would be deprived Of
our weapons without being reconciled
to our foes.
There is no question that between
fhe two men Gen Mcclellan .e,joys
ia, more of the respect Of the people
Of these States than Lincoln, aai the
Democratic party far more Of our con-
fdence than the Republicans, aid
that if reconstruction were possible
it would be more probable under Gen.
Mcclellan and the Democracy than
under Lincoln and the Republicans.
The Northwest inspires one, and New
England the other; but as long % New
England imposes the dogmas of her
civilization and the tenets Of her fanat-
icasm upon the mind and people of the
Northwest, there may be peace and
separation, but there never can be un.
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