New Oregon plaindealer. (New Oregon, Iowa) 1859-1866, 1865-07-21
REPUBLICANS MUST SUPPORT
gH. 'LOVz RNMENT"

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"ut 'he country to oppose p esiacu'
Johnsor,'s plan Of rcccnstructing the
States We haC hope that men ''diE
I,oyal" to ;hc goye'rmcnt lid becnme
scarce bat this rrp3si;l, T. move h,ings
,-r ~'gy"c- "o"."o s'-u,. $780, 6 ul:ai.u
alists" that we fear something terrible
may happen unless they are. all at
once arrested and crowded into Fort Ii.
oyette or the Old Capital prison at
Washington.
Our Republican friends. who are no"
so bitter at Mr.. Jrhnsoa's ad'niuisira-
tion, will remember that not many
months ago, they startled, the country
with the declaration that the President
was the government, and that man
could not oppose an act Of the admins
trarion wi'houtopr ositg the government
itself. And Democrats for taking iss-
ue with the President on some Of his
party measures, were pronounced "cop-
perheatls," "traitors" and ''disloy aiists :"
Now Messrs. Republicans if you
take issue with Mr.. Johnson's ideas #
reconstruction, do you not oppose the
administration aud is not the admins
tra,i"n the government, and is not op-
position to the government, treason"
Come now, gentlemen, walk up to
the line you marked out for others t.
toe, and lie prepared to become "politi-
Cal prioners" or else withdraw the ep-
ithe,s which have been Tie sole capital
YOU have used the pass four years
What WIS sauce for the Democratic
go,sc, is sauce for the Republican gan
der, AMI if Democrats we're Il aitors fox
opposing au act Of the administration
you cannot expect to be less criminal
| 'nr doing tie eame. tlhing.- ---.-.
The republican party of Iowa has ia
ken issue with President Johnson On
tie question Of negro sui'rage. While
Tie President has cmpia'ically de-
c,arcl az in ST the negro, the Iowa re-
pub,cans have pronounced as emphat-
icalIY in his favor The President
has spent his life among the negroes
and under tands their nature and char
acter as well as any other man, and 1t
is his deliberate opinion. given after
mature thaugLt upon the u'ject, that
the negro is not capable cf exerc sing
the elective frauchigs. On the other
hand there steps in the republican
party Of Iowa, the individual members
Of which know nothing abont the nc,
gre, and declare that he must have
the night Of suffrage extended to him.
We are glad to learn that very
many rromircnt republicans repuiiate
the negro equality platform, and de-
clare they will not go SO dark a fig
urc. Whether there will be any or
ganized opposition on the part OF re-
! puhIicans, to the negro equality doc
trine cannot be determined this early
in the campaisn,~-The conserv4f.yee
republicans are beginning to become
satisfied that the negro suffrage clause
in their platform is the first step to-
ward an open rupture with the Presl-
de, t, and they don't propose to aban-
don qn administration which the radl-
calls co0Ieo9 they consro.
In Iowa the only living issue OF the
campaign viii be negro suffrage
Everything else is dead or settled
The only other On s'ion which could
occur is reconstruction, and that turns
wholly upon negro suffrage.
Let the democracy, in the coming
Ca campaign, hold the repuh'lca" part.
strictly to the issue ic has made. LIE
US not be turned aside, either to tn
right hand or the left. by any attemp
Z to create new issues or to conten
;. against false issues.
o Negro equality pure and unadu
r terated-must be the question and tn
;, only question, settled at the polls nes
d October. The issue is plain direct a"
It comprehensive, and let it not be con
1t plicated by taIsehood, mis'epresent
d ton or deception. Let every dem