Weekly New Oregon plain dealer. (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1866-1867, 1866-10-05
LETTER FROM ASTEROID.

= ". r. Mean. Esq.
I Sir.--Being q reconstructed rebe
, therefore as subject entering st
prominently into the present polit
zeal issue desire to say few thing,
through your worthy paper.
lst Wherever | 90 whitherso even
| betake myself meet with eau
eassians fallen from their high estate
walking after strange Gods, teaching
that the negro is an Angel immacu'
late the white man a Demon in dis
gui>e. that the negro is worthy of all
credit. that his influence must be
associated with the ballot box in
order to make the Nation great and
glorious, that white men are not to
be trusted: otherwise this Govern
men5 is failure. tina t the rebels
(and all opposed to the Sumner and
Stevens tongre -. are not to be
trusted unless they bring forth fruits
NEE for repentance: at the same
time they are determined that moth
ing mort Of an enfranchiScd negro
and a d;>franchised white man will
! satisfy them.
Now this is ungenerous, unchris-
tian and imp0litic even toward
rebel, for time as it rolls on ever
brings in its trail revolutionary
events, and God would be a criminal
and nature a delinquent to recognize
and sanction the degradation Of that
people; for in view Of their past re-
lations with religion and ciyiliza-
ton, the Arts and Sciences it is i'm
possible for them to have so fallen
in the bloody drama that they should
never be allowed to rise again. Tn
other words if it is not likely that
rebels were all wrong, and the North
alright, then there is doubt, there
fore in passing Judgment give to the
rebel the benefit of it, then pardon a
reconstructed rebel pleading in his
behalf.
Who We're they that cried
50 Justify for justice and mercy in
behalf Of the French Italian and
Hungarian rebels, but they who
would condemn to disgrace the
southern rebels. Are not one as good
as the other; the only crime of each
being against Government each alike
feeling himself wronged. You in
your judgment find against me for
the crime Of having stained my
hands in my brothers blood.
l find against you for having entered
alike with me in the crime of bride-
ing over the gulf, which God has made
between the Negro and the White
man, with the slain in battle, /
using his mangled limbs for the tim
bers and railing, his shot and bay
onet pierced flesh for mortar and his
spilled blood for painting, over which
you propose rolling your burdened !.
cars of humanity, to lavish your
gifts of kindness upon the Negro.
But propose lavishing it upon the
white man. You find against me
for the crime Of having done what |
my birth, education and notions Of |
the Negro and White man has
taught me. | found against you,
while the BRIDGE was in process of
building, and protested in be-
half Of the white man as to the man
ner OF material used in building,
you seized with military commissions,
exiled him to foreign lands, or
perhaps it may be, handed him over
to the executioncr who in turn gave
his body to the tomb, throwing his
soul back to God. You find against
me for loving the Rebel living, |
ind against you for loving him dead.
You lind against me for loving the
Negro black, | find against you for
loving him white. You find against
me for comforting the widow and