Weekly New Oregon plain dealer. (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1866-1867, 1866-12-14
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his only bcgotten son that man
might be rcconcilcd to his maker
In these degenerate days this OK
ample of divine wisdom is without
immitators among the loud mouthcG
protested followers Of the divine
master The probable reason Is
that these holy attributes of forg'v-
ness are not in keeping with the
progress of the age.
Nearly every days experience
brings substantial evidences of this
progress, in the attributes with
which radicalism would rlothc and
adorn its deity. But a few days
since Greeley the "ehief Of sinners
gave an exposition of his views liz
regard to pardoning rebels against
fanaticism, when the entire radical
pack pounccd upon him for having
committed 1.-The objectionable sin
Of extending to southern rebels the
same charity that infinite mercy Of
fcrcd to "rebellious" world.
Bnt it is not our purpose to make
defence for the recusant editor Of
the TRIBUNE. He is wiser, and We
believe wickeder, than the small
partisans bowling along his track.
He knows that our national troubles
must be settled by policy charac-
tcrized by justice and magnanimity.
or they will not remain settled. He
knows too that the republican party
is not without sin, and therefore
cannot we'll sit in judg ent in the
trial Of sinners A party whose
leaders are those that for thirty
years have pronounced the consti-
tuition of our country
"a covenant with death and league
with help; which has for many
long years run the higher law ma
chine and connived at all manner of
combinations to obstruct the cxecu-
ton Of law; which undertook to
rulify Federal enactments by state
authority which went with armed
organizations into the territories to
obstruct the execution of law, is not
the party to take vengeance on an
other higher-law party.
TO these sins of his own party it
is true that Mr.. Greeley does not "a
lude, but he knows ofthcm we'll, and
fears their consequences. And this
fear of the old sinner is because he
iswiser than those who arc hn%%ii;;:n
at his heels. They believe that the
earth and the fullness Thereof belongs
to the saints and that they are the
saints.
He now processes to think that
somehow, we must get back to a
government by consent ofthc govern
ed;that the present anomalous state
Of things cannot long exist, even if
those who arrogatc to themselves
all authority in the government arc
saints, inheriting all authority in
this world with bright. hopes of
continuing their pandemoneum in
the world to come. For "the I'M
pardonable SIM Ct family express
sing lingering faith in government
ms founded by the patriots Of the
revolution, and as administered by
the fathers, lie is turned over to the
buffetting of mot merely satan, but to
that of the legions of them connect
ed with the satanic press of the
country. .-
There is guilt enough among the
conspira tors in the rebellion if any
human tribunal could point them
out, that they should be punished,
but to punish those who had the
courage to take up arms in its in
tcrests and suffer the Kadical1ear- i,
ers, who for years courted and aided /.
its coming as the harbinger of an
abolition millennium would be the
merest farce in the world and
Gireeley knows it, whether those
Startling at him do or not.
The people of the South are citi-
zcns ST the United States, aiding
IN bearing the burdens of the gov
crs,ncnt and in discharging the
public debt of a government in which
they arc denied voice. and to con-
tinuc this, the Radicals ask that the
cardinal principles of tho constitu-
ton should be abandoned to crafty
their self-rigLtcous spleen. They
babblc and prate about considerations,
blood and guarantees and against