Weekly New Oregon plain dealer. (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1866-1867, 1867-04-26
supporting the Union, but Re-
pudlatlng the Constitution,
BY which 1t was EStAbllse d.

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pudlatlng the Constitution,
BY which Ii was Established.
It is unnecessary for us to state
the position in detail, Of those who
organized and csta blishcd party Of
Mongrcl ideas in tho United States.
The principal feature in their creed,
TO which we would call attention. ia.
that. they universally proclaimed
"she Constitution = covenant with
death, and an agreement with hell,
that ought to De immediately an
nullea,' and to the accomplishment
Of which end, they increasingly bent
all their energies. moral aud physic-
Al. Nor is it necessary that We give
the details Of the organization Of 3
Provisional Government by which,
through the ins.rumeutality Of John
Brown, they designed ovcrturning
both the Union and the Constitution;
or Of their subsegasn. conversion to
the maintenance Of the Uuion, but
with The total abrosa,ion Of the
Constitution; for al these things
have already passed into history.
In their policy of government;
tho resolutions of their conventions;
through their press; aud in every
possible conceivable manner. the en-
tire Congressional party to-day is
ident lied with; and committed to the
principles and policy of the Mongrel
organization.
They seem to have forgotten all
the guarantees Of the Constitution,
taking it for granted that those
differing with them in political
views, have no rights tina: Mongrcl-
isu 10 bound to r@pecs.
T. II they have . warr.u. in the
Constitution for their revolutionary
proceedings permitting them to make
their own Wills the measure of their
power and authority 10 the Govern
ment. then, the Constitution is q
nullity. If their sets are not in &C.
cord with. but in spite of that in
strument, then Congress- has no more
right to exist, than has any one Of
the States recently resolved into
military districts; fvr the part Civ
ing to Congress legislative powers,
is no more in the way Of despctism,
than that portion securing to States
their just balance Of power in the
legislative councils Of the people.
There is no reason why the pro-
vi.ions By which Senators and Con-
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be exempt from the common fate
that has befallen its other provisions.
Whenever Legislators use the au-
thority conferred upon them so as to
acknowledge no limitations or re-
ktrictions but their own discretion,
this is revolution, whether the party
confess it or not.
The only doctrine that will war
rant the high handed course Of Con-
gress is found, not in the Con.titu-
tion, but in the extraordinary Ian
guage of Mr.. Lincsln, that what
would otherwise be unconstitutional
may become lawful by becoming in
dispensable to preserve the UnioD."
In that brief sentence Of the
Lsmcnted is all the authority nee
essary to the assumption of absolute
control not only over the coordinate
branches Of the Government, by the
department having the control Of
sufficient force to coerce its de-
erees; for it would thereby be the
judge Of the exigencics Of the case;
its own discretion, and not the Con-
stitution, being the limit within
which these extraordinary powers
arc to be exercised.
Under such = Government as that
States may be resolved into terrific
tories or military districts at the
will and pleasure Of Congress; at
times the President may be omnip-
otent aud exercise these extraordi-
nary powers, Congress at the same
time being sufficiently subservient
to his will, to agree in proclaiming
him the Government, and that to
question his wisdom or authority
is treason!
Congress- now assumes to say
without regard to Constitutional
forms, who is entitled to q seat in
either body, who shall vote in States
and who shall not, not that such