Weekly New Oregon plain dealer. (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1866-1867, 1867-05-03
C0ndeme d or Establish G IL.

Recent events it seems to us must
lead rejecting men to consider VIII al
four years of violence and blood has
established, and what condemned
Without assuming that it has estaL
lished any right, as sacred and inal.
ienable to the people, it nevertheless
has established, and the Legislation
of the country exemplitied fact;
and that fact is the power Of a State
to withdraw from the Union of States,
thus destroying the confederation Of
American States, united in a con-
federated Union under the Constitu-
tion.-Plain Dealer.
Our ncighbor, the DEBORAH Re-
publican, Of last week, takes the
above paragraph from an article in
the Plain Dealer as a text upon
which to indite an article, in which
these questions are proposed to US,
whether a person or people can
forfeit any rights by crime?'' and
Whether or no: rcbellionis crime,
and if q crime does it not justly
forfeit the rights which are welded
by peace-loving and pcace-preserv-
ing citizens"
Nothing would afford US greater
pleasure than to satisfy the Repub-
lican Of our views upon these two
questions, but as that would be for
eign to the tenor of our article TO
which its structures apply, we Shall
pursue the thread of our course,
keeping the landmarks Of history as
made by the party of the Republic
can, before the people in illustration
ofthe truth of our former article.
In that article We did not state
our views as to the right or wrong
Of a State withdraw from tue Un-
ion, but that the fact had been dem
onstrated that State has the power
to withdraw. We propose now to
show that they withdrew, or got out
Of the Union by the aid solely of the
Mongrel party, and that this was
the purpose Of the war, and not the
restoration Of the Union, as pro-
fcsscd.
The Mongrel party with extraor-
binary vehcmeuce. asserts that Con-
gress, as the supreme Legislative
power of the country, is clothed with
the sole power to effect reunion Of
the States, and that it cannot be
effected by any other power or in
any other way. thus in terms
expressly rcpudiating Nongrel means
Of reunion during the war, viz:--firc, |
pestilence, and the sword /
This theory proceeds upon the .
basis that the Union is destroyed.
which can be in no sense true. unless /
certain of the States are either with /
drawn-or expelled, and therefore
neither States or Territories, but
subjected provinces, or military dis
tricts.
The theory as we'll as the practice
in the matter of changing from the 7
iachoate condition Of Territory to !
a State, has always been, that the
consent of the people Of the Terrific
~ by application to become State
must be obtained; and that Congress
could not coerce a non-consenting
Territory to become a State, any
more than the Territory could be- ,
come such without the consent of
Congress and the approval Of the
President.
If the late Southern States are
Territories or simply military dis
tricts, then they are out of the Un-
ion as States, and these people as
the people of Territories heretofore
have been, should he consulted as to
their desire about coming into the
Union, and no conditions imposed
but such as the Constitution impos-
cs.
1t will he noticed however upon
the Monsrel theory that while it
afirms that the Southern States are
out of the Uuion it also assum es that
they are States so far as to enable
them to perform the highest act a
State may do-take part, or be CO.
creed into amending the Federal
Constitution. In being admitted
into the Union from q Territorial
condition, heretofore, under the Con-
stitution the action of the Territory
has only affected its OWN people, in
changing from Territory to the