Weekly New Oregon plain dealer. (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1866-1867, 1867-03-29
A Revolution Accomplish d
"A Fact to Look In the
Face.

The stsid and sober New York Times. in
its issue Of the 10th, surprises its readers
By the declaration that the government Of
the constitution is myth and that we are
now living under DE rAcro government,
resting solely on force. 1t says:
We may just As well look this matter in
the face. 1t is quite useless to ignore the
plain and palpable fact that the rebellion
and the war have revolutionized eur gov
eminent. We are not living now under the
constitution Of 7ss,-but under an unwrit-
ten constitution which represents the ma
tional will as embodied in the action Of con-
gress. The limitations Of the old constitu-
ton have ceased to have binding force
Congress exercises power never conferred
upon it, and denies to states rights express
ly reserved to them by the constitution
Aaa dSe ss nth Sr
its action. The president is powerless,
because two thirds Of congress is against
him. The supreme court is powerless be-
cause the case cannot come up for sancti on,
and even if it should the court has no means
Of enforcing its DEGREES. The people are
without remedy, because ten states are not
allowed any voice in the matter, and the
remainder sustain the usurped authority.
There is nothing new or startling in this
announcement. The war, fought "outside
the constitution" has resulted in the es.
tablishmeut Of a government outside the
constitution. 1t is government without
fundamental law; government Of force,
in which the will Of cabal is the sole
guide and psrtizan caucus the only court
Of appeal. In this fact We have but rea-
lization Of all that was apprehended and
predicted by the far-sighted statesmen Of
the republic when the war began. The
unity ofths nation is preserved at the ex-
pense Of its liberty; and the revolution is
no less fact because Of its almost noiseless
contamination.
l, is true that very large number Of the
people look upon the existing or De rAcTo
government as a temporary sxpedient.-
Their delusion is that higher national life
and more complete national freedom is to
spring from present usurpations. But these
people forget that they were equally san
guine that the conclusion of the war would
restore the supremacy Of the law that the
return ofpeace was to be identical in point
of time with the restoration Of the Union
They forget, also that revolutions never 90
backward that a nation once taught by
practice and example that its organic law
may be violated with impunity never un-
learns the lesson, and that revolutions in
republics inevitably and invariably result
in governments offorce. Still further they
forget, that all revolutions backward are
urged on, as this American revolution has
been, in the name Of freedom and progress
that every violation Of the principles Of the
government has been justified, and that to-
day, instead Of finding the freedom of the
nation more enlarged and more secure, We
find every guarantee Of freedom in the fed
eral constitution and every principle Of
freedom in the administration Of the gov.
eminent practically ignored, and that the
only further progress possible in the direc.
ton in which We have been progressing, is
the formal establishment Of q military or
monarchical form Of government over the
territory that once constituted Union Of
free and Independent states. mil. News.