Weekly New Oregon plain dealer. (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1866-1867, 1867-04-05
King George and, King sick
les t~H"~'G ~.

King George ana IL King sick
Daniel q. Sickles Is 4 brigadier
general in the United States army.
Under the military reconstruction
law he has been appointed, to rule
over a portion Of the original thir-
teen states. No courts. no juries.
no governors, no legislatures, no
sheriffs and no city governments ex-
ercise any authority there except by
his gracious permission. he is king,
emperor, autocrat, dictator, master
the name is immaterial !; and tho
people are SUBJECTS. serfs or slaves.
There is no end to the power of tho
ruler and no beginning to the, power
of the people. The former is as ab-
solute as the latter are helpless. In
military order issued from Charles
ton on the oath, king or dictator
Sickles graciously informs tho peo-
pie and their governors, Legislatures,
courts, &c, in plain English that if
they will govern themselves accord
ing to his will and according to his
Interpretation Of the will of congress
it will relieve him from the neces-
sity of Interference, but otherwise
the offenders will be called upon to
answer for the right of exercising
their own discretion at his head
quarters or before military commits
sions appointed by himself. This
is constructed by radicalism to bo
the republican form of govern
ment' which the constitution says
"the United States shall. guarantee
to every state in this Union"
Our modern republicans arc fond
of quoting the declaration Of inde-
pendence-a document once adopted
by the states over which Daniel f.
Sickles now reigns. Its authors had
reference then TO the government Of
king George, but it seems to bo
quite as applicable to the govern
ment Of congress and king Sickles.
In this connection, therefore, we
beg leave to recall to our readers
the principal facts submitted to .
candid world" by our revolutionary
fathers against king George: -
He has refused to pass laws for
the accommoda tion of large districts
of people, unless those people would
relinquish the right ofrepresentstion
in the legislature--a right inestim-
able to them, and formida bic to ty-
rants only. 1n 70, s.
He has made judges dependent on
his viii also, for the term Of their
office, and the amount and payment
of their salaries. 1889
He has erected a multitude Of
new Offices, and sent hither swarms
Of officers, to harrass our people and
eat out their substance.
He has kept among US. in time Of
peace, standing armies, without the
consent of our legislatures. "
He has affected to render the iail-
itary independent of, and superior
w 1hS Slfii Po"ci'. s-hiA '-.r
He has combined with others to
subject us to Jurisdiction foreign
to our constitution aud unacknowl-
edged by our laws, giving his assent
to their pretended acts Of lcgisla-
tion-- ,t .uea .a: r.ta ..47
For quartering large bodies of
armed troops among us;
For imposing taxes on us without
our consent; A~- .a' @'' sTe.
For depriving US, in many cases,
of the benefit Of trial by jury; tf
For taking away our charters,
abolishing our most valuable laws,
and altering fundamentally the
forms Of our governments; -
For suspending our own lcgisla-
lures, and declaring themselves in-
vested with power to legislate fer
us in all cases whatsoever. ~
Our revolutionary fathers further
asserted in the same document that
ga prince whose character is thus
marked by every act which may de-
fine tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler
of a free people; and the simple
question now is, whether party
which has progressed so far as to
improve upon the tyranny Of king
George is any better fitted to rule
free people than king George was.
Milwaukee News.