The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1857-09-10
Caught in a Net.

The sham Democracy are determined il pos
sible, to ride into power on the snigger hobby.
Indeed they have no other to ride They are
about bankrupt as far as good sound political
capital is concerned, and must necessarily re-
sort to whatever expedient is possible or avail
able to raise the wind politically. And what
go good as the "nigger" question, what so
suited to their tastes and capacity? Accord
ingly they have taken it up and are deterinn-
ed to make it the burthen of the campaign, the
great question on which they invoke the peo-
pie of Iowa to turn the election, regardless If
all the many really important questions which
are involved in the present contest. 1t is a
desperate game, worthy of the tricksters and
political gamblers who swarm the sham Dem
ocratic camp. But. as is very often the case
with those who engage in such games, all does
not go on well. They caught in a net OF
their own spreading.
The sham Democratic ,nIdate for G. over
nor wherever he has yet spoken during tie
canvass has raised doleful cry abous the ed
ucation clause of the New Constitution. We
judge from the reports of the newspapers tina.
his would-be excelency exhausts his eioquence
and pathos, on this subject. He talks, we
doubt not, with eyes bsn full of tears, Ia
strains which might be pathetic if they were
not ridiculous, about the bIue-eyed, hrxeli.
haired, pretty -ankled, fair-complexioned
daughters of the sturdy Democratic .spn-
rients" OF Iowa associating in the same SC hool-
room with the wolly-heided sons and daugh.
ters of lIai-. ~ 81 g et fllH 6 s.3
Nam hat - IS.
this? The education clause OF the New Con- : !.
stitutlon was the work of j.. G. Hall. 1t was :
by him, and by his importantly
Carried through the Convention. eAnd--now
stand from under--every Democrat in the :
Convention voted for it, among the rest Col. !. !.
George Giilaspy. Hare is the fact, then. - !.
This dreadful clause, about which such a. pit
eous howl Is raised by little and big, old and
young of tire sham Democrats, was introd iced
into the Constitutional Convention by a leader
OF that party, and was carried through by Che !
votes OF Democratic members. SO it goes
Would-be Gov. Bsn, perambulates the Safe.
denouncing in fierce terms. a provision in the
Fundamental law Of the State, winch proyis
bon, would-be Lieut.. Gov. George, supported
as a member OF the Convention which Trained
that fundamental law. How these gentlemen
ara to reconcile this matter is perhaps no
business Of ours, but still we feel enough inter
eat in 1t to wonder how it will be done. We
expect the Col, to use a homely smile, viii
s'craw fish," Indeed we doubt not he voted
for it "under protest." in like manner, as he
voted for the Constitution under protest on its
final passage through the Convention. We
leave the Colonel in the hands of his party
friends who pretend to be so incei,se, at the
educational provision If the Constitution. If
he can satisfy them that he voted for the pro-
vision ssunder protest, J" and can induce them
to believe that such style of voting becomes
man who is Ia earnest, we shall content our
selves to Let !he matter so rest. ss .fsst
The sham Democracy must see that they
are making themselves ridiculous. In their
eagerness 20 get hold Of something by which
tLey can excite the prejudices of tile people
against abolitionisrn and thereby ride into
power, they have fallen upon this provision of
the Constitution, and converted it to use with
out looking far enough ahead to see that they
are condemning the work of their own party
leaders.