The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1857-08-13

Any, who listened last Saturday week at the
Court house for nearly five hours to bubbles
equivocations and political ratings, could hard
ly fail to be impressed with the vast difference
between a politician and man simply as
God made him.
IL all men are not born "free and cqual'' no
man is free after having been ground in po-
htical mill, nor equal to what he was before
being mangleJ in that way.
As citizens in all the ordinary walks of life,
we are able to discover little difference of
opinion as TO the manner in which we should
conduct ourselves in our relations to those
about us. II would seem TO be sort of natu-
raj conclusion that our laws should be so franz
ed as to protect us in these relations formed
as they are by the instincts of common sense
and viriuous principle.
And yet the very place, that Saturday week
echoed with utterance of horror al any legal
recognition of those shade darker than our
selves, except as ami nails or slaves, was, but
short time before, filled with crowd of our
fellow citizsns listening to the religious teach
ing of black man. That man was thus rec
ognized as fellow citizen with the saints,
and, if we are rightly informed, is a member
and minister in one of the most popular chris.
tian denominations in the United States.
Now the logic of the Great Teacher was
addressed to Jewish ruler in this way, ssIf
have told you earthly things, and we believe
not, how shall We believe if tell you of heav-
emily things" Still our fellow christians can
stand up in public assembly and denounce
the idea that man may bear witness. before
acivil court, where the price Of common pig
may be in issue, when he is by common con-
sent recognized as teacher IN matters where
the soul Is at stake. Surely it is discreet never
to mingle orr religion with our politics. 1t
may, however, be well for us to ask what will
become of the man when the politician goes
to his own place?
IL colored persons may enter our churches
and worship freely with us, the highest SER
vice OF which human nature is capable; if they
may serve in our families, caring both for us
and our children, why may they not demand
the protection of the civil law in performing
these duties as their own right? If a lady
should be murdered by ruffan ia the presence
of only colored girl, should he feel that he
shall surely 60 free because her testimony
can never be admitted in our courts of Justice .
Away with such Ronsense. 1t is not strange
that those, who advocate it, should feel the
need Of some legal distinction to make them
superior TO negroes. This same gentry are
most clamerous in support of the fugitive
slave bill--a bill that knows no distinction of
color but treads down alike phite and black
beneath its iron heei.
The laborers, those who work with their
hands, may be bought anl sold and hunted.
Like stray nuke, il they leave their owners,
and though whiser than the politician that
wears his gloves aud receives eight dollars a
day, he dare not lift his finger nol open his
lips, Tor be recognizes the master OF the slave
10 be his master, and on this ground he claims
to be u UatiOnai man. In him the North aud
the South are indeed one, and when he dies
what will become of the Union?
But the most interesting part OF the per-
formances Saturday week was the marriage
proposal made by the Wapelo CT. Democracy
TO the Fillmore Party. "The world does
move though" Some progress has been made
in two years Perhaps Millard Fillmore will
be the next Democratic Candidate for the