The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1857-07-02

i / Wen, the Hntsrrifted Cd have had their "blg
7neetin' "-their regular annual "meetin' "-in
which they convene the elders and deacons Of
their party to pay of their servants for the
past pearly service which they have rendered
them, and TO make new laws and regulations
! for the government OF the party and their SER
rants for the ensuing year The occasional
sermon on the late occasion was preached by
their bishop, big with heartfelt thanks for past
accessions and services to their ranks, and big
with intentions to pay for the same but alas
small with means The orator said some
sharp (?) things however. and among other
rare specimens of cultivated aud christian
mind, he disclosed the awful fact--as he sup
posed-,hat within a comparatively short
time, threeforrths of three thousand { .25G)
ministers OF Christ's church in the Northern
States had been sent to- the States, prispa for
seduction and other capital crimes. Won
dcrous man TO be endowed with mental acu-
men enough to discover the secret Wonder
if the enlightened twenty-six who have lately
tried to initiate their illustrieus predecessors
in that that they are trying to seduce some of
their brethren from the paths of virtue-from
their first love-will not soon meet with the
same happy reward? He also has discovered
another great secret he found it ont whilst
engaged IN very severe mental labor last win
ter. II is this: that while it is an act of
christianity for mer to send men and money
to eulighten the uttermost parts of the bealhen
land, it is act of black rebellion for the peo-
pie of Iowa, or any other State, to allow her
citizens to educate their children with the
money which they pay into the school fund in
the shape Of taxes. And he said, fellow cit
liens. that you mast vote against our new Con-
stitution for the reason tn It it granted to MS
the glorious privilege. Another reason he
gave why you should vote against the Consti-
tuition, and in their resolutions the hypocriti-
cal party is pledged to oppose it for the same
reason, is because it contains a clause allow
ing the passage Off free banking law. Now,
do you recolect what were the argumen of
this same inspired orator, as we'll as all the
rest Of his class, last fall when they wanted to
carry the vote for revision of the Coastitu-
tion? Were they rot that we must have banks,
In order to make US on a par with other States?
Were they honest, or did they want the honor
of being delegates to that Convention, so that
they might mingle with smart men, and, on the
principle of equiIibri I'm. get their debating
powers strengthened so that they might en-
Tighten the ignoramuses of Wapello county, or
run for Congress as occasion might require or
opportunity present. But what is the real OBJ
ject of their opposition to the Constitution p
1t is that they hope thereby to defeat the Re-
publican party, and upon its ruins to inaugurate
a set of pro-slavery principles suited to occu-
pations Of more genial character than they
could engage in under tine new Constitution |;
or, perhaps, continue money shaving shops at
the rate of four per cent. per month"; Will
the intelligent voters oftllis county and of this
State, stand idly by and permit them TO con-
summate their grand scheme OF tyranny and
piracy? Allow the immense sum of money
which the Constitution has cost u. to be an
entire loss? Do you feel rich enough to con-
tribute your hard learned means to feed and
support in their reckless extrava gance, sci
of broken down political hacks, land pirates,
stock Jobbe-s and pro-slavery demagogues p
One other secret the orator has discovered. and
that Is that the Democratic party is opposed to
the extension of slavery. When he made this
grand discovery is not certainly known
Probably since the resignation of Gov. Geary,
and since the st. Louis election One thing |
do know, ard he knows it too, that the organs
of the party dare not saw so the administra-
ton dare not say SO; neither will petty
County Convention say SO in their resolutions
Every body over ten years old, male or fe-
male, knows that the assumption is as false as
1t is ruinous for the party to say 50 in cor
porate capacity. The last important secret
which the famous orator divulged, was, that
the Democratic party would make Kansas
free State The discovery of this secret dates
from the time that they discovered that they
could not make it ''any thing else.'
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