The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1857-11-26

season, may every one of our readers, In the So
ciety of family and relatives, enjoy most hap
Ply Thanksgiving and many OF them.
/ The Senatorial Question. i
The Dubuque ana some other northern pa ;
pers were somewhat premature, as we think
the result will prove, in breaking ground Oh the
Senatorial question, as.we learn from our ex-
changes from all parts Of The State, that it has
had the effect 10 call forth such expressions Of
preference, as to leave in little doubt who viii
be the successor Of Mr.. Geo. w. Jones in the
Senate of the United States. That man is no
other than James w. Grimes. The oldest and
most influential papers on the Republican side
in the State, and quite as many in he north as
in the south. have raised the name of this ia
vorite son of Iowa, this stanch and tried Re-
publican, to the mast head, and are advocating
his election with zeal and force, which we
again say cannot aimit of doubt as to the
man to whom, over and above all others, pub
lie sentiment in the State points as the most
worthy, and the most fitting to represent this
State, and serve the country in the Senate.
HARD TIMES AND TAxEs.-One Of the un-
fortunate consequences Of hard times, and what
makes them more seriously felt is the fact that
many obligations and liabilities incurred in
prosperous times have to be met with the i'm
paired ability which general embarrassment
and disappointed calculations entail upon
community. One of these liabilities IL the
taxes Of the current year now due, and press
ing for payment. We hope the people will
generally be able to pay these dues; but mas.
much as they were levied before the existing
state Of the finances Of the people were dream
ed of, and are based upon the past inflated
value Of property and consequently high, we
should not be surprised if many should find it
difficult, il not impossible 10 make payment
at least in such fuEds as will most likely be
demanded IL on enquiry, this should be
found to be the fact, il the people cannot pos
slbly pay on demand the taxes levied upon
their property, it may become the duty of
those having the matter in charge to devise
some measures Of relief. At all events, we
are of the opinion, that in the present state Of
things, it will be well, in public as in private
matters, to economist, and to defer all large
expenditures until the public are better able to
bear them. g.-,
speech Of a Kansas Politician.
The following is a synopsis Of speech de-
livered by member of the Kansas Constitu-
tional Convention. He Is South Ca, Gilman,
and his name John Randolph. His speech
was on the internal slave trade.
Major Boiling moved to strike out from the
following sentence, that part enclosed in
brackets, which gives the Legislature power
to prohibit the internal slave trade. "They
(the Legislaturc) shall have power Ito pre-
vent slaves from being brought into the State
as merchandise and also] TO oblige the owner.
Of slaves to treat them with humanity, &C.
Randolph goes thes whole hog" He is
not"mealy mouthed"i in chasing negroes with
the brutes, and he sees, that only by so doing
can slavery be sustained for a moment by any
principles Of Christianity or Democracy.
Here is what Mr.. Randolph says:
'sMr. President:-What does the gentle
man mean by talking about traffic in human
flesh? Does he (Henderson) think that mig
gers are human, that they are flesh and blood
like nurselves' Why, IL John Randolph be-
iieved that niggers were men, no matter in
however slight degree, this Convention wo'd
not find John Randolph on the floor of that
hall advocating slavery. No! il he thought
that niggers were human flesh and blood, pos
sessed of human feeling, affections and
thoughts, having an immortal soul, John RAN
dolph would be an abolitionist What buy
and sell our own flesh and blood Trade in
humansouls! Noinoi gentlemen, he never
believed in no such sickly stufflas that; and
for gentlemen affecting to hold THAT slavery
was abstractly right, and put themselves for.
ward as advocates Of Southern rights, to talk
about the traffic in human Aesh and blood, was
simply, balderdash. He didn't believe niggers
to be human any more than horse or dog.
Il be did he should advocate their right for
freedoE. efU go .aa.a
"a nigge-, he seId, was an animsl--a cross
between the baboon and the man, and he
could grove his doctrine by chapter and verse,
and by, the niggers Il emselves. Did they look
like white man? Was not their hair woody
lips thick-nose fat-skull rthick--and
couldn't any anatomist tell the bones Of
niger from those Of human being. He held
that the niggers were animals, but little more
intelligent than a dog, and but one remove
from a baboon, and he hoped gentlemen wo'd
not talk such nonsense as ''the traffic in hui
mar, flesh and blood disgracing our fair soil"
again. He should vote against the amend
ment, because he did not want niger traders
to bring here all the vicious and diseased mig.
gers with which the South was overrun.'.'
Here is man who is honest enough to ad-
vocate slavery on the only principle upon
which it can be advocated.
a. We see that a number Of Republican
papers In the Northern part Of the State are
out in favor of Governor Crimes for the Soma
torship. Among the number are the Lansing
Mirror, Alamakee Co., DEBORAH Republican,
Winneshiek Co., Quasqueton Guardian, Bu-
ehanan Co., Waterloo Register, Black Hawk