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

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J. W. NORRIS, Editor.
Our neighbor has great deal to say about
erssyfshing. Indeed, it is his staple phrase,
and lest the world should want a perfect spec
im6N, he furnishes enc IN his last issue. II
III interesting process was ever gone through
with, il was in that same leader, Of the ''usual
length" (our neighbor is mics about the length
- his leaders, about column, more or less,
wherein he attempts to crawfsh out Of the
legitimate conclusion to which his arguments
have led him, and to deny the disunion princi-
pies Of himself and his party; in fact, he has
the brazsn impudence, in addition, to claim
in effect, that the most notorious disunionists
in the country; those who constitute the rank
and file of the Sham Democratic Party of the
South, who have been holding disunion con-
ventions annually for the last twenty years or
more; who have even organized open resist
ance to Federal authority, and who, scarcely
year ego threatened to march to Washing
ton and take forcible posse ssion OF the ar.
ehives Of the government, in acertain contin-
geney, to witt the election Of Col. Fremont
President Of the United States, are, noiwith-
standing, the best of Democrats and the pnrest
Of Patriots. Ofthose claiming prominence in
the Democratic ranks there, says our neigh
Dor, none except ons or two, have ever enga-
ged in these incendiary movements. Who
this one or two may be, and how 1t is with
the masses Of the party in that section of the
country, we are not informed in this connec-
ton. a 5a 0l ttyis taF-
Now we take it upon US to say, and history
will bear Us out in the assertion, that there is
not, south Of Mason's and Dixen's Line, a
man In the ranks Of the Sham Democratic par
ty, either prominent or insignificant, whose
principles and whose practice are not in deadly
hostility to the Union of these States; and the
only reason why the Union has not long since
bssn dissolved through their instrumentali.y,
10 that they have not had the power. Nullif-
cation In its various shapes, is the doctrine of
the South, and has the sympathy OF the people
there OF the school democratic, as perfectly as
1t had in the days Of Gen. Jackson, and all
those leaders OF MULTIPLICATION, are now bright
and shining lights in the Democratic camp.
II is quite likely, that so long MS these dis
unionists can rule the country; SO long as
their reasonable sentiments, instead OF being
IN obstacle. are only passport to the favor
Of democratic administrations; so long as they
can And convenient and supple tools enough
among the doughfaces OF the Northern States,
who, though born and nurtured among free in
stitutions, are yet pro-slavery, to help them
carry the elections; 50 long as they can get
bred Scott decisions from the Supreme Coult,
and can count on the Army, Navy and Patron
age Of the General Government; so long, in
short, as they can count, as they now can,
on the Sham Democratic Party to help them
brave the public opinion Of the world, nation
alize their peculiar institution of human chat
teldom, and bring all the interests Of free
white men and white labor into subsection and
tribute to it; SO long we think it possible that
these disunionists will put of the business Of
dissolving the Union, and establishing South
srn Confederacy. s4q- 49,.
But, thank Heaven, we are strong in the
faith that this state of things will not last
much longer. There is . North as will as
South, now recognised asa portion Of this
country. Since the day that John Randolph
uttered that memorable and biting sarcasm,
that the men Of the North were doughfaces,
supple tools, whom the South would use Snd
nail to The counter as base com, power
known as the North has been growing up, and
II has now attained to such substance and
strength, that it will take something more than
Newspaper slang to put It down. BY sue
cession Of splendid victories, this power,
which 10 nothing else but the spirit Of genuine
freedom and pure democracy, has been mar.
ching forward, gathering strength at every
step, until, in the ever memorable contest OF
1856, it barely failed to wrest the government
from the hands Of the disunionists and restore
It to the hands Of the people who believe that
the Declaration ofIndepeadence is something
more than mere gathering generaiities,' and
that this great Temple Of Freedom, has some
what more extensive scope than merely to
protect Englishmen and their descendants. II
will be done in 1860.