The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1857-10-08

Nothing hut Nisgers.
The whole stock in trade Of the Black Do
mocracy in these days is the prejudice agains
Niggers. Their standing text and their soil
answer to every argument is "Niggers."-
Single speech Samuels from Old Virginny i
hunting down the little Niggers Of Iowa like
hound on fox-track. Great, gross Gillaspy
whose money, the product of picklngs and
stealines from the public funds, is the only
thing that ever gave him the entree into cup.
per-crust" society, isscouring the country in
perfect sweat Of vulgar excitement, to rrov.
that the greasy blackamoors amt fit for him
to 'sociate with. Samuels don't talk abou
anything but Niggers, and Glllaspy can't. Ash
either one Of them, m,-ask any proslsvery dem.
ocrat,-
care you in favor Of carrying ont the new
Constitution OF Iowa, just affirmed BY N en-.
phatic vote Of the people, faithfully and hon
estly?"
Aad they will answer Niggers!
Are you in favor Of sound banking sys.
tenn, which shall protect our people against
the frauds and shin-plasters and illegitimate
currency that in their desperation they are
now forced to employ?
Aud the only reply you will getis, eng
gers!o
Do you believe in elsvating plunderiog igno.
ramuses to the head Of our Educational sys.
tenn?
Niggers!
Do you believe man who contemptuously
declares that he don't permit his children ia
attend the public schools, has in reality ahear'
In sympathy with the people2
Nigge7s!
Do you believe it is just or decent to charge
the Republican party with the deliberate de-
sign Of mingling the races in the public
schools, when the very provision you cite was
proposed by Judge Hall, supported by every
Black Democrat in the convention, and oppo-
sed by nearly every Republican?
Do you wish to see q Black Democratic
Legislature elected, that will send either o
those dirty-mouthed demagogues Jones, or
Wilson, to represent the people of Iowa in the
Senate of the United States?
Niggers!
To say nothing about right, do you think it
was Consistent for Mr.. Buchanan to declare in
his letter Of acceptance that the people of the
Territories themselves had the right to decide
whether oi not slavery should exist among
them. and then in his Silliman letter to declare
that the Constitution Of the United States car
ried slavery into all the Territories, thus COM
pelling the people TO maintain the institution
whether they would or not?
Niggers!
~ -. hAliaue the naeiar atium of Ameri. .
can Independence is "a no where accredited
dogma" string Of ''soundlng and glittering
generalities,o a "self-evident l,e?o
Niggers!
Do you believe it is the Republican party
which Is 50 strongly in favor of, and the black
Democratic party which is so terribly opposed
to Amalgamation, when every one Of the milk
and molasses population Of the South has q
white Democrat for father?
NiggeIs!
Do you believe that Roger B. Taney, who
declares that Congress has not the power to
prohibit slavery from the Territories Of the
United States, understands the spirit and au-
thority of the Constitution better than the first
Congress which sat under it and enacted the
ordinance Of '87?-better than the Congress
Of 1920 which enacted the Missouri restric-
tion?-better than Jay and -darshal, aud Sto-
ry, and Kent, and Calhoun, who declared that
Congress had the power?
Niggers!
Don't you think that 10 shameless and des-
perate party which pours out the Walls Of its
venom upon the preachers and literati, all the
good and gifted OF the land, with whom the
love OF man and reverence FOR human liberty
Is q sacred sentiment?
Do you really believe Tom. Jefferson 'was
the father Of this modern pro-slavery Democ-
racy, that speaks with contsmpt Of "the poor
white trssh," and spends its energies in prop
agating slavery and establishing the reign Of
mamon worshipess and traficers in human
Aesh and blood?-if not, who was?
Niger! Niggsrs Niger!
Poor, pureile sham Of party that Is reduce
ed for Its last argument to so pitiful dodge'
whose only appeal to the good sense and I'M
derstanding Of a great people is, "Nigger!''-
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