The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1858-02-18
Forhe Courier.
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January last found some editorial matter on
the message of FIX Governor Grimes and the
Inaugural of Governor Lowe. The Editor
says they are identical, the Inaugural fully en-
dorsing The message. So far all is right
Here he drops the Inaugural and pitches into
the message, without mercy. He starts out
by making some quotations from the message
witt regard to the decision of the Supreme
Court in the Dred Scott case. He (the editor)
makes this extract to exhibit the utter rotten
ness Of the Ex-Governor and his fitness TO re-
present the Black Republican party IN the
U. S. Senate, than to expose the dangerous
tendency of his excelency's exhortation to his
party in the General Assembly. After maxi
ing some low and ungentlemanly thrusts at the
message and passing some epithets peculiar to
the democratic press upon the Ex- Governor
and his party, such as black Republican rot
tennes &c., he holsters up his nice accusa-
lions by bringing in some remark made in the
United States house Of Representatives on the
9th of June 1886, by John @ Adams on the
admission Of Arkansas into the Union Now
it is evident from John @ Adams proceedings
while before the public, in any capacity, clear
ly shows that he in his career as statesman
never Endorsed one single iota Of the doctrines
contained in tho decision Of fancy in the
bred Scott case. The editor speaks Of John
@ Adams thus ssthe man who had obtained the
pie, who had grown wise in the service Of his
country, the :pat.iot'' &c. We have in the
above a fair exemplifcation of what the dem
ocratic press will stoop too The democratic
party can date it's origin as far back as 1924
when Jackson, John 9 Adams, Crawford and
Clay ran for the Presidency.
Jackson having greater number of votes
than either of the others, hut not a majority
Of the whole, it was carried into the house of
Representatives and Adams was chosen as
chief magistrate, thus coming il as minority
president. Jackson's friends (the democrats)
were much enraged, nothing was too hard for
them to say against the man who had grown
wise in the service Of his country. The dem
ocratic press teemed with vituperation against
the old man, such as traitor, federalist, tory
&c., and now they will use his language as
pillar for the decision of fancy to rest upon
Such hypocricy deserves to be condemned by
honest men. Again, as to Grimes The Ed
itor seems to think that Governor Grimes and
no other man should dissent from the opinions
of the Catholic Jurist and his democratic con-
federates, and further more he seems to be
some what astonished to think that a man al
though he may be Governor, not yet 40 years
old, with very little legal experience and less
political integrity, should arraign at the bar of
public condemnation Tribunal whose deci-
sions are quoted with appreciation by the high
est courts of eyry civilized nations on earth.-
Can age be imputed to man as crime?-
Has the declaration of ZIG been annuled so
that man cannot speak his sentiments in this
land of boasted freedom without being snarled
at by set of Rufians worse than those who
followed Cortez into Mexico; are we to be
governed by the courts of aristocratic Europe?
Our Fathers published to the world that they
believed all men were created equal with GER
tain inalienable rights, sc.
Guaranteeing 10 the people of the limited
States the privilege of thinking and speaking
for themselves and the power so far as in them
lays Of con'iemning any act that they NAV
think detrimental to the public good, think
no man after reading the article in the States
man will dare dissent from the decision of such
an august tribunal. All the civilized nations
on earth fall iG with the sublime ideas set
forth in that decision, even Rome with her
inqulsitions and the Pope with his hoard of
sacerdotal co-workers are laughing at the
game they are playing through The hands of
Chief Justice Tanev. The Democracy of
the South with the Northern Democracy as an
auxiliary, have changed by means of the pres
emf administration and the decision of Taney
the true tenor and intent of the constitution,
and they have cast libel upon the founders
of this Reprblic by making the constitution
recognize human beings as chattels, and that
ny virtue of it, Slavery exists in all the Terri
tories belonging to this Government
But merely because Governor Grimes be-
lieves in. the doctrine Land down in the declara-
ton of Independence-make the constitution
his platform-was elected Governor by a large
majority Of the voters of this State and does
not see fit 10 succumb to the democratic YER
sion of the constitution not swallow
down the decision of the Supreme court in the
bred Scott case-does not recognise property
in man, and does not acknowledge the right
of the slave holder 10 carry bis slaves into the
Territories of this Republic and hold them
there by virtue of the Constitution, say be-
cause he does not fall in with such false no.
tons Of right as these, the editor of the
Statesman must beIch forth his invectives and
pass his ighepithets upon the Ex-Governor
of this State, whose integrity, political or other
wise, has never been doubted by majority of
the voters Of this State, and whose political
experience secured for him the governershlp
of the state, and on his retirement from Office
The congratulations of greatful people, and
his enemies who are ever snarling at his heels,
can bring no other charge against his excel
lancy than The name of the party to which he
belongs, with prefix to it( Black Republican,
Grimes must pass the ordeal not of FIRE or of
water but the vituperatioLs and slang of a few
Slaveocratic Editors.
SCHOOL BOY.
Kirkvlie, Feb. 9TH, 1853. r.
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