The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1858-04-15
The true Democratic Policy.

deserves nOtlce. Tor the reason tnat tnere Is
a doctrine incucated there, that is not only
detrimental to the best interests Of the Ameri.
can people, but tends to show to what length
the leaders Of that party will go, and proves
concusirely that they are guilty of the charge
so often brought, viz: that the spoils must b.
secured regardless Of principle. Il
Says the Herald: eve have repeatedly ex.
pressed the CONVICTION that there was nothing
in the Issue. (Lecompton.) upon which there
is an honest difference Of opinion among Dem
ocrats.' One year ago the country was food
ed with documentary evidence and kept warm
blythe Stumpers of that party, in order to con-
vince the people that they as party. cherish
ed what they called the God given rights of
popular sovereignty, and that it had always
been cardinal principle of the Democratic
party. that the people Of Territory had the
erclasiUe right TO manage their own affairs.
and that they were the ones who alone had
the right TO choose the kind of government
and Institutions under which they were to live
Look at that doctrine now; every vestige is
gone; the people of our territory were allowed
no such privileges; but, on the other hand, the
whole force ofthe government has been brought
10 bear, to rob them of those rights; consti-
tuition has been framed and sent to Congress,
without even chance to vote upon its merits.
every right which American citizens have,
has been snatched from them, and the party
have been quarreling for three months as to
the manner in which that Constitution sh,ll
be adopted; the whole patronage of the Pres
| ident used for what? to let the people of the
territory exercise that God given right of pop
ular Sovereignty? No. but TO force Kansas in
| the face of the fact, that nine tenths Of the
| people icho are to lire under that Constellation
are opposed to it. This is only synopsis of
what has been done and vet, s'there is nothing
in the issue upon which there is ain honest diff
ference of opinion among democrats" Can it
be possible that such is the fact; that the
crimes that have been committed by the So
! called democratic party. is 10 cause of dis
| senion; that party can somerset at the die
tation of their slave driving masters; leglslate
white, for slave labor against the free white
labor. and yet be supported by the free men
Of the north, be drilled into the support of
Southern institutions and Southern interests,
against their own section and their own inter-
est; used as tools Of such mel, as Hammond Of
South Carolina, who. on the floor Of the Sen-
ate, called the iaboriGg men of the North the
mud stills of society. All this can be done and
vet "there is nothing in the issue upon which
there is an honest diff rence of opinion''
Here is another quotation from the same
article: GAS soon as Congress shall have acted
upon it, it will be, or ought to be settled, no
matter ohat the action of Congress may be.'
there is sweet morsel, such doctrine as no
one but case hardened doughface could, or
would accede 10, no matter what the party
leaders may do; no matter what rascalities may
be committed; no matter how much the adj
ministration may tramDle upon our sacred
rights, ii shoui not disturb the harmony of the
party. Was ever a more contemplate and
servle doctrine sought 10 be incuca ed suita-
BILE only TO the fawning dtughface that endor-
SEES it The Herald again: ''what il asks is
| thcpues'ion, why simply whether Kansas shall
| be admitted under the Lecompton Constitution
or not, if admitted what further will Demo
Gratis have 10 do with it."
No Sir, that is not the PRESTON, true in one
sense, false in another. Why don't you tell
the people that if Kansas is admitted under
| the Lecompfcn Constitution, that slavery is
made national, freedom sectional; that the acts
of the Border Rutfians, the crimes of murder
robbery. and arson they committed are leg al
lied; that the election for Legislature at which
5000 M.sourians voted is legaized; that the
Blacl, code Of Missouri, adopted by that Leg
islatpre, and the test oaths they enacted are
legalized; that the acts of the Bogus Conven
ton are legalzed; that the transactions Of
John Candle-boX Calhoun, are legalized; that
by the passage of that bill, the people are de.
prived of the right to vote for or against the
institutions under which they are to live. ant
cor sequently the much cherished doctrine oil
popular sovereignty is killed.; in short, that, BY
the passage of that bill, Kansas is forced int
the Union as a Stare State against the expressed
1riH Of nine tenthe Of the people ,cho lire Their
and that too, by the great democratic party
where is your principle of Squatter Sovereign
ty? And yet, the mushroom editor Of tn,
Smut machine over the way, has the hard
hood TO publish this article, thereby endorsin:
it, which calls this question in which so mucf
of principle is involved, pa!try, miserable
transitory. issue. | think seriously that h,
has got the boot or the wrong leg. and that j
is himself, and not the question, TO which thu
above epithets properly belong. The articl
says: we Republicans "rejoice in the hop
that Democrats will be led astray upon thi
issue, into the bowling wilderness of lies, )" &c.
no sir, the boot is on the wrong leg again.
We want them to stand from under the rottei
platform, built up bv such men as Harmon,
of South Carolina; Toombs of Georgia; Davi
Of Mississippi, and Jones of Iowa, and hawk
ed about the country by such miserable tool
as you; we want them to come out from tn
FOUL party, and stand by the sacred right
handed down to us by such men as Washing
ton. Adams and Jefferson; we want them t
help preserve those rights from the despoilin
hands of the traitors to our liberties, who ar
now busy concocthg schemes to overthrow