The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1859-08-11

raj effort on the part of the slave-owners was
essential to success-isolated cases Of eman
cipation could accomplish little; and it is
much to be feared that it often places the
slave in worse condition than before-the
process of kidnapping too often gives him 9
Legree for Shelby cruel tyrant for .
kind and feeling master. These, and othe,
considerations no doubt operated in thei,
fullest force upon the minds of those good
men of the Revolutionary tiines-they lived
on, hopefully looking for public opinion te
take a turn in the right direction; and die
all they could to direct it arsght- man could
do no more-and this consideration supplies
an ample shield from the reproach which Mr.
Fowler would cast upon their honored names
Mr.. F. has said great deal about Mr.. T.
for saying that 'public men sometimes acted
contrary to their private convictions"--but
there is more truth than poetry in the re.
mark. Public men are sometimes carried
away by the force of circumstances, which
they have no power to control; and political.
ly sustain that which in private they do moi
approve in others. Mr.. Clay knew slavery
was morally wrong, and did all he could in
private life to manifest that conviction; but
when abolitionists, led on by Arthur Tappan
Garrison & Co., attempted to inflame the
minds of the slaves, and incite servile war
Mr.. Clay threw himself across their path
and maintained that, until public opinion
should free the slave by legal enactments
they must be held as slaves. Such was the
conduct of the revolutionary patriots.
Rut what shall we sav of those who driven
bv mo nubl;c nsce.,s;tv. whose self.nreseer.
vation Is not At stake. belle in their nnblif
conduct their bonest and exnressed nr;vate
conv;ct;ons9 Into tb;s close NJ md his
nartv fall trust there ;s not one of them
wbo doas not srbscr;be IN rr;v.te 70 tho sth
commandment aTbou sbsit not stea, >, ve,
hon, ,rorr oe,ho,, fro,, Hrr p,,ch.n.n aon,
70 Mr. p ;s there wbo onnoSe tho ,,eo1;,o :,
Cuba, How MANY among them who do No,
advocate a 10 Aoo;n b;s n.r+v s,,hscr;ho :,
Renubl;can doctrine that the majority sbal
ru,e \, al, cases not controvert;no tho Law.
Of Cod and nature How was this carried
an. :, K.,ro.S wh,, e.,. ..o o,,,c,
population and legal voters are driven by the
bowie and rife from their os n polls, hy the
hired tools Of the slayeholders-they thus
of course elect a pro-slavery legislature
every subsequent official act in Kan sas is
conceived and corried out in the same spiri,
of violence and fraud. Our President knows
it all. and sustatns it all-the proofs arc
overwhelmning-tbey come not alone from
the great bulk of the people of Kansas, but
from the very officers which Mr.. Buchanan
had appointed to do the work-in point OF
evidence, nothing is wanting. At length
the long catalogue of wrongs eliminates in
the Lecompton Constitution, asking for Kan.
sas admission into the Union. That con.
stitutiop was protested against by the peo
ple from whom it purported to come--it was
fully proven that the instrument was no,
the act and deed of the people of Kansas
Here was a pretty case.--Justice in the one
scale, and usurped power, calling itself law
in the other. ...-.. ..... .'....' .. r. ''.7 ...
How did NJ p,,ch,n.n. nso. .h;s o.so,
hon, ,n.;n,.;n ~. ,;t., n,;no;n,. on ,rh;o,
alone . sr.a rovern,noni o,n voc. VIII
,.;a ~ ..,uo o.,n,t ,.o h,oL oe ~. .o.,,u,s
and ;no,,;re into their vr.l;ditv-tbev a..
hars dn,v s;onod ond cs-t;f;ed .na 90 con
not re;ect tber,,, mt Il tbro,,cb NAKED
Here was one of the most st,,nendo,s viola
t;ons of nol;t;cal ;,,st;ce ever neretrated
was in direct onnos;t;on 10 the nr;v.te con.
v;ct;ons &C .verv man of tho n.r.v .nd =
ornos;t;on - tbe;r oun rnhi;clv daclored
conv;c,;ons .s set forth n tho c;nc;nno, !,
nlatform ! The wbole Democratic n.rtv cav,
no,r,.. and N. fsu hs c,,,d ;,aren.e
went AGAINST their own nr;vate on;n;ons
and tb;nL Mr p vat does There can h.
nm ,ust;f,cat;on Of th;s--the oo,v show =
reason ever ,;ven for sustaining Iecomnton
was uv that that piyen above. q and that reason can
not he valid. ,;f Il were r. won,d. strike :,
tho nr;pc;y,,a ont NJ vb;cb o,,- revo,,t;or