The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1859-11-17
THE NEW-yORk TRIBUNE.

Tue TRrBusF--now more than eighteen years old
and having over Two Hundred Thousand subscribers
or constant purchasers diGused through every State
and TERRITORY Of our Unionwill continue in
what has beeu-the ear nest champion OF Liberty,
Know ledge and Prosperity. II viii continue to nrge
the emancipation not only of the Black laborer from
and legal but OF the White like
wise from Land Monopoly, Tntemperance, Ignorance
and that dependence on remote Markets which par
alyzes exertion by denying Toll any adequate and
morally certain reward Believing that the chief evi
of our time Is the inordnate multiplication and dis
proportion Of Non-Producers, II will continue to war
against whatever tends to degrade Manual Labor or
deprive IL of its just and full recompense. II will In
fexiby commend the policy Of winning hither from
Europe the Useful Arts, and, wherever they may be
needed, the Artisans as WE'LL for whose products our
country Is now running recklessly into debt, while
our l,borers roam in fruitless quest OF employment
leaving their children In want Of bread, though the
farmer is too often compelled to sell his crops at most
inadequate prices In Short while battling against
and every ",nsr h OF oSer
countries that ACKNOWLEDGMENT which Is to be truly
attained only through the due development and cub
aviation of our internal resources, urgently adj
yocate a more effectively discriminating Tariff, the
Freedom Of the Public Lands, the construction Of
Railroad from the navgable waters OF the MISSISSIPPI
to those Of the Pacific and every other measure which
seems 30 calculated to enhance the dignity or the
recompense of Labor and promote the wellbeing Of
Mankind. ashra ~ o at u sEuf
The ..irrepressibie conflict" between Darkness md
Right Inertia and Progress, Slavery and Freedom,
moves steadily onward. Isolated acts Of folly aud
madness may for the menent give seernisg advan-
tage to Wrong: but God still reigns and the Ages are
true to Iumant, and Right The year 1860 must wit
ness memorable conflict between these irreconcii-
able antagonists. The question-"Shall Human Slav-
cry further strengthened and diused by the power
and under the flag OF the Federal Union ?? Is now to
receive momentous IL not conclusive answer Land
for the Landess Negroes for the Negrolessis
the battle.cry Of the embodied Millions WIN. having
Just swept Pennsylvania Ohio, and the North-wes',
appear in the Congress, backed by nearly ever
Free State. to demand a recognition Of every mans
right to cultivate and improve mOdicum OF the
earts surface wherever he has not been anticipated
Al. Ca -. a. and
the of the virgin soil ofhe Territories to
Free Lahor--two requirements, but one rnlicy-must
largely abso the attention Of Congress through the
ensuing session, Of the People in the succeeding
Presidential canvass; and, whatever the immediate
ISSUE doubt that the ultimate verdict will
he in accord at once with the dictates of impartial
Philanthi opy and the inalienable Rights of Man.
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else TRANSMITTING the Federal Metropolis shall
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