The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1859-08-18

differed except single point which does not now
exist.
Hence you have nothing to hone from the eleva,;o,
ofthis wing of the Democracy to power but a con-
tnuation OF the policy which has controlled the gov
eminent since 1884, when Mr.. Douglas inaugurated
the only plank now remaining in the Democratic Mat
form'the constitutional right of the sIayebolder To
remove and hold his slaves as property in all the
Had he been elected to the Presidency in 1882 he
would have done Substantially as Mr.. Pierce whose
policy he sustained and defended throughout he
been elected in 1856 surrounded by southern innu
ences that overwhelm the Democratic party ne would
have done substantF lily as Mr.. Buchanan has done
and were IL possiblesnd praise COP that IL Is not
to elect him in 1862 the consummation ofthe policy
of the administration would become unavoidable
the OF slave code for the territories the
repeal OF the laws prohibiting the African Slave Trade
the dsmemb berment of the Republic of Mexico and
the purchase of slave territory with northern gold
for the creation of sthel Slave States to secure the
contiHuan;e ofslavery in the Republic forever and
the continued increase of the expenses
millions millions per annum would follow a. Ie.
gitimate and inevitable consequences.
The Douglas doctrine that the great fundam entail
principles ofcivi liberty and natural right shall
controlled by pecuniary interest even by the ar.
bitrary power Of majorities, is dangerous to the
perpetuty of the Republic, I'll dsrepua BILE to an
American statesman. This has been the doctrine of
absolute despotisms, time out of mind. With them
the possession OF power to accomplish their purposes
hiss been their standard of right But not so with
constitutional governments: they have ever discrm.
mated between the natural rights of man. and the
exercise OF sufficient power secure Just and stable
government All ofyour American Constitutions are
latures Executives and Courts from the violation of
the natural rights of the people Your revolutionary
theirs declared that II Is for the protection these
rights that just governments are instituted among
men. The great Eng glish Commentator saws "No hu-
man legislature has power to abolish destroy mans
natural rights. such as life and liberty neither do
they receive any additional strength, when declared
by the municipal laws to be invioable" l Black
stone, 80 And you will find it written among the
legal axicms of the Oldest Roman code, that, cal
though civil policy may extinguish civil rights vet
over natural rights il has no power As IL concerns
natural rights all men are equal" (Dg. Lib. I. Title
H. p BY Living under an Italian sky on the ssDelta
lands OF the Medterranian lea ding thec gzation of
the age TO an ELEVATION since surpassed, they
had not discovered that nature had enacted slave
code for their beautiful country There were slaves
at Rome, ii is true hut slavery foun ded in color
or climate but in violence; for their lawgvers ex-
plain-"BeId efeHtmortd snHt: ct cGBtiritotes Sc
quite serrstns qn1 snRt ndturdk iuri coRtyari9
j"re eniHa natural 0mRes homines ab inttio iib-
e'amascebdnt~r." (Just Lib Titles, s. ~
For wars arose; and captivities and slavery fol-
lowed both ofwhich contrary to the law nature
for by natural law all men from the first we're born
frce.n
Republicans of Iowa, you are called on to defend
these great truths party is in its infancy it is
true, but your principles are neither ephe-
neral: they are older than the Philadelphia plat
form-older than the Declaration Of Independence-
Older than the foundations of the Roman Republic
OF nature and they are as eternal as truth
TO your party has been confided great
trust God has raised it up. as I verify be-
Ileve, to drive from the temples ofliberty the
money-changers. and the dealers in the bo-
dies and souls of men, who have defiled its
affairs, to restore to the government the .prin-
ciples which controlled its administration by
our fathers, to secure the perpetuity of civil
liberty to coming generations, and to control
the vast energies of this great Republic,
which is acquiring with gigantic strides the
power and influence among the nations.
once maintained by the Republic OF Rome,
personified by the ancient seer, as beast
that came up out of the sea dreadful and
terrible, and strong exceeding" that ..had
great iron teeth" which "devour and brake
in pieces and stamped the residue with the
feet of it - and to see to it that this colossal
power shall have the eyes of man given to
it, to guide the civilization of the race
garments as white as snow, representing the
purely of its purposes and the hair of the
head as white as wool, indicating the wisdom
of its councils, s,-that when its mouth begins
to speak great things-casting down thrones
and principahties and powers, it shall use
the language of the Republic under the
Consuls, and not of the Empire under the
Ncroes
You have another great battle to fight for
freedom, in Iowa, on next October the Bu-
chanan Democracy and Douglas Democracy
are attempting to unite their forces-the
first as leaders, asking for oflice-the latter
as rank aud file, to perform the labor. You
must be prepared to resist their united sire
myth. And should they be led on by Mr.
Douglas in person, as is now promised, your
victory will be none the less certain. His
party is without prestige it has not carried
a single State in the Union at the polls the
popular vote of his own State was against
him.
When he and his party sally forth in
Iowa, like old Diogenes with his lamp,
thermometer IN hand, to ascertain the boun-
daries of freedom and slavery tell them
that you know of no country too warm for
the existence of civil liberty and the predom-
nance of your principles, except the one
described by the Saviour of the world, where
there is said to be weeping and wailng and
gnashing of teeth" When they tell you
"that the slavery question rests on laws high
er than those Of legislative enactment" re-
mind them that you know of no law higher
than the laws of nature and of natures God,
by which slavery has been condemned
from the earliest ages Of civilization. When
they tell you that it is question which ''self
interest must control, infoim them that
your ''self interest as payers, demands
the exclusion of slavery from free territories,
and the admission of free States into the
confederacy that your "self interest" re-
quires the control of the national legislature
by majority of the white people of the coun-
try,--thc construction of the judicial circuits
so as to secure fair representation of ofnorth-
ern sentiment on the Supreme Bench,-the
organization of the Executive Departments
so as to secure to the people of the north
Just representation in the disbursement of the
public treasure and the distribution Of official
patronage, in proportion to their numbers
and the payment of revenues into the Ma
tional Treasury, and the dimunition of the
public expenditures TO an economical stan