The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1859-12-22

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me very long. Give me five millions Of dol.
lars, and would undertake to do it myself
Although do not know how to set single
squadron, 10 the field, could find men to do
it. Slavery wonld pour itself abroad without
restraint, and find no limit but the Southern
Ocean. The Camanches should no longer
hold the riches Of the mines of Mexico. Ev-
cry golden image which had received the
proclamation Of false worship, should soon
be melted down into good American eagles.
Iwould cause as much gold to cross the Rio
del Norte as the mules of Mexico could carry;
aye, would make better use of it, too, than
my lazy, bigoted priesthood under heaven"
When you thus boasted that you and your
"bootcd loafers" would overrun the troops Of
the United Ststes ''like herd of buffalo il
the Government sent them to arrest your in
vasion Of neighboring nation, at peace with
the United States. did you not pledge your
self to commit treason? Was it not by the
murder Of yunoffending Mexicans that you
expected to advance these schemes of avarice
and ambitions What humanity had you for
Mexican "mothers and babes" whom YOU
proposed to make childless and fatherless p
And for what purpose was this wholesale
massacre to take place? Not to right the
wrongs ofany oppressed class, not to sustain
any great principles Of justice, or of freedom;
but merely to enable Slavery to pour itself
forth without restraint
Even if Captain Brown were as bad as you
paint him, ] should suppose he must natur-
ally remind you of the words of Macbeth:
---sa. ''we bntteach
Bloody insurrections, which being taught, return
To plague the Inventor: Thus even handed justice
Commends the ingredients Of our Poisoned chaiice
To ourown lips" 20 lss@ts saaf..l.
+ ifCaptain Brown intended, as you say, to
commit treason, robbery and murder, think
| have shown that he could find ample au-
tfority for such proceedings in the public
declarations Of Governor Wise. And if, as
he himself declares, he merely intended to
free the oppressed, where could he read
more forcible lessor than is furnished by the
State Seal Of Virginia? looked at it thought
fully before opening your letter; and al
though it had always appeared to me very
suggestive, it never seemed to me so much
50, rs it now did in connection with Captain
John Brown, A liberty loving hero stands
with his foot upon PROSTATE despot: under
his strong arm, manacles and chains lie bro
ken; and the motto is ".Sic ISemper Tyran-
ms" "Thus be it ever done to Tyrants." And
this is the blazon of State whose most pro-
fitable business is the internal Slave Trade.
In whose highways coaies of human chattels,
chained and manacled, are frequently scent
X X X
Thus Kansas became the battle ground of
the antagonistic elements Of our Government.
Ruffians hired by the Slave Power were sent
thither temporarily, to do the voting and
drive from the polls the legal voters, who
were often murdered in the process, Names
copied from the directories of cities in other
States were returned by thousands as legal
voters in Kansas, in order to establish Con-
stitntion abhorred by her people. This was
their excmplification of Squatter Sovereignty.
A Massachusetts, Senator. distinguished
for candor, courtesy, and stainless integrity,
was haf murdered by shareholders, merely
for having the manliness to state these facts
to the assembled Congress of the nation.- Il
Peaceful emigrants from the North, who
went to Kansas for no other purpose than to
till the soil, erect mills, and establish manu-
factories. schools and churches, were robbed.
outraged, and murdered. For many months
4 war more ferocious than the warfare of
wild Indians was carried on against people
almost unresisting, because they relied upon
the Central Government for aid. And all
this while the power Of the United States.
welded by the Slave Oligarchy, was on the
side of the aggressors. They literally tied
the stones and let loose the mad dogs. This
was the state Of things when the help Of Os-
sawattomie and his brave sons went to tho
rescue. 1t was he who first turned the tide !
OF Border -Ruffiian triumph by showing them !
that blows were to be taken as well as given, |
You may believe it or not, Gtv. Wise, but
It is certainly the truth, that because slave
holders so recklessly sowed the wind in Kan
sas, they reapcd the whirlwind at Harper's
Ferry. e4a W2 msdtI s.ps
In your letter you suggest that such
scheme as Captain Browns is the naturalre-
snt. Of the opinions with which sympa.
thize. Even il + thought this to be a correct
statement. though should deeply regret It,
could not draw the conclusions that hu-
manity ought to be stifed, and truth struck
dumb, for fear that long-successful despotism
might be endangered by their .utterance.-
But the fact Is you mistake the source Of that
strange outbreak. Noabolition argum .nts
,r denunciations, however earnestly, loudly
'r harshly proclaimed, would have produced
hat result. 1t was the legitimate conse-
luence of the continual and constantly in
'reasing aggressions Of the slave power. The
Slave States, in-their desperate efforts to sus-
tain bad and dangerous institution, have
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