The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1859-09-29
"ISuch Ado About Nothing,

''Much Ado About NOtIlinS.''
| "And is this all? Is this the end rrfr -
| To which these earrings did tend?"
HudiJres.
| The doctrine of n-interrention scith syore
ry IN the 7erritories appears to be quite pop
| uiar at this time with the Douglas Democrats
here in the North. But what does it amount
to in view Of the present circumstances of
| the case? In the first place, they 90 to work
and repeal the Missouri Compromise, which
repeal opens UP the entire public domain to
slavery. They then procure a discussion, OF
dictum Of the Federal Court, authorizing
slave owners to take their chattels into the
Territories, and hold them there in spite of
any laws of the Territorial Legislature to
the CONTRARY. We say procured, for we re-
gard the Dred Scott decision as part of the
programe, called for the exigencies of the par
ty, and furnished by willing partisans. 1t
is notorious that Judge Taney obtained his
seat on the bench in the first place by an act
of violent partisanship, which the more vir-
tuous Dame refused to perform, and which
was done in open disregard of the law of
Congress, and the requirements of the Con-
stitution. What better could we expect Of
such an INSCRIPTIONS tool than such decis-
ion-a decision that is repug lant to the COM
mon sense and the common law of the civil
lied world-that is in palpable violation of the
fundamental principles of every government
oflimited powers on the face of the earth.-
Every statesman and every lawyer of the
Democratic party, living or dead, not ercsp-T
ting Taaey himself has given different
opinion. 1t standes alone upon the judicial
records of the nation, and is confronted by
hundreds Of decisions so false and infamous,
naturally provokes denunciation, but it is
more loudly denounced by the voice of Amer
lean history, convictions of reason, the in
stincts of humanity, and the teaching of the
Almighty, than by the Republican press
But it was needed for partyp urposes, and
bench of Democratic slave owners supplied
it. To fit this state of things and render the
whole work of pro-slaoery intercention effec-.
tual, there is the fugitive slave law, made by
Congress and extended by an act of Con-
gress to all the Territories of the Union
What more of a "sloce co0e' do they need,
or what better could they ask. Surely the
doughfaces can have no sincere heartfelt OBJ
ection to such additions or amendments to
their 0lcn National Democratic Stare code,
as their Southern allies may desire. Why
CHI Natf, 1,o L.
much worse if the fire-eaters had their full
swing. And if the present Congressional
and judicial slave code is to continue in force
we, as Republicans, shall feel little interest in
its notifications. But it is against the
code itself, a it now stands, that we mean
to direct our guns and to batter down if pos
sble We shall continue to point to this
neac creation, monster ofinquity, as the work
of modern Democrats. And now, after hav-
ing assisted in bringing the foul thing into
being, after having perpetrated so many and
such damnng outrages upon the free white
men of the country, they wipe their chops,
turn round and, with look as innocent and
demure as the cat that eat the cream, or the
dog that killed the sheep, they turn up the
whites of their sanctimonious eyes and sniffle
and whine, and cant and slang whang about
"the great Democratic doctrine of non inter-
ference" Yes, great indeed? Wonderful
institution, that non-interference! Very pecu-
liar! But we never happened to hear it called
by that name before.
Having thus, through Congressional non
interterence, Federal! Court non-interren-
tion, and Presidential and border ruffian non
interrention installed the demon of slavery
in all the Territories. and put crown of tri-
umph upon its hellish front, they are now
very patriotically, and conscientiously, and
cons n>titutionally, and we might add frigidly,
opposed to what they call ''interrention."-
Could effrontery be carried to greater
stretch? They remind us of the fellow, who
having crept up behind his opponent, knock
ed him down, and kicked his ribs in, but
when he found him rising and getting ready
| for a fair fight, backed oil, under thep ious
plea, that he 'oas scrupulously opposed to aU
| ra..Diiaaisns and personal piolence Weregret
that we have no language in which to express
adequately our scorn and adherence of
such Democratic ''non-iaterpeation hypocri-
sy. @ 1
"a vain man'smotto is, win gold and wear
| it; generous mans, win gold and share it;