The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1859-12-01
Prom the Richmond Enquirer.
Shall the Cha rlestOn COmyemtion
Nominate Henry A. Wise9


Nominate Henry A. Wises
The New York Herald saws:
"rhe conservative men of all parties, North
and South. speak highly Ex-Governor Wise.
whose stock has gone up one hundred per
cent since the Ilarper's Ferry affairs"
The Herald is right. Wise's" stock has
gone up one hundred per cent since the Har-
per's Ferry affair" Yes, Harper's Ferry
has conquered Harper's Magazine. The au-
Mority of LAW and ORDER has supplanted
the negation of non-interrention,
Harper's Ferry has revealed to the country
that the necessity of the times is the authoritv
Of lao; and the lessons of the hour tea
ches that the great want of the nation is a
bold, brave man to enforce law, to try male
factors and to execute criminals. The nega-
tion ofnon-interpeation, the abandoning ofthe
authority of law and order by any depart
ment OF the government, is wickedness in
the days of Black Republican emutes at Har.
pers Ferry and the Plug Ugly ''region Of
terror in Baltimore. What the signs of the
times indicate is, that laulessnsss of every
kind and degree pervades the country. We
have the lawlessness of ''insurrection" of
election mobs; we have lawlessness defended
in public meetings, eulogised by public spea-
kers, and the sanctuary of Almighty God is
prostituted to its vile behest-the pulpit
desecrated to preach the justification of trea-
son, murder, and robbery.
What the nation wants at this time, is
Jaws enforced, property protected from John
Browns, both in states and Territories. The
moral of Harper's Ferry teaches that the in
terrention Of authority both State and Fed.
eral, is demanded as much in the States as in
the Territories. Intervention is not wanted
to introduce, but to protect slavery. "The
average common sense of mankind, the Re-
publican phrase for lnsurrection," is but
Pathological expression for the negation of
Observation-Disclosures. Upon the Charles
ton Convention, will devolve the duty Of
drawing the line of demarcation broad and
distinct, in platform and candidate, from
Black Republicanism. No Compromise wiH
be entertained.
The South knows its rights, and Harper's
Ferry teaches she must maintain them
Should the Union surriue the apDraeh;no
Congress, the Charleston Convention will de-
eide its fate. If the South is permitted by
an existing Union to meet the Northern
Democracy in Charleston, the consultation
will be calm and deliberate. The first men
of the South will be there assembled. No
scheming, plotting politician, seeking an op
portunity to barter rights for public plunder
will be able to crafty his treasonable propen-
stiles; but in firrnness and with dignity.
the doctrine Of Intervention for protection
will be insisted upon by the South and the
representatives of the North Democracy
decide the ISSUE If for Intervention the
nomination will beproceeded with; if against
intervention, there will be leave-taking, a
bidding adieu, separation disun;on, &C.
cession, that will be not only prognostic, but
potent-a shadow of coming events cast warn
ingly before to inform and deter The Dem
ocratic candidates must be presented to the
people of all the States upon the ultimatuns
of the Constitution as understood and deci-
ded by the Supreme Court.
| If there are not conservatives enough at the
North to elect conservative candidates, there
will scarcely be found conservatives enough
at the South to save the Union. AS honest
journalists, in position which enables us to
know Southern opinion, and to see and un-
derstand all the movements upon the chess
board of Southern politics, we calmly warn
our Northern allies of the..danger Let it be re-
membered that our private correspondence
ramifies the Southrn States, that .sThe
Enquirer is received at $3.50 post-ofices, is
read by phleg-matic farmers as well as 6ery
politicians, that our exchanges embrace al
most every paper in the South, and that from
the tone ofthe Southern press and the tenor
Of our letters from correspondents and sab
scribers, we do not hesitate to say that this
winter will be one of 'discontent," and
that"gloTious summer will not dispel the
clouds that slower upon our house."
What matters "the rise OF Wise's stock
the bubble may be pricked by the last words
of "a lunatic lean -witted fool'-anothe. howl
of Abolitionism, that will rise upon the ex-
ecution Of John Brown, may cause the fall
not only of "Wise's STOCK" but that Of eyery
law-kving, law-abiding man in the South
Northern conservatism, about which SO much
is heard and so little known, must show
game, and reveal the power it so long has
boasted. We must cease to compromise with
aboltionism; it must not attempt to defeat
Southern representative men because thew
are representative men, and as such distaste-
full to Northern fanaticism. The South must
know at Charleston that devotion to her
rights and interests is no longer to be the
reason for Withholding honor from her sons.
What southern man ought to be the nom-
inee we will not undertake to say. Our pre-
ference for Governor Wise is based upon the
facts that heis representative man of South
ern pro-slavery sentiment; that his life has
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