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OTTUMWA COURIER,
Local and Miscellaneous.

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war with Mexico for the sake of Slavery
| enacted in 1850 the Fugitive Slave act, and set
aside the Anti-Slavery- Principle and Policy OF
the Government in the regulation of our Ter
| ritories, as established in the Ordinance u
| I7s7-constrained both the Wing ana Demo
cratic Parties to swear by these acts as d nliai
settlement of the controversy-In 1904 repeated
the Missouri Compromise, and initiated a COM
pleated series of Fraud, Tyranny Violence,
with view to the establishment of Slavery in
Free Territory-procured dictum from the
Supreme Court, intended to assert the right of
Slavery to exist in all Territories, in virtue
of the Federal onstitution-committed Mr..
Buchanan and his Party to that audacious and
pestiferous heresy, as the test of Party ortho-
doxy and, having accomplished all this, re-
mains in possession of the Federal Executive
and Judiciary, whose powers and influence it is
laboring TO for the Strengthening of its rule,
and the multiplication of its conquests. Con-
servatism, so called, North and South is full of
regret-very sorry that such things should have
been done-but its language is, the mischief
cannot be remedied the least said, the SOON
est mended let agitation cease let by-gones
be by-gones; let us have peace.
Republcanism says-that is servile policy
We will not endorse by our silence and acqui-
escence the great wrongs that have been per-
petrated: we will not, by crying peace, peace,
give impunity to the Tyrant Evil, invest It's
usurpations with the color of right, strengthen
it in its illgotten power, embolden it to further
aggression We will not rest till its DONNA
ton be subverted, and the Federal Government
placed under the control of the millions who be-
lieve that it should be used for the establish
ment of Justice and spread of Liberty, not for
the base purposes of Slavery Propagandism.
Where does Edward Bates belong? To the
Party of Compromise and Slavery, or to the
Party of Freedom? He has answered the
question frankly" The Negro Question is a
pestilent question" and he who persists in urg
ing it can be actuated by no better motive than
personal ambition or sectional prejudice"
The NEGRO Question is simply the contrO-
reyy betIoeerl Liberty and SLarery-between the
Slavery Propaganda, bent on perpetuating their
mis-rule and carrying out their mad projects,
and the Republicans, determined to rescue the
Federal Government from their grasp. Mil
lard Fillmore and J. J. Crittenden abhor and
abjure this controversy, choosing rather to suf-
fer the Slave Power to remain in the possession
of all its usurpations, and at liberty to prose
cute its nefarious schemes, and are therefore,
in the opinion of Edward Bates, elevated, " Ma
tional " Statesmen. William H. Seward, S. P.
Chase, F. P. Blair, boldly accept the controver-
sy, determined to put down Propagandism, and,
in the judgment Of Edward Bates, can be act
uated by no better motive than personal am
bition and sectional prejudice"
Enough of candidates outside of the circle of
Representative men. How many more are to
be examined? Pass them along.
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THE ISSUE IN CONNECTICUT.

Honest men who are unacquainted with the
arts of demagogues are unable to account for
the fact, that so large portion of the people OF
the North should still cling to the party whose
whole aim and purpose, beyond mere spoils-
hunting, is the extension and perpetuation OF
Slavery. The following paragraph from the
New York Day Book, an ultra champion OF
Slave Democracy, will throw light on this
point:
This party is arrayed against the South
against the industrial welfare, and even the
social safety of section comprising half the
States Of the Federal Union. 1t holds that the
existing condition of the South is wrong-that
negro Slavery or social subordination to the
white population is unnatural, SINFUL vast
evil, and should be confined to existing limits
as the best means for bringing about its final
abolition or extinction therefore, it should be
excluded from the Federal Territories, and this
party is organized for this purpose-to prerent
an all future time any extension Of Slavery
This position is openly, boldly, even boastfully
occupied. Who or what party contests it ?
Did the Democratic party the other day in
Connecticut do SO, or join issue with it, or ques-
ton it in any respect? No. Onthe contrary,
it admitted the truth and justice of that posi-
ton. Its organs, those who assumed to speak
for it on the stump, and through the press, ad-
mitted that Slavery was wrong-that white
men holding the naturally inferior negp in
social subordinaton was unnatural-that COM
polling negroes to labor was an evil-that the
final extinction of this imaginary Slavery was
desirable, and therefore universally declared
that they were just as much opposed to its ex-
tension as the Republicans themselves. What
then? There being no issue presented on this
question, why did they go into an election at
all Oh, they had an issue of their own, a
pretended issue, an issue invented by Senator
Douglas, the great principle Of popular SOW
ereignty, which no man in Connecticut or out
of it, or in the Union, or on this continent or
anywhere except in monarchies, presumes to
question. Clearly, then, the Democratic par
ty in Connecticut was a humbug, and deserved,
of course, to be defeated, for it grossly insult,
ed the popular Intelligence with its pretended
silver-washed issue of popular sovereignty. But
the smoke and dust of a cowardly and disgrace
full battlefield cleared away, viii not the gal
liant and true-hearted Democrats of that great
little State gather up their arms, and boldly
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TO THE POINT.
A subscriber, writing from Jerusalem, New
sciences.

A subscriber, writing from Jerusalem, New
York, March I'd, says:
ave have observed with concern a disposition
in some quarters, where we had hoped better
things, to sacrifice Republican principles to
somefancied notions of expediency, to sink the
glorious doctrines of 1856, and hand the party
over to the remorseless grasp of few sche
ming demagognes, who hope to rally around
them, ioithOM any Distinctive principles, ali who
voted in 1856 against the Buchanan Democ-
racy. With this movement we have no sym
patty.
"The struggle in 1856 was one of principle
The people were in earnest, the popular heart
was touched, old issues were left out of sight,
old antipathies were forgotten, the Wing and
Democrat of former days stood shoulder to
shoulder in the fight. Any attempts to revive
those issues will prove fatal The despotic and
the liberal elements of the country are at deadly
strife. One or the other must prevail one or the
other system must be driven to the wall. Our
Government must be republican, or it must
become fXedly, what it is now practically,
monstrous central despotism. We came out of
the conflict of 1856 with third party in the
field, which managed, to use the kindest term
to always get in the way when Freedom aimed
the blow at Tyranny. That party is now disor
ganized; all who filled its ranks are either for
us or against US. Let them take their choice
Keep our old free flag flying. Its folds are
broad enough for a universe. If the love of
Freedom has died out of the American heart, let
know it; if it still lives, let it go onward to its
glorious work. Far better were it to be beaten
thousand times in a free, honest cause, than to
gain power by sitting the free voice, by crush
ing the fair bud, or bending down the young
oak of free growth in order to keep it on
level with and in the company of the dwarfed
and crooked shrub of expediency, while our
poisonous rival is striking deeper its roots, and
higher and wider its already overspreading
branches, and shedding its noxious vapors
everywhere around it. The issue is Slavery
with its present bold and future aggressions, or
Freedom now, and Freedom forever"
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THE NATIONAL ERA WASHINGTON D. c. April. p, 1859

both stand on the same footing as property,
the courts will assume that the biped as well
as the quadrnped belongs to some honest man,
and whoever assails his property rights will be
subject to punishment as thief, a trespasser,
or wrong doer in some form.
1t is clear, therefore, that Mr.. Douglass
non-intervention by Congress with Slavery in
the Territories" so far as it holds out the hope
to the people of the free States and the non
shareholders, that Slavery may be excluded by
unfiendly legislation" from the Territories,
is "a delusion, a cheat, and snare" 1t is a
mere device of demsgoguism, for wheeling
the people, and lulling the spirit of Freedom
into fatal security. Like the apples of Sodom,
it vanishes at the touch. F 81
So palpable is the cheat, that the slavehold-
ing class, but for its extremely sensitive and
suspicious temper, could not fail to see through
it, and to accept it as friendly device, design
ed to beguile the Northern Democracy, and
preserve it in its allegiance to Slavery. But
this suspicion and sensitiveness have imposed
on the States newspaper the cruel necessity OF
explaining. The article was intended merely
as an aside for the Southern ear. 1t wilhnot do
for the Douglas faction to proclaim it in the
free States. They will still continue to mutter
the cabalisti c phrases popular sovereignty,
non-intervention," "the right of the people to
self-government," and so forth. But it all
comes to the conclusion stated in the article
quoted above, that the Supreme Court has
already decided the point in favor of the indie
feasible right of slavehoding in the Territories.
1t will be seen in the closing remarks of the
States, that the editor admits by clear impica-
ton that I" the South has right to demand
Congressional enactments for the security OF
slave property in the Territories" This is
popular sovereignty with vengeance; but it
is the legitimate and logical inference from Mr..
Douglass admissions.
1t will also be remarked, that the States SAYS
emphatically, "he South has moral and con-
stitmional right to insist on the rerical Of the
african slace trade" Whether Mr. Douglas
is willing to concede this last point, we are un-
able to say all we know is, that in his New
Orleans and Memphis speeches he lays it
down as law of God, that Negro Slavery must
exist south of "a certain line;" and if so,
he is bound to concede the right to cheap and
abundant supply of the slaves.
We sincerely regret we may remark in con-
clusion, that the above endorsement of the
slave trade by the States indicates relapse of
its editor into his pristine ultraism. At the
last Southern Convention he denounced the
infamous traffic in language worthy states
man and it is with equal regret and surprise
that we note this return to his old error
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turn their faces, not their backs, to the foe in
1860? They have only to do this, to honestly
grapple with the indefensible doctrine of the
Republicans to defeat them TO boldly face the
question: to explode Anti-Slavery forever"
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The following gentlemen accredited agents for the
Esa: G w. Light, Boston, Mass; J. A Iinis, Salem,
Mass; Thomas Wheeler, Cincinnati, Ohio L. T. Park
Mount Union, Ohio
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as the principal landowners, have also in that
way been the chief recipients of the benefits of
internal improvements arising from enhanced
values. Again he says:
"But if those who have enjoyed not only this
partial immunity from taxation, but derived the
greatest benefit from the expenditures of the
public money, do insist upon this discrimina-
ton in perpetuity, can the great mass of the
people of the State, In justice to themselves and
posterity, submit to it2 Certainly not. They
cannot, ought not, and will not, submit to it.
/ Mr.. Bledsoe is. perfectly sound on the Sla-
very question" and is hence tolerated in free
dom of speech which would otherwise be peril
Gus; fact which illustrates the English prov
srb, that at is safer for one man to steal a
horse, than for another to look over the hedge"
Referring to the sectional objection, that the
eastern part Of the State, which already pays
the largest share of the>taxes, will be taxed still
higher by the proposed change, he says: Il.
"But Mr.. Speaker, admonish those who
urge this objection to consider well the ground
they occupy before they press it too far. They
seem to have lost sight of the fact that the slave
owners of the East do not constitute the East
that although there is majority of slaves east,
there is a majority of shareholders west, of the
capital and that if the slaoe-osoners of the State
,oere residents Of one county, ii could hare a
population b,a little larger than that Of Wake
make this statement, Mr.. Speaker, not to
alarm them By an exhibition Of their aoeakness,
but to induce them to pursue the line Of policy
so clearly indicated by interest, prudence, and
patriotism"
Mr.. Bledsoe concludes by saying, that if the
Legislature refuses to listen to his proposition,
he will appeal directly to the people. He has an
impregnable.position before the people, and ifhe
falters not, he cannot fail of success. He pro-
fesses allegiance to the institution of Slavery
and he asks only what the interests of the slave
holding class should at once concede, in order
to get rid of dangerous source of agitation
But it is not improbable that Mr.. Bledsoe will
find the oligarchy arrayed against him in solid
phalanx, while he will be thrown into posi-.
ton which may subject him to the imputation
of Free-Soilism. He gives evidence of marked
ability as well as courage, and marches up to
his subject with consciousness of strength
which commands respect. Success to him.
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The Life of North American usects. BY B Jaeger. New
York Harper & Brothers. For sale by Taylor &
Maury, Pennsylvania avenue

The Life of North American Isects BY B. Jaeger. New
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In this book, the author gives the fruits of
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for although it is rather intended to be an ele-
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THE MIsERIEs OF GREATNEss.-No condition
of life seems to be exempt from its peculiar ills.
The Berlin journals of recent date contain the
following appeal from Baron Humboldt, now
in his goth year of age:
"BERL1N, March Is, 1859.
"Sufering beneath the pressure of still in
creasing correspondence, amounting to between
sixteen hundred and two thousand communica-
tons per annum, and embracing letters, print
ed pamphlets on matters with which am Who'll
ly unacquainted, manuscripts concerning which
my opinion is desired, projects for emigration
and colonization, the transmission of models,
machines, and objects of natural history in
quiries about erostatics, requests of contribu-
tons to collections of autographs, offers to take
charge of my domestic concerns, to amuse me,
&C., l must again publicly urge all persons
having my welfare at heart to exert their in
huence in my behalf, that individuals in both
continents may no longer trouble themselves
with my person, and make of my house an in
telligence office; and that / be allowed, in the
declining state of my physical and mental pow
ers, to enjoy some rest and leisure to attend to
my duties. May this cry for relief, which /
utter with much reluctance, and after long de-
lay, not meet an unfriendly interpretation
ALExANDER Won HUxBoLDT."
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The trial of the crew of the SLAYER Echo.
which was commenced at Charleston, S. C., on
Tuesday, was concluded on Saturday, in the
United States Circuit Court, Judge Wayne
presiding. The jury rendered verdict of not
guilty.
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Bushnell has been found guilty in the United
States district court of Cleveland of rescuing a
slave at Oberlin. Sentence has not been pro-
nounced. This is the first of the Oberlin res.
cue indictments tried
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The OVERLAND NAIL TO DENVER Cry
Ledren'oo'th, April l8.-The first overland ex-
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place US IN direct and reliable communication
with the mineral regions, and afford in a short
time conclusive information touching the value
of the gold deposit reported in that region.
Small amounts of dust were received YESTERDAY.
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