The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1860-09-13
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A Democratic friend has sent us a copy of
circular issued by James T. Lloyd, agent,
Philadelphia, for the purpose of advertising
book entitled "Helper's Impending Crisis
Dissectcd by Judge Wolf, Of Virginia"
The work is said to be endorsed" by vari-
Gus "eninent statesmen of the thirty-six
Congress" among whom we find the names
of Stephen A. Douglas, Hon. Joseph Lane,
Hon. George f. Pugh, Hon. c. l.. Ealland-
igham, Hon. S. S. Cox, and several other
Ohio Douglas men, with large number of
individuals from other States.
To give the reader some idea Of the char
acter of the volume thus recommended, we
copy few of the subjects treated of, as given
in the contents, as follows:
"The fanatics Of the North urging on a
"Crisis,' that viii rebound on the heads of
the Freemen of the north, and bring down
labor in the North to Starvaton Prices l.
The Republican party trying to dissolve the
Union of the StateS-The South in favor of
perpetuating the Union Of these States, rs
long as her rightsorer specte,l-Better chan
ces in the South for poor msn than in the
No-th--Th2 Negro well treated in the South
Richly repaid for his labor-Compariso
between the Poor Whites of the North and
the Negroes of the South-The strike of the
poor whites of misunderstanding admit
that they are acorse eff thin the .Slaees of the
Sowth-The power of the South to establ sh
and maintain a separate and independent
form of government against the United North
combined-The military strength of the
South estimated at six million whites-Ier
| immense resources in case of war-The South
have no fears of the uprising of the Negroes
The Bankruptcy of the entire North pre-
dcted-The Declaration of Independence
quoted to prove that the negro was not born
"Free and equal" with the White Man
! Judge Taney's Decision in the Dred Scott
Case quoted to prove the Author assertions
Speeches of Hon. j. A. LOGAN and S. 4.
| DOUGLAS-The South in tipc0r OF Disunion
in certain conting6Rcies-Th South United
to a man, ready to beat back the Northern
Hordes with CANNON and SWORD-AR-
MORIES going up in the eSouth-Manufacto
ries increasing in every Southern State-The
South could create BREAD RIOT IN THE
NORTH any season by Withholding the
Cotton Crop-Northern men should ponder
well over these facts before urging on the
Republican Crusade against the South-A
DISSOLUTION OF THE UNION NEWT
ABLE 1.-THE REPUBLICANS SUCCEED
A War Of cXternination predicted, if once
commemorative the Northern people pre-
pared for this THE Bile smstains .Stagery,
| Christ sustaias Slaoery-Concluson andap-
peal to the NoIthern people to sustain, this
glorious Confederacy, by putting down the
Republican leaders"
What do the people Of the North think Of
this ? Stephen A. Douglas and Joseph Lane,
Northern men and candidates f,r Northern
support, ''lndorsing"-yes endorsing"
book TINT represents the negro slave Of the
South as better off than the "poor white Ia
boring men of the North p.cdicts "the
bankruptcy of the entire North ~ Encoura-
geS "Disunton in certain contingencies and
the use of the 'CANNON AND SWORD"
! by the South to wage warefare upon the
| North Threatens ''bread riot to ntimi-
date the North Declarasa "dissolution of
the Union ineritaJle" if Lincoln is elected !.
Asserts that the Bible sustains slavery, and
that the only way to sustain this glorious
Conf.daracy," is by putting down the Re-
publicans What do freemen think of this
kind of document, or the candidates who
seek success by Endorsing" AMI circulating
them.
So Mr.. Douglas endorses" the declaration
that the ''poor achiteS" of the North "are
WORSE OFF than the SLAVES of the South :"
and then has the affrontery to ask flr the
votes of those very poor whites" to, elect
him President +! And also ''indorscs" the
assertion that his own defeat by Abraham
Lincoln will make dissolution of the Union
iRcoitable, This is the kind of documents
circulated by those who We're so recently
yelping about "Helper - 1t shows how
much sincerity there was in their cry. Let
the people look into 1T 7oleao Rlpde.
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