The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1860-04-26

truthS--tie enumeration OF them was then
rapidly melting the American cofonies away
from the Parent State and that fact was
sufficient to most eifectually close thsir ears
to- the voice Of reaSon, and truth. Scarcely
were. they emerged from the Revolutionary
war. whci the British nation found themselVe"
engaged in another. the most vast as we"
rs the most expensive recorded in the annl'
of the world-a war which, with the exceptions
Of mere breathing Intervals hstef for g
years a war which had three continents O
the Globe for its theatre. With every Choir
Of the public mind and of the PUBLIC resour
COS thus stretched to it's utmost tension, no
time was found for calm reflection on ones
tons which IN their nature seemed not to
affect the material interests Of the nation
but no sooner had peace loomed up in the
distance, than Mr.. Wilberforce mo aristocrat)
entered upon his labors in the anti-slavery
field. For more than twenty five years he
made it the business Of his life, to mould the
public sentiment mp to the standard of the
| Declaration of Independence; and when at
last he found the m 1888 oe the people were
with him, he mot stern opposition from
the Aristocracy the very class whicl, Tho
Fowler says originated the anti-slavery move
ment, Or, tou>e his elegant language, "laid
the egg" Now for the Historic proof Of his
facts.
We find in Mr.. Alison's History of Europe,
New York Edition, Vol. 3, page 500, the
historian says: "a more striking instance
never was exhibited of the necessity Of attend
ing in political chan,es MT oaly to benevo-
lent intentions but to prul,1 coadu2t and
of the fatal eject of those Institutions which
by admitting the torrent Of public feeling
directly to sway the measures OF Governments:
100 often destroy prosperity the most extern
sive, and produce calamities the most un-
bounded" Again he says: "The torrent
of p.,slic feeling was irresistible +; all the
Government could do was to moderate its
effects, which by the protracted apprentice
ship and by the grant of one hundred million
| of dollars to the slave owners, was done in
great degree" The reflection suggested is,
what is the character of National Institutions
which permit measure to be forced against
their will on reluctant Government Such
is the testimony OF the Historian, who lived
in the times ofwhch he wrote-a man in
tcnsey Aristocratic himself; bitterly opposed
to equal rights" and who records hstor-
ic ccnSura OF the aristocracy for yielding to
the popnlnr 'oW Thus History" the tri-
bunal appealed to, stamps the whole story as
a base fabrication.
So far from the Republican party being
concerned in the movement, Mr.. Allison
shows that the British public did not seem
to be aware that there was an "egg" amongst
them until about 1879, that it took about
twenty five years ofincubation, and Matched
ont in lS}t,-thus the orators egg was
laid f'rtyfive year. before the Republican
party existed. Can Historic testimony be
more overwhelming than this ?
Let us now look at the nature of this
change, and s,e what are the consequences
it involves. The Constitution defines Trea-
son to consist in "levying war, or giving aid
or sn'cor to the enemy. five are politi-
ca'ly insalliancc with foreign enemy whose
object is to rupture our Government and if
we are thus giving "ad and succor," then
virtually we are traitors-nothing else
sweeping charge this, t, be made against
The majority ofthe freemen OF the United
States. And by whom is this charge mades
by man who says, 81 have NOT the Proof
Now suppose we change batteries for a
little time put the Democratic party on its
defence, and see it there is no foreign smell
lingering about it. We are now engaged in
an irrepressihe conflict between free ana
slave labor. Democracy in anticipation Of
defeat, is laundering away at the "Union''-
streams of distoyalty are spouting from un.
numbered mouths and traitors arms are
stretched toward the East, implor:ng For
eign aid. The furious "Charleston Nercury"
and the prudent "Richmond Enquirer"
have both told us that they will call in the
aid Of Louis Napoleon, in November next
free labor triumphS. Mr. Mason of Virginia
proelai'ns in the Senate that they can obtain
the aid of any of the Governments of Earope
to fight the battle Of slavery, (D-and Mr..
Wigfall of Texas, plainly tells us in the
Senate, that they will transport their cotton
under the British Jack, and that says he
sis pretty safe flag" "Then we would be
confederating with England. Before God, |
would as soon confederate with old England
as with New England. They are our own
blood am an Englishman."
Such appears to be good Democratic doc
trine in the present day, at least we hear no
Democrat rebuke it. Let Mr.. Giddings, or
Mr.. Greeley express their paicate opinions,
and If not in strict accordance with the Re-
publican platform, it is nevertheless charged
upon our purity. Apply the same rule to the
Democratic party, and it would sink them at
once to the lowest debths of political per-
dtion. ..... .....
Before the Democratic speakers indulge in
charges against the Republican party, wholly
untrue, untrue in all its parts, it would be
well for them to purge their own diseased
political body OF the hideous reasonable Gle
ment which now so thoroughly pervades it,
HISTORICUS.