The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1860-10-18


| free labor cannot compete with slave labor,
that one or the other must exclusively pre-
vail. What white man wishes TO work side
/ by side with negro slave, even if he conld
get fair compensation for his labor? Eut
where rich men can own their laborers and
! get their work done for nothing, will they
hire freemen and pay them eight or ten shil-
/ lings per day? 1t was never known since
the world began. You have all perhaps
heard how the shaun Democracy Of South
ern city treated one Of orr own count7ymcn
| because he said, rs every enlightened man
must shy; that " Il ,coul2 De better FIR ochTe
! yaboring men if there 12erc no s'ares." Thy
stripped off the clothes Of on American citi-
zen, though an IriShman by birth, applied
a coat of tar and athars in Heir own bar
! barous style, and sent him naked from the
! borders Of the State For what was our
ycountryman thus treated mere ignoninious-
! " than a felon, with the taclt appreciation
of the sham Democracy North AMI the pub
lie approval Of the saTne party South? His
Only crime was uttcring truth Gs immuta-
BE as the Golden Rule The bred Scott
| Decision saws the Constitution carries slave
ry into all the Territories of the United
States. So says the sham Democracy, and
Douglas himself says property in man must
be protected in the Territories just like any
other property, With James Madison we
are unwilling to admit that there can be
property in man, and we do not believe
slavery has legal existence anywhere eX-
cept by local law. So says the Republican
Party, so says Abraham Lincoln If the
sham Democracy prevail in this contest they
will endeavor to exclude us from all the Ter
ritories as they did from Kansas; and if we
60 there we shall be compelled to fight for
our rights against the who'll power of the
National Government but if Abraham Lin
coin is elected President, he will protect the
rights of free white men, and not permit as
Franklin Pierce and James Buchanan have
done, gang of half-ciyilizcd bnrd r ruffian
shareholders to plumber ballot boxes with
impunity, and lay waste unprotected villages
without being even.threatencd with halter
We believe our government was made for
the many. for all, and not for the exclusive
benefit of petty oligarchy Of Shareholders
We believe it is constitutional to exclude
Slavery from the Territories by act Of Con-
gress, and that the best interests Of the
whole country and of poSterity demand it.
Therefore we shall vote FIR Abraham Lin
coin.
Fellow Citizens We have given you the
reasons for our leaving the Democratic Party
and we have no doubt that Instead Of perse-
cutting your brethren, when You are sufif-
GENTLY Informed as to understand the posi-
ton Of the several parties correctly, you will
support honest Abe of the West as sincere
! " and zealously as we do Know then the
principles of the Republican Party: Equal
rights to all citizens, whsther natire or fer
6ign born economy IN tie administration
of tile g0cernmeRt, and On immediate, total
and eternal exclusion Of tie bar1arons sys-
tenn Of Syareyy from al the Territories Of
tie United States.
MAURICE BYRSE,
JOHN GRADY,
L. MCLEAN,
GEORGE LILLY, Commit tee
HENRY LAUGHLIS
Ii. LYNCH,
THos. PATTERSON,
Albany y. Y, September so, 1860.