The weekly Ottumwa courier., 1860-05-10

J. Porter. .......... so G. W. Kittredge,.... 50
VIM. LINDSEY, Esfses, g g 5oconnsr J. d caSgfn 8 8
This does not show large-but a very
handsome and satisfactory majority for the
Republicans, considering that the city has
heretofore been Democratic.
1t is indeed very satisfactory to the Re-
publicans at this partccuJar time, when it
must be taken as an index of the result Of
the great campaigns of 1860, in Wapello
county.
"Coming events cast their shadows before"
This is but shadow of what is coming
1t is indeed gratifying to us that this city
government has been wrested from the hands
of men who have politically gone to "eter-
nal smash" on account of their shameless
corruption even in their own party ; but IT is
much more gratifying when we trace up this
shadow to the great event of 1860. Repub-
licans are encouraged and strengthened
the rapidly dssolving Democracy is crippled
and weakened. A double dose of the double
distilled quintessence of Popular Sow reignty
would not now raise the dropping head of
the Democracy of Ottumwa And if it
would, visions of piles of5oxes and tar bar
rells, still waiting to be burnt, at the grand
jolllication meeting on the nomination of
Douglas, would haunt them by night, and
be-devil them by day.
All is now staked on the nomination Of
Little Doug. Richard I'll cried in his dis
pair. "a horse, a horse, my kingdom for a
horse" These Democrats cry in their despair
Little. Doug.-little Doug-our kingdom for
that little Doug. Like Richard, they aoiU not
get their Doug.-and aoiU loose their king
dom.
When the immense bon-fres, and huge
jollification were in immediate prospect, their
hopes were all hung on Douglas-now they
'hang with their harps upon the willows" "
Douglas has not been, and it is evident he
cannot be nominated. The slave interest
drew him on like a boot to kick free labor
out of, and slave labor into the territories
He has been used. and is now kicked
out at the toe and run down at the
heel,-red ragged and useless so that
the slave power draws on a new boot called
the slave code with which it kicks Douglas
(the old one), popular Sovereignty and all
into the gutter. And there lies the Squatter
Sovereign chief to day, with few personal
adherents poring forth ther dolcful lomanta-
tions over him.
''Tis done-but yesterday King
And armed with kings to strive
And now thou art a nameless thing,
So abject-yet alive"
while the south cry out "keep step to the
music of the Unior' or we will walk right
ought as we did at Charleston Looking
down upon Little Doug the South sings
"Fare the well and If forever,
Still forever fare thee WE'LL"
Thou hast been good and faithful servant
but we have no further use for thee. When
we wanted Kansas and Nebraska for our
negro slaves, and something was needed tc
humbug the freemen of the north into sup
polt of our schemes, thou didst pop "
(like a live Yankee, at a big show, on z
puShSt, iii"hiiiS i'Nu pioN!iiidSio4iS stDON
curing all kinds of aches in q minute) ready
to do our bidding, with that specious chea
of thine which thou didSt ch listen Squattc,
Sovereignty. But the roguery Of thy hum
bug doctrine was soon discovered, and thc
the just Indignation of free labor, waftet
swarms of abolitionists from the northern
hive into those territories, ard ruined oul
peculiar institution there.
We made the Supreme Court decide tha
Slavery existed there-we made Buck swear
that it existed there just as much as il
Georgia or South Carolina-we made thc
Governors of those two territories veto thu
laws prohibiting slavery therefrom, but it al
would not do; we cannot drive the fre
white !aborers ont of the territories by thy
uuack doctrine, so we have no further us
for thee-because thou art used mp. It j
our true intent and meaning that thon shall
be left perfectly free to form and regulat
thy own domestic institutions designs ol
the Presidency in thy own way, subjec
only to the constitution Of the Democratic
party. Ifthou dost want TO know the decis
ion Of the Supreme court of our party (th'
slave power of the South) under that consti
tution-it is that thou canst never occupy
the Presidential Chair, because wehave uset
thee and thou art now worthless to us-thol
art dead and damned.
The JAPANEsE.--The New York Board o
Aldermen have aDpropriated $50 OO6 for thI