The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1860-11-01

me for this talk. Good day, must hurry
up digging my potatoes, I've such lot Of
! tl,em--thanks to hint in the Agricultur-
ist
INr. Smith How did you say | should
direct the letter containg the Dollar
Nr. Jones-To Orange Judd, Al Park Row,
New York City. .a
Republication and the South.
Ifthe constitutional election of conserv-
ative and honest President, in the person Of
Abraham Lincoln, shall produce any COM
motion or evil result at the South, the whole
blame will rest with the presses and polti-
clans of that section. The infatuation which
has shown itselfin persistent perversions of
the Republicans, for years past, has been
the chief source of whatever agitation now
prevails in the slave States, in view of the
coming ascendency of that party. The
Misrepresentation has been as short sighted
as it is ungracious and criminal. Had the
organs of the Southern Opposition, instead
of attempting to palm off Gerritt Smith,
Lloyd Garrison, John Brown, and other bit
ter and determined enemies of the Republi-
can party, as its true representatives, taken
pains to publish the authorized avowals of
Republican opinion, and trutnfully to inform
Southern communities as to the actual prin-
ciples now about to triumph in the election
.
of Lincoln and Hamlin, it would have been
vastly better for that section of the Union
1t would have spared them the llbor of un-
learning and undoing the mischeivous work
of years. 1t would have saved them all the
''terrors' of which they now begin to speak
somewhat in earnest. as @# ""a Ni"'
During the time that intervenes between
this dase and the 4th of March next, we
would kindly but earnestly urge the leaders
of public opinion at the South, for the sake
of Their own section, to spread true informa-
ton as to the pu poses and designs of the
Republican, party. We advise them, he.e-
after, to call the now dominant political or
ganizatAn by its right name--to drop the
offensive and puerile adjunct "Black," and
to cease confounding Abotionism with Re-
pubicanism, from which it is utterly and
totally distinct. What are you to gain, we
beg to know, by pers;stenty keeping up
this deliberate and mischievous misapplica-
ton ofEames? There is great power among
your ignorant classes, and worst of all ''ainofg
. your slaves in these false words-a power
to endanger yourselves alone while among
intelligent men these reckless catch-words
60 for nothing, since their falsity is complete
" understood. For sakes, not our own
since VIC hge steadily gone oward to assur-
ed victory, in spite of OF all this abuse, and
we shall adhere to our conservative purpos-
es, in spite of all such ''fauu,s-lor your
Sakes, abandon this most unworthy mode Of
speaking of the great majority Of the Union,
loving, law abiding people of the Free States
Having done this measure Of Justice
having at least taken step so clearly die.
tated by prudence it becomes the duty OF
the leaders of Southern opinion to make a
candid effort to estimate Republicans right
ly, and to state their real O jects. There
can be no difficulty in ascertaining. They
are not to be found in the utterances of any
excited demagogue, or of an extravagant ia.
natic. Take the general tenor of Republi
can speeches in Congress at the last session
See what is really put forth as Republican
doctrine in the Chicago platform. Note care,
fully what is said by the sounder and more
influential Republican journals. Read the
cumpaign speeches of the most popular Re
publican orators Above all study the re
corded opinions Of Abraham Lincoln him
self, as the most direct possible exposition o
the principles that will guide his administra
ton. Do not seize upon and attempt to per
vert his abstract avowals (not more positiv,
than were long ago uttered ut the South and
have been constantly repeated there of nat
ural antagonism between slavery and free
, labor; but look at his explicit declaration,
! Gin regard to every actual, practical measure
in which ths South is specially interested.
: Thus and thus only, can the results Of tn,
coming Republicas triumph be rightly esti
!, mated.
When this just and honorable course ha
been pursued, make war as you will upol
the Republicans in regard to slavery in tn
$ Territories. "On this point, and on thi
alone," can there be any real sectional antas
I onism. On this subject, we most undenia
4 bly, hold the faith of our political fathers, @
0 the North and Of the South a'ike-a faitl
unquestioned, aud practically carried out, b,
0 all branches of the Federal Governmen
S "iown to the year 1854" On the othe
: hand, the opposing doctrines maintained b.
q the South, that property in the "service" o
Q slave is like property in a horse, every
!. where equally inviolable under the Constitu
ton, and entitled to protection in the Terri
y tories in advance Of distinct recognition b.
! the local law, were first broached by Johl
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