The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1860-04-26
Let lls have "a Change.

The administration of public affairs must
indeed he very bad which can only be chang
ed for n better. 1t tseemS verv strange TO us
that honest men in the Democratic party do
expect them to acknowledge that. while
they and theirs have had the MANAGEMENT of
tho government for manv wears, thev have
failed to give peace to the country. and have
only succeeded in pcrpetuating the most vir-
ulent strife between its different sections
They have lad the administration all the
time, both branches Of Congress most of the
time, the Supreme Court and all the machi-
merry ofpublic patronage. vet there never has
existed greater dissatisfaction than now
Things have pursued steady progress from
bad to worse. and there is not the slightest
prospect of Improvement Corruntion and
extravaganza abound. The man who. more
than any other, is responsible for the ex-
citing and bitter struggles that have grown
out Of the ahrngation of the Missouri Com
sible Democratic rule better than in the past .
Is this progress toward diSorganization to he
continued What lower depths of infamy
are there TO he sounded ? How far is party
decentralization togos Into what enactments
of slave codes and Endorsement of slave trades
are we to sea the country let !? How much
more profound than now must the contempt
OF the nations be for America How often
are we tn be led up 10 the brink of d sunion,
and told to gaze into the gulf? How long
are we to behold the spectacle of ignorance
and demagogism yoked with all the spois
of Office {?
1t is in vain for the Democratic party to
try to escane from the responsibility of the
present condition of affairs That party has
had full sway, and is responsible for every
public measure that has tended to the dis
quietude and disturbance of the country
1t is in alliance with all of disorganization
the inSolent hordes who threaten the deS
truction of the government in the event Of
the triumph of the Republican party it is
debauchcd TO the core. Has this party any
thing better in the future that it has had in
the past Is it the way of corrupt and de-
moralzed parties to reform themselves to
pause in their course and become good p
Is it not true that the party endorses to-day
what it abhorred a few years ago, and that
movements and measures are in progress Of
consummation through its means that IA year
since would have scoifed at? Do we not
wsnt 'hange
1t would seem apparent enough that anv
change in the administration ofaffair> would
hn an inprovement. Bai legislation and
had government are always the result of de
gonnrntn1 power Governments by r,le start
well and after time become corrupt There
is absolutely nothing iE our Judgment, that
can bring peace to this country again but
the triumph of the Republican party. There
is nothing that will hush the threats of dis
union hurled at the North, so quickly as a
hearty political tlagging There is nothing
that viii satisfy the really candid mind of the
South of the conservative character of the
Republican party, of the beniicen,e of its
aims, and the broad patriotism that animates
it, but TIE opportunity fol the space Of four
years of administering the government. A
portion ofthe Democratic party South and
North, are really deceived in regard to the
aims and character ofth proponents. Mer-
cenary and Satanic papers abound in mis-
representation and sbusc These have had
the effect to implant deep prejudice against