The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1861-10-16

For the Courier.
Versus ssEsae Hse.
INvrrAcy.,s

EMocracy."
Daniel Webster is the name of dstin
gu.>hcd patriot and Statesman, but "Th
Daniel Webster is simnl, big strame,
male 20 he trsel f,rthc profit Of its owners
| j. c, Hall isa well known citizen of Iowa
capable OF choosing his own course in al
matters, whether personal or political, bu
| the J. G. Hall Is locomotive owned by :
railroad company, running l,aokwartls O,
forward, whisl,;ng ~ being silent as thes,
engine rs may direct.
The instructive good sense of the Ameri
can people, is fast opening their eyes to tn,
fact tina, there is precisely the sam, differ
cnce between real, live democracy, and tina,
which demasosues for the sake ofus;ng an
unsuspcctins people for their own selfish
purposes, are pleased to call "The Dcmoc.
racy."
Democracy simply means government by
the Eesple in opposition to that ofall c'iaues,
classes, conven ions and combinations what.
ever, which do not include the. ma ses OF
tie whole.
Democracy, thercfore, in the proper sense
of the term. never acts, except when every
voter may come to tie polls and freely cx.
press his opinion by his ballot and the de-
cision made in This way is that of tie De-
mocrary. Any use of ths.tcru, which does
not imply this is deceptive, and is generally
made for the psrposc of deceivng
When the people rose in their majesty
and placed Gen. jackson at the head of the
nation and were asked by his opponents whT
they called themselves democracy, the proud
response was 1--WE know no democracy bu,
That Of numbers
When, too, Martin Van Buren,. appropri
ately called the Fox, the Magician, on &C
count OF his aptness for intrigues, undertook
to engeneer himself into office the second
time by means of party machinery, under
the false aud spurious name of DEMOCRATIC,
the people repudiated him and his machinery
by as decided vote as that by which they
had clected'Jackso~.
Did they not illustrate the democratic prin.
ciple as strihingly n,setting him aside as in
electing Jackson +? Will say democrat, real
or spurious, deny this, after reading the
charactersof Martin,Van Burencin the light
of his nomination at Buffalo, in, opposition
to Cass. Was the machinery which Van
Buren, worked. demecratic, because his
friends saw fit to call it so for the sake oil
effect? The people, who are the democracy
did not think 50. Were they mistaken p
Is small faction in the State of Iowa,
democratic, who have neither the principle
nor the courage to speak a stern word in
rebuke of traitors in arms against that gov.
ernraa~t,which the people have established
unless they inahe same breath utter a.,mose
bitter malediction against. that President
which the, same people have in constitu-
tional way chosen to administer it Out
upon such democracy 1t can vie with
Tom Corwin, a member of that Cabinet
which sanctioned the fugitive slave bill in
chasing poor negro who it supposed to
have the constitution hid in hssswool, Mt it
can't stand side by,s side with the same Tom.
Corwin in defence ofthe nations capitol be-
fore the face Of traitors with arms in their
hands P Our county Democracy is a~pru.
dent institution. A LooxeR oN