The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1861-01-23
The Future, of Secession.

following picture of the consequences. to the
slave States, of the Secession madness =
1t is high time that all conservative men,
South as well as North, should look secession
in the face and see what it means, and what
must be its results. We want our friends
ofthe South tn halt before rushing upon evils
of which they cannot calculate the extent
We desire to see the difficulties between ri
val sections of the country arranged on per-
manent basis, each side abandoning some.
what of its extrene pretensons; and to this
end, we think nothing could more effectual-
ly conduce than sober consideration on
both sides of what must be the results of Sc
cession
In the first place, whenever it shall become
definitely known to the negroes of the South
that breach has taken place between the
States in which they are held and the strong
power of the Federal Government-on that
very instant, the danger of servile insurrec-
ton looms up in frightful proximity to the
Southern planters; and even the strict meas.
ures of precaution which must then of me-
cessity be taken against any outbreak on the
part of the slaves, can only have the effect of
rendering the ignorant black masses more
desperate and more confident of their
strength. The effects of this terrible calam-
ity cannot be confined to the South every
branch of Northern industry must suffer /;
millions in the free States will be thrown
tout of employment, and millions in the
Southern States be short of food and clo-
thing. ..s..
In the second stage of this national disas-
ter, when secession shall have been success
ful to the extent of setting up ten or twelve
of the Southern non-industrial States in hos
tility to he Un;on--then the phase of civil
war becomes inevitable and must speedily
be reached. A slave crossing over the bor-
ders of free state will be followed by his
owners who must reclaim him by force if at
all, the previous action having repudiated any
appeal to the machinery of the Fugitive Slave
Law.
| This attempt will, in the nature of things,
provoke resistance from the people of the
particular locality into which the slave has
escaped. No matter then how the fight
may be decided, reprisals involving more ex-
teasive and bloody collisions will be sure to
follow, Large hordes of men will gather
| from the Northern States to avenge what
they consider wrong; and these forces will
doubtless be met by similar gatherings of all
the hotbeads in the South, until regular
Border War has been fully and flercely inau.
gurated.
In the third stage of this general ruin, the
spirit of insurrection, spreading amongst
the negroes and stimulated by collisions be.
tween hostile sections of the dominant race
will soon teach every slave to convert his
sythe or other instrument of manual labor
into weapon for the destruction of his mas.
ter, as was the case in st. Domingo Every
slave will become an ;ncendiary-an outlaw
and in the general reign of lawlessness that
7 Is to lnfov, all the white families of the
South will be forced to evacuate their plan.
tations and collect in cities, citadels and
strongholds, walled around for security-ius,
as was the case, under somewhat similar cir
cumstanceS, in Fcudal Europe 1t is to be
questioned that such an acknowledgment
of fear on the part Of the planters, can fail te
stimulate the slaves to further aggressions?
The slaves are Of race strong, cunning
and ferocious--quick to observe every weak
point in the dominant race, and imbued tc
an unusual degree with their stealthy treach
cry whichis the everlasting lesson taught by
servitude to human beings of all races, in al
ages and countries. They have been peace
full and obedient with few exceptions, ur
to this time, because of their belief that any
resistance could be promptly and bloodily
overborne. But that belief will be changed
when once the slaves become possessed with
the idea that their masters have an enemy
to deal with on the Northern border.
Let.our Southern brethren take heed II
time how they follow course which may
precipitate all these disasters upon them.--
Let them ponder these lines from Lochier.
warning:
"Ha! laugh'st thou Lochiel this vision to scorn.
Proud bird Of the mountain, thy plume shall be torn
10! the death-shot Of foemen outspeeding he rode,
| Companionless, bearing destruction ad;
But down let him stoop from his havoc on high
An! home let him ed,-for the spoiler is nigh.
Why flames the far summit Why shoot TO the bias
Those embers, like stars from the armament cast?
Tis the fre-shower of ruin, all dreadfuily driven
From his eyre that beacons the darkness OF heaven
Oh, crested Lochiel the peerless in might
Whose banners arise on the battements' height
Heavens fire is around thee to blast and to burn
Return to thy dwelling all lonely retunA4
For the blackness Of ashes shall mark where II
And Wild mother scream Ger the famshing brood
. Will the white men of the South be ma,
enough to court the destruction of all the,
held dear on earth by persisting in the polio,
of secession?
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