The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1861-01-02
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Prospectus for 1861.

PoLlrIcAI.-The great political campaign Of 1860 1
closed The battle has been fought and won, and tn
eagles Of victory perch on the Republican banners
ABRAHAM LINCOLN has been triumphantly elected Pres
iden of the United States for four years from the All
| of March, 1861.
We are entering upon We ar that will be m EN- or ab
| in the annals of American politics. The tre-Eater
of the Cotton States have undertaken to break thu
American Union. The people have decided agans
them at the ballot box, and they refuse 10 submit t.
| the verdict unless their demands shall be complied
WITH which are as follows
! DEMANDS or THE FIRE EATERs-1st. That the Free
States shall pay for all fugves from labor who may
escape. I'd. That all State laws against kidnappn:
shall be repealed 3d. That Slavery shall be extende,
into all the Territories and protected by a Fedora
Slave Code. 4th. That the Slave traffic shall be re
opened in the District Of Columbia. 9th. That Law
shall be passed granting the right to shareholders t.
travel and sojourn in the Free States, accompanied
by their slaves.
| In case of noncompliance with these pro-slavery
demands, the Eaters threaten to secede from The
Union and set up a Southern Confederacy, re-oper
the African Slave Trade, and attempt found grea
slaveholding empire, by absorbing Mexico, Contra
America and the Islands of the Gulf Such is the
gramme of the Disunionists.
In this crisis it behooves every sound patriot ant
friend Of the Union and Constitution to stand by
Lincoln's Administration as the old Democrats stood
by Gen. Jackson when assaulted by South Carolina null
lifers. The free North must not be bued nor fright
ened by the arrogant ogarchy into base surrender
Of its dearest rights and most cherished principles
OTHER QUEsTIoNs.-And there are other important
matters TO come before the new Administrations
! Among these Free Homesteads for the Landess
| o
of Railroad to the Pacific; ENCOURAGEMENT of the
Manufacturing and Farming industry of the country
Retrenchment and Reform In the administration OF
Governments restoration, in short, of the earlier
and purer days Of the Republic On all these gacs-
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