The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1861-07-31

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gate ambition-an ambition that "woult
rather reign in hell than serve in heaven
that would rather rule supremely over shat
tered fragment of the Republic than to rur
the chances Of sharing with others the honor
Of the whole
The conspirators Of the South read in tn
election of Mr.. Lincoln declaration tina
the Democratic party had been prostrated
ifnot finally destroyed, by the selfish ii
trigues and corruptions Of its leaders I; they
read, too, that the vicious, emaciated, ant
spawned hobby Of the Slavery agitation, OF
which they had so often rode into power
could no longer carry them beyond giver
geographical line of our territory, and tha
in truth this factious and reasonable agita
tion, on which SO many ofthem had grown
great by debauching and denationizing tn,
mind Of people naturally generous ant
patriotic, had run its course, and hence, tina
from the national disgust for this demagog
ing and from the memorable law of popula
ton, the time had come when all those WHIT
had no other political capital than this, would
have to prepare for retirement TO private life
so far at least, as the highest Offices of the
country were concerned Under the influ.
ence of these grim discouragements they re.
solved to consumate at once-what our no.
litical history shows to have been with them
long cherished purpose-the dismember-
ment Of the Government. They said to them.
selves; "Since we can no longer monopo-
lize the great Offices Of the Republic as we
have been accustomed to do. we will destroy
it, and build upon its ruins an empire that
shall be all our own, and whose spoils neither
the North nor the East nor the West shall
share with u.s."
Deplorable and humiliating as this Ger.
tainly is, it is but rehearsal of the sad, sad
story Of the past. We had, indeed, suppo.
sed that unler our Christian civilization we
had reached point in human progress when
republic could exist without having its life
sought by its own offspring; but the Catil.
ines of the South have proved that we were
mistaken. Let no man imagine that be.
cause this rebellion has been made by men
renowned in our civil and military history,
that it is therefore the less guilty or the less
courageously to be resisted. lis precisely
this class of men WHO have subverted the
best government that has ever existed The
purest spirits that have lived in the tide of
times, the noblest institutions that have
arisen to bless our race, have found among
those in whom they most confided and whom
they had most honored, men wicked enough,
either secretly to betray them unto death, or
openly to seek their overthrow by lawless
violence. The republic of England had its
Monk; the republic Of France had its Bona
parte; the republic of Rome had it's Caesar
and its Catiline, and the Sav ior of the world
had his Judas Iscariot. 1t cannot be neces-
sary that should declare to you, for YOU
know them well, who they are whose parri.
cidal swords are now unsheathed against the
Repubiic of the United States. Their
names are inscribed upon scroll of infamy
that can never perish. The most distin.
guished of shem were educated by the char.
ity Of the Government on which they are
now making war. For long years they were
fed from its table, and clothed from its
wardrobe, and their brows garlanded by its
honors. They are the ungrateful sons Of q
mother who dandled them upon her knee,
who lavished upon them the gushing love
of her noble and devoted nature, and who
nurtured them from the very bosom of her
life and now. in the frenzied exceses of q
licentious and bafied ambition, they are
stabbing at that bosom with the ferocity
with which the tiger springs upon his prey
The President Of the United States is hero.
ically and patriotically struggling to battle
the Vaccinations Of these most wicked men
l have unbounded qualification in knowing
that he has the corage to look traitors in the
face, and that, in discharging the duties Of
his great Office. he takes no counsel Of his
fears els entitled to the zealods support
Of the whole country, and, may | not add
without offense, that he will receive the
support Of all who justly appreciate the
boundless blessings of our free institutions
Ifthis rebellion succeeds It win involve
necessarily the destruction of our nationality
the division of our territory, the permanen,
disruption Of the republic. It must rapidly
dry up the recources Of our material pros
perity, and year by year we shall grow more
and more impoverished, more and more revo
lutionasy, enfeebled, dsbased. Each return
ing election will bring with it grounds fol
new civil commotion, and traitors, prepared
ostrike at the country that has rejected thei
claims to power, will spring upon every side
Disunion once begun will go on and on in
definitely, and under the influence of the "a
tai doctrine of Secession, not only will States
secede from States, but counties will seced
from States also, towns and cities from
counties, until universal anarchy will be con
summate in each individual who can max
1 good his position by force Of arms, claim
ing the right to defy the power Of the Gov
ernment. Thus we should have brough
back to us the days of the robber Baron
with theff noted castles and maraudiny re