The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1862-11-15

them to aid the oppressor against his victim
they were made = weapon of offense agains,
all. Abolitionists were exscrated and hoot.
ed by the mob at onoe Of Negro Equality
and of National dissolution.
Tho times aas bravely altered. The part.
nership between Slavery and Unionism is
absolutely dissolved. Like most divorces
this involves deadly quarrel. Not even
the soaring platitudes Of George Francis
Train can longer evoke cheers for the Union
blent with curses on Abolition. In strict.
y, sternly real sense. Liberty and Union"
are henceforth tone and inseparable ~
For thirty years, our great seaboard msr.
chants, our shippers, our factors, have given
their patronage to pro.slavery journals and
their votes to pro-slavery politicians, with
intent to preserve the Union and lay the red
spectre Of civil war. Their recompense is
found in the reputation of the immense
debts for merchandise due them from the
South, and gigantic war waged by the
Slave Power for the overthrow of tho Un-
ion. The profits Of lifetime Of ohssquious
pandering to the master crime of our era are
swept away at blow. and the arm that
strikes it is that of the monster they have
made such sacrifices of conscience and man.
hood to conciliate. Was ever retribution
more signalg
To-day. the American Union, through
the official action Of its President and Con.
gress, stands distinctly on the side Of Liber-
ty for All. Its success in the fearful strug-
gle forced upon it involves the overthrow
and extinction of American slavery. The
sentiment Of nationality, the instinct which
impsls every people to deprecate and fssist
the dismemberment and degradation Of their
country, the impulse Of loyalty, are oil ar
rayed against the traitorous constitution"
which after having SO long bent the Union
to its ends, now seeks its destruction. II
once seemed to the maj j,rity patriotic to
champion slavery il is now . sacred duty
to resist the bloody Moloch unto death.
The very hesitation of tho President to
take the decisive step gives weight to his
ultimate decision. The compromisers have
never tired Of eulogizing his frmnesa, his
candor, his patience, his clsarness of vision
his independence, and his unsectional pa
triotism. His associations were largely with
the Border State school of conservatives
His favorite counsellor was the most emf
nent and sturdy Republican opponent of an
emancipation policy. His decision in favor
of that policy, like the Proclamation which
announces it, is entirely his own. The
pressure" to which he deferred was that of
an urgent public necessity and the empathic
conviction Of the great mass of our loyal cit
izens.
And, though few days have elapsed since
the Proclamation was uttered, the evils pre-
dicted by its opponents are already banishsd
to the limbo of chimera. Those officers
who threatened to resign in case an smanci-
patton policy were .dopted max. No b,.,e
to iustify their menaces. As vat mt on. ~
them has done so in time. a fsv nav screv
their courage to tn. sticking. point There
are enough who can be spared: and thew are
generally those who deprec.te and dennnnc.
an abolition war" Nav thev vet nrovs
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