The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1862-07-12


agree with us; but we Of America are more
tropical in our feelings, and SO we made up
our minds that il pas too bad to cut one
another's throats for the sake of benefiting
certain fat and lazy niggers,' who were
probably rather better OF as chattels than
as free men. But It is not from this point
of view that the world is now beginning to
vi"w the subject. Common sense has as.
oertsined clearly snough that without the
agitation Of Abolition, the South'would be-
come intolerablc and tyranical-it was i'm.
perious, sectional, and arrogant in the days
Of its weakness. while the Abolitionists
scarcely existed, and given to secession for
any and every cause. The insoient, indi-
vidual Independence which prompted the
wearing Of weapons, wild law and wild life,
free from mutual social obligations, contained
within itself the germs of withdrawal from
a civilized and superior people and stable
government. For auch men, one pretense
served as well as another. They of South
Carolina employed Modification long before
they dreamed Of Anti. A bolition. 6 " z
Still more absurd is the democratic op-,
position. since Abolition for the sake Of the
Negro has been changed into the cry of
Emancipation for The saks Of Me White
Man. Before this cry. before the inevitable
and mighty demand Of the free white labor
Of the future on the territories Of the South.
all protestations against smeddiing' with
emancipation shrivel up into triffes and be-
come contemplate. The PRAYER Of the ant
petitioning against the removal OF q. inoun.
tain, where nation was to found its capital,
was not more verify frivolous and inconsid-
erable than are these timid ones Of slet ii
aloner And ssAy let it alone The Eman-
cipation-forsthe. -of.the-white-manp party,
as represented by President Lincoln's Mes
sage, commencing remuneration, asks for
no undue haste, no violent or sudden ag-
gressive measures Itis satisfied to let the
South free itself when It shall be disposed
so to do simply Offering it kindly aid
when this measure shall become popular and
expedient. More than this we have never
asked for in these columns; yet it would be
hard to imagine term ofsnewspaper abuse,
which has not been given us by the Dem
ocrtic' press Yes, at time when ninety
nine men in hundred in the free States,
avow that thsy would ike to see slavery
'out Of the way If only to avoid the endless
war which its continuance must entail, all
mention Of it is tabooed by the men who
claim to head the party Of the virtual major
ity !! : No matter how far off the friends Of
Emancipation and of the Administration are
willing to postpone the practical execution
Of the measure. lit must not be mentioned
For the greater pat. these Northern friends
of the South at present still earnestly desire
the perpetual establishment Of slavery .on a
constitutional basis 'a t'
The contemptible efforts at Washington to
build up separate and distinct Democratic
party. when no party save that of the Union
existed, will condemn to everlasting oppro-
brium the vallandinghams, Carlsles, Garret
Davises, and other false friends of freedom,
who at such time crowded together like
hungry political cormorants, to hatch out
the egg Of faction, and secure a prospective
share of the spoils. Have these 'Conserva.
tives' reflected on the disgraceful show which
their names win make in history, in after.
years, when freedom shall have been pro-.
claimed throughout the land, and when those
who opposed its, progress will appear like
nothing else than traitors Heaven help
the men who, at time when others were
gathering in full measure of glory in holy
cause, were niling up naught bat shame for
their posterity. For it is not more certain
that God is just, than that the full measure
OF iniquitys viii be heaped upon their names
in the after-chronicles Of freedom.
Even TO the present moment, the Con
servative,. alias the Democratic -or the
Black, alias the White -party struggles
with might and main to defend and protect
its old Southern whippers-in, even at the
risk Of dividing and distracting the Union.
To effect this, It has-almost successfully -
insolently thrust the Commander-in-chief
forward a. ID. centre, and broadly slsndered
the Secretary Of War and President in no
measured terms, as having toiled to defeat
Mcclellan and prolong the war. Through.
an the glossy web oflies, the light of truth
shines OF will shine to their disgrace.
Chiefly and most unwisely is the conser-
vatiye hand shown at present in opposition
to every proposition for confiscation or pun
ishing the rebels. After having hurried us
by their cowardice and Southern toad d-eating
into this war; after urging it BY their con-
temphble procrastination to its present tre-l
mendous proportions, they cry out, thurman.
ityr for the men who have murdered our
relatives, and shake, the Constitution for
protection over estates which have been dir
rectly used to contribute to Southern war |!
While every mail from the South gives fresh
instances of desperation. and while we search.
in vain for trace Of proof that there is the
slightest hope Of reconciliation, we are still
entreated to restore every thing in statu quo
ante bsllu~, and bear all the results Of the
war ourselves, IS il forsooth We had been af-
ter all in the wrong. And so the Vallandig-
hams and Davises declare that we were
'Abolitionism caused it ALL they say, Goth.
inc hit Abolition