The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1862-08-09

to secede and establish Southern Confed-
e.acy, the President must-like the champi-
on of the Mahonyites, the illustrious James
Buchanan-set supinely by, not order out
the military force or raise hand to prevent
the seeding States from the contamination of
a Southern Confederacy, because, forsooth,
secession is "question Of legal rights claim
ed by and affecting the States" which the
Executive and Legislative departments of
the Government cannot decide or act upon,
but which must be Submitted to the Judi
INcial tribunals" through some undefned pro-
cess, probably by writ of attachment issued
from Justice of the Peace directed against
the seeded States, with the right of appeal
to the Supreme Court of the United States.
These are some of the substantial differ
ences, together with their reasons, between
the Mahony platform of 1861 and that of
1862. Here the loyal man of discernment
may see the deceptive trcachery, the trans
parent disloyalty of the men who have de.
moralized and are prostituting the Demo-
cratic party to subserve their unholy ambi-
ton in this hour of national distress Nor
are these men those only who figure in and
control State conventions and committee
rooms. They also in. too many instances
control county politics and county .conven-
tions-laboring with too much success in
committing the masses to their heresies. If
those who doubt this point will peruse the
following collection of resolutions passed by
the county conventions of the Mahoney de-
mocracy within the last year they may be
satisfied. -aa
The following is resolution adopted by
the Mahony Democratic Convention of JET.
ferson county last month. that appointed
Charles Negus one of the Delegates to the
State convention, and who was member of
the committee on the Platform at that con-
vention: -, .......- r,
Resolced, That viewing the present trou-
bles of the country from our stand point, we
are opposed to the secession of the Southern
States as detrimental to the interests Of all
partles-that we arc opposed TO the present
war policy of the Administration, and de-
nounce the leaders thereof as disunionists
at heart-enemies to the Constitution as 1t
IS and the Union as 1t uds and as the prime
cause OF all the troubles and horrors arising
from the fratricidal war now deluging our
country with the blood of tens of thousands
OF our fellow citizens, and that while we
would not pluck one laurel from the brows
OF the gallant men now in the army, nor de.
tract one iota from the reputation they have
won upon the bloody field, we nevertheless
feel it to be our duty, as true lovers of our
country and the liberties which were be-
queathed to us by the Patriots of re. to raise
our voices in condemnation of the unconsti-
tutional and admitted illegal acts of the Ad.
ministration in conducting this war. and of
the unprecedented fraud and corruntian
connected Herewith, believing, as we do.
that it is part of scheme concocted by Alb.
olitionists to secure the Impartial freedom
of the negro and enrich themselves at the
expense of the liberties, lives and treasures
of the whites. under the false nretenss of
maintaining the Constitution and restoring
the Union. ...-r .-
The Democracy of johnson county adopt.
ed the following.
Resoloed, That the remedy for these alarm
ing disorders in our political system and for
the incalculable miseries which must flow
from their continuance, will alone be found.
in the speedy expulsion by the Democratic
people of this country of every political abo
litionist from place and power, with such
emphasis as will leave no possible hope of
his political resurrection and in such chaages
an the National Constitution as will prevent
sectional minorities from obtaining accident
al power. ~ ea ., -5 A..
The Howard county Democratic Conven-
ton adopted the following:
Resolved, &C., for Convention of all the
States of the Union to make such amend
ments to the constitution of the United States
as shall again restore the fraternal relations
that should unite and perpetually cement
our once glorious constellation of States into
a harmonious whole and that when all eff.
forts to compromise our unhappy difficulties
are exhausted, the only safe policy TO be
pursued IS a peaceable separation of the op-
posing elements and a treaty of amity betueep
| them as independent Nations"
The Montgomery County Convention
Resoloed, That we deplore the present
Civil War as National calamity. and hold
that its further prosecution by both or either
party to be ruinous to our every interest.
The Jones county Convention said
The Constitution and Union is imperiled,
and our Government is fast drifting to mil.
tary despotism. 1910 & (
The Scott county Convention adopted the
following: t
ResolUed, That in our opinion the war now
being waged by the present Republican AID.
ministration against our brothers of the
South, is wholly uncalled for, unnecessary.
unconstitutional, and antagonistic to the
highest and best interests of our once happy
country, and that we aciW use all honorable
means to discourage it and bring about a
peaceful solution of our present troubles.
A Democratic Convention held in Van
Buren, county adopted the following:
RESOLVED, That Union means peace. That
our Union was formed in peace, and can
never be perpetuated by force of arms-for
a war of coercion is disunion, "and that
Republican Government hell together by
the sword becomes military despotism.n
Res0lred, That in our opinion, it is not
necessary to expend one dollar to employ
arms, or TO shed one drop of blood to perpets
uate this Union, but it must be preserved
by love, friendship, harmony of interest and
feeling Our NOTE being, millions for de- |
Tense but not one cent for the coercion or
conquest of co-equal State sovereignty.
Resolced, That we will support the Pres
ident Of the United States in the exercise of
all his constitutional rights and prerogatves
as Chief Executive Of our Republic, but in
every instance we will resist with all lawful