The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1862-06-07

is turned over, in part, in order to save hi
property. | am sorry to say to you to- nigh
the ticket supported was real kangaro
ticket, with all the strength in the hind legs
Uaughter.) mean to say that Edwar
Everett was the hind legs of the ticket. (Ap
plause) Though I have never seen tina
gentleman, thank God that wherever he is
he is every inch man and he is all tina
is left of the glorious Union ticket I vote,
for two years ago There was Dougla
and johnson ticket. Judge Douglas has
gone to his long home. regret it. If h
were lying to-day he would be a general
fighting for the Constitution and the Union
| l(Applause.) Others of you supported th'
Breckinridge and Joe Lane ticket and al
God is my judge, the meanest ticket Of th'
four. Others, and the majority of you, prob
ably, Of this audience, were supporters of tht
Lincoln and Hamln ticket. Your ticket
was successful you elected your men and
as came out next day after the news was
announced in the South, in my paper.
come out to night and say that Lincoln was
elected under the forms of law and Consttn
tion fairly and squarely, without fraud and
it was the bounden duty o. every patriot and
lover of h,s country to bow submissively ia
the will of the people. Nay, more it is
our duty to sustain and stand by the Admin
istration, while it endeavors to crush out
this internal rebellion. have always been
Union man myself as a Methodist travel
ling preacher, was on circuit in A nderson
county. South Carolina--the county in which
John @. Calhoun lived at more hospitable
mansion than his, was never received
and in his private life, he was most excel
lent man. But he was crazy upon the SUBJ
ject of Southern rights and lived and died
fool upon that subject. | fought nullifi-
cation there and then, and they threatened
me with the gallows. even published a
large edition ofa large pamphlet, tanding
by jackson and his pr clamation. l COM
menced my political career in Tennessee, as
one ola corporafs guard, who got up a tick
ct for John Quincy Adams agains. Andrew
Jackson. l am a good Clay--Adams--
Webster-Alexande Hamilton whig, Zap
plausel and while wish to say nothing to
offend the most fastidious political partisan
tonight, wou',l further say that would
rather vote for the last suit Of clothes worn
by Henry Clay stuffed with straw. than for
any living man you ever saw. Applause and
laughter And although voted against
Jackson in 1928, sustained his proclama.
tion IN 1882 and IL my prayers and desires
could have placed that old man in the chair,
disgraced by a miserable mockery Of nan
from Wheat'and. Iwould have put Old Hick.
ory there, and he would have sworn. as
was his custom, "by the God that made
Moses, this thing must stop;" and You know,
Governor, turning to Gov. Andrew, that
when old Jackson swore thing had 10 stop,
it had to stop. [Applause.l
But we are in the midst Of fearful revo-
luton; how is it, ard why is it that we are I?
respond; and what say is in good faith
and kindness. We have had few men in
the North, who have agitated the subject !;
and they have helped toadd fuel to the fame
But the great burden Of the blame and cen
sure rests upon the South, and always
has done We have intended down South
for thirty years to break up this government
T. has been our settled purpose and our sole
aim down South to destroy the Union and
break up the government. We have set
Of the most corrupt demasogues at the
South that ever disgraced humanity on earth
You have better men in the State Prison in
Massachusetts, than the men who Inaugural
ted this rebellion in the Ssuth. To my per-
sonal knowledge there are better men in hell
night. (Laughter.) We have had the
presidency in the South twice to your once,
ard Ave of our men were re. elected to the
presidency, filing period Of forty years.
In addition to that we had divers men elect
ed for one term. and no man at the North
ever was permitted to serve any but one
term and, in addition to having our men
elected twice to your once, and occupied the
chair twice as long as you ever did, we seiz-
ed upon and appropriated two or three mis-
creants from the North that we elected to
the presidency, and ploughed with them as
our heifers. (Laughter.) We asked OF you
and obtained at your hands Fugitive Slave
law. You voted for and helped US to enact
and to establish it. We asked of you and
obtained the repeal of the Missouri Compro.
mise line, which never could have been re-
pealed. fought to the bitter end. and de-
nounced it and all concerned in repeating il,
and repeat It here again tonight We ask
ed and obtained the admission OF Texas into
the Union, that we might have slave terri
tory enough to form some four or five more
great States. and granted It. You have
I granted us from first to last all we have ask
ed, all we have desired and hence l repeat
that this thing OF secession. this wicked at
tempt to dissolve the Union. has been bro't
about without the shadow of cause.
We have been intending at the South 70,
years to break up this government. We in
tended to have a fuss, and we have got II
and am for carrying it on, until every devi
concerned In originating it shall be exter
minated. What say. and woull say tn,
same at the South, Cor should deserve tn,