The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1862-11-01
Speech of Daniel 8. Dickenson.

Friday night. Below we give the principal
portion OF it as we find it reported in the
Tribune: 81 hs I'd 81 ss Z
All was quiet on the Potomac this morn
ing. [Uprorrious laughter.] / saw all the
authorities at Washington, but speak by
no authority, do not profess to-but will
tell you, my fellow citizens, that which you
have right to know, that which you ought
to know, that you will End those waters
ruffied at very early day. [Cheers.l
I have every reason to believe that the
Administration are arising to the full neces-
sites of the occasion, that they comprehend
this matter, and intend to grasp it with an
iron hand, and at a very early moment
The audience at this moment rose to their
feet and checrad with the widest en- thusi-
asm. And I trust we shall all learn at a
very early day that some NOV ements have
taken place which viii give satisfaction to
every loyal man and make the knees Of ev-
cry Belshazzer tremble as did the one Of old,
[Cheers.l 1t is complained that we accuse
our opponents of being disloyal. They say
they are the Democratic party! I deny
that they are the Democratic or any frac.
ton Of the Democratic party. ["Good,"
and cheers.f I follow principles, not men !;
events and not names-Namss prove moth
ing. The little boy as soon as he can run
alone wants horse and he gets stride Of
q stick, and whips it up, and calls it horse
But II is not horse, after all. The little
girl has a doll, and calls it baby. Well,
it isn't baby. In the city, they have one
dressed in style in the high finish; in the
country, they are made ofrude cotton, and
and features put on with ink or charcoal. =
They are called babies, but they are not ba-
bies. They call this the Democratic party !;
but it is not the Democratic party. 1t ans
wers as a mere hobby for the little politi-
clans to ride and call it Democratic party.
1t answers for those who are more Juvenile
just to dandle upon their knee and call it
Democratic party. But it is MOTT is not
anything. The masses of the people are
the Democratic Republican party. [Cheers.l
And the masses occupy to day the position
Of the old Democratic party of Andrew
jackson. [Cheers.1 And these men, knot
ted together for base purposes, I insist are
the Democratic party in no sense whatever.
1t is feebly, diluted, weak, dwarfed imita-
ton of the Federalism Of 1872, Tlaughterl,
with all its mischief and none of its respec-
enthusiastically, mean. We have
been cursed North and South with poll tics.
[Cheers and laughter This rebellion is an
Office holders and office seekers rebellion
In the loyal States, when this rebellion was
inaugurated, politics were driven out but
these persons found tenement empty,
swept and garnished, and they took seven
other spirits more wicked than themselves
and entered into it and dwelt there fCheers
and laughter.1 And the last state Of these
people shallbe worse than the first. TGreat
laughter They are loyal, they tell US. Mr.
Seymour says he is accused of being disloy-
al. I have not accused him-I do not think
so but / will tell you what do think.
There was clergyman in Northern Penn
sylvania, who was accusedrof some impro-
prieties and it was matter of grave con-
eern, referred to Committee, who inyesti
gated for two weeks, and reported on the
subject, in the presence of the church and a
large audience, that they did not believe
Brother Smith guilty of an impropriety in
the matter, but they thought his conduct
was fast leading to it'll pa ,s.a.2" 10
The Rebellion has three ele nents .upon
which it relies: One is foreign interyen-
ton and their own military prowess one is
yellow fever at the South, aud the other is
this spurious Democratic party at the North
lLaughter.l These ara the elements upon
which they rely, and they are acting to-
gether to-day. This. pretended. Democratic
party acting in concert with the worst ele.
ments ofmalignant. monarchies OF. the earth,
railing and grining CHASTITY and horrible
smile, like Milton's devil, over their success
and prosperity in this country. A Democ-.
racy is rising up to aid foreign intervention
and shake haudst to help put down loyal
people and loyal States in their efforts to
crush out this internal rebellion. [Applausel
A more Infamous and atrocious rebellion
never existed since Satan male war in heav-
en-. 1t must be met with all the material Of
war; it is crime against God and man,
and he Is an honester man in the sight of
God who murders and robs than he who
aids this atrocious Rebellion, and who muir
ders States, peoples, p,sterities as well as
men. | arraign at the bar ofthe world that
man who dares to palter with this thing in
double sense. Here is "a great conflict,
two great interests at war, both cannot be
right ; can any one doubt which is wrongs
This thing is no more Democratic party,
and has no more right to claim to be one,
than Lucifer has right to claim that he is
an angel Of heaven. [Applause:] I have la
bored for the South that they might have
all their rights under tha Constitution but
when they cast away this Con stitution, AMI
made war upon it, then said they had no
right to protection under it: Having played
the physician for years to attempt to cure
this limb, now will play the surgeon to cut
toif. [Grsat applause.l Slavery is an N
natural state of things, and the worlds pro
gress is against it. ! am no party Adolf