The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1862-11-01

Ire omission 70 cancel the stamps or
checks does not inyalidate the checks, bu
subjects the maker to find of fifty dollars
WASHINGTON, Sept. 25. 1869.
have examined the foregoing memoran.
ola, and am Of opinion that the specifica-
tions conform to the provisions Of the excise
law in all essential p particulars.
GEORGE 8, BOUTWELL,,
Commissioner Of Internal Revenue.
Until the Government provide stamps, NO
penalty will be exacted for their omission.
"Crush this Political Hope Of
Rebellion at Home"
Daniel 8. Dickinson, Of New York, CON-
cl,,ded h,s recent great speech in New York
with the following striking passages:
Gall back your sons, | say again, or crush
this political hope Of rebellion at home
When this hideous monster sees US un ted
as one man, in one common purpose to.
crush it, it will yield; but until then It will
struggle on, like the Wri;hings of veno-:
nous serpent, till exterrninated. 1t would
long since have yielded, but for hope of pro-
| positions Of peace from political quarters and
terms Is accommodation and but for seeing
the Executive denounced for unconstitution.
al acts, and party rising up opposing the
war in effect, if not in name-for rebel lead.
ers understand the matter in all its bear
ings.
But yesterday, . proud boy, in the hey.
day Of life and hope, fell. lie was the only
son of his mother, and she was widow; he
fell by the hand of rebel murderer, nerved
on by the hope that political divisions in
the loyal States would give aid and comfort
and propositions of peace. She asks you,
with trembling lips and tearfu. eye, for the
idol of her heart, her hope and joy. May
He who tempers the wind to the shorn
lamb protect her! You can not restore her
child, but you can destroy one of the ac-
cursed causes which protract this bloody
and terrible war, the politicians hope. The
storms of Autumn beat upon the log cabin
standing by the little brook beyond the
hills. The winds moan, and the leaves rus
tie, and night is gathering. A woman
weeps over the hearth, cold, cheerless, and
desolate. A group of little children, with
curious, anxious faces, hang upon her knee,
wondering why she wecps, and are asking
for their father.
'Alas!
Nor wife, nor child, more shall be behold;
Norf nora rod houno
He fills an unknown bloody grave in the
land of rebellion, where he marched to aid
in preserving the inheritance of his revolu-
tionary sire. But he was murdered in ex.
pectation Of propositions Of peace from po-.
liticians, who fear that rebellion will not be
constitutionally treated, or in the hope Of
some new reading of the Constitution which
would except rebellion from censure and
punishment. That bereaved in her destitul
ton looks to you. Those children de-
mand sire with tears Of 4rtless innocence"
You cannot restore him. God alone can
shield and comfort the widow and the
fatherless. But you can remove one of the
chief causes which serve to protract this
hellish malignity and mischief at the ballot
box. [Applause.] You can cancel the de-.
mands of hungry politicians. A settler in
the far West, upon the Indian border, has
volunteered, with the true spirit
of the pioneer, to defend
his country's dag. His wife and children
are aroused from their slumbers at midnight
by the yells Of savage hell-hounds, to perish
by the tomahawk and scalping-knife the
cabin is in flames, and the ferocious mon
sters. with hands dripping with the blood
Of innocence, bear away their trophies to
exhibit for reward to more ferocious mon
sters still-savages protesting Christianity
---conspirators and rebels, who stimulate
the rcd man to murder defenseless women
and children, that they may procure from
political traders, at an early moment, liberal
propositions Of peace and compromise. That
borderer will return to greet his loved ones,
but they are not there. A heap of ashes is
all that is left of them /; tears fall copiously
down lis sunburnt visage, but, like the fal-.
low deer, he weeps alone. You cannot bring
back to his embrace the beloved object of
his affections, but by precept and example
you can aid in removing the detestable hope
that political party can succeed, in whole
or in part, in sympathy with rebellion.
Let, then. I say, the people Of the loya
States be united. Let them act together as
one man. Let no political organization, as
such, be supported or encouraged, or tolera.
ted but let all lovers of their country and
its institutions meet for public action and
effort in q common union. Let rebellion in
all its p-otean forms and all its elements, be
crushed by every hand and cursed by every
lip, in its moral or material forces, in the
egg or in the serpent, open or disguised, in
its full strength or diluted, in the field or in
the political canvass, in battles of blood or at
the polls, at home or abroad. This is de-
manded in the name of revolutionary memo
ries, in the name oflberty and the rights Of
man, in the sacred rame Of humanity and
religion, in the name of fsthsrs whose sons
have been slain, Of widows whose husbands
have been murdered, Of mothers who have
been bereaved Of their children, Of children
who have been robbed Of those to whom
Providence taught them to look for protec-
ton, of society which mourns the destruc-
ton Of its msmbers, Of tAs dead whose blood
has heen shed TO preserve the Government