The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1862-05-01

Their pcsterity are still at home in "the
land Of spices" unconquered and lnconquer.
able, at the end Of more than eighteen cen.
turtles after the nation Of shareholders de.
scended from their master have been scat.
tered. A CoxoREaArioNALIsr.
Parties Of the Future.
It would be wise in the politicians to wall
till peace is conquered, before laying their
wires for the next presidential campaign,
but they will not do il. The leaders Of the
old Breckinridge party have already mark d
out their program. including a. its leading
feature opposition to the emancipation policy
Of the present administration, and many Of
the northern democratic papers are so short
sighted - to jump at this as offering them
chance for future success Party infatu-
alton was never greater. There is an op-
portunity for the revival OF the democratic
party with fair prospect of success. bat it
Is not under the lead Of the semi traitors of
the Breckinridge school, nor with any such
platform as they will consent to stand upon
BY stupidity attempting to reconstruct that
shattered concern, they surrender the
whole 6eld to the republicans, and
make their continued hold upon power easy.
The old Breckinridge leaders are now fat.
tering themselves that there il to be break
ing up Of the republican p,rty, so giving
them the advantage. The New York Jour.
nal of Commerce. in . recent article on the
subject, speculates in this way
"Tf the republican party shall take the
field. the conservative portion win demand q
distinct conservativ" platform, and total
rejection Of abolition alliances The radical
men must hereafter vote and act by them.
selves. Such demand will drive away the
abolitionists to q separate party, or will re-
suit in the retirement Of the conservatives to
new party. or to silence and voting with
tie democrats. Thus the prospect seems to
be that tive parties must he made up of the
republicans for the fall elections, or else that
republicanism must be allowed to become
radicalism, and the conservative wing leave
1t entirely"
The Journal Of Commerce has made many
and wide political miscalculations, but none
50 completely aside from the facts as this. -
The republican party was never more sub.
stantially harmonious and united shan at
present, and more than that, the Douglas
democrats and many Of those even who
voted for Breckenridge, but have been re-.
PEELED from that party by its obvious SYM
pathy and tenderness towards the rebels,
will act with the republicans if the democrat
&c organization falls into the hands of the
bunker leaders, as now seems likely. The
recent Connecticut election 10 an admonitoa
to these mon, that they ought to DO wise
enough to heed. There are radical men in
the republican party, it Is trAe. who would
be glad to commit the party to extreme meas.
ures, but they are fewer now than they were
when Mr.. Lincoln was nominated, and they
have never yet been strong enough to con-
trol any national or state. convention. The
truth is that the republicans understand
better now than ever before what ought to
be done, AMI what can be done, with slavery
BY the general government. and they are
Satisfied with the logic Of events. The
course of the administration has thus far
becn eminently wise and just, and has COM
manded the approval of all ,rue men The
opposition has sought in vain far grounds Of
complaint and cavl, and If they choose to
make an issue on the abolition of slavery at
the national capital, or the offer of national
aid to the border states in the removal Of
slavery, II will be the worst political btunder
any party has ever committed. There is
not one democrat in the free states who does
not rejoice in both these measures of prog.
ress, and they will be sustained by the PEG.
pie, almost without voice of dissent The
action Of the administration has been Just,
constitutional and moderate. It commands
the approval Of fair men Of all parties. II
there were possibility that the republican
party would repudiate the administration it
has placed in power, and which has adhered
strictly to its declared principles, IN time
Of unprecedented turmoil and difficulty,
there might be some ground for such specu.
lat:ons as we have quoted from the Journal
Of Commerce. But there is no such posi-
bi!ity. Tho radical element in the renulli.
can party could not have prevailed il it lad
tried, and it has already signified its fun
acquiescence in the policy Of the administra
ton. satisfied that the best progress Of free
dom is already assured, and that emancipa
ton is to occur quite as rapidly as is consist
ent with the safety and well being of oil con.
cerned. Not only is the party ofthe admin.
istration-call it republican, or Union, or
whatever you please-becoming more closely
united and Consolidated. but the attempt to
organize an opposition out of the fragments
| vt the democratic parties, under men OF such
dubious loyalty as Vallandingha,n Of Ohio
and upon the idea Of offering new concessions
to the traitors now fighting against the I'm
ion, is certain to Grive into the administers
ton party all loyal and patriotic democrats.
lit were otherwise. II It were possible after
the events of this year to construct q north
ern party with negro slavery for its corner
stone and negro drivers for its dictators, we
might well despair of the republic, and hold
the terrible sacrifices Of this war as worse
than lost. But it is madness to think of il.
The working men of the free North and
West viii not be left to such infatuation, and
IL the democratic leaders persist in their p,,r-
pose the republican party will become the
only party Of patriotism, and will sweep the