The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1862-11-29

mani, II We conccde the right and The fact
of Secession, can with difficulty be resisted.
Yet its concession involves the moral GER
tainty that Mexico and Cuba will in time be
overrun, conquered, absorbed, and devoted
to Slavery. by the martial, aggressive. am.
bilious despot,sm to which we shall have
sucoumbed. Read PROF. Cairnes's, recent
cssay On The Shave Power and you will
have a clearer idea Of the wolf we now hold
by the ears, and (which Is far less dangerous
while SO held than he must b. iflet go.
IT. The boundary which Secession prof
fers is an unnatural and impossible one. It
not only alienates from the Union Western
Texas, East Tennessee, and other regions
wherein majority have ever been and still
are devoted TO the old flag, but insists on
Wrestling from us West virginia--that is.
that portion of the old State Of Virginia
which slopes towards the Ohio river a
region larger in area than three Of the States
leftin the Union put together--a region
which, never having been practically slave
holding save to very limited extent. has
ever been prcponderately and earnestly 10y
ala region mainly held TO day. as it has
almost uniformly been held, , the Union.
,sts "a region which. Il surrendered to the
Confederacy, interposes wedge Of foreign
territory between Pennsylvania and Ohio,
the East and the West-leaving them con-
nected by shred (see map not one hun
dred miles broad, and rendering farther
and more fatal disruption Of the Union we'll
nigh inevitable. When the Baltimore and
Ohio ra lroad shall traverse for the most
part foreign county-when the Mississip.
pi, through all the lower part Of its course,
shall have been surrendered by US to pow.
er inevitably hostile to our growth and jeal-
Gus Of our prosperity Wheeling and
Memphis shall have become foreign ports,
and Cincinnati apdSt- Louis frontier citios
the gravita ton Of the Free West toward
the country to which her rivers are hasten
ing and through which he- bulky staples
find their natural outlet to the great high.
way of nations, will be all but irresistible.
III. And this brings me toa vital point,
which Europeans have seemed determined
not to compr ehend that of the extremely
artificial and fragile character Of the political
structure which our architects OF national
ruin are labpring to construct Mr.. Chan
celor Gladstone is pleased to favor US with
his opinion that Slavery cannot long survive
the recognition and perfect establishment Of
the Southern Confederacy. beg leave to
assure him. in turn, that The Confederacy
would not long survive the downfall OF
Slavery. Let Slavery fall, and a million oi
bay onets could not keep The North and
South disunited even twenty years. Apart
from Slavery and its fancied necessities.
,hersis not a Disunionist between New
Rrunwick and Mexico, Canada and
Cuba. The Union ia the darling of our af,
fections, the seal OF our security. the pallad.
ium of our strength. NJ American ever
tolerated the idea of disun:an except as he
intensely loved or hated Slavery. and re.
garded the Union as an obstacle 10 the real
izatiop Of his wishes respecting it. Were
Slavery universal and supitme among us. ~
were il abolished and itB influence faced.
you could find more Thugs in Scotland than
Disunioni>ts in America.
w And here your statemen are making
mistake which some Of them win live to
realize and rue. They SUI pose that our
country. on ,e fairly divided and arrayed un
der two hostile governments. recognizing
and no lonse at war with each other, pust
ever thereafter: remain diYidcd. They
never reckoned more wildly. We're their
Wishes fully realized this day, ard The Con-
federacv an undsputed fact, party would
instantly arise na', aFariy already exists
Throughout the country. demanding re-
union on any terms. Archbishop Hughes
has already in either hemisphere struck the
keynote Of this cry. He truly says that our
country cannot be permanently divided
lie unworthily adds that. il il can,ot be.un.
tied under the old Constitution. il must be
under a newlone-in other *o'ds, under lhat
Of the Conf, deracy. The D.mtc,a,ic patty
Of the Free States. abandoning the creed Of
its founders, which has lately ruled the Un-
ION by virtue Of a close allian. with the
Slave Power Of the South, would, the day
after we had made peace by acknow iedging
the Southern Confederacy, reoreanise and
reagitate under tie banner of Rec nstruc
tion' Hatred to negroes is the talisman
Whereby II secures the votes by pandering
10 the prcjndices ofihe most ignorant and
vicious Whitcs---by hostility to negro i'm.
migration (from the South) negro sudfage.
gro competition in the labor market. and
10 negro humanity in general. That Slave.
ry is the n atural and ct condition ofncgross
every where and at all tunes that the abol
,ion o, Southern Slavery would be great
calamity TO the white lahorers Of the North
such is the political philosophy assiduously
dispensed and grectlily inbibed in the grog.
shops and back slums' Of every Northern
city. and which politicians and Journalists
pretending to sense and decency do not hes
itate for their party's and their ambitions
sake to indorse and disseminate And there
are classes less debased. though scarcely
more hear,lcss, who countenance this inhu
man logic. The average mercantile senti.
ment Of this and other great Northern cities
runs thus :--sTrpe, Slavery is unjust and