The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1862-07-12

the keeping up Of constant warfare bctweer
laborers and employers. II is the skilled
employee who becomes himself the capitalist
in due time, under q pcaceab'e and we'll
organised system. asIIabor and brains rise
in value, and the greatest impedtment ta
his rise is settled state of war between
himself and the employer. Education and
political equality, the competition Of capital
and the leyer-increasing apWeciation-of nj
teiligeuce, are constantly promoting This
harmony and enabling labor to secure its
rights. e.r,.-.5.,slg, -, t...,s.....r sr
| 1t is easy to see how the ancient Democ-
racy. or rather its leaders, having for many
years held political supremacy and shared
the spcils, actually took the place Of their
opponents. and, in their decline. naturally
enough, formed acoalition with the intensely
aristocratic South Meanwhile, what become
Of the once aristocratic Opposition, with its
'silk-stocking gentry as they were termeds
Like the Democracy, 1t died anatural death.
so far as the active enforcement Of its prin-
ciples WIS concerned, after those principles
had no longer foundation in the social de-.
velopments # the sge.rq Here and there, an
old and incnrable devotee to mere forms or
party shibboleth, who could not comprehend
the new order Of thought. went over to the
Democratic conservatives. OF such were
the old gentlemen who, in Philadeiphia, 70
ted for the white waistcoat and Immaculate
snowy neck tie OF James Buchanan. They
fed to their ancientfoes. that they might
d,e happily in the holy odor Of ofrespectability,
quite ignorant that q. new gospel Of what
may be termed Respect Ability was being
preached, and building up higher and
grander order Of nobility than they had ever
dreamed Of - &. 'if2 ssa1 - .'ea.' i
Meanwhile, the arrogance of the South
and its desperate struggle to secure politi-
cal preponderancc, by extending slavery to
the territories, developed in the North a free
soil and free-labor party, which received.
most appropriately, the name ofRepublican.
The doctrine OF free.iabor being intimately
allied to every other form Of social freedom,
and Of active thought and social science. had
a natural affinity for. intellect The old
Opposition. which had boasted, or been
taunted with, possessing AN the dignity
including that Of superior culture, swelled
the ranks Of this new party with writer's
and thinkers Of eminence. So it grew in
power, taking in, Of course, many varied
elements, both good and bad
As might have heen expected, the proper
conduct of the war, and the disposal of the
enemy in. case Of victory, soon led to decided
differences between the Democracy, who
could not--owing to ancient CUSTOM throw
aside their love for the name, or their antipa.
thy to the new doctrines which threatened
their power. The mass of them had grown
up in firm alliance with the South, and
duped and cat's-pawed as they had BEEN
irritated as they were at the treachery of
their old allies and despite the noble service
which many Of them rendered, in fighting
the common foe--many have never been
able to hate ab snao pecsore the men Of that
false and foul feudal party which, when the
rupture fairly came, expressed for their old
allies a scorn and contempt deeper even than
they felt for the Abolitionists.r In vain the
South protested fiercely that it meant dis
union and nothing but disunion, and made
its words good for offering, both in Europe
and in its own press, to sacrifice, ifneed be-,
even slavery, rather than be longer bound
to the North still, the remaining ultra De-
mocracy could not. would not, even now will
not believe that the South would or could
be so unfiiendiy. It was this hope Of com,
promise and Cancellation which lost US forts,
and ships, and millions Of dollars in muni.
tons of war : for It was said 'rhe South
is only Boosting, and must not be driven to
extremes With eyes wide open to ths
thefts, the Democratic leaders smiled lam
guild, cowardly assent, and let the snemy
prepare for war. And war came It might
have been prevented it might. beyond all
doubt. have bsen limited, and crushed; !; but
the hand of the braggart South had been 50
long on the throat Of the doughfaces, that
they dared not move, and the doughfaccs
were in power. The country at large has
had to pay dearly for that old doughface
love for the South /; It is paying every day
in lives and money. 'E IN
Even now, II is amazing to see hay the
leaders among the Democracyswhile pecking
the South with the bin. continue to fondle il
with the wing. Again and again, since the
war began, they have humiliated the North
and encouraged the desperate foe by efforts
At parties, cancellations. outcries for
amnesty, and entreaties not to 'exasperate'
the enemy. They have urged and advocated
the maintainance Of slavery, the great capse
Of Southern arrogance and secession, With
As much zeal a. any Southron Of them AL,
and Hercsly deprecated any allusion to :
subject which can no more be kept from
consciousness than cana deadly and madly
irritating cancer. Every suggestion, even
the mildest and most equitsble. for arrang-
ing this difficulty, has beon stigmatised by
them as out Of place and time, while their
press has, without exception, IS We believe,
given currency to statements, denouncing
directly as swindlers aud prostitutes the
innocent and wefi-meaning men and women
,vho vveo< South 9TH tka eola ol,;acf IF