The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1862-10-25

States. What do these Democratic lead
ers profess to dof Search through their
speeches and their platforms. and defy any
man to point to any single practical remedy
for our public difficulties. They criticise the
General Administration they misrepresent
the acts Of Congress; they magnify the ex-
penses Of the war they appeal to the lowest
interests and meanest prejudices in our ma
ture. But can you discover any one thing
in all their recommendations that will help
the State, encourage the President, confound
the common enemy, or aid to FIRE and unite
the loyal peepler Stripping away their
professions, they stand before US unconceal-
ed enemies of the State, because they are
known to favor the separation of the States /;
the adversaries Of the President, whom they
constantly ridicule and condemn; in close
and conscientious sympathy with the COM
mon enemy, and the active disturbers OF
that popular unity without which this war
cannot be conducted to successful close,
arm surc do these men no injustice in this
classification. Let me make common
sense application Of this remark. Of what
earthly use would q known Breckenridge
politician be in the Congress Of the United
States I? Take any one now running in op-
position to the Union ticket, and, with two
or three inoonsiderable exceptions, they arc
not only men who can do no good to any
body, but oil ofwhose acts since the com.
mencement of the war, as all Of whose ex-
pressions at this very moment, will impel
them to do harm to every loyal interest
They prove this by their impenitence in ra-
gard to their conduct from the time James
Buchanan turned his back upon his honor,
and from the period when Sumter fell. They
prove it by their hypocritical profession Of
loyalty. They prove it by honoring a
mouth piece like Francis W. Hughes who
flung the banner of the dissolution of the
Union to the breeze in February, 1851, and
still keeps it flying, and they prove it by the
still stronger proof. that they utter NJ word
of confidence in any single member of the
Government. How can such men assist the
Government in this dark hour? Do they
propose to do this by setting up standard
Of honesty, covered all over, as they are,
with the reeking infamies of the Buchanan
Administrator M Do they propose to do so
by denouncing and weakening the common
enemy when they are in sympathy with
him I will tell you what their object is..:
It's to fo-ce peace upon the basis and un.
derstanding that this Union shall at once
and forever be dissolved. These Democra-
tic leaders pretend to be the friends of Geo.
B. Mcclellan. Look at his splendid appeal
to the soldiers in the army, published in the
morning papers, in which he calls upon
them to stand by the constituted authorities
in regard to the most assailed measures of
the Administration mean the emancipa-
ton proclamation. He says:
'The principal upon which, and the OBJ
jects for which, armies shall be employed in
suppressing rebellion must be determined
and declared by the civil authorities and
the Chief Executive, who is charged with
the administration of affairs, is the proper
and only source through which the views
and orders Of the Government can be made
known to the armies of the Union.n
And again that
at is the highest duty of the American
soldier steadily and earnestly to support the
authority of the Government.
. How do these Democratic friends of Nc
Clellap respond to this appeal? Let their
acts answer for them. There is not stat
ute enacted by the last Congress, and which
was honestly intended to strike at the COM
mon foe ana to aid and fortify the National
cause, whether it is the tax bill, the draft
bill, the confiscation bill, tbs Emancipation
law, the revenue bill the currency bill-there
is not one which they do not attack, and
seek to bring into contempt and dishonor.
I am amazed that these selfevident PROPOSE.
tons have not made their rightful impres.
sion upon the public mind, and shall be
mortified and humiliated il they do not
prove to have been irresistable in defeating
the expectations Of our opponents next
Tuesday. Proudly and fear,essly as our
young commander has borne himself during
oil these terrible months, completely as he
has sustained and vindicated himself, he has
done no one thing that will reflect so much
honor on his name as this splendid
and spontaneous appeal to his troops to.
stand by the Administration of the Federal
He and the men who follow
him can do this, and risk their lives against
the foe but our gentlemen of peace, our
holiday soldiers, our magnates who give
the law to the Democratic party, and who
preach separation and Secession, cannot des
cend from their pedestals and offer the poor
tribute Of confidence in the constitutional
authorities. Turning from these Democra-
tic leaders in civil life, their conduct as
sumes still more Objectionable shape when
It is contrastad with the Democratic leaders
in military life. While Horatio Seymour
breaches treason in New York, Thomas
Francis Meagher, susta:ns the Administra.
ton, and denounces such men as Seymour,
in the army. While Francis w. Hughes
makes the State ring with his denuncations
Of the President and the constituted authori.
ties, the gallant Cake, of his own county,
The heroic Wauner of Berks, Col. o wen of
Philadelphia, and others, long-tried Demo.
Gratis, write home from the battle field wish