The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1863-07-23
Southern Prin ciples.
From Richm end Examiner

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months to six months, our character as
people has been decidedly rising in the
world, until now discerning public, to its
own great surprise. almost loves us, and an
astonished country begins to doubt whether
il is the nineteenth century. For this i'm
proyement in the estimation in which we
are now held, we do not thank the Spirit of
Age T; we thank our President and General
LEE, and the other noble chiefs, and our
glorious army. If we are able to borrow
money abroad, and the capitalists eagerly
pour their. treasure into our hands, it is not
owing to any patronage or fostering care, or
engagements Of support from their respec-
tive Governments !; it is because those capi-
talists know in their utmost hearts and
souls (Which are in their pockets) that such
chiefs and armies will never be conquered
that our independence is sure and that,
therefore, the control Of the resources of the
country will be in the control Of our own
Government and people-not the Yankee
enemies. -, $3.50 # e. E
They are all perfectly certain in Europe
that their debt will not be duly paid by an
independent people-not denied or dishon-
ored by the conquerors Of crushed rebell-
ion. Just so, if we get war ships built in
England, it is not that Lord RUSSELL, or the
English Government encourages the transac-
ton, but that ship builders in Liverpool or
Glasgow cannot be kept from dong an:iIict
stroke of business for good employer. If
the Confederacy is at premium, she owes
1t to herself. : And so much the better. We
shall be all the more flee to run the grand
career which opens before us, and grasp our
own lofty destiny. Would that all of us
understood and laid to heart the true nature
of that career and that destiny, and the re.
sponsibility it imposes ! The ESTABLISH
MENr o. THE CoNrspERAcY is, VERIFY, A DIS
rTHcr REACTION AGvrNsr THE WHOLE COURSE
or THE MISTAKEN CIVILIZATION OF THE AGE.
And this is the true reason why we have
been left without the sympathy of the ma
tions until we conquered that sympathy
with the sharp edge Of our sword. For
"LIBERrr, EoUALIrY, FRArERN1rY," WE
HAVE DELIBERATELY SUBSTITUTED SLAVERY,
SUBoRDrNArIoN AND GOVERNMENT. Those
social and political problems which rack and
torture modern society we have undertaken
to solve for ourselves, in our own way, and
upon our own principles. That "among
equals equality is right - among those who
are unnaturally unequal, equality is chaos;
THAT THERE ARE SLAVE RACES BoRxro SERVE.
MASTER RACES BORN TO GOVERN. Such are
the fundamental principles which we inher-
it from the ancient world. which we lifted
up in the face of a perverse generation that
has forgotten the wisdom of its fathers; by
those principles we live, and in their defence
we have shown ourselves ready to die. Rev
erently we feel that our Confederacy is a
Gsd-sent missionary to the nations, with
great truths to preach. We must speak them
boldly; and whose hath ears to hear let
him hear. 'a
If we had been crushed in this mighty
struggle il would have been truly ajudge,
ment Of Heaven against US, and against our
cause. five had gained that cause easily,
and it were without sanctifying it with such
baptism Of sacrificial blood, and if the pol.
icy of foreign nations had even induced
them to interpose on our behalf, and so
saved us from this agony and bloody sweat,
our position at this day had not been so
high and clear we should neither SO fully
apprshend the duty nor possess so COM
pletely the power to start to our proud ca
reer. We should then have had ospecta.
tors" patrons and intermeddlers. We
should never have lifted our thoughts up to
the hight Of our great arguement, and our
nationol life would have been but half life,
an abordinate compromise.
We start fair when our soldiers shall have
sheathed their body weapons then will
come the task of our sages and statesman in
building up society, and uttering by word
and act the truths which are its base. And
thank God the Confcderates have some
statesmen and thinkers up to the mark and
level of the situation. There are men in
these Confederate States who have long
deeply felt and earnestly striven to express,
though timidly and speculatively, on what
foundations of fact, with what corner agents
Of principle, our social situation was one day
to be built up fair and bright. Now is the
time. Let them speak in no apoloyetic tone,
nor place US at their peril in any deprecau-
tious attituds. This people has won the
right surely TO be let alone They will
accept no deduction in poliIicts. in litsra-
ture, in philosophy they win not follow
but lead not borrow but lend. They are
more than content with their own principle
Of morals and way of life, and will stand up
on it to tho end so help them God.
The foregoing article contains the most
outrageous doctrine ever promulgated in the
name of civilization.
Although 1t is but an expansion of the
principle set forth by Alexander Stephens
at the beginning of the rebellion, it is ex-
pressed in blunter and more brutal language,
and is better embodiment OF the feeling
intention of the dominant faction at the
South. The faction has fallen under the
scriptursl malediction on all who persist in
systematic wickedness. and has really come
to at6sliere lie" The deprAvity Of the
sla Seholding conscience has now complete
lv vitiated the slayeholding intellect. and il