The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1863-02-19

The speaker here referred to proposition
which he had seen from a very wealthy New
England Company, to get possession of
tract Vt land in the vicinity Of Beaufort, S.
c.. and to employ negroes, at $40 per month.
to raise cotton for them there. There will
be ways found. We will colonize them in
Africa, in Central America, in Texas. tell
you oil this country is to be redeemed for
the white man. Are you not in favor of
that? Aye, aye, and applause.l Do you
know that Denmark now wants 60, 900 black
men for her colonies? You need not fear
at the black men will come up here They
will not come here. They will be taken out
of the country to be treemen themselves,
and all you that talk about the black man
coming here know that you are triiing with
the people. Cheers. But where is the
means to come from to do all this? Why,
in the city of st. Louis alone, there is thirty
millions worth Of property that belongs to
the rebels, that you will get by the act of
confscation.
But then you don't go in for that. Well,
they go in for it. Look at the amount
which the New York merchants lost by the
secession ofthe South. Have they not driv.
EN- all the Union men out Of the rebel States
and confiscated their property. Millions of
dollars worth of property has thus gone in
to their Golfers by coniiscation. And yo1
have the right to confiscate their property
You d,n't know what property there is in
the South belonging TO Southern rebels
Why, that infamous Buckner owns property
worth $250,000 in the City of Chicago
Now, supposing you only get onehalf Of all the
property you ought TO get, it will be an i'm
imense sum. And believe God intends that
you shall take all this property to send the
black man cut Of the country, and set him
up in new home. And surprising it costs
YOU 500 head to send them out of the
country, how many wonld you be able to
get rid of? | agree with you that at the
close Of this war there will be fewer niggers
in the country than now. And if you are
afraid Of that-if you are SO ford of slave
ry that you don't want to see it put down,
Join the army, for there will soon be only a
few old stumps left Join tie army quick,
and help to put down the rebellion, before
the whole thing is wiped out. Laughter and
cheers
That property will be converted into mon
ey, and will he the means of taking the
blacks out of the country, without taxing
the white men to do it.
Some Of you are afraid of the intervention
of France AMI England. Well, am not
afraid OF that. You ask what has been done
during the last two years? I want to an.
swer that. We have done more than our Faith.
erS in the Revolution DID, in that time Forthe
first two years adversely was upon them
We have done better than we did in 1914
We have done better than France or Eng
land ever did in rebellion. We have rails.
ed an army Of over a million of men, and
that is more than England or France can do.
Immense cheering.
Why Senator Douglas said this war was
concocted in the middle of James Buchan.
ans Administration You know what was
done to dispense our Navy, and scatter our
munitions Of war through the South. was
at Naples last May year, and l saw three
of our National vessels away off there
Your Navy was all sent out-scattered so
they could not be recalled for a length OF
time. And your military supplies We're
South, your cannon were sent South, your
rifles were sent South, your army was in the
South, your condemned arms, condemned
because they wanted them, were bought up
and sent down South. 1t was all planned
and concocted then. And yet you know
that to-day the Stars and Stripes float over
one-half Of this whole country. TGreat
cheering Our everv fort but two We
have got round them on the river, have push
ed them down through Arkansas and into
Mississippi, bavepossession OF New Orleans,
and have an army large enough to whip
them out, if we only stand up to the work
il we ouly do our duty in six months we
will have possession of the whole country
You have million Of men in the army, you
have widows and orphans all aronnd you,
and your army has driven the enemy before
it thro ughout the whole West, and vet you
are wicked and mean enough TO go around
and say we have done nothingl' And that is
Democracy For shame How many men
veted against the tax bill? There were six
ty-twe Democrats in the House, and fourteen
voted against it. Now, if you don't say it
is all right will have to read you out of the
party and as three fourths Of the Demo
cratic members voted for the prosecution of
the war, if you say that it is not right, |
will have to read you out of the party. And
if YOU are in the minority, what will you
do? I'm nense applause. do not think
you need to fear forei ign intervention while
both sides have such large armies in the
field. will tell you when think Europe
will interfere. | am nc military man, and
may not Judge correctly; but if had had
the command, there would have been no
fight on the Rappahannock. wonld have
let Virginia, with ier black peas. alone.
would have opened the Mississippi, And
with the Mississippi open, and Arkansas and
Texas cut off to itself, the war would not
last long. That grsss region feeds the rebel
army. There is where the beef comes from
on which they snbsist Do you know |
once made speech On grass Itwas after
this style Of argument: Where there is DO
grass, there is no stock where there is no
stock, there will be no manure ard where
there is no manure, nothing will grow
[Great laughter Cut off those regi ons, and
guard the Mississippi river well and they
will not be able to subsist their army.
Now, will tell you when Europe will in
te,fere. Whenever they are compelled to
resort TO a guerrilla war. Do You think
France and England will look on and see
this country go into a guerrilla war? And
this would be the result. You could not
guard this line. Look at it. II is not a
range Of mountains. or large river, or a
natural boundar, of any sort but is is
line crossing through the country, crossing
your mountains, crossing your valleys, cross
ing your rivers, crossing your plains
it would be impossible to guard it. Parties
Of robbers would cross that line to rob your
stores, and bern your towns, and murder
your people and you would have to fight
them. Now do you think Era"-v and Eng
land would s,aa, THIS state of things to &C.
cur. Whenever the war degeneiates into a
guarr!a fight, then they viii interfere, and
not till then.