The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1863-10-29

tale was proven the sorest of all falsehoods
and the Democratic party Of Iowa, once bu
step from the portals of power, lay pros
trate under the feet of its conquorers.
| Lee county, from which Tuttle was to cary,
out / 800 majority, has escaped with but
100. Des Moines county, ours last year /,
a small figure, is the property of the enemy
by hundreds. Davis, which at one time
aspired to lead Dubuque, is driven in thu
tens, while Van Buren and Polk, and Jas
per and Warren counties, which had ad
vanced step by step in the right path, are
recorded against us overwhelmingly.
I Only those counties hold their heads erec
which opposed to the last, the schemes o
Johnstone, GiIlaspy and company.
| Dubuque sends 1925, and Alamauket
800, and jackson 100, and Wapelo and
Marion. with majorities not one third thai
of Lee, stand firm, or at the worst, receds
but q step, -.
The game of g.. is tried on with infinite
ly worse success, and the Democratic party
which could not have avoided defeat, is dis
integrated and demoralized beyond prece
dent. We have stopped but have not con
quered. We have been guilty Of acting Z
falsehood, and that gratuitously.
Now, gentlemen, trimmers Of the Demo
cratic party, let Us have one word with you
There is but one radical distinction between
Democracy and Republicanism at the pres
ent day. The one is opposed, with Douglas
to war whose only end is "disunion
eternal and irrevocable;" while the other
is for it to the obstruction of slavery OF
country. ace go to find par party. pt
must search for the Republican organization
for that is better var party than ours
I'VE are anti-war or zoe are nothing. We
cannot support all the measures they sup
port, and endeavor to divide votes witt
them on technicalities. War leads in its
train arson and murder and pillage and bru
tallty. If we oppose the war, we oppose
its adjuncts if we sustain it, we can not
cut the limb between ourselves and the
| trunk.
1t is a calamitous policy to oppose Just
war, but that term does not apply to homes,
opposition to an unjust war. We may pick
our paths, but one is support the other
opposition. We may be met by being point
ed to Ohio. Very well. Ohio was never q
Democratic State. We happened to carry
it last year, but it has been consistently
against us for ten years. And no sane man
will hazard the assertion that another man
than Vallandgham would have got more
votes than he.
The true issue was made in Come cticut
The gallant Seymour, on popular vote
was successful. but the administration
money and soldiers beat him at the last
hour. Honestly, he is Governor to-day, but
technically, he is 5000 in minority.
We canrot fight the Republican party
with its money, and the administration with
its armies. Give US fair poll and an open
field, and We win show you that party which
grapples boldly with the issue is, in nine
cases out Of ten, sure of success, when its
faint-hearted coadjutois continually miss
the prize.
But, whether successful or not, we are
honest, we are manly. We profess to be
honest in this matter, whether to our detri-
ment or not, and we plainly inform the
trirnmers of the ship. that when they next
attempt to creep up the rivulets and around
the heallauds of popular favor, they must
disembark one portion Of their crew. We
are going to fight fair fight from this on
| If we 60 down it shall be with our colors al
our mast head. so that our enemy may bear
witness that we have been a bold, al open,
and honest enemy, and that too much dis
cretion failed to turn w into towards.
If the game of 81 and 'G3 is attempted
in "a or %, the trlcksters had best buy up
our paper, for the pen of its editor will no,
be held in their leash nor directed to their
interest.
| We do not regret our action in the past,
for it has shown that we were willing, for
policy to organize its forces and win what
victories it might. But let policy be super
ceded now by principle, or else with scores
of others, we hand in our resignation.
5uque Herald, 21st.
Hairbrcadth Escapes Darin; the
Earthquake AT Manila.
heard of the most extraordinary instance
of escape. The tower of one of the churches
fell in a mass across the open space in front
Of the church. A Sp,n;a,d, his wife, and
two children, were passing at the moment {;
the man, who had just turnel to take his
children in his arms, was crushed, together
with his little children, while his wife, who
was not yard distant from him. escaped
unhurt, as did also, with the exception Of a
few bruises, five persons who were star ding
within the basement Of the tower when il
fell A woman had been ordered to fetch
some water from a spring. but had neglect
ed to do it. which made her master so an.
CRY, that on her refusing to go, he took her
by the arm aud put her out Of the house
Sue had only got as far as the open space