The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1863-04-30

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Was not this enough for man or people
Alas, no Mr.. Davis was not content with
this exuberant felicity. He needed some
thpg more !; he desired . ''nicea and subtle
hal ipiness;"'. he signed for fraternity" Tc
gel that precious boon, be dosed hirnsel
wib the msddeaing drug Of secession and
lnd behold him--the fetlocks of his war
hobe wet with the blood of civil war, ooz
inifrom the tramphed bosoms Of friend and
fc@ as be RACES over the feld of death in
seSeh of something better than the best
gobrnment than an unexceptlonable ad-
mi 3stration, than . prosperity without ex.
autle in the history Of the worldt
this patriotic statesmsnship or isii
aultious frenzy 2 What an unpr,ncipled
retllion like this to be compared with the
wot Of our sainted Fathers, Of. Washington
and Franklin, and Jefferson and Adams,
4 the troes and sages Of the revolution This
gigStic treason to be profanely landed as
the bgust foundation of new State to he
fed fth foreign gold and nursed with for
eignlsvori Then let all pretense of dis.
tinctn between right and wrong, truth
and tsehood, be forever abandoned. Lift
up ytr heads, ye prison gatss,o and let
lyourt tvTonged inmates go free I Come
homsom the Cahnibal Islands, ye mis-.
siona,a, and let the honest savage gorge
urone strange flesh Pr Throw open your
doorss just Bedlam, and send your abus-
ed phSophers, princes and statesman to
their Smesi Cease your dull prate, ye
1 teachaof morals There is no crime,
there 30 barbarism, there is no madness
4 Thoseho make constitutions, not those
4 who hSx them. shall henceforward be
traitor4 Our Legislators and judges shall
be the Sprits, not felons and thieves =
Oaths hll no longer be the link that binds
the so,f the creature to the f0otstool OF
1.-THE Or4r, but base trap baited by
knaves icatch the easy conscicnces Of
fools a all this yaunted civilization,
founded institutions. hallowed by relig-
ion, butssed by tribunals, accepted BY
the contn sense of mankind, shall be pro-
claimed the face Of the Universe, pal
try sho}nd o wicked lie ssfs
Mostly, it certainly is, that for the
last 'thityears must ill-feeling has sprung
up betuS the North and the South No
one can bret this more than have done
and notif within the province of private
individuals been neglected by me to pre-
vent it's fSth and arrest its consequences
But this Feeling has sprung up quite as
g much bye fault of the South as of the
North; aathe language Of rsproach and
. Irritation which it has found utterance,
has beenfte as often and quite es loudly
The. | in section of the country as the
D other, after all, there has never been.
J on the papf the masses of the people,
\ North orkth.s that degree of sectional hos
! siIity Will Mr. Davis assumes. in order to
! Justify hisempt to oyerturn the Govern.
: ment .thf has been nothing, he admits,
which hatrevented satisfactory and
y prosperors DIN inistrati0n Of the Govern
y meHt; notk even, he might have added,
u which has Ierfered with imalcable social
i intercourstNorth and South; nothing
!. which preted Mr.. Davis bimself. prior
to the last ssidential election, and when
: he himselfk an aspirate to the. Presiden
. cy, from pNg . summer in this much re-
. viled and Now England, much appar-
y emily, to tltutual satisfaction Of himself
md friend {erywhcro received with cor
dial hospiti and repaying, with glowing
9 phrases Of eliHept, the ovations WHICH
every ywherae ending his progress
g. In one yhfterward and in less than
= three montk kfter pronouncing the .eulo-
7 gipm just 4 on the Constitution Of the
: United Ststsnd without having resign
J, ed his seat Senator, We find him at the
= head of rSition organized to overturn
y it, and shed, the best blood of the coun
= icy, North South, to compass this curel
= this netariohd' Perhaps if he had sue.
y ceeded In hlpvsss for tho Presidency,
he might h9sen willing that tho people
= should live years longer under "the
y best Governlt ever instituted by man. >
: Ifhe had hitf reached the White House
: be might hapHsentsd that his fellow
: citizens sho4ontipps ITO prosper beyond
: cnmparison 1any other people In his.
. tory, Wei Mr.. Vice President Step
bens Observe the l4th Of November,
y 1850. that thlappoiqtment Of ambitious
70 aspirants to 4 had much to do with
!. bringing on Il fplorable state Of Affsirs,"''
rs Such is hisfration, end II this asser-
+ Ition Of the se&oficer in the Confe deracy.
70 is we'll founded this tremendous war
70 has, indeed, DO small degree. been
n brought upon i the reason y stated by.
l. him; ifthe u)has been called to stag. /,
.. ger beneath thi& " increasing mountain
. load Of debt II lawful commerce has
9 been surrenderok khe rovers Of, the sea,
{ fitted out with Hess cupidity to prey
a. upon it; IL TIE in yce Of country, which
g so lately held hid head in the front
.. rank of the famil lations, has for the
= time being been Inflated, and foreign