The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1863-07-09

througaiy weeIod, until more than half the
tarm all in iacfoh one side Of a Certain par
tition fence was entirely clear &c tares--
Aud now q few persons Were anxious to
cross over The partition fence and make short
work of the tares to be found there The
number OF such was very small They were
radicals they wond have the noxious
weed out BY The roots instanter, no matter
what would come. The others SAID nay,
ye have no business over there. And be-
sides your do more harm than good, for
while We pail up the tares yen destroy the
wheat also These were the conservatives
And now the men over on the tare side
came to the conclusion that tares were not
such bad thing after ali, and by and by
that they were actually good thing, and
then that they Were really the best thing
on UnciessSam's farm. And because the old
gentleman wouldn't consent that all his new
fields be sown with tares they burned down
the partition fence, undertook to pull down
the houce over his bead and'tore up things
generally. And now who are the couSer.
vatives in the favorable sense of that term,
if not those who stick to Uncle Sam and
withstand all attempts to overpower him, or
ALLEVIATE his possessions? And they would
be conservative if every tare in creation were
torn out, if need be by the roots. When
in times of peace the idea was sugge sted OF
anything like interference with sla-
very i'm the States hcdged around
hedged around as it was by Constitutional
guarantees. many Of us,-nearly all of us
profes sed to be conservative. But when
that institution and those in Its interes,
trample on Constitutional guarantees, make
war upon the government, and undertake
to dig up by the very roots the Tree of Lib
erty, we beg to be excused from'all respon-
sibilitv for that peculiar institution. We
propose to stand by the Constitution and by
those who are its legal administrators. We
say, the tree of Liberty, planted by our
fathers on the 4th ofJuly 1776 SHALL STAND
and in so doing we think we are oonserva-
tive still. There is nothing so radical as re.
bellion, there is nothing so truly conserva.
tive as genuine patriotism.
Policy, patriotism, and religion alike de-
mand that in this our .ountry's crisis we
stand by the Constitution and the govern
ment, He who looks INTO the Bible to learn
his duty must see tina. civil government is
an ordinance of God, to which he is requ
red to be in subsection 'rLet every soul be
| SUBJECT TO the higher powers" The power;
that be are ordained Of God "We must
needs be subject, not only for wrath, bu
for conscience sake.'
He who encourages resistance TO regularly con ti
tuted government, giving his influence in favor o
anarchy and lawlessness, is guilty Of murder ant
robbery by the wholesale. Even In regard to tn,
government of a Nero, Paul conid say, "they tina
resist shall receive to themselves damnation.
! On the elevated ground OF conscience L appeal "a
you tostdnd by the Union.And on this Independents,
day do not Patriotic remembrances crowd upon you'
Think of Bunker Hill and Lexington and ConcorS
and Yorktc wn, and Mt. Vernon Think of Wash
ington, and JEFF ersor and the Adamses of Patrick
Henry, and Clay and Webster? May these memo
ries cease? Shall these be consigned to obliv
/ ion Nay, oar country shall lire. The Union
must and shall be preserved. Our sons, our broth
ers, our neighbors in the army, battling not tc
overthrow slavery, much less to sustain it conten
ding, not for the ascendency of political party
or another but for the linton, in defence of the lift
OF the nation. We WILL SUSTAIN THEM. We will SEND
! them words of cheer. We will pray for them. We
will fall into ranks, if need be- and join them And
we will await with confidence the happy day when
by the favor Of God, Union and Peace shall again
bless our land.