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

your country, stand by your army, stand by
your navy. Aud If you won't do that, get
out of the country, and don't stay here to
breed dsaffection and trouble among us ut
home. And there is something worse than
this ahout which must speak don't like
these secret political societies. don't know
whether you have them or not A voice,
yes; they meet twice a week. Well, if
you have. you cannot pass ninety days in
peace. Your houses will be burned, your
railroad tracks torn up; you will be found
shot behind your barns. You cannot have
peace If you have these organizations. No
behind the curtains Of secresy. If a man is
honest, he will not care who knows what he
is about. never Joined secret organiza-
ton IN my life and | never will. Young
men, get out of such organizations. You
cannot have peace if you keep in them.--
You cannot take an 9th against your Gov
eminent and your country and have peoce
Some say the draft cannot be enforced
My friend, do not say that egain. We have
government We have three quarters of
a million Of men in the army. Let any
neighborhood resist the draft, and the fire
and the sword, and desolation will 90 through
it. The power of the government will como
down on you. IL we have to die in defense
OF the country, we may as well die here as
anywhere else. just think Of it. You swear
you won't enter the army; you swear that
you will not pay your taxes you swear you
will shoot down in cold blood any one who
reveals your secrets This won't do. Get
out eff these reasonable organizations if you
want peace. BE true jackson man., and
stand up for your country unless you in
tend to revolutionize the country, and have
no government. tell you it is very dan.
gerous thing for man to undertake to raise
his orm against the government of his coun-
try. In my country last summer they de.
MED that these organizations existed. don't
know how it is with you But will never
60 into any place where | am prevented from
telling afterwards what was done in that
place; will not come crawling out at mid
night like crawling out Of poSsum's hole
And yet you 60 to such places. and you call
that Democracy! You say that Is Demo-
cratic ! Great laughter The contest in
which we are engaged, is not what some
would make it out to be. 1t is contest be.
tween an imperial aristocracy, on the one
side, and the people on the other. Which
shall rule, the aristocrats, or the people.
The speaker here read an extract fiom the
Louisville Democrat" There can be no
true Democracy, while treason keeps it's ar
my in the field, except war democracv.---
Hence, those that preach peace an the North
may be called Democrats J; bit an reality
THEY ARE TORIES AND TRAITORS" Great APP
plause
Now don't say called you traitors. It
was the Louisville Democrat, published on
Southern soil; so you can see how loyal
men in the South look upon the course you
are pursuing. Laughter and cheers
1t may take time to save this government
but have never despaired for moment
of doing it. do not believe that this ma
ton has performed its mission yet. don't
talk to any man about separation of the
country Not foot of it. When a man
talks about that. say at once: ssGood
Morning. sir, ! have no business with you.
advice you to get out Of the country, il
that comes to pass; for we are going to save
this country; and it went be very pleasant
for you to remain here after that [Tumul-
tuous applause.
Do you doubt weare going to do this p
tell you we will Our strength is not in
our money, in our army, in our many no.
BILE rivers, in our rich soil, in our inexhaust.
able mines ofprecious ore, Do you know
where it is? 1t is in invent millions
Of fycemen, living in the North. lCheers. !
Why, look at US. There is not blind per.
son in our country, nor lunatic, pauper
that is not cared for These men are our
strength. These noble temples of humani-
ty erected by the great Creator. They, un-
der God. are our strength.
But you talk Of fraud and rascalitv. Well,
there is good deal of that in the country
anyhow. There never was q war in which
Of every 500 paid out for the war; forty
or fifty will be stolen. The speaker refer.
red here 10 the immense losses sustained in
this way by the English in the Russian war,
AID by the Austrians, IN the war with
France. In all times kke these, with all the
care the Government exercise, there will be
men who make money by speculation AMI
fraud. They do it like beasts went into the
Ark, by pairs. A democrat and republi-
can will get together, and grab at all they can
reach. Laughter and cheers Your gen.
erals are now charged with making money
by speculations in cotton and rice. They
belong to all parties, and you cannot make
party question out of that. Laughter
| believe that you have an honest man at
the bead of the government. believe that
he sincerity desires to save the country.
have thought that if had the making of
him would have put little more backbone
in him. Immense applause. ] wish he
had little more of the iron will of old Hick-
Dry, or of the determination of s. A. Doug
las. That's SOL But have you noticed
one thing Every proclamation he has is
sued, is as the head OF the army of the Uni
ted States. You say he has right to weak
en- his enemy He is your Presid ent for
eighteen months. What have you to make
by throwing obstacles in, the way? ( do
not know whether he has done all for the
best, or not but if had anything to say, l
should have said to the Generals Of our ar.
my, take the niggers as you 60, and don't
leave disloyal man behind you. 3 Every
man you go to, give him a gun and if he
won't take it, tell him you want his negroes
his property, his cattle, his grain. or what
ever you need for you jarmy. And. If he
won't give you that, hand MIN to the sheriff
and the sheriff to the Judge. and have him
hung upon the first gate rost, as traitor to
the Government. Immense applause
We are liable to despond. In this respect
we arc remarkable people. If we whip
the rebels in min eteen BATHS, and lose one,
we talk about that one. They have never
fought US man to man, but we have whipped
them and we can do it again l don't believe
a man who livs Ia the South and raises a son
in idleness, that his boy can whip mine, who
has been raised to Industrious habits. Rath-
er tnan to let eighteen millions of men sue
cumb TO eight millions, pray that there