The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1864-09-22

ed between that usurper Jefferson Davis and
that constitutional President Abraham Lin.
coin. The war is waged by the usurper to
expel that Constitutional President from the
Capital, which, In some sort, is constantly
held in siege, and to conquer the States
which Loyalty adhere to him. The war is
maintained on our side to suppress the
usurper, and to bring the insurgent States
back under the authority Of the constitution
al President. The war is at its crisis. 1t is
clear, therefore, that we are fighting to make
Abraham Lincoln President of the whole
United States, under the election Of 1850, to
continue until the 4th of March, 1865, In
voting for President OF the United Sta 'es
can we wisely or safely or safely vote out
the identical person whom, with force and
arms, we are fighting into the Presidency
(No. No.) You justly say. No. It would be
nothing less than to give up the very object
of the war at the ballot-box. The moral
strength, which makes our loyal position
impregnable, would pass from us, and when
that moral strength has passed away, ma.
terial forces are no longer effective, or even
available. By such proceeding we shall
have agreed with the enemy, and shall have
giver him the victory.
The Democratic party, Of course leaving
off the loyal Union Democrats, opposed the
election Of Abraham Lincoln, in 1860. In
doing so they divided and organized in three
columns. One reasonable column, Of
State Rights, disunion Democrats, under
Breckinridge. A second, a loyal Northern
column, under Douglas. The third, con.
c,liiatory flying column, under John Bell,
who has since joined the insurgents We
thereupon invited the two loyal columns to
combine with the Republican party to cp-
pose the disunion Democratic column. They
declined. On the eve of the election in 1860,
] told the followers Of Nouglas and OF Bell
that when the election should tave closed,
they would And they had inadvertently
favored disunion and rebellion. They per-
sisted, and the attempted revolution came.
Disunion then presented. ..itself,'in the prac-
tical form Of preventing Abraham Lincoln
from assuming the Executive authority -
Thus the Democratic party produced that
calamity, the Southern Democrats acting
from design, the Northern Democrats pas
sive through inadvertence. The disputed
succession still remains unadjusted. A new
election has come on. For time, the North.
ern Democrats, with notable exceptions,
gave q more or less liberal support to the
Government, sgaips. the Democratic insur.
gents Ct the South. But the same Demo-
cratic forces which figured in the election Of
1860, now appear in the political field with
positions and policy unchanged since that
time. as think, except for the worse. The
Southern Democracy is still in arms under
the usurper at Richmond. The Douglas and
Bell columns consol dated. are found at Chi
cago, and all three Of the p,rties are CON-
passing the rejection of the constitutions
President of the United States. They agree
not only in this attempt, but they assign the
same reason for IT, namely, that Abraham
Lincoln is tyrant.
They agree, also, that the real usurper at
Richmond is blaweless and pure, at least
the Richmond Democracy affirm it, and the
Chicago Democracy do not gainsay It. To
me, therefore, the Democracy at Richmond
and the Democracy at Chicago, like Caesar
and Pompey, seem to retain all their origin
al family resemblance. They are very much
alike-especially Pompev. But it is not in1
mere externals that their similarity les.-
They talk very much alike, as have already
shown yop. When you consider that among
the Democrats at Chicago the Indians Dem
ocrats were present, who have imported
arms to resist the national authority and
defeat the national laws, and that all the
Democrats there assembled agreed to jpsti-
fy that proceeding, l think you will agree
with me that the Richmond Democrats and
the Chicago Democrats have lately come to
act very much alike.
shall now go further and prove to you
that they not only have common policy,
and q common way Of defending it, but they
have even adopted that policy in concert
with each other. You know that when the
Chicago Convention was approaching in
July last, George Sanders, Clement G. Clay,
and j. P. Holcomb appeared at the Clifton
House on the Canada bank of the Niagara
river, fully invested with the confidence and
acquainted with the purposes Of Jefferson
Davis and his confederates at Richmond. -
You know, also, that Chicago Democrats
resorted there In considerable numbers to
confer with these emissaries of Jefferson
Dayis. Here is the fruit Of that conference,
and no one can deny the authority Of my
evidence. 1t is extracted from the London
Times, the common organ Of all the enemies
Of the United States. The New York cor.
respondent Of the London Times, writing
from Niagara Pals u9der date of August
9Th, says:
"clifton House has become q centre of
negotiations between the Northern friends
Of peace and Southern agents, which pro.
pose withdrawal Of differences from the
arbitrament Of the sword. The correspond
ent then goes on to explain that an effort is
TO be made to nominate candidate for the
Presidency, on the platform of an armistice
and . Convention of States, and to thwart
by all possible means, the efforts of Mr..
Lincoln for re- election"