The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1864-04-07

watched and reeling brute falls to be, their
prey. Was such the spirit of the, cary
leaders! They were, the statesmen who
would not put the word slave in our Con.
who ,meditated only that all our
States should. be free, and forbade slavery
by law on the virgin BOIL Of the Northwest.
gIt brought us through the sec rad long
and bloody war with the mother country;
It humbled the spirit of Nullifcation, and, /,
up to the invention of TIE cotton-gin and q
profitable internal slave;trade, it was a par
ty Of the people, terror to official proAi-
gates, and the foe of oppression everywhere.
PARTY APosrAcY. "a
Later 1t turned to false gods, in dec,ara
ton of war against he Seminole Indians to
break up the rendezvous Of escaped slaves
in Florida; 1t made war on Mexico to extend
slavery on fields u,olighted by ITS curse,
it enacted repugnant fugitive slave laws,
and sought by the patronage. power, and e.
nesse of two Administrations iof force
slave Constitution upon the State Of Kan as;
and its late disruption for slavery and the
Of the northern wing IN lending
encouragement to the traitors is 40 clearly
proven by the predict ION OF ex President
Z IL.
" fighting would not be along Mason and
Dixon's line merely, it will be, within our
own borders, in oar own, streets, between
the two classes of citizens to whom have
by the sympathy of the Mayor Of
New York for Georgia by the detention Of
her arms and the avowed opinion of JEFF.
Davis that he should receive the substantial !
aid of twenty ithousand men from that city,
and BY the Cooking of thousands of Demo
Gratis from the North to the standard of re-i
belliop; facts taken with the declaration. of
General CAN'T that while a prisoner Of war
he was assured by prominent Democrats Of
Pennsylvania "&that If the Rebels would
hold out little longer they would be suc-
cessful. for the Democrats of the North
would arrest the, war by defeating the con-
scription and otherwise render the Admin
powerless to prosecute it, and the
earnest support by this Congress Of VAL
landigham, the great sham hero leader.
which forebode. in the language OF the last
Richmond Examiner, trouble in tho North
west: " gracious buds OF promise which with
approach Of their elections NAV bud and
blossom into bloody fruit OF revolution"
Such are the hopes which Democratic d,l.
lance and legislation, Golden Knights. and
peace resolutions inspire. And is this the
nectral or non Intervention party, the treach-
cry Of whose leaders has truly passed into.
history as that of Judas, and whose sapost1-
cy t. liberty is as shameless as that Of Ju-
liam 70 the Christian religion? Yet before
our soldiery, who know that the war has
been prolonged and that thousands Of lives
have been offered up m sacrifice to love Of
slavery, and of party. they sfain. like Plate,
would wash their hands of guilt. when all
g Neptune's ocean, could not wash their
hands clean of the blaod Let me give la,
ter and specific proofs of the apostacy OF the
Democratic leaders: and nv NOV ement
shall not be on the flank, but the center.
81 Review OF Mr.. Woop. .n,.
q The gentlemen from New York, Mr.
FEsaASpo Wosp. has addressed ms i n hts
speech, and not having had an opportunity
10 notice 1t since / heard it delivered. Iswill
use its sentiments as illustrative Of the sub.
ject now under consideration, being the mem
ber who. when many Of were school boys
sat in this Hall, and is now the gentleman
fertile in, speeches, resolutions, motions,
amendments. objections, and deemed an
adroit leader Of one wing Of the party, and
a presidential candidate, commend his sen
tments to those who are in doubt whether
the Democratic party has apostacized or Is
dead. These are some Of gushing, patriotic
= No Government has pursued
Zoe with such untelenting, vindictive n,alig
nifty as we are now pursuing thsse who
came into tine Union, with u.s." That is
the precise sentiment of jeff. Davis and
Brother Toombs, who telegraphed to the
mayor about the arms detained IN New
York after Georgia had gone outof the
Union, resolved to fight G7s+ a i81
- Here is a question? II ask. in the name
of the American people, when shall this
hellsh crusade Of blood and famine cease. =
A most complimentary sllusion to the Gov
eminent seeking to restore the Union, and
to the soldiery in the field. and the braves
who suffered and died by thousands with.
ont tear or . groah for their country!
These sentiments fully explain ,the bloody
mob in New York in resistance to the draft,
which the rebel press declared to be worth
more than a FIRST class victory to their cause.
which was fitly led by Andrews. the Vir-
GINA Democrat, who, from the color of his
paramour, was no antimiscegen. - y
! By resolutions tbs gentleman styles this
'.an inhumanr war;" and brings the high
wines OF as opinions into . single sent tence,
thus -
'"'This war must cease, I care not how, or
from what cause, whether by exhaustion on
either side by southern submis sion or sue
cess by meditation. or by northern, magnan-'
unity, or by northern sense of self-preserv-
this'is the plump ssntence and SEN
timent of . member of the Thirty-Eighth Corr
gress or. war which called for the sac-i
fee OF hec atombs of men in that stru ggle
where "reSistance to tyrants is obedienca to
Gof"s Indifferent whether peace is gain.
ID d. By rebel submission, or success; whether
the corner. stone Of an empire; WHISTLER
traitors shall pay for their own, music in this
dance of demons. or loyalty shall pay, for
all; whether history shall adjudge the Cow
ernment imbecile and our Army cravens
towards, or our veterans return With victo-
rious banners, having doomed slavery, and
founded nation so firm, SO mighty and
free that Heaven, shall look down to see!
+, Sir, these monstrous cold d-blooded expires
sions of indifference from . northern peace
party are. more effective in giving that en-.
which prolongs the war than
the temporary victories gained by rebels in
arms. The chief traitor, before vacating
bis seat in the Senate, resented the denial
that in the city Of New York there were ten
men VINO would take sides with
the South in war, by declaration that
there were not ten but twenty thousand who
would Join them. This Is well authentica
ted, aud stands, with the cotemporaneous
that. five days after the State
Of Geo, gia had gone out Of the Union, and
Ave months after an armed prepar;ion tore
sist the Government Of the United States,
,ka artIa,rar from Naw York tslnvra nh ed