The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1864-09-29

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great confidence of the people in his hon
esty5 and ability to manage the affairs of thu
nation, He was elected fairly, and the reb
elton was an attempt to keep him out of th'
Presidential chair, by revolt Of eleven Of tn
States. They would not have him rule owe,
them; would not submit to the denocrati,
law Of the majority ruling. Now, If yor
shall permit, by jugglery or compromise t.
have this man. at the end of four, years turn
ed out and superseded BY some other man
What will be the result 2 /, As was said by
Mr.. Seward in his late speech, if you giyt
the highest bounty that is possible to dis
satisfied party in Presidential election, by
giving them the election Of their next candi
date you encourage revolt at the beginning
of every new term. There is nothing SC
clear to me, if you want your Constitution
and Government to stand, as that you mus,
now put an, everlasting end to this revolt
against man elected by the suffrages of the
American people. No matter whether he is
a good President or poor one, your interest,
and the interest of your latest posterity, re-
quires you to put down the idea that this
nation is TO be kept in state of war by re.
volt at every Presidential election. Think Of
this, and say whether there is no importance
in your -psrforming the duty-of re electlng
Mr.. Lincoln. fyou cure the es il at its be.
ginning, terrible results will be ayerted but
ifyou compromise with it, if you do anything
in the world but put It entirely out, il it re-
quires the death of the last man Of them,
you will have the same trouble returning at
every Presidential election. There is no
other way under the sun by which the per.
petuity Of ourSG Government can be secured.
We owe it to ourselves, our postesity, and
to human liberty everywhere, to return Mr..
Lincoln to his place, even il he has not
pleased in all respects. aa@
DR.. Breckenridge then made brief re-
view of what the Administration had &C.
complished with the rebellion in less than
four years. Instead of carrying out the do.
nothing policy of Buchanan, who allowed
secession to 60 on unmolested, without hesi-
tation he set to work, and has recovered the
major portion of the seeded territory, and
ii the people would be true to themselves and
their President little longer, the rebellion
would be dead. [Cheers.] s4sm 5 b
ExrIRpATION THE WORD. .a
I made Q speech here. continued the Doc
tor, less than two years ago, for which was
hooted at as coercionist; and remember,
too, that Judge LnSk. then candidate for
Congress. was also charged with the same
thrg. lie replied that his accusers were
mistaken; he was no coercionist, but an ex.
tirpationist fCheersl And this is the true
doctrine to go on. This thing of revolt, se-
ceSsion, or rebellion, whatever it may be,
must be extermnatcd root and branch. It
is not necessary that every man should be
killed, but the rehcllious sp,rit must be
crushed out and removed. Tn this lies the
only safety Of the. e..country. Lincoln has
proved that this is his doctrine, his fixed
purpose. and ys don't know that any new
man could he trusted in this respect. As
for myself, I will forgive hi n ten thousand
things II he will go straigh' along and do it.
! will forgive the misieeds of all his petty
officers here and elsewhere, illegal arrests
included. AM rs 70 these. all the fault
have to find is, tnN m nr, should have been
arrested than wnrc, and many of those that
were arrested wore set at liberty too sc on.
1t is the idea Of some religionists that the
best evidence Of Gods goodness is that after
beginning to pn,ish the sinner. He let's him
off as soon as Re repents But Lincoln be.
gins to punish the rebellious rascals. and
then lets them 90 before there is any sign of
genuine cp4yersion. This is great error.
and proves to me that he don't love them as
he ought to. Laughter and cheers Ny
mother used to switch me, until was con.
tent to kiss the switch, laughter and the
rebels mYst bs published until they cheerfnlly
yield to, the powerful and kindly authority
against which they rebelled. It is dread
ful remedy, admit. but when undertaken
it must be carried out. or worse conseQqsn.
ces will follow. saal
SECRET OF THE oPPoslrros TO LINCOLN.
Mr.. Lincoln ought TO be reelected for the
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