The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1864-04-07
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the. gratitude Of millions, whose memory 10
hallowed to-day not more as the founder
and expounder of true Democracy. than
as the friend Of the school and the, college.
Were Jeffer son now to revisit the earth
and seek comp anionship in his dear old Vir-
ginia, he would find his rudimentaI ethics
and political sci ience disowned, and himself
without strangers welcome to tarry for
the night. The campus he planned would
be seen pasture for worn and decripit cav
airy, the college halls vaca ed by conscrip.
ted students to give room to q, a,wounded
soldery falling in contest so unholly that
there was mo attribute of the Almighty"
that could take sides with them in the con-
test. in his own county he would mark
relapse into barbarism. and, extending q
survey over all those States where floats
the old flag. he could not find prospered
academy, an endowed college or university
controlled by, and q faculty in sympathy
with, Democ racy, which posterity will re.
peat: --,..
The ours Is Of hate and the hisses Of soorn,
Shall bur den the winds Of the sky, -.
h And pro nd Ger thy ruin forever be hurled =
The iau gh.er oftriumph. the jeers Of Che V orld"
Too long have been detained with the
party and its pretensio1s, which I leave in
the charge ofits once most eminent defen-
ders, with this declaration by London
Times:
!. '.It has pleased the Democratic party in
the North, by an amount Of moral coward
ice to which history furnishes no parallel
to commit Political suicide"
And this by the New York Herald:
Its decline and fall are as mucta matter
Of history a. the decline and fall of the Ro-
man Empire" arr gaass ~ yasr.-,
! Agreeing in this, cheering fact, that its
political control is reduced to single ST ate
where slavery is not the cornerstone that Of
"Camden and Amboy;'' and further, that il
is doomed to that aband onment in every
loyal Commonwealth to which it is now left
in that once Democratic paradise, the State
Of Iowa in the tru hful, laconic lamen,a,ion,
of a member that their party was ssreducedi
to just two sets Of four handed eucher,n less
than the insignificant few required, to save .
city Of the plain; from consuming fire.
The patient so far weakened by the pre-.
scriptions Of quacks this shall be our apollo.
gv for fearless lietude in this hour of it's
spasm and the death rattle Medicanaenta
non agant { IN cadarer--too far gone to test
the virtue of Medicines.
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! ,f.gr f. COMPENSATION FOR WAR.
In my few remaining moments let US turn
from the perfidy of party to that power in
the divine alchemy which brings compensa.
ton tor mans recreancy and the dire ca lam
ity of war. 1t was this bloody baptism and
the pail Of mourning darkenirg the skies
which led the govern ment to bind the star Of
freedom on the nations brow, and brought
tbo biay 4 4 A. L r.
the true democracies of the world, and gave
us the favor of the God of battles. This ac-
ceptance Of the arbtrament Of the sworJ,
with untold losses, has led to The awakening
of latent energy and the development Of ma
tional resources and wealth before unknown.
Foreign nationaities now stand In awe and
dread Of our colossal strength. Their land.
less and unemployed peoples whohaye heard
of our free homesteads. the pure air and free
schools of the prairies. the acres of coal g elds
counted by millions, the mountains of iron,;
a varied cline, and room for the industrial
employ ments oe a hundred millions of people,
give US the promise of wealth and national
resource which will make our war debt as
but the small dust in the balance ~ We have
seen our nation rising into moral grandeur,
her soldiers the peers Of the heroes of Their.
mopylg, welcoming with a smile the short.
ening of their earthly pilgrimage, in the
thought that daring to- die their children
should find friends, themselves a remem.
brance and their country honor and renown.
T The fires OF patriotism are burning with
uDwonted glow in the hearts of millions
crowding our fares and redeeming the time
by tollins ministries. Woman makes cheer
fully richer offering for her country's veal
than the cold from the mountain and tha
oceans pearl by the gifts of her lord and her,
child, and meets as ever before the, full
wants OF her country in its peril. By di.
vine compensation the church of God has
thrown up its royal highway for conquest,
where there shall be neither tyrant nor
slave. in that dawning era when the science
and song of the nation shall be universal
liberty.
Souls are blending in fiery rap.uresa. We
weekly learn ofthe fall of despotism in State
after State, and listen to more than presiden.
tial proclamation Of freedom, the voice of
God in our war who "has sounded forth.the
trumpet tpst shall never call retreat" 1t is
the grand up-heaving hour Of the ages when
centuries take voice to teach us history and
bid us re-enact justice for universal man.
This done. and who doubts that tho issue
shall be an early and honorable peace?-
Then the later, generations will learn what
we forgot, that they need no Vnlcan.wrought
armor in good cause. for mightier than the
shield Of Achilles shall be His promised help
for the right: hs7fgp 1I
'As the fery track Of freedom falls the mild bap.
tismal rain, 1it'tJ tT - -. a
And the ashes OF old Evil feed the futures soldes
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