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

s or The American War.
Nothing can exceed the perseverance and
determination ofthe conflicting hosts that
are at present in deadly strife on the soil
of Virginia. Lee, With a'sma!ler force tan
his antagonist, but with better disciplined
and superior oficered troops, contests every
step made by the North; while Grant as
firmly presses forward on to the soil of reb.
eldom, in the hope of striking fatal blow
at Southern pride and secession by taking
their capital and driving the lee1ers of re.
bellion from their principal stronghold
However many and fatal may have been
the blundets compitted by the northern
States in connection with this sad affair, so
that the end so devotedly to be wished
the entire suhjngauon Of the South--has
been SO protracted, yet there: can be no
doubt now that the Federal powers has Sc.
cured a leader in Grant every way suited tn
cope with'the ,exigencies Of the war, and
that speedy and satisfactory conclusion to
this lamentable conflict is at no great dis.
tance. The military skill of Lee, and that
is Of no mean order, is evidently at present
taxed to the utmost, and everything goes to
show that he is every day failing to keep
bis own, notwithstanding all this clever.
ness and tact. Grant is. undoubtedly 'dri-
wing him from the ground, md shortly,
very shortly the veal or woe of the South
ern, army and cause will he sealed. If this
be the case--and who can doubt it, looking
at the position Grant hsdds near to the reb-
el capital--itis .senawhst strange ifno:
indicrously absurd to hear individuals speak
as If Grant was about to give up, that his
end was coT.c,3 and the northern cause en-
tirely frustrated. Should, for example,
northern regiment be engaged by the South
erns, and defeated. that goes down as a
southern victory; should the North acknowl-
edge to have lost few hundredsi in killed,
wounded and taken prisoners. then they
must be telling liesr-it be thousands instead
Of hundreds; and of all the absurd things
the worst is, that rs Grant approaches
nearer and nearer to Richmond he is being
defeated over and over again. Who ever
heard Of General being defeated, driving
back the yictors at the same time. aud hold 4
ing q better position than he did before the
defeat? These southern sympathies are not
without the Press to help them. Even in
our own Scotland some of the leading journ-
ais talk very learnedly and knowingly about
these things. That our contempt rary the
Scotsman should be in favor of such black
cause we are in no way surprised. A pa
per that can support dissent the one day
and Church Establishments the other
gravely discuss the desirableness of union
between the Church Of Scotland and the dy-
ing remnants of black Prelacy-sympathise
with NJ. Renan, and give favorable notices of
the neclogy Of Germany, is quite qualified
to support the rights Of the southern man.
stealer, when he claims the unmolested
right to keep and whip his o sn nigger; but
that the acknowledged organ Of the Free
Church in Edinburgh should advocate such
a cause is lamentable. That the advocate
of "Free Church in free State should
advocate the right Of giving power TO
class of unpriucipled man to tyranise over
their fellows is disgraceful that the organ
Of a Church, protesting to, be the Church of
Christ, should countenance and support
cause that has for its end the upholdng and
the curse Of slavery is enough
to make the advocates Of pure religion to
blush for very shame. Thank God the
cause Of true liberty and the rights of the
slave are not in such hands, nor have they
to rely upon the effol Is of such pretended
advocates of liberty and religion. if they
had, as far as Britain is concerned, they
would have had little succor or success
The American nation is undoubtedly under
going an awful and bloody trial because of
the sin of slavery; but we trust and believe
that now since they are rabolishing the in.
iquity. and washing their hands clean of the
sin. that the God of Justice and of battles
viii Gid them in DISCRIMINATING as black and
confederacy as ever was formed
this side the dark regions, for the purpose of
blasting the hopes, socially morally, and re
ligiously, Of millions of our fellow beings.
The time, we trust, is long gone by, W hen
men protesting to be the followers of Jesus,
should wink at. far less support, so crying
an evil as that of the hellish system of slav-
cry. and therefore We trust that, come when
the last great battle may that is to decide
this struggle, the cause of the North shall
be triumphantly Victorious (Strathearn
(scotland) Herald.
REpUDIArING McCLELLAN.-The Colum-
bus Crisis, whereof Sam. Medary is the ed
itor, the organ Of the Peace Democracy of
the State, concludes an article on McClellan's
letter Of acceptance as follows:
a a"We are not bound in the least to support
any man who repudiates the very platform
on which he was nominated, and who makes
one for himself. These things are worthy of
some consideration, at least. before sensible
men jump at conclusions. A fraudulent
sale is not binding in law"
A New BIsHoP.-At the Fifth Annual
Convention Of the Protestant Episcopal
Church, in the Diocese of Kansas, held at
Atchison on Sept l4th, Bishop Lee, of Iowa,
presiding as Bishop in temporary charge, the