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

ence shall show that they can be modified
advantageousy, with view to the same
end. When the insurgents shall have dis.
banded their armies, and laid down their
arms, the war will instantly cease--and al
the war measures then existing, including
those which affect slavery, will cease also,
and all the moral, economical and political
questions, as well questions affecting slavery
as others, which shall then be existing. be-
tween individuals, and Stares, and the Fed
eral Government, whether they arose before
the civil war began, or whether they grew
ont oft, viii, by force of the Constitution.
pass over to the arbitrament of courts of
law, and to the councils Of legislation
/ I am not unsophstica ted enough to ex
pect that cons orators while yet unsubdued,
and exercising an unresisted despotism in
the insurrectionary States, will either sue
for or even accept an amnesty based on the
surrender OF the power they have so reck
lessly usurped. NeZertkeless, I know that
submission upon such terms, that he viii At
once receive candid hearing and an an
swer prompted purely by desire for peace
with the maintenance of the Union On
the other hand, I do expect propositions o.
peace with a restoration Of the Union q
come, not from Confederates in authority,
nor through them, but from citizens and
States under and behind them And | ax-
pect such propositions from citizens ana
States to come ever the Confederates ii
power, just 50 fast as those citizens and
States shall be delivered by the Federal ar
my fr2m the usurration by which they are
now opposed A the world knows, that
so far as am concerned, and. believe, so
far as the President is concerned, all such
applications will receive just such an answer
as it becomes great, magnanimous and
humane people to grant to brethren who
have come back from their wanderings to
seek shelter in the common ark Of our ma
tional security and happiness
The sun is setting So surely as it shall
rise again. so surely do think that the,
gratsvents we have pow celebrated pre-
clude the end of our national troubles and
the restoration Of the natiorrl authority
with peace, prosperity and freedom through.
out the whole land, from the lakes 10 the
gulf, and from ocean to ocean.
| And so bid you good night; ard may
oI har al
ways in His holy ana paternal keeping.
But in that agreement the Constitution
and the Union will have perished, because
when 1t shall have once been proved that
minority can, by force or circumvention,
defeat the full accession of a constitution.
ally chosen President, no PRESIDENT thereaf
ter, though elected by ever so large major
ity. can hope to exercise the Executive pow
ers unopposed throughout the whole coun-
try. One of two things must follow that
fatal error. Either contest between
newly-elected your compromise President
and TIE same usurper, in which the
usurper must prevail, or else com
hination between them, through which
the usurper or his successor, subver,ing
your Constitution and substituting his own.
will become President, King, or Emperor Of
the United States without foreign a;d if he
can, with foreign Intervention if necessary.
That's so. To be sure it is s1 nothing ia
more certain than that either the United
States and their constitutional Pres ident, or
| ~ Id ncoJn AZ.
usurping President, must rule within the
limits of this Republic.
therefore regard the pending Presden-
tial election as involving the question
whether hereafter we shall have Corstitu-
ton and q country left Us. How shall we
vote then to save our country from this fear
fui danger? Vote Lincoln in again. We
must vote LINCOLN ia again. and fight him
in at the same time. five do this the re
bellon will perish, and leave no root II
we do otherwise, we have only the alterna
tives ofacquiescence in perpetual usurpa
ton, or Of entering an endless succession Of
civil and social wars. Upon these grsund-.
entirely irrespective Of platform and cand-
date, I consider the recommen dations of the
Convention at Chicago, as tending to SUBJ
vert the Republic.
twill seem hard thing when imply,
that party, like the Democratic party. can
either mediate or blindly adopt measures to
overthrow the Republic. All experience,
however, shows that It's by the malice or
the madness Of great parties that free
States have been brought down to destruc-
tion. You often hear alarms, that party
in power is sqbverting the State, and it
sometimes happens so. But. nine times out
Of ten, it is party put of power. that in its
impatience or its ambition over:hrows a Re-
public.
gentleman taking an apartment, told
the lady, ~ assure you, ma'am, 1 never left
lodging but my landlady shed tears"
She answered with very inquiring look.
II hope it was not, sir, that you went away
without PAYING"
An old lady in Kentucky crossed bridge
that was marked as dangerous without
seeing the sign. On being informed of the