The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1864-01-07

men, wit come an immense influx Of people,
from all parts Of the world bringing with
them their wealth, arts and improvements,
and lending their talents and sinews to in
crease our aggregate wealth. Thrift and
trade and common destiny will bind us
together. Machinery in the hills Of Arkansas
viii revcrberste to the music Of machinery
in New England, and the whir Of Georgia
spindles will meet respon sive echo, upon the
slopes Of far. off Pacific. Protective tariffs
IL needed, will stretch in their influence from
the Lakes to the Gull, and from ocean tc
ocean, bearing alike, At last equally upon
Arkansian and Vermonter, and upon Geor
gian and Californian. Differences Of section
and local sentiment will wear away and be
forgotten, and the next generation be more
homoge neous and united than any since the
days of the Revolution And the descend.
ants Of these bloody times, will read with
as much pride and as little jealousy, Of these
battles of their fathers, as the English'and
Scotch descendants Of the, heroes of Flodden-
field, read Of their ancestral achievements ia
the glowing lines Of Scott, or, as the descend.
ants of highland and lowland chiefs, allu.
siobs to their fathers conflicts in the sim.
pie strains of the rustic Barns.
Let US live in hope, my grief stricken
brothers. that the day is not far distant,
when Arkansas will rise from the ashes of
her desolation, to start on path of higher
destiny, than, with negro slavery, she ever
could have reached; while the reunited Gov
ernment, freed from this cankering sore, will
be more vigorous and powerful, and more
thrifty, opulent and happy, than though the
scourge Of war had never desolated her fields,
or made sorrowful her hearthstonesi T
The sooner we lay down our arms, and
quit this hopeless struggle, the sooner our
days Of prosperity will return. a'
wHYI HtsIrArEo. THE SITUATION THE
REMEDY.
hesitated long, my fellow citizens, be-
fore determined to issue this address.
dislike to be abused and slandered. But,
more than all, dislike to live under cloud
with those friends who have not yet reach
ed my standpoint And, besides, all !
possess is in the Confederate lines Their
leaders will deprive my family Of slaves,
home, property--debts due me-in word,
reduce them from competence and ease to
penury. Aside from what have inside
the Confederate lines, I could not pay for
the paper this address is written upon.
But it may all 60. Did desire future pro-
motion, and could bring my conscience to
it, would do like the Johnsops, safe from
bullets and hardships themselves, they as
sist in holding you on to this hopeless aud
ruinous struggle, and, at the end Of the
conflict, will come back and say ;"I staid
tcith you to the last'i Honor me and
mine!'' God deliver me from such traitors
to humanity, and to the Interests Of our
bleeding people To me the path Of duty
is plain. 1t is to lend my feeble aid to stop
this useless effusion of blooi And, though
it beggar my family and leave me no ray OF
hope for the future, shall follow it.
have witnessed the desolation Of the
Southern States from one end to the other.
This hopeless struggle but widens it. Each
day makes new graves, new orphans, and
mourners Each hour fiings into this
dreadful whirlpool more Of wrecked hopes,
broken fortunes, and angushed hearts |!
The rich have mostly fallen The boor have
drunk deep Of the cup Of sorrow, while
surely, and not slowly, the tide ofruin. in
its resistless surge. sweeps towards the
middle classes A few more campaigns,
and they will form part Of the general
wreck. Bach grave and each tear, each
wasted fortune and broken heart. puts as
that much further off from the object of the
struggle, and that mnch further off from
peace and happiness
Viewing it thus, the terrible question was
presented to me, whether I should contin
ue my lot in an enterprise so fruitless and
so full Of woe, and help hold the masses on
to this terrible despotis,n Of Davis, where
only rnin awaits them; or whether should
be quiet observer Of it all, or lastly
whether should assist in saving the rem
nant Of you from the wreck.
/ have chosen the latter. l shall send
this address to every hill and corner Of the
State, to the citizen and soldier, at home
or in prison, and send with it my prayers
to Almighty God to arrest them in their
pathway Of blood and ruin. Why trust
Davis longer Had he twice our present
he would still fail. With success
he would be . despot But the whole thing
is tumbling to pieces. Soldiers are leaving
disgusted and dishcartened; and whole
States have, gone back to their home in the
National galaxy. Maryland and Delaware
will never again be shaken. Kentucky has
herself in the Union behind a
wall Of bayonets in the hands Of her own
sturdy sons, Missouri is as firmly set in
the National galaxy as Massachusetts,.
Tennessee, tempest tossed and bolt riven,'
under the guidance of her great pilot, steers
Ior her old noorias. and viii be safely an
,hored before the leaves fall; while the rays
rom the old North State, flashing out fitfully
rom her darkness across the troubled
waves, show tina. she stirs, is not lost, but
s struggling to rejoin her sisters. None Of
,hess States will ever join tbs South again.
Then, with crippled armies--with deyasta
,.d Gal1, nth .laenlata c;t;a. ,,,.sh IL,