The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1864-04-07

the peace Democracy have, BY cavils, party
threats, resjstance ID tas draft, and the avow /.
ed indifferencs, expressed bv the gent. eman
from New York, esrsed more than the doubt,
ful compliment from the rebels which was
bestowed upon the late Rufus Choate for his
learning and eioqueuce thathe made It safe
to murder .-ana Of tbs state Of the gentle
mans heaith,taieves = as!fed before they be-
gan TO steal. 49, A
= The eentlen, antskes shelter under the
great name Of Chatham, the advocate Of the
cause of tho Colonies and friend of the race.
Never vas there . more violent use of the
honor and fame Of the dead; no, not the
dimmest satellite can he be 10 our great
friend, who would break letters and not
forge then.ae se3sas7 af q fasaaaa
! Edmund Burke is another patriot whose
name is invoked in this well known Ian
euage. IL p.
"Let me add that 2 dc not choose wholly
to break the.AmeYican spirit, because IL is
the spirit which has made my country."
!, The quotation has 10 significance except
interpreted to mean: do not choose wholly
to break the spirit of the siaveocracy trait
ors in arms, for it is their spirit that has
made nv party, and it is to their votes that
we must hook for q restoration to power.
So appreciative a peace maker could reach
the rebel capital without has Of truce,
and would be hailed by the pickets on,
guard as a hrotber If the gentleman is to
be appointed peace Commissioner. being so
urgently pressed by the anti-miscegen gen
tleman from Ohio. (who finds himself in the
illustrated News pesteriorlv Y located sto the
Pegasus which his protege is astride) I
shall make these a few of the. conditions
precedent to giving my vote for the ap-
poihtrnent: that 'mausoleums for leading
traitors shall not be ultrnorth of the Poto-
mac; tha' New York police officers and
United States marshals shall have immunity
from punishment for OBTAINING arms from
Gsorga rebels. and that until the scars. of
our soldiers are healed the funeral cortege
and snowy process sions, for pirates and mil
itary assassins shall be unattended with
martial music and be kept in the by
streets. bra f'}R ? y isi5.,s1i TAR
: Sir,,I should not have discharged nv duty
as . member Of this House, had | forborne
going to the verge of parliamentary propriety
In expressing my deteStation Of sentiments
uttered here which lead to distrust in. our
Army and strengthen the: enemy in arms.
Our soldiers are properly, sensitive, and
when speakers with popular fame stigma
tize their valor as "he,lish crusade" not
caring whether the country saved or lost,
will not be silent; nor cansI refrain from
saying that had the gentleman from New
York kept his appointments in the State of
Iowa the last autumn, (anf III the fourth
district, which, am informed has furnished
more than thirteen thousand Crave men for
our Army, exceeding the ,nulnaer furnished
by any other Congressional district and
uttered the sen .iments an1ounced In this
Hall in any political cs.hsring, or on our
railroads in the presence Of soldiers with ga
ping wounds And wasted by sickness, much
as they love, freed pm Of speech, and depre-
cate personal. violence, | could onlv have
been assured that his next political conieree
would nave been Charon, the ferrynau, Just
preceding that welcome, Hail: hcrrors
hail!' 4..-a
. Since the war with Michael and the ORA
gon in heaven, there has never been a con
test where the character and purposes Of the
actors were so clearly defined as in this con.
test; vet here we must listen TO tepid if not
reasonable speech. Would such be tolera.
ted in Richmond, where there is satanic sa-
gacity. NJ, and | have authority for the
opinion that such language uttered in the
time of our Revolution woa Id have branded
its author as traitor. aud co.spelled him to
seek u refuge ''over the border in that ear
ly eIys.um for outlaws and Tories; and had
kindred language been uttered in Roman
Senate, when her institutions were on trial,
the speaker would have been hurled from
the Tarpeians rock ); hut in tie American
Congress a characterization OF our war. as a
"helliSh crusade Of blood" furnishes the Ia
test type Of peace Democracy.
"a +. A CHAPLAIN AND TIE NEW CHURCH.
Let me pass to the illustrative gentleman
from Ohio. who is said to represent another
wing Of this party. The blood hound leans
not more instinctively at the throat Of the
affrighted deer than do men reveal the hid
den springs and purposes Of action, having
tae voice Of leadership aud holding the re;ns
Of party guidance. And how stands the
gentleman, not now the "Buckeye Abroad
but here, with almost pontifical authority,
declaring that slavery is not TO 60 into the
next political CANVASS, when AS we all strive
to bad Eolus or stay the tide, and that his
party is not FRO slavery e. aA
Or. tuc Scuticthli early III THIS session
struck the keynote Of his party by at once
proclaiming his fsalty to slavery and the
.apostacy Of the Democracy, His act I,might
not have noticed. but that the officiating
clergyman Of this House was characterized
AS our amalgamation Chaplain; . gentleman,
1 DR.. CHAsNING,l whose name. culture, par.
ty, professional devotion, and untirng min
istrations to the sick and dying soldiers IN
our hospitals should have spared him an as
sociation in that political dragnet set for
,partizan purposes al home, and drawn with
the grmsces of bufooDery in dilatiug ! the
iniscegeps This significant act was the
nomination aud support of Chaplain for
this Congress, with attending circumstances
of Democracy from the ancient faith. II
was known that peace Democrats. acting as
vestryman in the State Of New York, had
forbidden the reading Of prayers for our sol
diers in the field in several churches; that
Bishop Hopkins, of Vermont, had convinced
Bishop Meade, 81 Virginia. of the right of.
secession that the Vermont Bishop had
written q work on slavery which was pub.
lished by Democratic association IN New
York for the ..d,ffdsion OF political know.
ledge" and circulated to influence the re-
crhl SieS'tv,iS Auu ~ tIiS io1rncr aEl ue-
voted Bishop Potter, o Pennsylvania, had
issued pastoral letter with the purpose OF
countsracting the inarace OF this clerical
outlaw, who is. the ony pastor kaown to
have q. charge in the prthern States who
declares God to be in faor OF the slavery Of
the negro race. ~
The gentleman from thio desired spir.
itual adviser Cor his patty. and he bestows
bis compliments and sqfrsge with consis-
tency more becoming hs acts than his pro
fsssions. He goes up II Vermont, on whose