The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1867-12-19


suit, when all the leading Iowa
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front FOR Grant and victory.
The Restoration OF Slavery,
No thinking intelligent man car
doubt for . moment, that IL By any
unto ward combination ofci cumetan.
ees, tho defeated rebels in the south
and ,hcir allies and sympathisers d
the north, should again under tho lepe
cioss name Of democracy. obtain con
troll Of this country. through ito exec.
atire, Legislative, and judicial depart
nents, but that they wonld proceed
t, repeal I'll emancipation acts and
constitutional amendments, and re-
store the negroes OF the south to sln
very. or to a-conditinn of scrf tnm, OF
vassalage, but little better. 1t 10 1
notorious faot that the leading mer
ofthat party even in the north, like
Desn, Of Iowa. Pendleton, OF Ohio
Pomcroy, Of Wisconsin, and many
sthsrs, openly proclaim that al lsgis
laiire acts performed BY Congfes.
during tAa=war, with the southern
States not represented, are illegalan
void and that man who doubts tina,
the first thing they would do upor
comingintopower, would be to restors
ths.divins rightlto buy and sell thei,
fellpw men, has little knowledge d
their character, and malignant pur
poses.
We have before no q letter from
one Col. R. W. Graham, late Of Brock
I: e.hridgs.e sta6, who, At tho close 81
the war, very sensibly expatriated
.hinssH snd took up. his abods il
Jamacia. II il addressed to =. NJ
Mason, prominent and influential
democratic United States Senator
FROM. Virgins before tho war, and
who together with Bldell was csptur
ed BY G 'mmodors Wilkes Of ,tht
Trent, while on his way to serve the
rebellion A. agent in Europe, in pro-
.s5& T. = /. e - l. -
cnring piratical crafts to pray upon
our commerce. It seems that 70,
some unacconntahle cause Mason h,.
not yet received his pardon from An
drcw the 1st. and that be iaa~ aitine
over the border at Niagara Falls
from where he replies to Col. Ora
ham's letter Urging southern emigra
ton 70 Jamaica, in the following
terms -
.Not having leen in the aoutt
since the war closed, I have not fell
1t liberty to offer any suggestions I.
our people ~ 10 the expediency O
emigration to avoid the troubles sur
rounding them, because was no
there to share tho consequences ane
responsibilities Of such counscls. Ny
decided conviction has been that, fo1
tho present at least, it would be bet,
ter fo+tkeAs te4e765Es ii ma iw7iaitevemts
10 the hope and belief that a tim,
must come when the reckless 0v,t
|unscrupplouspa party in powerat w ash
ingtbn would beovsrthrown, and III,
20 ,thern states again reunited to Jul
q nd exclusive control over their respect.
ive populations, s0ithaut foreign inter
Uention in snch case, / should rely
that the intelligence, wisdom, and
more than all, the experience Of oul
people in regard to the negroes
would enable them to devise som,
system Of legislation by which, with
out again reducing them to slavery
|4hAv could be made to discharge til,
Incumbent duties of laboring class
! "a hope now much encouraged b
the apparent tone Of tho north. q
Esvinced in the late elections. I an
satisfied that nothing but sssch erclxsiv
control can save our people from IL
a1ternatiue of discriminating the black
Of abandoning tie countryto them"
= Mason is democratic leader Of ag'
and experience, and would undoubt
eddy 60 back to the Senate if bogu'
democracy should again become fash
fonahle in Virginia. lie has the "a
gacity to toresee that the triumph Q
that party would again give tho lat
slave-holders tho right to "contro
their respective populations withou
foreign Intervention" which means
The democratic right to wallop thcil
[niggcrs and vote tor them, and tina
fths incoming part, will b able ~
devise some system, whereby th'
nSgrSss could be made TO discharg'
] thu inoum bent duties Of . laborinl
ctsss,"' otherwise they will resort I,
t1t6 alternative Of exterminatinl
them" Mason is a garruloas Of.
cuss, and talks the forthcoming pro.
grammo right ont in meeting. II i
Andrew Johnsonism and modern de-
mocfacy gone to seed. altar this lette,
the pardon clerk will be ordered Il
make ont his papers 1t once.
And now We submit to our read
srs, il 4ason's letter and the concur