The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1867-08-01
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Mr. Ndsby Insists that the Democracy
Hold a National Conrenrion at once,
to Define the Position Of the Party
upon an Important Question.

upon an Important Question.
From the Toledo Blade.
fOsT OFFICE, CONFEDRIT X Roads.
(wich il in The Stait NV Kentucky.
July II, l-67.
In castin my eye carelessly over
the poiitikle field, wich Seward and
me do every 80 days l think l kin
spy into the horizon bud wich il
swollen into most hopeful flower
1t is spredin itself into q hurricane,
which threatens to sweep away the
fabric NV Ablishnism and purify the
politiklc atmosphere. The Radikle
party hes at last been forced to
adopt the legitimit cndin of their
sooicidlc principles, nigger suffrage,
and from that the Dimockrisy, CT
they are wise will snatch a triumph
literally from the jaws of death. We
have en- now. In Ohio that qnes-
tion is to be voted onto this fall--in
Moo York aud Michigan its rainin a
breeze in their Convenshuns; and in
Pennsylvania, I!linoy and Indiana it
cant DO lorg put off. It's our best
holt. The proud Caucashun wich
votes the Dimocratic tikkit hez no
objcckshun to bcin jossled by the
Nlgger in the rush to pay taxes, but
his hawty soul rccoils at the idec of
bein elbowcd by him at the polls.-
Besides, tho Dimecatic voters don't
want the ballot given to any other
lower class. 1t wood make undoo
competition. Ez remarked, we've
got EN-. Wat the Dcmokris y want
now is to handle this delikit subjick
cz to make the most Nv it.
The great trouble with the party
is that there is no uniform style nv
mectin this question. On tho main
question we are al. agrced. We op.
pose nigger suffrage. Its part and
parcel NV q Dimokrat's nachcr to OPP
pose nigger suffrage. The leaders
Nv the party opposed it at the be-
ginnin, for seein how the ballot wuz
abused by there followers they trcm
blcd for tho Republic if it was en-.
trusted into the hands Nv any more
NV ekal capassity, and the masses Nv
the organization opposed givin it to
the nigger, becox that ono privilege,
and color, wus all that distinguished
can. It's pecooliarity nv unregen-
Grated human nacher that it must al.
luz bear down on somebody. The
poet scz:
.sven the lice hev smaller ones to
bite Gnu,
And they still smaller ones, nd in.
finitum."
Fortunately, the Dimocracy hev
tie niggcr for their smaller lice The
sturdy veomanry felt it to be sooth.
in thing to find, wunst each year
that in wun thing at least he wuz
superior to sumboddy, and go it will
be so long ez there is = Diraokracy
The true Dimokrat y, omotes hissel
not by liftan hissclf above the leve
onto which he finds hissclf, but By
shown sum .wnn down to . lowel
level, and as there wuzn't anybody
else on this continent wich they COCO
git hold Nv. the nigger wuz, lone
ago, selected fur that purpose.
/ The great trouble is we oppos,
niger suffrage now from too many
stand.p Some oppose it on th'
skore Nv the inferiority nv tho Afri-
kin, but that was never . very pop
ular idea with our people. They
may hev assepted to 1t outwardly.
but in ther own minds they ohjcc
ted. "Ef," Gays reliable Dimocra
to hisseif, Get that's the rool, wat il
thunder is to becum Nv me?"
i Likewise tho idea Nv onfitncs