The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1868-12-17
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"The Republican party was born
. giant" In eight short years Il
has overthrown the mightiest rebel
lion the world ever witnessed; eman.
cipated four millions Of men enslav-
ed by Democratic greed, and imbru.
ted and varisgated by Democratic
blood; built the Pacific Railroad, and
established tho national currency on
. sound and permanent basis, and
done moro to render the name and
fame Of the people Of the United
States illustrious in history, during
that brief period, than was accom-
plished in al the long dreary truck.
ling forty years, that the country
was ruled, and robbed, BY man and
woman buying, selling, and whipping
Democracy. 1! a
But let Us not lay the fattering
junction to our souls that, Alexander
like, we have no more worlds to con.
quer.
The overwhelming majorities, Civ
en- to our party in the late election,
argue that il is to be the governing
party for an indefinite period OF time,
or 90 long % it remains true TO the
everything principles Of Right, JUS
tice, and Liberty, and keeps pace
with the Universal Genius Of
Progress.
The slavery Gordian knot having
been cut BY the sword; the great ab.
sorblng questions Of reconstruction,
and finance, having been passed up
on by the court of final resort, the
poople-and the loyal Republican
plan Of Congress adopted ass finali
ty; what then are to be the questions
of the immediate future, which are
to be the central ideas; the rallying
cries, and party shibboleths Of the
republican party in the future
First. Give us q Constitutional
amendment, making Manhood Suf-
frage uniform and impartial in all
the States alike, irrespective of race,
color, sect, or participation in the re-
bellion, so that we may have, in fact
what we have only had in theory
heretofore; a Republican form Of
government.
Second. The naturalization laws
should be either amended, 90 as to
maintain ct least the pretence of .
pure ballot boz, or else they should
be totally repealed.
Fraudulent voting is the plague
spot; the cancer, that if not healed
up, and eradicated, will eat away in
to the vitals, and destroy the very
life of our body polite.
Under our present system the vi
cious foreigners, who are nearly all
Democrats, vote at once upon their
arrival, or as soon as they can be
properly trained by Democratic man
ipulators, and learned to speak their
names in English, and lisp the viola
tod name of Democracy; while the
other and better sort, who are most
ly byinstinct and association, Repub-
licans, remain here the full time re-
.quired by law, which is giving vice
entirely too much the start over vir-
tue, Tor the permanent safety, and
welfare of the Nation.
No good, logical reason can be CIV
en-, why . foreigner should remain
hcre Eve years before having voice
in selecting the mon that tax, and
govern him, provided he is here to
stay, and an amendment to the natu-
ralization laws, allowing them to
vote in six months after fling their
intentions to stay, and swearing ev-
erlasting allegiance to Uncle Sam,
the Star Spangled Banner, and
Yankee Doodle, would dry mp the
coffee colored naturalizati on business
and al it's kindred Democratic devi-
ces of rascality, whereby our cleo
tions in many places, especially in
the large cities, are being reduced to
such unblushing farces.
Under the existing law, the vii
lains and violators of the law, all vote
in less time than six months after
their arrival. In self protection, and
to neutralize their votes, let us spec.
dily enfranchise the law abiding for.
eigners, in the same brief period.
Third. The Constitution should
be speedily altered. making Senate,
rial representation in proportion to
the population; no state to have lesi
than one Senator. 4
The self evident justice of thil
proposition, ought to commend it tc
the immediate and favorable consid
GRAFTON Of Congress and the people
unless, indeed it can be shown, that
the little potato patch of Delaware
with her three struggling counties
containing oil told only about ONT
hundred thousand people Of thu
whipping post persuasion, shoule
have as many votes through hel
drunken vagabold Senators, in tn
upper house of Congress, as the EN-
pire state, with her vast resources
and her fou millions Of law abiding
and liberty loving people. s
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