The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1868-09-10
The New Democratic Rebel
Y lion. 5fE

Harpers Weekly ono OF the best
papers in the land thus collects to-
gcther and presents the utterancos
oftho yipcrcrew warmed into Life by
Blair's proposal to. inaugurate now
war. aa,3 5.li 8elg ID
Tho large and tho small cry in
chorus. Captain Byndors announces
that, l, 9ss stssi .,gss .s
"If fraud should be attempted he
would be ono OF the multitude who
would literally take up arms against
the tyrant, and by the bullet regain
what had boon lost unfairly by tho
ballot"
J Howell Cobb said tho other day at
Atlanta, quoting from the Democratic
Platform,
"The Reconstruction acts arc null
and void and shall not stand. I. The
grinning skeletons which have bcen
set up in our midst as Legislators
shall bo ousted by Frank Blair,
whom our party has expressly APP
pointed for that purpose.
John Forsyth, ono of the most bla-
tant rebels, says in his Mobile Regiss
ter, speaking OF tho reconstruction
acts:
"We may as we'll say that the peo.
pie of the South do not intend to
submit to that permanent rule, result
as the Presidential election may
And they have only submitted to its
indigdities and insults SO far because
they have been waiting tor the good
sense and justice Of the American
people to relieve them from it, and
restore them to their civil rights in
the November election"
The Meridian Mercury in Mississ-
ippi says: &
"We must make the negro UNDER
stand we are tho men we were when
we held him in abject bondage, and
mako him feel that when forbearanee
ceases to be virtue ho has aroused
a power that will control him or de-
stroy him."
Wade Hampton, in speech in
Charleston, says.
"Agree among yourselves, and act
firmly on this agreement, that you
will not employ any ono who votes
tho Radical ticket. Use all the means
that arc in your hands to control this
election.
The Democratic clubs are follow
ing Hampton's advice. One in Co
lumbla recently resolved:
"That no member of tho club shall
cmplov, rent lands to, or patronize
any Radical, after tho present con-
tracts have expired; and that from
this date we will not givc any o,n-
ployment to any freedmen who are
over the country rs day
laborers who can not show that thew
are members of some Democratic
association"
The Republican Banner . Domo-
cratic organ in Nashville, announces
that in a conflict of races:
I" So far as tho white native citi-
zens of this State may be compelled
to take part in it they viii bo very
careful throughout the sanguinary
carnival which would naturally tnsue
to remember Fort Pillow in act as
well as word, and
'Throubhout tho bloody conflict
Sock the white man, not the black
The hero Of the massacre at Fort
Pillow, and delegate to tho Demo
cratic Convention, General Forrest,
said at a recent netting of rebel off
GERS in Memphis, speaking of the
militia bill of that State:
"Troops would DO called OUT
They would bo backed by the Fcder
al forces President johnson, not
withstanding all he and others had
done to crafty his pride in the Ma
tional Convention, had gone back up
on the Democracy. He did not5look
for any help from him; but it matter
ed not how many were arrayed
against him and his old comrades
He would toot his horn. He knew
that his old troops would answer as
they had always done. Ho bade
them arm themselves and be ready.
They were already drilled, and need
ed no drilling. -. lie should Be in ia
uor Of gioing no quarter"
Undoubtedly; and General For
rest was OF the same opinion at Fort
Pillow.
The new organ of the Democratic
party in New York, tho Democrat,
says:
1T will persistently and unflinch-
ingly advocate the equality of States
or another war"
General Battle, of the rebel army,
advocates Seymour and Blair at No.
bile in strain of which this is an IL
lustration-:
"rhe Democratic party. indor-
ses principles for which you battled
=. Not only does it declare in favor
of that Constitution so dear to you"
etc, etc,
The Vicksburg Times says:
1T was this identical letter of Frank
Blair to his friend, Colonel Brodhead.
that secured tho Missouri hero tho
nomination for Vice. President. We
want just such ammunition as Frank
Blair uses"
Albert Pike, strenuous for Seymour
and Blair, exclaims, in the Memphis
appeal;
"The South is our land; the North
is foreign and hostilerealm The
day will come when tho South win be
independent
Mr.. Ramsay, a Democratic orator
in Georgia, says:
"We are in the midst Of u great
revolution which may end peaoeably
at the ballot box; but mot, then the
true men of the South will rally once
more around their now folded ban.
nor, and will try the issue at tho cart
ridge-box. :. There arc men in the
North who are now truly with you,
and who will in such conflict, il
necessary, lead your battalions.n
The Petersburg iadeG declares that,
aVirginians are not to be frirhten.