The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1869-03-04
The Presidential Inaugural

C1CN.
The event which is to come Of at
Washington, on Thursday next,
March 4, is one in which the forty
millions of human beings who possess
and enjoy perfect liberty under the
flag of this great Republic, and the
hundreds of millions all over the
world, who look aud long for the
coming ofthat liberty to their lands
Of darkness and degradation, have
an interest which it would be well
nigh impossible for language to ex.
aggerate. 16 the one, the preserva-
ton Of the Union, aud tho pe,fecting
of it's glorious institutions, are ques-
tons which involve the welfare and |
prosperity of every individual man,
woman and child in the United |
States-questions which affect not
only the into rests of the present, but
the dtstinies of the future.
To the other, the myriads
of the oppressed and enslaved,
scattered over thousand lands, the
fall or the Use of this pioneer Repub>
lie would be either the settling down
over them of the darkest night Of
doom, or the dawning of a morning
whose day would only reach its
zenith when freedom would be estab-
lished all over the earth, and THE sU.
PREMACY OF THE PEOPLE be the law of
the world.
1t is our pleasant task, on this &C.
casion, to say to all loyal American
citizens, wethcr of native or foreign
birth, your magnificent country is
safe and its liberties assured, and to
the poor and prosecuted who suffer
for liberty and right in the lands be-
You'd the sea, there is hope-hope,
good aud sure --that the polluted and
accursed despotisms which have been
your tormentors and. destroyers
hitherto shall be obliged, if not to
actually yield TO the power, at all
events TO adopt the principles which
recognize man, in the widest sense,
as creations sovereign and lord, and
kings and castles and "orders' as the
idols which, in his ignorance, has
feared and worshiped, but which will
soon be as dead and harmless as the
gods which reigned of yore in Pagan
Rome, or the gibbets and thumb
screws with their "holy work in
the days of the Spanish Inquisition.
Yes, It is fact, and the entire world
will soor feel its power, that the Re
publican institutions which not only
conquered the English monarchy, but
the slavery and aristocracy Which it
fostered in America, and which have
maintained and established them
selves in spite of all conspiracies and
rebellions and "conicderacies" which
earth and hell and their numerous
emissaries were able to array against
them, arc not likely to limit their
conquests even to the wide limits OF
this continent, but will pass, silently
and lrresistiblv, like the light and
the air of Heaven, into the deepest
and foulest dungeons in which kings
, and their co-conspirators have stunt
ed the bodies and enchanted and bru
, talized the minds of those whom God
as we are informed, "made in His
, own image, and formed after His own
: likeness"
! Theinauguration of General Grant
as President of the United States Of
f America, we regard, therefore, as al
event of no ordinary significance
} 1t proclaims, in language which boil
tyrants and slaves will hear and un
r derstand, that the battle of liberty i.
7 fought and won, and that not only
: on this American continent, but ulti
e mately and inevitably TO the very
: ends of the earth. For there can b,
' nent American dipIomlsts declared
y at the close Of the late war, that tn,
Y institutions which stood the tug O
i the most tremendous contest eve
q the world has secn-a contest which
s would have shivered into fragment.
r all the monarchies of Europe--ane
e came forth, not only safe, put purifiae
= and perfected, are destined to go OF
9 in their beneficent career, and t
i bless and TO elevate the men of othel
D lands in similar, very probably in {
t superior, degree to that in which
+ they have done the sovereign peo
! pie" Of the American commonwealth
r There are certain dangerous dis
n eases of which Psychologists inform
Q lis one of the tendencies is to produce
3 morbid effects. When the power o.
0 typhus fever is kroken, and its virus
a overcome, still it has tendency-ir
certain cases-to leave behind il
eruptions or assesses, which subject
Q tho patient to scarcely less painful
}, sufferings and inconviences thar
: those TO which, in the hour when he
was Frustrated by the Leading disease
he was subjected. Such, most un
}. happily, has been, to painful anc
dreadful degree, the condition of this
l country since Lincoln, the good and
t true, tell beneath the weapon of Q
t Southern assassin. He was the able
t and skilled ply stefan who saved the
! national life and the national liberty
/ But when his power to neal was Ia
[ ken away, the residuary boil, In the
{ shape Of his successor, made its hid
eous and loathsome appearance on
, the surface of the body polite. The
, treason, which it fondly hoped had
} ceased to yex the country when JEFF
ferson Davis fled from Richmond
made it's very undesirable appearance
/ in the person Of Andrew Johns on,
and most selfapprovingly took its
seat and issued it's cdicts from the
White House in Washington. This
was always shameful, and at one
time apparently very dangerous,
state OF affairs. OF the mischief
which it has wrought in both sec.
tions of the country, North and
South, it is needless here to speak.
It galvanized the disioyal element in
those States by whose services and
sacrifices the rebellion had been SUBJ
dued. This accounts for the spas
; medical vigor which was made man
fest in their "dying kick" in Novem
Der last, when by every sort of per-
Jury and swindling they Carried ;"
the States of New York and Now
Jersey for the Copperhead candi-
dates, Seymour and Blair. And it
was still more mournfully manifested
when the whipped soldiers of the dis
banded and conquered rebel armies
were encouraged ia firm thau,Solyas