The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1871-03-23

/: From ne Nsw York TxibunA A6Afch II.
, tlAnothef Presidential eleotion u ID
sight. II rests with the party new
in opposition to determine the, issuet
to be therein decided. II that barty
shall sse &c to say: I'VE sccep( and
williobey and enforce the Fedsral
Constitution % modified BY the 18th,
14,h and 18th Amendments, the
country may safely regard the insues
raissd By Secession and the donse,
qucnt Civil Waras closed, and pro
ceed thsreupon to the paramount
consideration Of Economic and Fl
nancial questions. This il the shape
which Eve judge), most intelligent
and patriotic citixens prefer that the
next canvass should take. We have
been mainly quarrsling about slavery
and negroes for tho last twenty
years. If only for varisty's sake, Il
is high time for : change Of topic
Slavery Wa Z wsigAty theme IN it,
day, but slsvery = dead, and IT. death
involves logically the clearing away
Of all the wreck and dsbsis OF the
late arduous struggle The negro }is
no longer . slave; what can he be
hencef6tth but : mAn7 And, if 4
man, why shouldn't he be accorded the
rights, pfivileges, franchises, respon-
si6ilitiss and obligations Of manhood
no less, no more2 The Kilkenny
cats having demolished and devour-
ed each other, it is necessary that
their tsiis should keep up the scratch
ing, splitting aud caterwauling.
Al q Republican, we have no right
and no wish to direct the future
course of the party TO which we shall
stand opposed II that party
shall SEQ II 70 challenge us to fight
over again the bsttie Of 1868, We
shalt OF course take up the gage
with great and we'll grounded sconh.
dence of success. We have no Ssal
that the EAmerican people will re-
verso in l872swhst thsy recorded in
the election of Grant and Oolfax--
In q purely partisan aspect, wsshol'd
consider this our "bost hold,e Z 10
lisBut there are other considerations
Of grave momsut by which that par.
tyf advantage is counteracted and
overborne. 1t seems ct least proba.
bio that, whenever the late rebels
ahall have been thoroughly convin.
oed thas the negroes are to be hence
forth their fellow citizens, sharing
fully and equally every franchise and
immunity Of citizenship they will
stnp killing them. II is the hope o1
iparalyxing with terror large portions
of the Republicans, white and black
Of the South, as those ot Georgia and
Loaisisnae were paralysed in 1868
that,inspirss the Kuklux atrocitiee
now riGs in soveral Southern States
These cannot be melted by any ma
,tiopal expectation that the Republi
eans will bo exterminAted; the oalcu
lakion evidently il thak killing some
IWih awe the,psst intola surrender o.
thsir righta'aA essential 10 the saving
of their slivesa aaeIisih sw1 9za
~ In'short, the present Kaklux dem
0nstrations - the South arc simply
almore cowardiy phase Of the rebell-
ion. They arc . fa36llnent Of the
rebel menace that the civil wal
could and should be prosecuted fol
twenty years after The overthrow
and dispsrsion ,of the rebel armies
Its object 10 to s'let the nigger know
hin lhoe'--which, now - over, il
the rebel Conception, 10 under the
heel Of the white man. ati0a
IasUntil this skulking warfare, with
masks instcad ot banners and torches
in, place Of grcnades, shall havo beer
somehow terminated, the Republican
party cannot change its attitude
nor can ID give thai, attsntion ant
emphasis to questiaos of Pslitical
economy, and inanoe which the pub
lie good imperatively requires
Pledged by ell its glorious past TO tn
inAexible and paramount fidelity I,
the rights Of man, it caunot Will,
these are assailed and imperiled
devote much attention TO the polio,
Of raising or lowering the impost'
now payable on the importation 9
iron or fabrics, or sugar. And, il
the absence Of such attention, Their
is great danger that unwise and in
furious changes in the tariff may b
made, which if their nature and bear
ings were fully understood, would b
condemned and defeated.
What we would ask Of the Demo
cratic managers-we trust, with pre
sumption-is simple frankness. The
act on tho offensive, and have th
right as well a. the power to ohoos
their point Of assault. They ma
take tho ground pioneered by Fran
Blair 10 '6s, and proclaim tho ant
slavery amendmonts of tho Const
tuition frauds and nullities, and negs
Isuffrage, federal usurpation, to !
| crushed out by "the Southern people
I-thatis, the late rebels-so soon /
they shall have resumed control
tnS R0vernment. Or they may {,
somc OF them do) say, "All this
bygone. The three Republics