The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1872-03-28
From ths Daily OF the 7ist.
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M q WhSf - neSuS,ican Part,
4 3as NeAe g 1Ae rsesiAeat ana nj
Trea1esss-A 9peech1eg All xhsuSht
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4 We present some interesting extracts
| from 1 ft,ll report of the speech deliy
.r.,, n, ssen.,nr xv;,so,,; ~ rra.t ro,,s
!, 80, , - - ''''s' ""'s
I. y. =. on the Ath q FeDfuary:
! WHAT THE ERrPuBLICAESrARTY HAS DOM
FOR LABORfNG MEN. +,
i I.et ne see what the Rennblican MARI,
haa done for the laborinr mencf IN,
/ It struck the letters nom four and .
millions Of laboring men and women
l converted them from things into uaet
I and women IN making them free; i,
struck down that proud. haughty and
domineeriur aristocracya Of the Sonth
that heid he doctrine--and proclainaed
i fl toO--tl,at capital sssh0ulf3 own Il.
bor ~ that tie men who t0ilcd for
wasra, weiye 0the r1ud sfllu 81 societv =
1sa-2gxI -s~.s--s, rs--~-Is-- -..-,-.. -
as s.sa. w g s.ssol u .,a.. .l,cn pIv.
s..gs 49, 3, keasss... Wv wsss
| tnS sgCstltuses ~ Ior au SlueI yl noOlil'
w. tnesc Wele tne eoctL1nes pre-.
lsa,cu - y 49, =. .sHHs ~, o1aa ~
s00 ~ slo - = .1e Hha,is' y
monas, ,ss We hne ao ~ = 1syrmns, tne
nu8ns, tlc IaoI scnols = = Svnns0ns, II
1nu slcu y tIat 80 ~ lasu uVW \,
.ns u0ctEIno U0susy evssy W1.ae ..a thal
savery ~ snc noI' c0nssicn q
OoEa.8 ens yscA ~.aa.' s.sA y ltse. -, T.
ennnci patsn& tneso IVur - = Haii
sfrnck down a. ,,ovrcr a. fhat class
ofs sv,,en 4, tl1ia countrv Forever. They
made lNbOr dishon0rabao In 6OQ,OO0
square miles Of the United States--in
the Sunny South, ~ they were won't
to caH it. Lab0ring men from abroaa
would not 60 there 70 toll; Northern
IlabOring men would not 60 there to
live; they would not stand by the side
of the fettercd b0udInan, where labor
was dishonored. But, by the steady
men trained IN the faith Of opposition
to slavery, who now stand In the ranks
Of the Republican party, all this has
been changed, so that to-Aay the labor
ing men of New England can stand mp
in the Casolinas by the graves of Cali
houn, Of McDufRc, of Pickens, of the
leaders Of the slave-power, who pro-
claimed free society 3 failure that free
men aud women were classed In four
-. .h;ns | q. 80 rrc.s;tnes ~ s,,S .sies. ei,
m ana be proud "a the midst Of their
toil.n We have made labor honorable
even In the rice swamps Of tAerGaroli.
nas asl 1nrgia We haSe taken tho
Ehr6ad 81 fish0f,or ffom the brosv Of
labOr thionvhont the country: and in
doing fi,fs We have done more for Ia.
hor. for the honor and dipnity ofiabor-
inc men. than was ever achieved by
Mi the uarfies that governed this conn.
frv frn,n the time the pilyrims nuf their
feat nnor P,vmnnfh Rock nm fn the
wear fS60 iAnnlanse.l And that is
mot an We have onened that eioht
hvrdr..d v, AZ thorssrS sand snpsre m;iss ~ ~ The No
free lahor;n0 men thev ear "a there
now. ana thew are going there now.
The Car,nan tha Enui;shmnn the
Ir;shmar fhe yrw England Yarkea
49, ,----- ------..c A. na:s.als c4-.-~ aaa -
Northwest can go there now and en-
gage in the mechanic arts, in cultivat-
ing the soil, and in the pursuits Of life,
and no longer feel the degradation
that rested upon working men when
labor was extorted from men by the
lash. Let the man who tolls for wages
whether in the mill, on the farm, or In
the mechanic shop, realize what has
been done these last dozen years TO lift
from toll the badge of diSh0nor, and
to open the great South to the free la
boring men Of the world.
r.uxs yrp.,,S apr.r n, ,Sr
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The kepubiican party maintains the
policy OF the small farms against the
great plantations. The Democratic
party joined WIN Ihe oonIh on that
ara,.,,th;nn W. ,,s.sad ,ha houa-
stead bill, and James Buchanan vetoed
| il, and the Democratic party supported
him in that veto. The object of that
| bill was to save the vast public domain
| to landless men, that they might have
small farms rather than that few men
might have great plantations. We
were defeated, but the first year the
Republican party came into power in
| the midst of the struggle for nationsa
existence, we passed the homestead
bill, and saved the public lands to the
free laboring men of this country for
ever and forever.
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