The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1872-11-21
Volume "a.

VOLUME "a.
DEMOCRACY SOUTH.
Abraham Lincoln's election to the
Presidency was excuse sufficient for
theshot heads OF the South to lead their
section into secession. The gist of the
whole matteris, that these slave-ocratic
leaders wanted disunion and still want
it, their desire being rather intensified
than diminished since the close of the
| rebellion. These leaders, in their
hearts, scout the idea Of 4 government
BY the people; they refuse, except as
= necessity, to abide the result Of the
fairly expressed will Of universal suf-
ffage in this country; they finally, to
sum it al. up in few words, no longer
believs IN democracy, IN republicdnisns,
in wniversal freedom, but they do be-
liece IN avistocracy, n slavery and de-
graddtioa for a part Of the human race
They failed to gain victory on the
field Of battle, and a. Horace Greeley.
said eighteen months ago, they are
seeking in the political field to attain
that which they failed to obtain in. the
passage at arms. 1t was this as 1t was
preached from the stump all over the
South, which led these same South
ern leaders and their hosts, to vote for
Mr.. Greeley in the late contest, and It
was this that fired the zeal of the old.
Republican army and led it on to such
q grand victory. Over more than one
half the territory once In rebellion,
there isyet no freedom Of speech, MOI
freedom of action, no freedom for the
spread of general intelligence through
the common school system, through
the press, nor from the pulpit. AZ the
very germ Of the principle Of liberty
rests In such freedom of speech and of
the press, 90 per contra, liberty dies
in the absence of 1t, as surely as ami
NAL life periahes without the oxygen
of the air. The freedom of which
these Southern leaders complain they
are deprived Of, by this administration,
is such freedom as the wolf desired
when he would extend protection to
the lamb; such freedom as jefferson
Davis desired when he led and forced
deluded people, blinded by the igno-
rance entailed by slavery, into rebel
lion, viz: "To be let alone" in his trea-
son such freedom as the fiendish Ku-
Klur desired when clandestinely un-
der the shades of night, he shed the
blood Of the husband and father upon
his own hearthstone, because of words
spoken in behalf of freedom. That
we have good cause to believe the ami
mus of these Southrons to be as we
have stated, we publish the following
extracts. The Leesburg, (Va.) 7ele.
gram, after the election says editorially
as follows:
The great Presidential election is
over. General Grant is reelected, and
vested with tho authority TO control
the interests of our country for anoth-
er four years. How he exercised that
authority before is well known to ev.
cry one. How he will exercise that
authority for the next four years is al
so easy to conjecture. We beg pardon.
The devil himself cannot conjecture
what he will do. As he has resorted
| to the most uncivilized policy to in
sure his reelection in this instance as
he has succeeded even better than the
Republicans themselves expected, we
have the best presumptive evidence
that he will not scruple in the future
to introduce into his administration
any innovation, however despotic or
corrupt, necessary to execute his selfish
and nefarious designs. But the foulest
blot that ever stained the record ofany
State has fallen to the lot of Virginia.
That State which has ever stood first
| in point of honor among the States of
the Union; that State which has given
to our country more of her great and
noble men than any other; that State
which can boast of her Washington,
her jefferson, her. Madison, her Mon
roe. her II. Clay, her Patrick Henry !;
that State DER whose temples the ban
ner OF Liberty has ever fioated, bear
| ing upon its waving folds the motto,
.Sic Semper 7yrdnnis," has now in
Rdorsed by the vote of her people, an
| Administration the very name ofwhich
Is corruption"
The Selma, (Ala.,) Times says:
Amid all our dangers we have been
together. On the field of battle the
white people of the South have stood
shoulder to shoulder. In reconstruc-
ton, with all its infamy and outrages,
we have been as one man. As one
man we have been refused the hand of
reconciliation. As one man let us
proudly disdain the contemplate
crowd who madly and exultingly,
i North aud South, shout for Grant, for
thievery, for plunder, for ignorance,
for vice and for villainy. We have, as
people, done all VIC could to redeem
good Government from the hands OF
T thieves and fools" and have failed
let us still show to the world how
grandly great we are in our defeat.
The day for the change is not yet, but
in our judgment, it is rapidly approach.
ing, and we believe, from Yesterdays
: election, that the American people are
prepared to submit to it. The next
: struggle for the American people il
T one in which the contending factions
!, will represent Empire on one hand
! and the Commune on the other. Gram
. and his infamous tribe will represent
i one of these factions, aud the negro
3 with his ignorance is a fair type of til,
9 other. Alabamians-yes, honest mel
9 of all colors aud sections-"the argu
ment is exhausted; stand by you
arms"
q The Times closes with the fins
! summing up, "The argument is ex
/, hausted; stand by your arms.' Tha
!. is to say, await the first opportunit
! that offers hope Of success and the
4 take up your arms and strike again fc
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