Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1873-10-30

produced sketch of him as he ap-
lpeared being thrown out of the hotel
window, and ridicule-s0 awful to q
Frenchman-rid the country of him.
The strawberryeater was alive when
the battle of the Alma was fought, and
is the only man to whom the above
facts are known who never talks about
them.
WM. ALIENS ANTI.wAK RECORD.
| In the canvass between Clement L.
Vallandigham and John Brough for
the Goyernorship of Ohio, just ten
years ago, in Ohio, the Hon. VIM.
Allen, the present Governor elect of
| Ohio. so elected by the old friends of
Vallandigham, made speech on the
10Th of September in Hamilton, Ohio,
in which he spoke as follows:
DARK PICTURE.
Three years ago this nation was
free; the country was prosperous, and
over every acre of its soil there pre-
vailed law and order, peace and hap.
piness. Up to that period not the first
drop of human blood had, from the
foundation of the Governments, been
shed for political oifense; but now
the land is desolated with the most
lstupendous civil war that has ever
disfigured the face Of our planet or
cast q reproach upon the frailty ofsour
nature. Instead Of this old peace, we
have this destructive war; instead of
the security which this gave. aud
| which was employed by every citizen,
we are now endangered for no other
| crime than our opinions; to have our
houses entered at midnight by armed
men, and our people taken eff to be
tried, not before jury, but before a
military inquisition, and for the crime
| of thinking, and condemned to exile.
Great cheers Wherever there is
great effect produced, whether in the
world of politics, morals, or in the
| world of matter, there must be COR
| responding cause to produce it. What
cause could that be which was power
full enough to so transform this great
people from a band of associabic
hrnfhers- into 80 n,ans i..-.ta-~t. S.sv-
| mics? Was it because You disagreed
| with each other on the question Of the
internal policy of the Government,
such as the tariff question. the bank
question, or the distribution of the
proceeds of public lands! No. that
belonged to the class OF questions
| which could be debated and decided
and acted upon. without danger to the
the interests of the country or with
out inflicting any more evil than the
temporary endurance of an indefinite
public measure. But there was anotll-
er class of questions, and these were
precisely of that class of questions
which our forefathers toresaw. and
against which they so loudly and SO
repeatedly admonished us. These
were local, sectional question:. ques-
tions calculated to array one part of
the States against another part, and
, there happened to be in this country
one faction which admitted of being
used for the purpose of destroying the
Union through the very instruments
ality that had been anticipated by our
forefathers. No question touching
commerce. No question touching ag-
riculture or the mechanical arts. No
question which had any relation what
ever to the bare means of subsistence
or happiness among tho people should
be made local question. No ques.
ton of this sort could ever be made q
sectional question, ay which the peo-
pie of one end of the Union could be
made the enemies of the people of the
other end of the Union. But there
was one question, one fact, which af-
fordcd an opportunity for evil-minded
men to produce this mischief, and
this question was the question of
slavery,
SLAVERY OUGHT NOT TO BE EXTENDED
Now you will observe that the ten
dency of the population of this coun-
try has been regulated by climate.
The great fact that tho two races exist
upon the continent is fact that exist
cd before the Government. In the
course of time it was found that the
Northern people preferred white Ia
Dor, and in order to make way they
sent their slaves South, and sold them.
The Sonth was willing to receive
black labor, and thus both parties
were gratified, one making his choice
of white and the other of black labor.
Now suppose there had been no South
to which to send these negroes. As q
matter of course the negroes would
have been among them. and the places
now occupied by a million white Ia
borers would have been occupied by
million free negroes. Now 1t is cur
ious want to reverse this state of
things. They have seized upon this
war as the instrumentality by which
they can reverse this order of things.
Now what do they want to do? They
want to bring the negro back to the
North to make room for him, to send
as many white men Of our people as
they can to the war to be killed. Now,
my friends, | never justified this re-
bellion nor did l ever justify the inter
meddling spirit that gave beng to this
rebellion. These abolitionists say
slavery is the cause of the war; | say
| it is not: They cay slavery ought to
be exterminated. say it ought not.
Cheers