Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1874-10-01

Tscctue months before the Slarehoid-
ors' Rebellion, scho ironld hare thought
that fhrce. .fourtks Of the great Demo-
cratic party north sroa'd hass aided
such treason. at. Is
We would not be seusationalists
We utterly disclaim being such. Fpt
we ask the reader to indulge his me
ory in running back over the yeal
1859 and the first half Of 1860 and re-
feet how far removed from his mind
was the faintcst idea that the worlds
greatest rebellion was SO soon to de-
luge this land In blood. Let the read
er reflect how as tho anniversary Of
the nations natal day occurred in
those years, the national bunting was
unfnrled with joyful shouts all over
the land, and how throughout tho en-
tire north at least the man who would
have on those days hauled down and
trampled under foot the stars and
stripes would have been in imminent
danger Of being torn limb from limb,
and shat there would have been no ex-
ception to. the indignation of the pco'
pie. We saw, however, that in few
short months Secession of States fol-
lowed, thc national flag was lowered in
disgrace, and even here in this our
homo of perfect liberty in the hour Of
national trial, scores upon scores Of
people graciously smiled at the defeat
Of our arms and sullenlys and malic-s
iously declined to throw tho stars and
stripcs to the breeze. while from the
house tops Of their neighbors. here and
thsre the national ensign was run up
In token Of the love they bore 1t, who
there unfurled 1t. 1t was indeed q
strange, sad and hnmiliating sight. A
large number of the actors in those
scenes yet survive and arc still here
aud many others have since come
among NJ who participated in like
scenes In other places. Indeed some
Of those are among US who not
only In sympathy aided REBELLION,
but openly and under arms marched
under rebel colors, and of these latter
every one that we know Of Is Of the
Anti Monopoly party, with . burning
deep seated hatred of the Republican
party. OF the former, with very few
exceptions, they are also Anti Monops
a. they all used to be Democrats, and
In reality are still. We deprecate any
stirring up of the bloody bitterness Of
those sad days of old. We cherish not
one particle of the spirit of revenge or
ill.feeling, but stern duty reminds us
to learn by the bitter experience Of the
past and give what we arc forced to
believe calls for warning of the pos
sible future. IT Is hard unrelentfng
fact that the same spirit which induced
citizens ofour favored Iowa to delight
in the defeat of our arms and be unwill-
ing to give to the breeze the national
ensign, is not yet dead among us
Most brutal inhuman murder by
Wholesale of innocent citizens, and the
government of State is revolutioni-
zed, and the same sympathiziag spirit
runs along The line Of The Anti. iMonop
Democratic party shich did IN 1861,
and scho shall sag that II a. .tee Southern
States should join and do as Louisiana
Democratic White Ledguers hare done,
and these brare the Federal po,cer and
haul doscn the flag, sre should not Oh
serUc the same men 10 great eet5nt do
just as they did an former times. The
Louisville Courier.J Jo,analisone Of the
leading papers of the country4it is es-
pecially one of the strongest journals
Of the South. 1t has since the rebel
Hon been especially urgent that South
ern people shonld exercise moderation,
because acts Of violence tended to de-
stroy the success of the Democratic
party north, and the Journal wanted
that party to succeed, because White
Leaguers could then, control the gov
ernment.5 The shrcwdness of tho Jour
nal is apparent bnt semisavages are
hard to control. Let the journal
spesk for itself as follows
Mattora have come to this. people of