Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1874-09-10

to get him of the track, because there
is no chance whatever for his election.
Shcehan, the Anti. Monop, Republic
can, Democratic candidate for Con-
gress in the second Iowa district,
lived during the war as he still does in
Anamosa, Jones county. At peace
meeting held in the city of his home
on the 9th day of March, 1873, he in
troduccd into that meeting series of
resolutions upon the subject in hand,
one of which was as follows:
RESOLVED, That the late CONSUMPTION
act is fragrant outrage upon the
States and upon the people, the crown
ing act of the despotism exhibited
over us that it can not and should not
be enforced; that we have already
sacrificed too much life and treasure
in this fruitless war, and will not give
one man or one dollar for its further
prosecution!
These arc the character of men
whom the dissenting Republicans
have gone to in the interest of reform.
From this old Democratic party we
are now told we shall get the material
out Of which to fill the halls of Con-
gress. Eleven years has only passed
away since Mr.. Sheehan took
the side of rebels in great struggle
for national existence, when he is pre-
sented by q reform party for the suf-
frages OF the people. 1t is a fact, too,
that ever since he penned and introdu-
ccd that resolution, he has ever re-
NAMED faithful to the principles he
then enunciated so far as we know,ex-
cept when perhaps, like the balance of
his party, he possumed to 60 after
Greeley, and is now again taking the
same course as an Anti -Monopolists.
""The evil that men do lives after
them" The ghost of miscegcnation is
forever haunting the Southern wing
of the Democracy
This is what is the matter. The at
tempt on the part of the Southern De-
mocracy to ostracise from the rightful
privileges of citizenship, the colored
people of the South, is simply degra-
dation of their own flesh and blood 10
great degree. &c ~ enurely safe TO
say that more than one half the color
greater or less ucgree, the onspriny
of white men. Even the blood of a
Vice President of the United States,
Richard M. johnson, now runs in the
veins of Southern colored people.
The colored race of the South are
the blood relatives of the white race,
and as slavery was the making bonds
men of their own children, so now the
Democratic white leaguers inhumanly
murder their own blood relatives in
their efforts to establish white mans
government with the colored people
as menials. In other words it is an
effort to establish in this land of free
dom all aristocracy of race, an aristoc-
racy OF birth--the least faint of the
blood of the colored race condemning
to subservient position, any person
who by birth is thus afflicted, no mat
ter what may be his worth or his abil-
ity. The Great Creator of all men
has no part or parcel in common with
any such course. No true democrat,
no true patriot, no real phllanthropist
can favor any such scheme. The JUS
tice of the great Ruler of the Universe
will only rain down ruin and destruc.
ton upon the heads OF those who seek
thus to debase their own kith and kin.
1t will never prosper, it cannot pros
per- AS slavery deluged the nation
in untold grief and misery,so will this
offspring of slavery. 1t is one of the
great questions that the generation
just now coming upon the stage of
action will have to grapple with.