Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1875-08-04

Nothing so bothers the hypocritical
Democracy who would keep the old
pro-slavery cat safely ensconsed in the
meal tub and who are begging White
Leaguers to withhold for the present
their murderous hands in the South
as to have here in Iowa one of their
journals speak ont in meeting just
what the majority of the party de-
mand and aim to accomplish. The
Ottumwa Democrat has come In for a
full dose of censure from policy Dem
ocrats and the new Liberal Anti
Monop recruits to that party. Now
the humorous and gay deceivers
should take in hand NJ. NJ. Bleakmore's
Iowa Democrat, published at Fair
field, for indiscreetness in speak
ing out in meeting. We quote from q
long editorial in the Iowa Democrat,
under the caption "TAe Constitution"
in the issue of July 3lst-The Demo-
Graf says:
''Our friend over the way, who has
been expatiating ON the Constitution
of the United States has failed to tell
who wrote it. Wonder it he knows ?
We will tell him. The old original,
genuine Constitution of the United
States was written by Thomas Jeffer.
son, but the patched.up remodeled,
counterfeit document which now does
duty as Constitution would be utter.
~ repudiated by the old patriot. It
has been 80 manipulated by the Re-
publican party that it 10 now like q
piece Of India rubber, IL can be
stretched in any shape they desire or
it is like piece Of dough, which can
be made to mould into devil or an
angel, as the exigency of the case may
require. They can shape it into civil
rights force bills, and every act of in
Justice, usurpation and misrule. With
this dough.faced Constitution, the
Republican party makes of itself
kind of political Humpty Dumpty,
and plays the role of Saint or Satan,
Missionary or Pirate, or of hypocrisy
and villainy. No doubt they will re-
wise the Bible next, correct the cate
chism, demoralize the hymn book and
make Republican documents of them,
Just 40 every man in their ranks has
taken hand at the Constitution, to
make It exclusively an exponent of
their own particular ideas, instead of
the guide of the whole nation.
For years, the record of the Repub-
lican party has been to commit ito I'M.
lawful acts with the boldness Of
pirates, and then to legalize them by
amendments to the Constitution, reso.
lutions and other infamous enactments
In Congress, until now, Jefferson and
the other founders of our Government,
looking upon their works to-day,
would not recognize them.
Ifthere be, a. has been said, not q |
score of Democrats who look upon
the amendments to the Constitution
as a fraud-it there be no danger of an
attack upon these amendments with
Democracy in power-pray tell us
why these fierce attacks upon them
through the Democratic press North,
even in Iowa, to say nothing of the |
action of Southern Journals Again,
why are such Democratic Journals
read. supported and praised by Dem
ocrats, if they everywhere are shocked
at their doctrines? Wary, cunning
Democrats and Democratic Journals
need not attempt to whistle down the
wind, the idea that the party enter
tains the sentiments the Iowa Demo.
crat declares to be democracy, for il
is vain for any one of retentive NOM
DRY, which runs back fifteen years,
commencing with the vernal days of
1861, when over one housetop fioated
the old flag and over its neighbor it's
unfolding was denied right here in
Iows-we say to one thus remember
ing the past from the beginning down
to the present-marking the doings of
democracy each successive year, not
forgetting the present one, in which
the Democratic party have spat square
ly In the face of the allies 1t has been
cajoling-it is vain to make him |
believe that the Iowa Democrat
and it, kindred journals do not rep.
resent far too well the sentiments OF
arge part of their party. +