Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1875-04-21
THE SOUTHERN VIEW,

THE SOUTHERN VIEW.
From the State Register.
A freud Of the Agricultural editor
living in one OF the Southern States,
and who has lived there for thirty
years, and who has been through ali
the storms Union man, and will be
one world without end, after reading
our Southern letters, aud especially y
our views of political matters in the
South, writes to us private letter
from which we extract his views OF
the Southern situation. He says: #
"But I am afraid you did not stay
long enough In New Orleans (though
I cannot tell exactly how long you
were there) to see fully the internal
state Of things. Knowing, as do, the
Southern politicians from q close
study of thirty years, tell you It 10
tho salnc old slave governing spirit,
including quite all OF the old Demo-
crats aud many Of the old Whigs do
termined to gain the uppcrmost in the
whole South by fair means or foul
land mostly fouD, by arrogance, by
hectoring, by fnttmidstion, In person
and In busincss--by falslfcation, and
even downright and outright lying--
to gain the upper hand, In view of the
next election for President, to say
nothing of Immediate personal profit.
UuQuestionably all the Northern Dem
'crats support them. The game Is un-
ierstood rs it was fourteen years ago.
Don't yon see the old Copperheads OF
he North, like Eaton Of Connecticut.
md old Bill Allen OF Ohio, in fact all
~ them-creepipg out like snakes
their nsmesAkcs) In spring time2 l
ton't kno w your Iowa politicians, but
I venture to say that all the old op-
Donents of the war for the Union
.mong you are strutting forth again,
'cstatic, jubilant, demonstrative noisy.
In one Of JEFF Davis speeches about
year ago somewhere IN the South, he
,old his comrads that though the wage
of battle had decided or turned against
hem, their cause was not yet lost
hey would win yet. He knew what
ne was talking about, you may rest as
sured Of that" T. tas% = ut 10 hard
lines here, and you can raise he'll any
tme, but You can't raise money.
We do not wish. TO be crosker-we
feel we are not-however, we cannot
resist the conclusions in the above
,orrespondence. and with whom
dr. Clarkson Of the Register agreed in
he main after his tour in the South.
We have not, II 10 true, been South
,ince the war, but our knowledge
We gained of its people during
he war from actual contact with them
for three years,is fresh 10 our mem.
'ries, and showing what they were
hen and reading OF their conduct
siuce, 1t Is just 40 clear to rs as any.
hing possibly can be that this CORES.
Dondent from the South forecasts the
'uture and tho objects OF the Southern
Democracy aud also the Northern
sing Of that party correctly. Should
the Democratic plan prove eucceesful
hose who think differently from u
.ud stand aloof from wsging warfare
Q defeat them now. will as surely see
heir error in the end, as they shall
ivc to sec that time. Wo have often
expressed this a. our opinion. II all
along has been no new thing TO NJ, and
We feel that It 10 our duty to impress
it upon all who may read our paper,
and we urge upon all to think and re.
fect upon the situation. We have
abundant faith In the triumph Of the
right aud the defeat of this Demo-
cratic plan, but that faith is not worth
: cent without works, and the country
must work up to the issue.