Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1875-09-08
THE GRAND rssuH.

century. 1t has been full of imper-
fections ii is still imperfect. In the
beginning it started out with the the.
DRY that all men had certain inalien-
able rights. among which were life,
liberty, and the pursuit of happiness:
that all men were equal. Its practice
was not in accordance with its theory.
1t reared its foundations over vol
cano: 1t lived and fourlshed for near
century with this volcano under
meath the structure, which, from time
TO time gave threatenings of an erup.
ton. But this eruption was bound
TO come, it had to come, else the laws
Of the moral universe would have
been overthrown. 1t did come, and
an enslaved race, in the midst Of the
convulsion, in so far AS legal enact
ment could accomplish it, were made
free, and the theory upon which the
Republic was founded, finally became
also the practice, so far as Federal or
national law was concerned. Still the
| conflict RACES in other ways, and in a
different form, for the hearts of some
| citizens are not changed, though
the statutes are. Though the law says
there is no longer white supremacy
and black subserUiency, the hearts of
men rebel against the execution of
the law, and, of course, against the
law itself, though even Gas often &C.
curs.) their lips, their professions
teach not the real thoughts of the
heart. In the beginning, the law was
a milestone about the neck of the
broad minded humanitarian. the low
err of universal liberty, in the North,
and, indeed. of some in the South.
Now, after the great struggle, COM
menced by the Southern STAKEHOLDER,
inebriated with his wrong doing as
clearly and surely as the victim of
mania potu-we say after that
great struggle the law is made to
strike off the manacles, and the mill
stone is about the necks of the lovers
of the institution of slavery, the
despisers of a race, the disbelievers
in the civil equality of all men in the
South. and also their sympathizers,
and abettors in the North, and to this
old contlict..of ideas, is added the sting
of defeat on the field of battle. Here
then is the grand issue in the Nation
al politics of the day, and what is
national, is also State politics, to a
certain degree, as the State is menu
Der, part of the nation. We have
the law protecting universal liberty,
universal evil equality of all men,
but it is in danger from the suprcm-
acy of those who love it not, but hate
it, and will not put it in practice if
they can avoid it, and wherever a
majority, or large part Of those
hating the law reside, they do not, as
a matter of fact, put it into practice,
but evadc it to all possible extent.
The contest then, is now not only for
the universally of the law of the
equality of all men, but the execution
of the law by all men.
As ease in point, to show how the
hatred of the law exists in the coun-
try, and how the same old contest.
decided on the battle field, is still
wagcd, we clip some extracts from
the leading Democratic papers i'm the
State Of North Carolina, just previ-
Gus to the late election in that State
We have confidence in the integri-
ty and patriotism of the Democrats of
Oak City. They will not, they dare
not. deliberately lay down their nccks
IN the yoke of negro rrlc 2cnletgh
Sentinel.
Let the white men arouse them.
selves to just appreciation of the
solcmnity of the crisis, go to the polls
as they did last year, and, we repeat,
all will be well; and Wake & Co.
will march into the Convention hall
beneath the triumphant folds of the
Democratic banner and take her seat
beside all the host of Democratic
counties that are coming from the
mountains and from the sea, to pro-
claim to the world that North Caro-
lima is at last redeemed and free, and
shall have constitution framed by
the loving hands of her own sons
those who have made her what she is,
who have loved her in peace, defend
ed her in aUa,, and who constitute her
glory, her grandeur, and her power.
-Raletgh Sentinel.
II was a dOu6ly memorable tiay that
after the lapse of three-quartcrs of a
century witnessed the rejection of the
Constitution (the United States Con-
stitution) and the adoption of that of
the Southern Confederacy. TWAS an
accursed day that witnessed the SUBJ
lection Of a once free people under
the yoke of the infamous Candy Con-
stitutiOn. But more fateful, more ac-
cursed will this day ever be held if,
when the sun goes down, the schite
men of North Carolina, like cravens
and towards, shall have failed in their
Wilmington Chronicle.
Cannot white men devote one day
to the emancipation of their wives
and little ones from accursed negro
rule? Cannot white men devote one
day to the emancipation of them
selves from the shame and degrade
ton aud dishonOr and disgrace of
negro rule? ri
The contest to-day will be between
the negro and the white man for the
mastery Can any white man hesitate
what to Wilmington Journal.
Give Radicalism its quictus on
Thursday. Let the Federal OFFICE
holders know that their occupation in
North Carolina is gone. And let the
domestic officeholders know that they
can no longer control the white peo-
pie of North Carolina to shape the
ends of corrupt party.-Ra1eigh
Nescs.
We want the whipping post rc-es-
tab)ished under the direction of white