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

| SENATOR GORDON. of Georgia. who
with Thurman, Mcdonald, Eaton,
Tilden, etc. are managing with alltheir
! art and shrewdness, to gain victory
for Democracy, recently said, speak,
Ing Of the Northern people:
"Thev are exceedingly jealous, and
naturally 80, about the perpetL alton OF
what they call the results Of the war
They are afaid to trust the Democrat.
ic party with power again on the sole
account that they fear reactionary leg.
islation. Let ne convince them tha,
we accept as final the abolition OF slav.
cry and the franchise Of the negro, and
will defend them as such, and we will
have done very much towards remov-
ing tho only obstacle that stands be-
tween the Democratic party and an
overwhelming national triumph"
This is the sop that Gordon throws
ont. He does mot urge compliance with
the now order Of things because it is
right, but to help democracy North in
gaining strength. In other words, he
gives no commentator to the Consti-
tutional amendments from the heart,
but from motives of policy.
The Georgia Constitutionalist does
not approve Of this policy of Gordon's.
and says:
"Senator Gordon, in his attempt to
create the impression that majority
of the North indorse the legislative
war since 1865, as embodied In the
fourteenth and fifteenth amendments,
argues, we think not only with rash.
ness, but without foundation in fact.
In Connecticut, the other day, Mr..
Blaine made the issue equarely and
was defeated. with a Waterloo defeat,
even in . Now England State. How
then can General Gordon, with that
truth staring him in the face, attempt
to convince the Southern people and
the Democracy of the Union that they
must admit the abominations of Mr..
Blaine in order to secure . triumph,
not Of principle, but Of party,i 1876 ?"
Southern rebel democratic interpret
democratic victories North, just as
they did when, during the rebellion,
Ohio, for instance, in 1862, went over
whelmingly democratic. They then
watched the ebb and How of valland.
igharnism in Ohio, just - they now
watch the course OF Senator Eaton. OF
Conn who was Of the Same piece with
the noted Ohio traitor though not of
hesame prominence. Why then should
southern rebels not have fai,h that their
Democracy is victorious when Connect.
icut elects Eaton TO the United States
Srnate, and sustains him 10 its eiec.
lions.
The Constitutionalist shows still
further its folly or its devilishness, or
both, % tollows:
1--WE ask General Gordon, In oil sin.
ceri,y. I he does not believe that the
masses ut the North have become con.
vinced finally that the stsgna,ion Of
their commerce, tho suspension Of
their factories, the starvation Of their
the ruin OF the South, and
the march to consolidation and im-
perialism have ell sprung from the
,cnr since the scar, through the two un-
amendments and the
legislation" Hereunder
We are firmly Impressed that such is
tho absolute fact, and that the North.
ern people know It. II they do not
believe. why slaughter Blaine and his
cohorts, who made that the test ones.
tion In Connecticut, ana cudeavored
to persuade the people Of the State
that 1t would be better for them to
suffer anything rather than surrender
the Congregational abominations en-
bodied in the amendments2