Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1876-08-16
had il in my power, would set the
name of thpse thrce mon in roll

nau III IN my power, L would set fht
name of these three men i'm gold. A
hundred and fifty thousand negroes
| What does it mean? Does it men thai
2O,0O0,000 of white men of the Nortl
are not courageous, bold, powerful
enough to contend with the men OF
the South, and, therefore, the Gov.
ernment must invoke the aid of the
negro? Does it mean that? / un.
dcrstand that the pretense is raised
that the negroes shall fight down
where it is not healthy for white men
to fight. Laughter. This pretence
gentlemen, is a sham. [Voicc-"Kill
the nigger."l
bentlelnen, every man who voted
Tor That bill, and the President, when
he shall have signed il, will have Of
iered direct insult TO every white
man and women in the United States
lapplause an insult that every proud
man will resent.
want to see il the President will
send Indiana troops into battle
depending upon support from negro
regiments. II he does. when your
sons go into battle, and the negroes
give way, as they will, leaving them
TO sustain the honor of the field, then
the blood of every Indianian who is
slaughtered is upon that Congress
who passed that bill and upon the
President who signed il.
| wish to say that. as Democrat and
Conservative citizens, we will stand
by peace and good order; we will
give our influence in favor of the law.
know that, in some of your neigh
borhoods, you areexasperated by see.
ing Young men who have taken french
leave from the army taken back
They should not have done so. Be-
fore volunteering they should have
thought well of the matter, At that
time 1 did not d1cisc anybody TO en-
tsst, because 1 ras not going myself,
and coald mol recommend any one
70 DO thing I ,cou,d not do myseH.-
While did not recommend any one
to enlist, say to all to-day who have
enlisted that they ought to stand by
their country and colors; and if any
young menhave left their companies
to come home without authority, they
have done an unfortunate thing, be-
cause they have not acted i'm accord
ance with law. So that you cannot
fight the battle at issue i'm your neigh
borhoods. You must act in accord
ance with law. II anybody, ho,rerer,
comes into yon' netghJorhoods with-
ont lar, and proposes TO take anybody
array by force, that is a matter with-
ont lar, and yOu had best attend to
that geatlemeR at once. GShouts of
"We'll attend to them, old fellow ~
Again, on the subject of ii COM
promise and Mr.. Lincoln's emancipa-
ton proclamation, the new Senator
said:
"What the next two years will
bring about, l do not know. There
is one course for us to pursue, and
that is to do our duty. l have hopes
that this war will not last much lon
ger and that there will be some ad-
lnstment consistent with the honor of
the Government and the union of the
states. am ready TO compromise at
any time. | am ready to say to the
people of the south: Come i'm again
and we will secure to you your con-
rights, and, if you desire
them, additional guarantees If there
is any man who desires to continue
lighting and spending the peoples
money and lives, l do not sympathize
with him. l should like to see these
States brought together in convention
again, and settle upon mode of ad-
justment. do not know whether
we have a government that will do
it or not. We have elected major
ity of the next House of Representa-
tives; and, unless the border-state
men go unexpectedly, and Mr.. Lin
coin cheats tie people with his Rep
rescntatives from military districts.
we shall be able to accomplish some
thing. But that Congress will not
meet until next December. and until
that time the government will do un-
der the control of the Abolitionists.
1t may be that events will settle the
question before that time. If it goes
on little while longer as it has been
since the President issued his procla-
nation, it is going against us.
l do not know whether that procla-
is going to be taken back or
not; am going TO vote TO take it
back, the first opportunity | GET
| Cheers.l II was wicked thing to
have issued. Mr.. Lincoln said that
on u certain day he would issue such
n proclamation. Then came the cleo
tions. Indiana first said, "Take it
back :" then Ohio, then PENNSYLVANIA,
then Illinois, and then New York.
in all, nearly thirteen millions of peo-
pie of these States,-said to Mr.. Lin
coin, stake it back" But he has set
above the people. They said
to him, You are destroying our Gov
ernment, and making the restoration
of it impossible And yet he said
that the result Of the election remind
ed him of an anecdotc he heard once
out in Springfield, Ill. IL must have
been very amusing, that expression
of the condemnation of l3,00O0O0 of
people! > The peo-
pie say to Mr.. Lincoln, you must
stand by the constitution you have
no right to make an abolition purpose
of this war Mr.. Lincoln says to the
people. "Iou are not loyal, l am 10y
al. lie says, You fellows you men
in workshops and on farms, I'll put
you in dungeons if you do not be
still when shake my head This is
the argument that comes back in re-
sponse to the expression at the polls. !"