Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-06-05

been able to do what has
been attempted in vain heretofore
almost unanimously agree upon aplan
by them to be just, wise
and efficient. We accordingly recon-
mend the proposed act to the patriotic
and just Judgment Of Congress"
1t does not seem possible that a
party who thus spoke to the country
through some of its leading members
on committee, and declared that it
was moved by considerations of in
terest, of patriotism and of Justice"
could under any possible circumstan-
ces have acted as it has done for the
last week in the House of Representa-
tives. There most certainly is "no
patriotism, no justice" no desire for
peace to the country in its action.
What does the Democratic party care
for the peace of the country? What
has it done since it had control
of the House for the prosperity, for
the honor or for the credit of the coun-
try? In 1861 it wrote "Treason" upon
its forehead, and in 1878, for the pur-
pose of gaining power and control Of
all the reins of Government, it would
write Revolution" Never in the
history of this Government has any
party shown itselfso utterly destitute
of all patriotism, of all reason, of all
desire to promote the prosperity Of
the land and restore its depressed in.
dustries and put again in motion the
wheels of business, as the present
Democratic party.
| 1t is "a party whose union is per-
feet; whose spirit isdesperate; address
ing something persuasive to every
prejudice; putting something combus
tible to every passion; granting some
indulgence to every vice; promising
those who dread the law to set then
above it; to the mean whispering sus
picion; to the ambitious offering pow
er; to the rapacious, plumber; to tn
violent, revenge; to the envious, tn
abasement of all that is venerable; t
innovators, the transmutation of tina
which is established; grouping togeth
err all that is folly, vice and passion il
the state, and forming of these vii
materials another state-an imperi,n
: in inaperiO."
Why is it that the people have no
their eyes open to the designs an,
purposes of this fearful Democrat
party, who seem determined to sto
at nothingif they can accomplish thei
, ends? Why is it that the bushes
men of the Countrywide men VIII
/ "earn their bread in the sweat ofthei
face" the men who hold the capital {
the country, and who would see
once again profitably employed j
) giving work to labor and reasonabl
l. dividends to its owners-do not awak
: to the evils that this party may brin
i upon our country? Why do the
sleep while the enemies of our pro
perity and our peace are sowing tare
e We denounce. the designs and pu
i poses of the Democratic party in Il
e House of Representatives as anythir
g but patriotic. They mean to stir I
n strife; to excite the people to bad co
q duct, to fill our politics with bad pa
d sions; not to detect fraud, but to inst
d gate means to perpetrate fraud +
! their own party benefit in the futu
= as they have done in the past.
y Let the press be outspoken fro
II ocean to ocean, from the lakes to Il
le Gulf, and put theseal of itscondemn
n ton upon a party that, merely for Il
purpose of obtaining power which
has not the wisdom to use, would ST
e up strife and contention and ev.
le bloodshed in the land. 1t is par
is that lives upon folly, and has no fe
=, of revolution or treason if it can 8
a. complish its end-the acquisition
lc power and the distribution of offici
as patronage. B.
at New York, May q, 1877.