The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1857-10-01
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Our neighbor tells us that Mitchell county
where Oran Favllle resides, gave a majority
for striking the word white ont of the Con.
s,itution, and demands OF US whether the ir.
resistable influence Of Faville secured til
maj rity, or whether he opposed it and had Sc
little influence as to be unable TO prevent it.
Oar neighbor forgets that in asking these
questions, he siulifies and falsifies what he
roundly asserts in another part OF his paper
under the caption skeep it before the people. y
He seems also to suppose that the Republic
can, like his own party, is built on the idea
that men may own, buy aud sell one another
and is made up of the few who are masters, and
the many who are servants
In answer to hisqnestion we simply say that
We suppose that Republicans in Mitchell coun-
| ty, like those in other parts Of the State, as
, the result shows, voted each MAJ as he chose
without asking Oraa Faville or anybody else,
what he must do. For those who can't com
preherd such an idea, We feel the most sincere
compassion, and do not wonder at their anxi.
ETY. lest others should lose sightof the distinction
between themselves and '.niggers."
But Il seems from our neighbours question
tina. hi. partisan experience teaches him to
expect that voters are governed by their party
leaders. Tell US then neighbor, how it is
that the county in which George Gillaspv has
for long time resided, only little more than
two years ago, gave nearly three hundred
ow-nothing MAJORITY and how it is that
last November: Gillaspy's name happened to
be on the Know nothing ticket, and how he
happened to be elected to the Constitutional
Convention, when there was majority against
his party on the Presidential ticket of between
one and two hundred. Does George ride two
horses3 We do not say that he is = Know
nothing in the political sense of the term.
But, neighbor, please try your logic on yonr
| own candidate in reference to another matter,
which is more pertinent to the issue before
us. Your candidate, if elected TO the Office to
which he aspires, will have some influence
over The common school system Of the State
Now, how does it happen, that the School
district il w!ich Gilaspy has long resided,
ard in the affairs of which he has always taken
a most prominent part, cannot at this day show
the shadow of public School house? Say,
neighbor, is il Giliaspy's irresistible infasace
that has secured this result, or his little in
auence that has been unable to prevent It p
The actual census Of this district is now over
twelve hundred, and it contains more wealth
than any other district in the county. Still,
on the other side Of the river, substantial
brick school house in our sight, has been for
several years smiling over the prairie, and
blessing the children Of our neighbors in the
district adjoining our own. Eddyville, Agency,
Dahlonega and other towns in our fourish,ng
county, have neat and substantial houses. -
How is it neighbor, that right under the shadow
of George Gillaspy, one of the heaviest capital
lists in the county, and just now about the
greatest patriot in the World, school house
can't grow? Has his little influence failed to
secure thing 50 necessary and 50 purely
democratic in its nature, or has bis great in
fluence prevented it? Say, neighbor, which
Is true?