The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1859-03-10
TFor the Courier.l.

Mr.. EDIroR IL notice in the last No. of
your paper lame attempt of DR.. Hinsey, of
Dahlonega, to justify the action of the late
repudiating meeting held at that place, and
also a silly but very Characteristic effort to
ridicule an article in. regard to SAID meeting
and its action, by the. undersigned, in your
paper Of thes34th~ Now, my dear Dr., I
do not wish to handy words with you, nor
subject myself to the ridicule and contempt
Of the readers of the Courier by initiating you
in a fruitless attempt at wit, or in drawing
largely from the vocabulary of Billingsgate
slang (the usual resort of shallow pates y
But to deal with plain facts, to hold up to the
execration of the honest, anti-repudiating
part of community this precious set of sore.
headed politicians and inscriptions repudi-
ators, who had styled themselves par excel
lence the "bone and sinew" of the ''tax pay
ers" of Wapello county, was my objec, in
said communication, which the Dr. has Ia
ken in such high dudgeon, and in doing SO
drew a comparison between number of the
active participators in said mecting-the men
who were responsible for its existence, who
drew up the resolutions at their leisure be-
fore the meeting came off. and who were ac-
lively engaged in deluding the people and
creating false impression in regard to the
nature of the contract with the B. & N. r. R.
Co.-and a like number who were in attend
ance at our meeting (selected at random)
which urgently, but in the most respectful
language, requested the Judge to issue the
bonds in accordance with fair and honora-
BILE contract and the DIR. flares up terribly
when by this comparison we find that either
of the six men selected from our meeting,
and who had been charged with ''paupcr-
ISM" pays more tax into the County treasu-
ry than his entire lot. -.
| might have went much further with the
and 81 own that these six men in
attendance at our meeting pay more tax than
your entire ''mass meeting" could, with
out doubt, have selected score more of
names, who pay as much tax as those men,
toned, who were in attendance at our meet
ing, who have property in various parts of
the county, and who are not alone identified
with Ottumwa, had deemed it necessary.
The possession of the smallest imaginable
of modesty and selfrespcct would
have suggested tn, propriety of saying as
little as possible about ''paupers" in your
buncombe resolutions, and saved me The dis
agreeable necessity Of showing who the pau
pers were. These hard times requires econ
omy, and I imagine, my dear sir, that you
were fully impressed with this fact while
pennins the reputation resolutions in ques-
ton. If you succeeded in your scheme of
you saved to Yourself, "your
children and your ch,drcns children" the
snug sum of. forty-sir cents per annum, or
cignt per cent per annum on SJ,76, the
amount of your tax for S5S,-wnich is a say
Ing of nine doItars md ttoenty cents in TWEEN
ty years; truly a handsome sum! You will
observe that have made no account of the
stock in the Co., which You are to receive
for this outlay, anil inasmuch as it is pre-
case TINT yon have suffered som. in
the wear ana tear" of conscience in embra-
cling this reputation doctrine, suppose we
Jump accounts" But seriously, Dr., after
tn: second sober thought" are you not i'm
pressed with the fact that you have sold your
self very cheaply? How long has it been
since you were actively engaged with all
your talent, energy and prodigious eloquence
to accomplish the defeat of this same Judge
Flint well known to you at the time to he
hostile to counties taking stock in railroads,
to internal improvements of every kind, and
in favor of nothing but the untcrrifed Dem
ocratic party, the hal -shell Baptists, and his
unquestionable right to the eternal success
sion OF the fattest Office in the county. None
prated longer Or louder about the GLORIOUS
of the Republican party than you.
But alas! for the stability of human profess
sion! With the prospect of saving torty-sis
cents per annum, we find you abandoning
your party organization and its GLORIOUS
principles" and assisting in the nomination
of the old and long tried arch-enemy of your
party for reelection. But, Dr., if you and
your political associates who were in attend
ance at this disgraceful affair and men from
whom their party had right to expect bet.
ter things) were in such shot haste" to aban-
don your party and the principles you pro-
fessed to hold so dear, when your old enemy
offered as consideration for your apostacy
to maneuver you out of a fair and honorable
public obligation, with what professions of
delight would you hail that man as a deliver
er and second Saviour, who by some artful
dodge, cunning device, or hocus pocus, could
release you from your private obligations?-
| amagine that if such man could be Jump
ed up at this particular crisis in your affairs,
we should have another Dahlonega mass
meeting instanter, and Flint stock would not
ten cents on the dollar in your
market
You say, in your communication, that you
are perfectly willing for Ottumwa to have as
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