The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1860-01-05
A Well Merited Rebuke.

Et--,ff a well MerlteO kteDukes
Mr.. Grow, of Pa, administered the follow
ing scathing rebuke to the Disunion Democ-
racy of the House on Friday last I;
You want to enjoy your holiday sports,
while the public creditors of the government
are being bankrupted for want of their hon
est dues. The faith of the nation is pledged
to pay these men what it justly owes them
you have kept this House disorganized for
three aceeks, while thousands of public credit
ors are suffering, and many of them on the
brink Of financial ruin. And now you pro-
pose to run off home like a pack of school
boys to your holiday amusements A pre-
cious set oflegislators you are. The country
is profoundly Obliged to you. This body
was hardly called to order on the first day
Of the session when you thrust the negro
question upon it. Your pretext was PAM
phlet of 112 pages, written by a Southern
man, and addressed exclusively to Southern
men. You pretsr6 that il is dangerous
book. 1t had lain IN obscurity, unhcard of
and uncared for, during eight months, unit
yau took it up and spent three precious
weeks in advertising it. You have sown it
broadcast over the whole land There are a
thousand copies now read where there was
one before you began to whet the public Gu
riosity to see what this s,aoke, this noise and
copG, sion ,vay, about Tbo hooI. ILL .>u.--
60 into every house, hamlet and cabin in
the North and South, and if the effect of this
tremendous circulation shall prove baneful
to your slave institution, you alone are the
cause of the mischief and on you rests the
responsibility. On our side of the House.
we have refrained from speech making we
have labored earnestly and faithfully to ef-
feet an organization, we have patiently borne
your virtuperations and SANDERS, you have
basely, purposely, maliciously, misrepresen-
ted our purposes and principles. The Con-
gressional Globe Of the last six years, which
is in all your hands, contains a record of our
true positions and sentiments but this au-
lucrative exposition you have passed over,
and have substituted the vile libels of your
pro slavery organs, you have quoted TIE
Constitution, the States, and the ENQUIRER
for your authority! The New York K7erazd
has furnished brains for you, furnished
words, ideas and slang Each evening we
read its editorials, and each afternoon you
oil
limitations If Bennett, but you fail to repro
duce his spice OF terseness Your diatribes
are below the Heralds style of rhetoric, but
surpass its untruthfulness and malignitv.-
When the House gets organized we will
have reckoning with you. We will not
be the first to cry 'hold, enoughw ~ We
will not shrk from the seyerest examination
of our political faith nor will we permit YOU
tn sbirl from tha cnn sne.,renccs the +rea SON
able disunion language you have uttered on
this floor. for the past three weeks. Mr.. Clerk,
am told, that if relief is not afforded to the
mail contractors by the first of january, to
whom the government owes fire millions OF
dollars, they will throw up their contracts
en- nasse and stop carrying the mails of the
nation How will you like to have that 20
out before your constituents and the whole
country, as one of the effects of slavery agi-
tation which you have forced within these
halls, and persist in retaining to the exclu-
sion of needful business, and to the sacrifice
of thousands of public creditors, and to the
shame and scandal ofthe nation.