The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1861-10-02

! A Few Plain Truths.
| Gov. Khkwood, in a speech made at Des
Moines, on the 4th inst, told few plain
and wholesome truths, which it is important
the public should know, not only as vindi-
cation OF himself, but as an exhibit Of what
remains vet to be done by the people Of the
State We quote from the rer5atim report
of the Register
'It has been said that have not raised
men fast enough. I have raised al that
have been asked for. Iowa has poured forth
her thousands as fast as called for by the
General Government. 1t has been said that
the Iowa volun tecrs have not been clothed
as well and rapidly as they should have been
clothed. That is your fault. not mine. I had
not the money to do it. The clothes worn
| by the First, Second and Third Regiments
to-day have not been paid for Not dollar
has been paid for them Three thousand
mcn-among them your sons and brothers
are wearing cloths which are yet unpaid for.
Much fault was found with me because your
| soldiers at Keokuk did not receive their poor
pittance of pay. which they were to receive
from the State for the period intervening be-
tween the time Of the enlistment in the SER
vice Of the State. and their acceptance into
the service of the United States. They were
there without money to buy even tobacco or
postage clamps. You know as well as that
the Executive of this State had not dollar
to advance to the soldiers After they were
mustered in at Keokuk, Ezekiel Clark, Hiram
Price, of Davenport, and your speaker, bor-
rowed on their private credit the money,
some thirty thousand dollars, which was re-
quired to pay them, and paid it, and the
debt is unsatisfied to-day. The Executive
of this State drew some $4,000 out of the
State Treasury which he had no mere right
by law to take for that purpose than one Of
you; the balance we borrowed on our indi-
v;dual credit, and you owe it to us now
If there be fault in this connection on
whom does it rest ] do not like to say
these things, but justice to myself compels
me to say them. The people of Iowa have
not furnished their Executive with money
for the expenditures which he was required
by law to make, as they should have done
The bank of this city holds my protested
notes for $4,000, and have borrowed sc
much that thought it was $4,000 until
called at the bank to-day and inquired.
was absent from home last week, and found
upon my return notices ofprotested paper Of
mine to the amount Of $4,000 more and
also not less than seven of those little tickets
which bankers send out to give notice o
notes falling due. Now it is not agreeable
to man who has hitherto kept his CONNER
cial credit unimpaired thus to find it dis
honorcd and it is still more displeasins
when he is cursed all over the State for no
doing what he was powerless to accomplish
and it is right you should know it.
But let us pass from this. 1t is not agre
able to you nor to me. | only mention i
because it is right you should know her
that the clothes your sons and brothers ar
wearing to-day are not paid for, not becaus
| am unwilling to pay them but because
have not the means. 1t is right you shoult
know that the money your boys had, di'
not come from your State Treasury, but wa
borrowed upon individual credit, and is no
yet refunded You should at least endeavo
to help furnish the means to refund thi
money by subscribing for State bonds
grew pathetic in newspaper appeal fey
days since, asking you to subscribe for Stat
bonds. Now there is scarcely man of yo
who, if life, limb or property were at stake
could not take 500 at least Of Iowa Stat
Bonds, and thus furnish the means to carr
: on this work, and have it done right. An
T let me say to you plainly-though as a can
,, didate ought not talk so to you-that j
, , so doing you would be performing your dut
as well as in carping and fault-fnding. No,
i | am probably ma ting a mistake. | dom
know. | ought perhaps make handsom
VOWS, speak soft and honied wor-s, things
' cannot do but will tell y,'u the truth as
: understand and believe it, and if you don
like il, you have the remedy in your owl
hands, you know But it is due to you fo
] me to mention what Iowa has already don
Q in this war. She has sent into the field an
now has in active service in Missouri, count
ing the Iowa First-and every man in low
will always love to count the Iowa First
1 Loud and long continued applause,l Sere
Q thousand men She has in camp at Keokuk
: 1000 men under Col. Bussey. She has i
! Burlington another full regiment Of cavalr
o under Col Warren. She has in Iowa CT
+ a regiment consisting of 900 men, waitn
. the arrival of another company Of 100 mer
! to complete the regiment which was to hav
; been under the command Of Col. Bennett
a And here let me say of COL Bennett, he ha
: proved himself to be the patriot as well a
: the soldier. He has acted the man. Whe
he found that his appointment as Colon,
7 would cause heart-burnings and dissension
! in the regiment, he said to me :-"Place m
; where you please, but have the regimen
0 formed" [Applause.l This was what Co
\ Bennett did. At Davenport there is fn
J. regiment of Infantry, commanded by Co
!, Hoffman, and full regiment of cavalr
2 whose re ,imental officers have not yet bee
e appointed We have, hope, to-day at Dr
buque, a full rasiment of infantry under c.
: yandevers That is what Iowa has done