The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1862-07-12

OpOu WHICH GeOrKe WALLACE
Jones was Arrested and Impris-
oned rs d Traitor. ~
NAUSEATING, SENTIMENTAL PER.
.SG JURY lsiV' afN
.Eass;eptsa 1esters Ssitisn 6y Jones sails
Aiaister- at Bogota, a saoora officer, drswing
Aispd5 from the Gooeramsnt, Offering ma
teriSt0 aiddnd sympathy to Jeff. pasis as
Presileat, &e--proposing to tase the sih Of
rsDeniea qsf fsat .tsf'a ageinst tie 0os-
ernnseat. IL deaouncss Douglas as an an-
principled DemagogYe he has on .Dil1
gioe Ais sSoRs to the Southers caass, DC.
.,ais LEexTros, U. s., Bogot.. N. e., lass
l.ssltts:a, May II, 1861. ,s -
My NOBLE AND VERY DEAR FRIEND sl
In consequence of the continuance Of the
horrible civil war which stiH continues to be
wased in this distracted and divided Repub-
;. lie, and the Interruption Of all mail 'commun-
ication from the United States and elsewhere
Ibid rot receive your kini and highly priv
ed letter of the 20th Of january last until
the 1sth ut and then at Honda, to which
place repaired myself expressly for the
purpose Of receiving my dispatches, letters,
newspapers, &s. which L had heard were
there. II took me three days travelling
over almost impossible mountains to get to
Honda. but. was we'll repaid for. roy. trour
BILE, rs received some % letters from my
wife and children, besides some 70 others
from my Government and old friends, with
some 900 newspapers. AL of which havs az
forled me both pleasure and heartfelt pain
to read. 81 ssE .s1.s,s ,t., az 80
| did not come across the vaiedictory
speeches cf yourself, dear Clay, Mallory and
Ynlee. until Yesterday. devoured them
all with . greedy appetite but not Without
the shealding Of tears, dear friend. &hen I
read the farewell Of yourself, especially as
SO patheticaIly Expressed in gourlast speech
in the Senate, as well as in that of the
10th Of Jannarv. when you so beautifully
depicted to your fellow Senators and the
world the situation Of the country and the
dancers which were threatening It.. 4
You may well say as you do in your let
ter to me that you know you (D will sym
pathize with US (you " ,,~n.
How can I feelotherwise, dear old friend,
college mate and colleague. than sympathizc
for you and the people whom you represent
on such an occasion Born in what they
tauntingly call a .free State (Indiana)
brought up in Missouri and educated there
and in Kentucky, and having resided for
the last 81 years in Michigan, Wisconsin
and Iowa, I cannot but he well acquainted
with the principles, feelings and actions OF
the parties to the contest which is now GO
ing on in my beloved country.
When went to Wisconsin, sir, Sinawa
Mound, then Michigan, I took with me nay
servants, whom, at their requests, pur-
chased, they having been born in Illinois,
and made slaves under the ordinance of
1887. Abolitionists, who like Doty, Bron.
son, Burnet. ct. al, came to my house to
share my hospitality, told my slaves that
they were free, and actually induced the ig.
norant, hut happy Paul to believe he was
free, and to bring suit for himself and his
sister Charlotte. both Of whom you may re-
collect as they waited on you when you Wis
tied u.s. had vexations and long law
suit with Paul, but triumphed over him and
his abolition advisers. Z served in Congress
as Delegate from Michigan and Wisconsin,
two years each. and was then beaten for the
third term by Doty, because I served as
second in the Cilley and Graves duel, and
was slave owner. 3ss34
In 1S4l I was removed from the Office Of
surveyor General Of Wisconsin and Iowa
by Gen, Harrison's administration. through
Doty's influence as the then delegate, sim
pie because 7 was a Democrat and sympa-
thized with the South mo single objection
having been made against me Of any other
character. Mr.. Polk, God bless him, restor-
"a me in 1s45, and put out the long legged
black republican Jim Wilson, of New Hamp.
shire, who had superseded mo.
was transferred from the Surveyor Gen.
erals Office ia December. 1885, to the U. s.
Senate, and driven theresrom by the Abolis
tionists in March, 1859, no other objection
having ever been made TO me save that
was follower Of the South and = donghfacc
for such men as yourself Clay and other
Southerners. II, therefore, had no other
reason for sympathizing with the South,
the bad treatment which have received at
the harris .of Northern Abolitionists would
have made INC 10 so. But upon the Constit
utional question, and even upon that Of ex-
pediency, mover had single doubt, but II
I.had, my residence in this country and my
knowledge Of the effects Of freeing Che ne
groes in the West indies and in this Repub-
lie would certainly have made convert o,
me az it has of every Englishman, French
man, German and other foreigners whom
have ever met with IN this country, and who
have seen the bad effects Of Abolitionism. 4
Ihad hoped that Mr.. Lincoln would hav,
proclaimed soon after his election his tota
dissent from the mad schemes Of his Aboll
tion supporters, so A. to avert the disrup
ting tornado which saw before leM New