The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1862-08-23
Congress- onal Convention.

The Convention which assembled at
Montezuma last week to nominate a candi.
date to represent tho ALI District Of Iowa in
the next Congress- rs win be seen by the
proceedings found elsewhere in to-day's
paper, put in nomination j. B. Grinnell of
Poweshiek county. The Convention was
very fully attended, and the utmost har-
mony and good feeling prevailed. After
some forty different ballotings, the majority
vote was announced in favor Of Mr.. Grin.
nell, when all responded their satisfaction
and qualification by cheers upon cheers
The domination was made unanimous. Mr..
Rush Clark, Of our city, reesired in the DIFF
fer ent ballotings, highly flattering vote, az
did also other candidates before the conven-
ton. Mr.. GyinDell, the nominee, is widely
and favorably known in an of the twelve
counties Of the District He has mixed
largely with the pope, and is descrvedly a
favorite with the farmers, and indeed, with
the working men of all classes. Six years
ago he Was nominated for the Iowa Senate !;
he encountered then, rs he will now, every
species of billingsgate, unprincipsed pofiti-
clans, then, as now, styling him a " niger
thief" higher law man" abslitionists"
and every vile epittet which their crazy i'm.
aginations could invent. Face to face he
met the people Of the Senatorial District,
disregarding the whole pack of vile calum-
majors that were bounding his track, and
was elected by over twelve hundred major
ity. So will it be now. The people
know who are patriots, and they know too
the wholesale slandering traitors, whom,
were Washington occupying the high place
Of President, they would defame aud befoul
with their lying ribaldry and develish hate.
The people, too. know just what meaning to
attach to the. term "abolitionist." Itdon't
scare anybody nowadays but timid Kan.
Kangaroos, and "vestal old maids' Of both
sexes. Minions Of Mahony, imps of JEFF.
Davis, 60 on with your base occupations
You will grin in vain, and our (k)seu shah
be the knell which win sound you to judg-
ment. 5sa
J. B. Grinnell is patriot-a live patriot
"a working patriot he believes in Liberty
and Country, and not in JEFF. Davis, Ma.
hony and yalandigham. He came into the
District when large portion oft was q
wild unhroken wilderness, and no man with.
in il has left his impress more large upon it.
He has been foremost in all public enter
prises. The improvements, railroad and
other, public and private, which now are
the pride and glory Of the District, are
many of them the creations Of his energy
and liberality. The people Of johnson
county viii be the last to spurn the man
who has ever worked with them and for
them. The beautiful building which now
adorns University Square stands there as the
result Of his energy and votes in behalf Of
the great cause Of education. In short, he
is just the man for the hour. His private
and public life are above reproach, and his
principles arc IS well rooted as the forest
oaks that fringe the praires He can not
be bought or sold, nor viii he buy or sell in
those political markets, where charlatans
and demagosues do congregate. The peo-
pie of the District know too well the issues
ofthe hour; they know too well the things
for which they have struggled, ODE fright
ened from their votes for him by the sens
less howl Of abolitionists," under. ground
railroads, and such like maniac gabble Of
Mahonyites. They can, and they viii dis.
Germ between patriot and treason SYM
pathizer an honest man and .
man who needs Watching Iowa CITY Re-
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