The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1862-11-01
'sEhc Bakera and Fishers. the
Leffrics and stiles. the Bells
and Reveals, the Harris and
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and Reveals, the Harris and
Majors, &c."-.Kercury.
The Mercury proclaims the astounding
tact that the Jetfries, Fishers, Bells Reveals,
Majors, &c, voted the Mahony ticket, and
seems to regard the fact as something won.
derful, as indeed it Is. We are left in doubt
however, whether all the persons in the
country bearing these names, voted the Sc.
eesh ticket, or, if not, what particular por.
ton of them did. The only mark of identi-
i,aton is the fact that they are old, quite
old; they must be, having been voting the
same ticket fifty years ..a.., ...: ..., ...s
As to the taste Of thus parading indi-
viduals before the public in such connec-
ton, we have nothing 10 say. 1t is the
Mercury'S doing, not ours. We deal with
organizations, not individuals. 1t would
seem to US to be sufficiently indicate and
inhuman, to drag increpid and palsied old
age from beds of decrepitude, to vote such a
ticket, without proclaiming the degrading
fact through the columns ofeven the Ottum-
wa Mercury, but as we said, it is matter
oftastc, and taste differs. .F.
But the Jeffries &c, dill vote the Mahonv
ticket. The Mercury says 50, and the Mer-
curry knows. Ofcourse that paper knows
how people voted, especially those who
voted that ticket, The Mercury was con-
suited. Nobody, not even voters of fifty
years experience, would venture to vote
without the consent of the Mercury, and
hence the Mercury is good authority.
But what tremendous fact it is that the
.Ieffries, and those other respectable old
fogies of. Fifty years practical experience of
democratic voting, did actually vote the
Mahony ticket at the late election The ar
gument is perfectly overwhelming, and we
rejoice that the announcement of the fact
was withheld until after the election. Had
it unfortunately transpired before the cleo
ton, that any of the old gentlemen, bearing
such names, intended to vote in that particu-
lar way, the consequences would have been
truly deplorable. Tt is not probable that
any opposing candidates could have been
kept in the field after that They would all
have withdrawn, incontinently skedaddled
from the canvass. .as -a.lsaGa
But these very respectable old gentlemen,
these venerable gammons, have been voting
the democratic ticket fifty years, They
have followed the old organization from the
time the memory of man runneth not to the
contrary. What stupendous thought!
What stability ofpurpose What consisten-
cy, what fidelity, what an endorsement of
Mahonylsm What an example to the ri
sing generation l. Israg4 .rsi.t. .s-.ys..
/. What jolly time these venerable gentle
men must have, thinking over their fifty
years voting, all Of it doubtless perfectly
re-g-u Far. How consoling, indeed 1t
must be to them in their old age, to think
that they have been voting fifty years with
an organization which bro't forth, nourished.
cherished ard fostered, all the damnable
traitors whose paricidal hands are now up
to the elbows IN the blood of their sons,
brothers and countrymen the traitorous
mscreants who fired upon the flag of their
country, at Sumter, and who are seeking to
pull down this glorious fabric ofgovernment
and scatter its fragments to the four winds.
What a glorious reflection !, must be, that
they voted for the old traitors Buchanan and
Breckenridge, and assisted Floyd & Co., to
an opportunity to steal treasure, arms, forts
&c. Surely It is something to boast Of to
have done all this but It was more to stick
to 1t and boast Of it. Weak men might be
disposed to forsake and ALLURE such spuri-
Gus and bastard democracy, "a mere organ
ization with nothing left in it but treason
and treason sympathy shell without any
substance, but not these old gentlemen -
They are sensible to the last, at least if we
can believe the Mercury. ] g sass,:@e'l - .
+. OF the 1000 negroes advertised by the
Mahony leaders to arrive in Burlington a
few days before the election, the whole rum-