The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1862-10-04
Senator Grimes will address the
people net Friday, at Ottumwa.-
Come and Tear him.
Send The Men to Congress.

We trust the voters Of this Congressional
District will realize the importance of send
ing an unconditional Union man, such as j.
B. Grinnell, to represent US in Congress, in
stead OF such an eguivocator as H. NJ. Mar
tin, who stands on the Infamous Mahony
platform, and will be heartily supported by
all the sympathizers in the District. The
charges against Grinnell are too groundIess
and absurd to receive moments considera.
ton from any honest man. Grinnell had
nothing to co with John Brown except n
simple act Of hospitality, which any man
would exercise under the same circumstan-
ces, and he is not and never was politically
an abolitionist, though strongly opposed to
slavery. We assure our readers and the
voters of the District, that Mr.. Grinnell is as
sound and conservative Union man, as
true friend Of the administration, and a.
pure patriot as the State affords that he
is A. superior to his detractors and caumnia.
tors in every quality that makes up states.
man. or an honest man, as light is superior
to darkness.
Mr.. Grinnell must be elected. We shall
wantju such . man AS he is in Congress
to assist in settling the country upon correct
principles after the war is over. We shall
want him there to sustain the administra.
ton in putting the finishing stroke to the
rebellion we shall want him there to do
justice to the soldiers and the families of the
soldiers w:o have fought our battles; we
shall want just sHch whole souled, earnest,
decided and reliable northern men with
northern principles, with back bone, with a
decided character and policy, = radical If
you please. to stand up for justice, right and
freedom to resist the sickening wiles, de.
noralizing influence and fatal policy Of so
called conservatives, compromisers, dough.
faces, and traitors ; the Vallandinghams,
Woods and Mahoney's, who will neglect no
opportunity in the future, as they have ne.
elected none in the past, vet to sell out the
birth right of American freemen to the
despots, oliearchs and traitors OF the South.
Vote for j. B. Grinnell. If he did give
John Brown food and bed, he did it be.
cause he knew him as a champion of the
Free State party in Kansas who had been
driven forth houseless, sonless and crazy by
the wrongs Of slavery's hell-hounds on the
border, and for no other reason, for he told
him he was crazy but if he did this, he
never by word, thought, vote or act, ap-
proved, supported or sympathized with those
other infinitely greater scoundres and trait.
ors, (supposing Brown to be one) Buchanan,
Floyd, Davis & Co, as these detractors and
slanderers of his all did, and who now seek
to cover the most gigantic and blacklist trea.
sol. ever known in the annals of mankind,
by harping on John Browns raid What
sincere Union man will be SO deluded and
deceived !?
q Stand up for the right nou. We say with
all the sincerity and solemnity the mornen-
tous events now transpiring can inspire. that
the preservation Of this heritage of freedom
depends, so FAR as it can depend upon what
man can do, upon sending true, loyal, deci
ded men to Congress. Onr brave men NAV
fight our battles in the field, until the last
armed f'e expires, and it will after all be in
vain, # our bleeding, exhausted. impoverish
ed country is to be handed over to the sur
gerry OF the emDyr,cs of the school Of Maho-
ney. Sad work they would make of our
finances. our credit, our government itself
Union nen, get ready for the l4th of Oc-
tobey. for the destinies Of yoar country and
the fate Of yaar children will be decided on
that day.