The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1863-12-31


his thoughtless and innocent boys An
women, struck with their youth and inne
cence, with tears and entreaties implore
mercy for the unfortunatc youths But i
vain The tyrant was inexorabe The mob
boys fell, after tender and touching fart
well, victims to the ambition of one, VIII
was misled by the cruelty Of Bragg, an
vino, in adopting the latser's style Of di,
cipline, took up the club Of Hercules, and 81
not being able to WELD it, degenerated int
q mere murderer
LOSS or THE INDIAN CoUNTRY-aEN PIKE.
He turned the Indians against us. Thu
leaving us defenceless and threatened by
savage foe in the West, besides the loss o
that whole Territory. There was but on
man on the continent who could contro
them. Nature. education, habits and ap
pearance, had peculiarly fitted him for tho
task. that man was Gen. Albert Pike. =
He should have been permitted to remain
there. Hindman and johnson intrigue,
him out. Mr.. Davis preferred risking the
loss Of that country, and our ruin, to the
loss of his pet. He even permitted Gen
Pike to be dragged through the country like
acommon culprit, between fiIe of soldiers
What hope had a poor down trodden citizen
when Geseral officer, and he one of tn,
first men of the nation. could be thus treated
with impunity at the instance Of one of Dav
is, creaturess 0fau these things Jefferson
Daeis was informed.
RESPONSE TO OUR APPEALs-coxINo OF Hor.Mr,
But our people in the soreness of their
agony, and from the depths of their oppres.
sion, petitioned Mr.. Davis for relief Month
after month rolled by and no response
Still, month after month, they groaned, and
suffered, and supplicated I Their appeals
for relief fell upon leaden ears. And while
the people suffered, the Johnsons and Hind.
man feasted and fourished and were glad.
But at last, the current of agony ard oil
complaint was too great. The tardy res
ponse came And what. oh my suffering
countrymen. do you suppose that response
is ? 1t is that
HTNDMAN IS THERE WITHOUT AUTHORITY"
What \ terrible retribution we had right
to expect The least we could hope, had his
acts been done by one here 5y authority,
would be that he would meet removal and
prompt punishment. And, surely, that one
who, here, "without authority, /" had robbed.
p'llaged and acknowledgement anil
murdered, and crushed the very life out of
our people. would be put upon | il trial as
culprit, and meet fslon's doom We shall
see. 4 44ea
In amazement, you would ask me If Mr..
Davis knew of these things. All of them.
Besides what private citizens all over the
State had written him, Gen. Pike, in written
charges, and in powerful published pam.
phlets, made most Of it known to him and
the world. But r. w. johnson and his fol.
lowers are supreme at Richmond He owns
the whole representation from this State.
except Mr. Garland. who has all the sense
and manlness Of the concern. Verify, the
vessel Of State must have been violently
agitated, or such foul dregs could never have
risen to the to'!' One Hanly did venture
to whisper in his own room, with locked
doors, to few citizens, about these outrages.
but he locked their mouths with pledge of
secrecy before they left. lest 'Bob Johnson
should think he had turned traitor to him
And poor old Mitchell would talk so much
on both sides, that, as usual he neutralized
what he said. while Mr., Garland's uttera aces
were stifed between affection upon the part
of Davis for Hindman, and subserviency to
Mr.. johnson. The latter gentleman will not
desert Hindman yet. The harvest of place
and power, reaped by them, is too great to
lose. Better the people groan and suffer
So, after all his wickedness, Hindman is
still to remain here. But to soothe the pub.
lie. and blind it, new man must be brought
Overcome they can use, of course. Mr..
johnson finds him. A weak, superanuated
old creature, who was made "Lisut. Gsn.
Holmes" for this express command. The
interests of Arkansas being subordinated to
that Of the Johnsons, and to the hate of Mr..
Davis. for our poor oppressed people de-
manded Gen. Price-or rather begged for
him piteous'y -our days for "demanding''
having passed.
The acts Of this poor, unfortunate and pi.
table old man are known to all Our peo lie
breathed free for moment after he came
for the Press here belonging to the coalition
he was eu'ogized excessively. But they
soon saw the stroke Of H:ndman's hand in
all his acts. As Gen. Pike justly remarks
his Lieutenant became his master. Holmes
revoked none of Hipdman's odious orders
and the terrible scenes of oppression and
plunder went on a. before.
CONDUCT or GEN. HnLMEs-LErrER TO DAVIS
With all this, our people were still willing
to suffer and to bleed, if any military result.
favorable to us might flow from it. Gu,
hopes we're disappointed. Military affair.
were neglected. Johnson and Hindmar
were intent upon keeping up political pres.
tige, and even induced poor old Gen. Holme.
to use the influence Of his rank and gold lac,
upon weak members Of the Legislature il
the election for Confederate Senator. Thu,
the time was passed in feasting and dancin:
and political wire-working, while the poo
soldier shivered under the bleak sky, ant
the poor citizen groaned under oppression