The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1863-05-21
JAMES r. LANE.
Chm State Executive Com,

person who we believe passes under
who was formerly citizen of the Southern
Confederacy, but now, flour memory serves
us rightly, resident cf Ottumwa, has been
devotng all of Il vast powers of his mighty
intellect for the past few weeks in attempt
ing through the columns Of the Mercury,
TO befoul the character of New England.
.artr What success, the gentleman will meet
with, we do not yet think it safe to predict,
rs his last epste CLOSES with modest hint
that his labors in that line are not vet end
=. ed Buff New England has in the last
three hundred and fifty years. been guilty
of any mean action, land what states ever
= were blameless through such a perioh.) or il
= any renegade son of hers was ever so remiss
=. even though she kicked him ou., as soon as
. she had time to educate him. then We warn
her to look well to her fair fame, for Mr..
Clark is devoting himself to the calculation
of such blemishes, and il there is anything
really nasty, be adduoed against New
r., England we think that the Mercury was
IS, correct in determining that Mr.. Clark was ex-
b act'y theman to nose 1t ont
$50 Mr.. Clark in his article Of May 9th "at
.oTthe risk Of being tedious [dear me makes
/, a few quotations" from the saying of sundry
men of New England who have been snug
"a ~ asleep in their collins for many years, all
p unconscious of the fact that their mistakes
being uncovered by this "bod, impul-
sive. open-hearted Southron.".
$50 The apparent object 1.-THE gentleman Is
/ to prove that New England is the sole cause
? OF the present rebellion, that because five or
ls six men talked and advised secession in
70 New England Atty years ago, that therefore
the traitors Of the South, Ciopen- hearted
Soutbrous'D are justified In carrying out
those ideas by making relentless war, for the
avowed purpose of overthrowing the Gov
ernment. Those Traitors whose hands
a4 are red with the richest blood of the Loyal
North; whose crimes have sent back to
bones in every neighborhood throughout
the whole North the bloody and shattered
wrecks of men who had left those homes
In the pride Of vigorous manhood, going
proudly forth, attended by the prayers
Q and tears of loved ones at home, to offer up
their lives In behalf Of an imperilled coun-
try. That, these 6esolators of Northern
homes. are "bold generous" heroes, defend
ing their rights, which have been assaied
2 through the Vaccinations of New England
For, Mr.. Clark lays down in plain terms
that New England is the sole originator OF
the rebellion now rending the country, thai
it has been persisienay laboring during a
period of more than City years. by means
of her Commons School system, hel
Preachers and the Hartford Convention, to
ALLEVIATE the feelings of the South, with nc
other object than to force her through re-
jbel)ion, out of the Union.
As tc those Old time Copperheads of New
England, there were not enough Of them to
do any serious injury except to their own
character, which they ruined effectually.- -
. And we never hear of the virtues, seldom
r. of the folies of those deluded men, unless
e perchance, some Ghoul like ant;quary, who
Z like the Gentleman, seeks to draw mental
pabulum from their fostering corpses.
But Mr. Clark may groyei on in his cho.
~ sen task, he may rsnsack all the n e. say
ings for the last three hundred years, and
he cannot find anywhere within her borders
outside of her State prisons and Lunatic
Asylums as villainous, as malignant EXPIRES,
sions of treason against the United States
government. and of comfort to her ene-
90 mics. as may be found daily in the copper
9'a head press of the present time, or in sci
4 of resolutions put forth from the Mercury
press sometime since, which Mr.. Clark
got the credit (?) of wri ting.
: There are few of Mr.. Clarks quotations but
what he might pass, with very little trouble
upon his readers for genuine Copperhead
abuse Of the Lincoln Despotism, put S.
F. Clark at the head Of the column, and the
question of authorship would never be rails.
ed. 49, f,s
But we must drop this interesting sub
iect before closing however, we would say
to Mr.. Clark, that, whatever may be the
state Of his own mind on the subject, the
pecple generally, in this part of jeff Davis
-: -. &c oco~ L..