The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1865-09-07
Wapello County Ticket.
Copperhead Aid Society.

COppcIuedu AlO OOCltLys
We notice that there is an institution of
this kind at work in this place under the
supervision of the Copperhead leaders,
and two certain disaliected gentlemen-
ti5aflected becauSe they could not carry
their OWN selfish points. and now, because
they cannot rule seek to ruin--seek TO
crafty their own ambition by getting Of
flee II possible, no matter how and their
malice by defeating and destroying, if
possible, the great Union party in this
county.
These sOre-hcads have been holding FREE
Quent interviews and consultations with
The snakes--the Copperhead gentlemen.
who figure behind the screen while the
puppets dance, and we expect they will be
placed on the Copperhead ticket, fixed up
for the occasion, IA recipients OF the honor
incident to that position.
With these motives, and feelings of ha-
tred 70 the Union party, one of these dis
appointed, envcnoned aspirants, prctend-
rag to have ''nigger on the BRAIN dis
ease which, if not actually caused was
greatly aggravated by a late political dis
appointments and commenced from thence
forward most seriously to affect him; this
gentleman, we say, has been mostfreguent
in his, interviews with his Copperhead
advisers. The plan arranged was to as
sluOusly enGcavOr to stir up feeling
among q few soldiers by studied, wholesale
misrepresentation of the suffrage ques-
ton and the views of Union candidates
thereon; and by this means deceive. if
-,
soldiers convention to get up n ticket la
lsaloa Ap,ei 49,
true character Of the movement and to
neutralize. so far as possible, the odium
that would arise from an open view of their
sinking political carcass, were to meet the
next day and adopt the nominations to be
made the day before by makingnone them
selves-thus taking the possum baby into
the painting bosom of the Copperhead par
" of this county, to be warmed by its in
fective breath and nurscd iii its putrid
arms.
This was the programme. but nary SOL
dier could see it. The insiduous gentle
men working to get up Il soldiers call
could get nary soldier to sign il; they said
mot much, Mary Ann, do Won get us into
any suNIl ARRANGEMENT 10 IlTht our trends
and crafty Copperheads and sore-heads."
After working n week or two to get up n
''S"ldiers Call" and finding no soldier
green enough to be sucked in, one of these
precocious gentlemen working to get up
the call, concluded to have one soldier on
it any way, and having been i'm the hun
dred day service, signed the call himself
So on "Wednesday we observe the result of
all this terrible labor, i'm the PRONUNCIATION
of a call for a "Mass COnvention'' to get IN
an anti-negrO suffrage ticket, signed bv
this veteran of II hundred days and two !
other men: one Of whom has declared |
himself frequently most radically in favor
Of negro suffrage, cont Heroding ITorod" !
in this rcsper~and the third name nhe
first one i'll the CALI, we learn from a re- |
HaIie source. was put there without au-
thority- A good Joke on a soldiers call.
This "mass convcntiOn," alias Copper
head Aid Society, meets on the ,lav before
the Comprehend convention, and its pur-
pose and object is to make the nominations |
10 be supported ny the Comprehend party. |
snd TO defeat the regular Union party.
Gentlemen, he not deceived for You de-
ceive no one yourselves. The Union men
all understand you the soldiers understand |
you, anil will spurn and spit upor your
fraudulent abortion. To Union men wc
would say, give no attention to this ''stoo, |
pigeon. call. Go not near the uncrcan |
thng-let II die the death Of the wick ed. -
Stand fast to the cnlors of that Union party I
that has stood firm 10 tho country, firm to !
its soldiery, and whose great work is vet !
hut half finished. Let the POSTUM baby |
perish i'll the neglected nest of its own cor
ruption. ~
ACCIDENT AT ST. PAUL.-Gcn. Grant
and suite visited st. Paul on the 9th inst:
while the procession was passing up Third
street a frightful accident occurred. a
number of ladies, gentlemen and children
were standing on balcony of the second
story Of a house, il suddenly gave way
end precipitated them upon the sidewalk,
woundfng about fifteen persons, seven or
eight OF whom are seriously and Two or
three fatally. Isully twenty persons had
been standing on and under il, every one
Of whom were hurt more or less. and wing
on or covered by the wreck of the balcony
in one prOnniscu0us heap.
n New York Frenchman proposes to es-
tabIish the manufacture OF silk on large
scale in this country by importing from
France small colony of skilllul work men
and commence operations in Virginia,