The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1867-10-03
Soldiers ! Read This !!

Soldiers Read This >! q
The Copperheads having thrown
off their masks and utterlysesch ewed
all soldier and peoples ticket lodges
are conducting the cam
paign this yiar on the open unais-
guised Confederate platform. Mason,
a Washington City secesh being their
for Governor, and not hav-
ing a candidate on their ticket from
him doSn,f,olits tai, That served in
the army or had any sympathy with
the loyal cauH b during tho war; it IS
eminentIy right and proper that they
should import Brick Pomcroy 10
make their speeches. Hear what
this Coppcrhead, oracle andexponent
of their principleslto Iowa audiences
says inhis pas,er,a tho La Crosse
Democrat, in regard 10 Grant, fSher-
man, and Sheridan, and, in favor. Of
open rank reputation:
:" Thisis a great country $50 called
The throes and agonics, the storms
aud the passions of a bloody civil
war, thc,smoke and thunder Of battle
have given the, infamous immortality
to Grant, the stolid butcher Of men
Sherman. the relentless ire-brand
Of hell; Sheridan the ignorant and
cowardly upstart; Butler; the brute,
and incompetent blpnderer;t but Re.
publicanism has Inlght IN vain for
an instrument unscrupulous and vim.
dicaive, Bold and devi1ish Ell ough to
do its worst, IN defiance Of the opin.
ions or .rcnsonstranecs of the civilized
world. Escobedo is 1.-THE, man ifor
their purposes. The Radicals have
g fellow feeling for the Liberals
why not club together; form A. CO.
partnership offensive and defensive
take that bit ofsoil known. aa Mexi
co, into the glorious Union,j give the
Greasers a share in the stars and
stripes; place the 'ndministration q
affairs in the hands Of ,EsebbedO ant
'rhad Stevens, Or make mp a. quar-
tett. Of dictators and add ,Warez rane
Phillips? Our radical friends ar!
welcome to our suggestions"
| About Grant especially the follow
ing: ~. fHoa9i aat'aAW Iph
Democrats of the old Jetfersonia,
and Jacksonian school, want nothin!
] of this drunken upstartTthis Galen'
mule-driger. Leave him to the con
servatives and Republicans, or weak
kDeed Policy dodgers, or who vii
take the shallow,pat as standar,
bearer In this Iexigeney Of the re
public we want some one for a Pres
! Dental Candidate besides ma
whose only rec6mmendations ar
that he has eneedlessly butchers
more Federal soldiers than all othe
Generals put, together; that he
never found without cigar betwe
his lips; and he holds his. tongn
for the simple and very good ieaso
, that hei has nofhingI TO savt w
want MAN with brains in his hea
not a platter-headsd offshot or musl
: room growth of Radicalism! Iii
! garments smefl Of The Blood 81 Amer
can citizens, killed for emalating til
!. example set them by a rebellious an
/, glorious ancestry I'VE will none (
. him. a;tf
! Touching "repn,liatior,' tho fn1
lowing: g 5il22 7'd f.7' IS '"""-'o
: !" REFORMATION! 9593a. ''Ea 4a
Q Sand if you don't like ut. how
]. We hold no. bonds, and are ready !
). day to help organize. IA party. !
throw the first internal recenus, cole
}, tor that comes into this COMPRESSION
= DistrictIintolth the Mississippi rivera
t Millionsfor Defence but snot, OF
ylcent for Rump-protected Bond lH.l'
!. ders., ,5.i,
. Rehabilitation! ''ano ~ \
:, b. That is just what we mean
! Lincoln conld break through the Go
g stitution to wipe ont the, taxab
It property Of the South, we dare o.
do rip orr pen through the bon,
which holp the people in servitud
eb to bring relieffrom the incubus, Al
wipe out the Bond Holders of Ne
q England hyeite 9yln hne nes,ai,fp,
VT Repudiation !! .o.iz 9t.,cr ,,iso,
= This is Democracy ofIowal r
! miserable william, Pomsroy, is
n exponent Of tho p0rtya eli b@aoqq
o. Rev. s. 7. BuRNHAM, Q, our can,
i date for Superintendent Of schoo
. is q regular Collegiate graduate
has taught school for ten, years
Vermont, ard with his wife was 3
gaged. one year teaching in Muse
tine. He is . highly respected mi
! lister of the Baptist Church in ii
. city, and BY habit, disposition, Al
y cducation,4 10 man ] peculiaryfw
70 qualified for tAisireapoasible and de
al cate posltion.a He should be elect
ii without tts serious opposition, 10 i,
= s@l vallandinghan on Grant.
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