The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1867-06-06
Horace Greely.

Inc IOllOWlnS Is the closing part
ola long editorial by Greeley, in tho
New York Tribune, in reply to the
invitation of the President Of the
Union League Club to be present du-
ring the discussion Of the PROPOSE
ton to expel him, for the active part
he took in procuring the release Of
jeff. Davis If
s-Gentleman, / shall not attend
your meeting this evening. j have
an engagement out Of town, and shall
keep it. / do not recognize you as
capable of judging, or even fully ap
pretending me. You evidently re
gard ME as a weak sentimentalist,
misled by maudlin philosophy. ]
arraign you as narrow.Eainded block
heads; who would like to be useful to
a great and good cause, but don't
know how. Your attempt to base a
great, enduring party on the hate
and wrath necessarily engendered by
a bloody Civil War, is as though you
should plant a colony on an iceberg
which had somehow drifted into a
tropical ocean. | tell you here that
out Of a life earnestly devoted to the
good Of human kind, your childlen
will select my going to- Richmond
and signing that bail-bond as the
wisest act and feel that it did more
for Freedom and Humanity than all
Of you were competent TODD, though
you had lived to the age of Methuse-
lab. T f,
ask nothing of you, then, but
that you proceed to your end by a
direct. frank, manly way. Don't ST.
die OF into a mild resolution Of cen
sure, but move the expulsion which
you purposed, and which deserve il
| deserve any reproach whatever.
tAll care tor is, that you make this
a square, stand up fight, and record
your judgement by. yeas and nays
care not how few vote with me nor
how many against me; for / know
that the latter will repent it in dust
and ashes before three years have
passed. Understand, once for all
that I dare you and defy you, and
that Ipropose to fight it out on the
line that have held from the day Of
Lees surrender. So long as any man
was seekingto overthrow our Gov.
-rnment, he was my enemy from
the hour in which he laid down his
arms, he was my formerly .!erring
countryman. So long as any is al
heart opposed to the National unity,
the Fed ,ral authority, or to that as.
sertion Of the equal rights Of all men
which has become practically identi.
fed with loyalty and nationality,
Shall do my best to deprive him Of
power but, whenever; he ceases to
be thus, l demand his restoration to
all the privileges Of American citizen.
ship. l give you fair notice that /
shall urge the ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF
those now prescribed for Rebellion
SO soon as | shall feel confident that
this course is consistent with the
freedom Of blacks and the unity of
the republic, and that shall demand
recall Of all now in exile only tor
participating in the Rebellion, when
ever the country shall have been SO
thoroughly pacified that it's safety
,, willn thereby be endangered. And
SO, gentlemen, hoping that you will
henceforth comprehend me some.
what better than you have done, |
remain yours, HORACE GREELEY
/ N. Y, May %, '67.
The Madison Courier says that at
o dance in that city the other night
two youths became "struck" with
the same girl. She, not willing to
show special favor to either, de-
clined dancing, and seated herself in
the back part Of the room. Being
chilly, the fair maiden wore large
shawl and one of her admirers con
Guided to slip his hand urder the
shawl, and try what effect squeezing
her hand would have. With nerv-
Gus trepidation he made the attack
and succeeded. He was blisful. He
squeezed and she squeezed. lie felt
glorious too. After quite a.joyful
time spent III this way, the lady
threw back her shawl, and revealed
to a little crow standing near, the
two youths squeezing one anothers
hands most lovingly. 1t don't do to
say squeeze" to either one of them
since.