The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1868-09-24

We make the following extract
from an eloquonts speech recently
made at .Watseca Illinois, Lby tho
gallant Gen. John A. Logan.
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He then proceeded to the consid.
GRAFTON of the claims, merits, and roc.
olds of the respective candidates be.
fore the the people. He believed
there could be but one choice; that
though General Grant did not make
speeches, he possessed moro of the
elements of true greatness ard
statesmanship, than any number of
S3eymours. He inquired what Sey-
mour had done tossnake him states.
man. He had made a few speeches
Turing the war, but they were not in
favor of those opposed to the rebel.
lion; that he delivered speech in
New York on the Sd Of July, 1863,
wiring the great riot, in which he
Hed the rioters his friends, and
told them he was their friend; that
tho draft was unconstitutional
While no was making this speech
Meade was driving the rebels out of
Pennsylvania, and General Grant
was debating terms to $1,000 rebel
d Democrats at Vicksburg. General
'ssGrant had made few short speech
y vs, but they were eloquent ones.-
\ True, they had been delivered to
7 rebels at Donelson, Vicksburg, and
i i IN Virginia, but they were SO effect
1 ual in their influence, that they as
1 sisted very materially in the over
throw of that rebellion, the meas
ures to aid in accomplishing which
Seymour declared unconstitutional
lone delivered speeches with his own
mouth to rebel mob through cow
ardice or treason, the other delivered
double shotted speeches from the
I''mouths ofloyai guns for the prescr--
walton of the country. He contin-
sucd to contrast their records by
showing that while one was at home
giving aid and comfort to tho enemy,
r peace lcmocrat declaring the war
= O failure, the other was at the head
% thes brave boys in blue crushing re-
aebellton against the beet Government
= on which the sun ever shone. He
II then referred for q moment to Frank
2 Blair, and our noble Colfax. Blair
Y q letter to the New York Conven-
atson declares that the Reconstruc.
tion acts are unconstitutional, null
and void, that it is tho duty of the
4 sGoycrnment TO unda all that has
been done, to turn this country, es,
o;.necially the Southern States, over in
astosthe hands of rebels. He declared
the war failure, mistake. Colfax
was one Of natures noblemen, an
honest man, statesman, a patriot
,and Christian. No man could say
anght against him.
The General then considered the
character of the two great political
conventions. One, the Republican
Convention, at Chicago, was COM
posed of over six hundred delegates,
and among all these there was but
ono who had even sympathyzed with
the rebcllion-Governor Brown. Of
oGeorgia. All were true and devoted
olnen, who had never desecrated the
dag of their country. In the Demo-
cratic Convention there were the
same number. of delegates, eighty
two of whom were from the rebel
States, and among this number there
WINS not one who had not beon actu-
ally engaged in prosecuting the re-
boliion. Yes there was one. and on
y one man in that convention who
always been true to his country,
ard had never given aid and comfort
g tho enemy, and that man was JOS.
b Williams, Of Tennessee, formerly o
negro servant in Federal regi-
sNent, who had been drummod out Of
hts company and had had his head
shaved Observation-Disclosures, and in his
effort to find respectable company he
would be received nowhere except
in a Democratic Convention.