The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1868-07-16
Blair.

OrlcK fOmerOyS Dem0cT0s claims
5000 subscribers.
It is undoubtedly the most .oxton-
sively circulated Copperhead paper
in the country. In his paper Of the
9Th Of July 1868, he draws the fol.
lowing life like picture Of the rene
gade and cast off Blair, whom the
Oopperheads are now running for
Vice President, which we commend
to our Democratic friends as pleasant
reading this cool weather.
ITO have one ofthat pestilent Blair
family talking oracularly about the
affairs Of the Democratic party is
the most impudent thing of the day.
What have the Blairs in common
with the Democratic party? Old
Blair has been virulently working
against it, and doing it all the harm
in his power, for more than twenty
years, and during all this time-em-
bracing the whole Of their political
lives-the young Blair's have been
ready and active coworkers with
their father in feeding his hate and
ministering to his thirst of vengeance
against the Democratic party.
They all contributed, to the extent
Of their ability, to widen the gulf
and increase the bitterness between
the North and South, which led to
the late tremendous commissions.
They were in every movement for
the promotion of sectional division
and hostility, from the free soil de-
lection, under tho Van Burens, in
1857 8-mainly instigated and en-
gincered by old Blair-until the cleo
ton Of Lincoln, and the inaugura-
ton of abolition diabolism in the
Capitol of the Union.
One of the young BLAIRs q member
of L1NcoLN's Cabinet, the other one
of his military tools-the civilian
damning himself forever, as o public
man, and placing animpassiblc barrier
between himself and all true demo.
cratic fellowship, by a bold violation
0flaw, an audacious defiance of the
Constitution, in excluding from tho
mails oil Democratic papers which
conapicuously differed inopinion from
the policy and measures Of the Lin
coln administration, and when re-
spectfully asked by tho parties ag-
grieved why, and BY what authority,
such action was taken against them,
insolently answered, as would q pct
ulant boy, when questioned why no
had been guilty Of certain miscon-
duct-"I did It because Ihad a mind
to i"-and the military member of the
Blair family making his first demon
stration in the field, by leading his
regiment of brutal ruffians against
the unarmcd populace of st. Louis,
unfortunately shooting down, in
tho crowded streets, men, women,
and children, numbering by Wholesale
an unofending population, and COM
hitting q deed Of cruelty blackor and
more objectionable than any of which
the Infamous Suwarrow was ever
guilty, and, in contact with which,
the acts fwoman-whipping Haynau,
whom the sturdy and Indignant
brewers of London SO merciles sly
booted and pelted, appear decent and
humane.
And this he, too, did-'because he
had a mind to I"
And who does not remember that
fine piece Of political strategy-that
charmingly pure and honorable bit Of
man9uvering between Lincoln and
young Frank Blair, during the war,
when the latter, while holding q gen.
erals commission in the army, got
himself elected to Congress from st.
Louis :?
Frank wanted to get into the House
and be Speaker. If he couldn't be
Speaker he wanted to remain q gen,
eral. But he could notbe member
of the House and . General both al
the same time.
This had to DO managed in some
way. So Frank, and brother Mont.
gomery, and Lincoln, and old man
Blair, got together and SGT their wits
ut work to devise some way of getting
along with it. :
The result was eminently creitablc