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The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1868-10-01
Ku-Klnx Gems.
From the Louisville Journa

| FROM the LOUISVILLE journal.
'.Forney asks what statutes the De-
mocracy will appeal to for authority
to resist whatever Congress may
think proper to do. To statutes of
steel IT necessary, to statutes that do
their quick work with q CLEAN, a
flash, and q crack"
"The noblest States of the Union
have sent forth glorious conserva-
tive shout to the East, and New Eng
land sings back response through
her nose."
"Thc Northern Radical organs say
that the North is too cold for the ne /.
groes. 1t may be SO, but, if they
don't behave themselves, they will
find the South too hot too hold them" I"
can alligator recently killed a fierce
radical negro in the harbor Of Nor
folk. Hurrah for the alligator May
their tribe increase. Let them be pro-
tected by the laws"
"a Louisville radical, inferring from
paragraph in the JOURNAL of yester-
day, that we are the leader OF the
kuklux klans, asks us to ssgive the
signs and grips AS to the signs, We
have to say in the language OF the
scripture, "A wicked and adultcrous
generation seek after sign, but no
sign shall be given them.' AS for
the grip, we will give that with pleas.
ure, when we get the radical party by
the windpipe.'
Having refused to come back into
their proper position in the Union in
obedience to Congress, they Certain
Southern States} now propose TO
choose Electors in defiance OF Con-
gress, on the assumption that they
have always been where they should
have been. But Congress counts the
votes. ."-Ne,o York Tribune.
'Yes, but Congress had better count
the cost of counting the votes wrong
and traudulently, 1t might cost 70
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The Keokuk Constellation, speaking
of the recent fearful riot, in Camilla
Georgia, an account of which we
published last week, says:
"Fearful as is the present aspect Of
affairs in that section of the Union,
is but the beginning Of the end"
IAN open confession is good for the
SOUL" and we like to have Copper
heads speak out plainly and tell us
that they intend to carry out the
teachings of the Democratic plat
form, and of Blair, Hampton, & Co.
at is but the beginning of the end
is it ? Republican speakers are to be
killed out right, all over the South
fol attempting to speak for Grant
and Colfax, and their audiences bru.
tally assassinated by Ku Klux rioters,
and hundreds of them violently put
to death? We predict that these
outrages will end when Grant takes
the Presidential chair, or that the
existence of Ku Klux rebels will
end.
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Personal.

Governor Grape Of Michigan, is re-
covering.
Rosa Bonheur is 46 years Of age.
VIM. Lloyd Garrison Is writing =
history OF the United States.
Commodore Mutt end Minnie War
rem are to DO married. Together they
are worth 4250,0OO.
Rev. DIR. Tying follows Beecher in
writing stories for the Ledger.
The Queen Dowager OF Prussia
subsists on bread and milk.
Napoleon is said TO be experiment
ing with petr ,leum for gunpowder.
Paul Morphy has returned from
Europe.
The Due do Aumale has offered
Henri Rocheforte, the spirited editor
of the Ldntcrne, his house at Wicken-
ham, England, fora permanent resi-
dence.
John Stuart Mill is likely TO be
defeated in Westminster. The ma
jority Of the newly enfranchised in
that constituency are "stupid and
gluttony" men who, cannot appreci-
ate the great philosopher.
NJ. de. Girardin says Napoleon's
failings are owing tohis excessive use
of tobacco.
The Marquis Of Hastings, having
concluded his Fishing tour" 10 Nor
way, won't to Baden Baden to risk
another fortune on the great annual
race-meeting at that city.
John Aliens wife is q Roman Cath
olic
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Denoralized.

The poverty ofthe language, and
the necessities of the occasion, COM
PEELED us to conscript the above word
during the war, and to make it do un-
willing service, as representing those
on either side, who under raking
fire, concluded that they thought
more of themselves than of their be-
loved country and SO ran away, to
live to fight another day.
"Demoralized" is the fitting word
TO apply to the Coppcrhead party at
this moment.
Since the resounding shots from
Vermont and Maine, have unmista-
kably portended the doom Of Copper
headism in November, the lame, halt,
struggling, 70 1t sore, and all the de-
moralized hosts of the enemy, singly,
in files, platoons, companies. reg-i
ments, brigades and divisions, are
pouring into our camp, until we are
over-burdened with " demoralized !"
prisoners.
No man with his fingers on the
public pulse, or his ear to the earth,
can fail to discern the grand ground
swell Of popular acclaim, tha: is to
inaugurate Grant and Colfax, with
political peace, and financial pros
perity, at the rapidly approaching
election.
Now is the time young men, for
you to come out from the Anderson
vile and Libby party, and to ally
yourselves to the invincible party that
subdued the rebellion that lifted up
out of the depths of slavery, into the
pure light Of freedom, four millions
of slaves, and that will govern, and
give tone to the policies of the coun-
try it has saved, tor years to come.
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More Blood.

We clip the following bloody"
article from Brick Pomeroy's La
Crosse Democrat
"The CALLING chains cannot much
longer be worn. Elect GRANT to
continue this high-handed oppression,
and they will not be worn. Blood,
no, we are not after blood, but we an
swer the old cry OF negro equality or
blood, with the new cry phtte eguali-
ty or blood. Blood, not because OF
our labors, but in spite OF our best
spoke. words. When Satan gets
loose, and brings hell and confusion
on earth, we must chain him if it
does take blood.
And If by foul means ,oe are defeated
then let our cry be Jloodl
Brick had evidently been taking
some Of the Democratic Platform"
inwardly, when he penned the above,
and was in consequence in a bloody"
humor. He doubtless fancied he
saw Seymour's friends" burning
some more Negro Orphans Asylums;
and shooting down defenceless wo-
men and children, or starving Union
soldiers to death, a la Wirz style at
Andersonville, and was desirous of
stirring up the animals, once more,
that they might be in readiness for
new victims.
We suppose +" Brick" means to call
the defeat of the c Moore. Wirz. Blair
Hampton ticket foul, if Mississippi,
Texas and Virginia are not allowed to
cast their votes in the Electoral Col
lege, and will organize and put on foot
ne,o rebellion for the overthrow of our
Republican institutions but we warn
him and c Moore's friends" North
and South, that if they undertake
this, they will be ignominiously de-
fcated and that the leaders of the
movement will be presented with
enough hemp neckties to last them
until they join Wirz in the "sitting
room" of his satanic majesty's lo,cer
hotel.
The people of the United States
have had enough of treason, rebellion
and civil war, and are in 70 mood at
present to .bo trifed with.
The States Of Virginia, Texas and
Mississippi, are not represented in
Congress because they refused to
adopt State Constitutions Republi-
can in form, and Congress, having
the right under the Constitution Of
the United States, and it being their
duty to guarantee such Constitutions
to these Stases, they have wisely re-
fused to allow them to participate
in the affairs of the general govern
mont, until they adopt such Consti-
tutious, and the votes of the above
named States will not be counted for
President and Vice President until
they comply with the requirements
OF the law.
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The Sun has the following report
go n,,r;oua and i,nn0rtant COnyorSA.

The Sun has the following report
of curious and important convorsa.
ton. 80
A well-known gentleman Of this
city was conversing with Gen. +. 2.
Blair, jr., not long since, upon the
power of Congress to reconstruct the
South. Gen. Blair warmly maintain
ed that the Reconstruction laws were
unconstitutional, and that there was
no authority in the National Govern.
ment to endow negroes with the
elective franchise in the conquered
States. "You are mistaken" said his
friend: "the Supreme Court has fully
decided tho question in favor Of the
power exercised by Congress.
"How so?" asked tho General. IL
never heard of any s1ch decision" :.
II will give you the points" was
the answer.
IL. The Supreme Court has decided
that the National Government has
the same rights and powers a. re-
CARDS the States lately in Rebellion,
as it would have toward States or
Territories conquered in war with .
foreign power.
"II. The Supreme Court decided
years ago in New Mexico, which We
had just then conquered in the war
with Mexico, the orders Of Gen.
Kearney, the Military Governor Of
that Territory, had all the forco of
law and must be obeyed as such.
"IlI. Among these orders of Gen.
Kearney, in Mexico, was codo
of laws which he promulgated some
time about 1s47, by which the right
of suffrage was conferred upon oil
males of lawful age, ,oithout distinction
Of color, negroes included.
"IV. This code, which was thus
imposed on New.Mexico by she mili-
tary power, the Supreme Court deci-
ded to be the rightful law of the Tor
ritory, until it should be set aside by
express act of Congress-.
"v. The apparent author of this
negro suffrage code was Francis 2.
Blair, jr.. whose name was attached
to it as Attorney. General of the Ter
ritory."
"That's. true," responded Gen.
Blair, "but didn't suppose any id
black Republican knew it."
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A New Rebellion.

1t can no longer be doubted that
the leaders Of the democratic party,
North and South, are in favor of, and
are using every means IN their power
to stir up the passions, and prejudice
oftheir followers, for the purpose of
inauguratinga a new rebellion against
the government. 1t is To be brought
about if Seymour ia defeated, says
the spokemen of that party, and its
equally certain to be brought about if
he is elected, ifthe Democratic Plat
form, and Frank Blairs letter to
Col. Broadhead, mean anything
The democratic press throughout the
entire country are advising the un-
reconstructed states Of Virginia, Tex
as, and Mississippi, to disregard the
laws of Congress, and hold elections
in November, for Presidential elec-
tors, and promise them, if their votes
are not counted that they shall be
assisted by the entire democracy, in
another rebellion to overthrow the
government.
From the Louisville (Ky.) Journal,
ofthe 22nd, We take tho following,
pom the subject in question:
Now our opinion, an opinion as to
the rectitude of which we have not
even a moments doubt, is, that the
three States named, Virginia, Missis-
sippi, and Texas. without the slight
ost Difference or regard to the infa-
mously partisan and unconstitutional
legislation of Congress and without
taking the least account of the alb
sence of enabling orders or paying
any attention whatever to threats is
suing from under tho shadow
Of cooked hats and epaulettes,
should, on the day Of the
election Of Presidential electors
throughout the United States, pro-
ceed to the election of electors Just as
if there We're no such thing as a Con.
grcssional disabling law, fierce hat,
or shoulder-strap.
Let them elect their electors, for
we do not suppose that they need be
deferred from the exercise of that
prerogative by tho fear of satraps
and their bayonets. Let them by all
means elect their electors and leave
the consequences to the people Of
tho nation, themselves included. We
can assure them, that if they shall
elect Seymour and Blair electors,
and if the counting Of the votes of
their electors would give Seymour
and Blair majority in the electoral
colleges of the country, the votes of
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much that Congress couldn't foot The
bill but would itself be footed.

much that Congress couldn't foot .he
bill but would itself be footed
"Gcnerel Sheridan not only wants
Grant and Colfax elected, but hc do.
sires the success of John A. Griswold
Republican candidate for Governor
of New York. Hesaid, recently, 81
do hope John GriswoId will be elect
cd, and if he is I'll throw up my hat
and bur my boots |" Gallant Phil.
will have an opportunity of perform
ing both these feats in u few weeks
= Philadelphia Press.
Undoubtedly the late ckpositions
of the infamous private characters of
General Sheridan and Elk Governor
Brown ofGeorgia should prevent any
decent man, even though o radical,
from even uttoring the name of either
exceptin tones of Kissing scorn.''
The above gems Of Ku Kluxism are
all taken from the editorial columns,
of the Journal of the 22d inst. Com
ment upon them is unnecessary. If
any person can read them and doubt
that the Democratic party is a party
of treason and rebellion, they are
past redemption"
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Toombs, Of Georgia.

In a recent speech to the Ku-Kldx
Democracy, of Cedar Town, in that
State, said Of the fourteenth amend.
ment to the Constitution ofthe Uni
ted States:
"The adoption of this amendment
is of itself a damning proof of the
revolutionary purposes of the radi-
Gals. The reconstruction acts require
that none ofthe States to which they
are made applicable should be admit
ted into the Union until they had
severally adopted this amendment" +"
X
"This pretended amendments itself
drawn with the intent to destroy the
equality of the States, while seeming
to apply the same rule to all. The
States which did not hold slaves be-
fore tho war had but few negroes
among them; most ofthem but enough
to elect single representative to the
Legislature, none of them enough to
gain an additional member in Con-
gress; while in some of the Southern
States the negroes wero the most nu-
merohs, and in all of them formed a
substantial part of the population. +
|* 1t would deprive Georgia ofone-
half of her members and electors, and
tho late slavc-holding States of more
than thirty members of Congress-
This vile and dastardly fraud is well
worthy of the whole craftsmanship
OF their party"
This, amendment says Mr.. Toombs,
will adestroy the equality Of the
States" Such, however, is false, as
it only makes them equal. If the
State of Georgia deprives her colorcd
citizens Of the right of suffrage, she
deprives herself of half her Represen.
tatlves in Congress, but ifshe permits
them to retain that right, she has as
much power in the federal govern
ment, according to her entire popula.
ton, as Iowa. Could anything be
more just1
But would it be equality for Georgia
and South Carolina, with only hall
the white population of Iowa, to have
as many representatives andelectors
as We ? We think not. Now these
Southern States want representation
for their negroes but they want to
do the voting for hem at the same
time, and it certainly is great
pity (?) that Wade Hampton, N. b
Forrest, and Robert Toombs, are moi
permitted to cast two ballots at every
election, while the loyal people oi
Iowa are permitted to cast but one
vote each. The Republican party
however, are opposed to giving red
handed rebels any more political pow
or in this country than the loyal mer
who fought for it are permitted te
exercise, and the Vallandinghams and
Toombs, may just as well make ul
their minds to this and prepare &c
''cease firing" after Nov. Sd, as tn,
fourteenth amendment is part and
parcel OF the Constitution cfthe Uni
ted States, and as such must forever
stand.
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THE WEEKLY COURIER
J. M. HEDRIoK, Editor.
OTTUMwA, IOWA
Thursday ... October l, 1868
Our Position.

In recent number of the Courier
we took occasion to draw a compari
son between the liberal character OF
Republican speakers, and papers, and
the bigoted and proscriptivc teach>
ings Of Copperhcad orators and jour
nails.
We done so by showing that while
fully eight tenths Of the Catholics Of
the United States, under the lead Of
their priests we're blind supporters
Of a falsely so-called democracy, they
were rarely, ifever, assailed as res
ligious body for it, by our secular
press.
On the other hand we referred to
the equally notorious fact that while
probably eight tenths of the Protest
ants in this country were Republi-
cans, they were from their ministers
down to the humblest member, thro'
all their branches, made the objects
of the most foul-mouthed abuse from
Copperhead papers and stumpers
solely because such large proportion
of them were Republicans.
Now any anonymous scribler that
lodges behind an incog, or any other
man, that can construe that state.
ment to be an assault on the Catholic
church, is certainly unworthy Of far
ther notice, and only fit material to
do the voting for party that under
the outraged name of Liberty and
Democracy, wagcd q four years bitter
war to perpetuate tho enslavement
and brutalizIng of four millions of
their fellow-men.
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The Campaign.

From every quarter of the coun>
try, our exchanges bring 10 us the
most cheering intelligence Of the IA
yorable progress ofthe Great Political
Campaign. The glad tidings ofthc
great victory in the Pine Tree
State, has indeed carried confusion
and dismay into the ranks of our
enemies, Notwithstanding the futile
attempts OF the Democratic press to
bolster up their down-hearted and de-
pressed followers, with Figures that
prove they can carry Ohio, Indiana
and Pennsylvania, because they lost
Vermont and Maine. Ihey SEQ the
handwriting on tho wall, and theil
Southern allies, who a few days since
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MAINE ELEcrIoN-Frst DispatcI
to the Boston Post.-"The campaign
has been conducted with unexampled
vigor by both parties"
Second Dispatch to the same.-"The
State election has beer looked for
ward to with great deal of interest
by both parties, and the campaign
has exhibited o greater amount Of
enthusiasm, and has been entered into
,cith more vigor, than any preceding
contest since 1864
Third Dispatch to the san,e.-s'The
i'emocracy Of the Pine Tree State
scere soithoMt an organization"
Here is campaign "condut ted
with unexampled vigor," into which
"both parties entered with more vigor
"than in any preceding contest" and
yet tho Democracy were ",0ithout an
organization"
1T seems to us that these state
ments don't "mix up well."-N Y
Tribune.
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Speaking.

1t pretty generally admitted that
rs a speakest, Grant is nota brill liant
success. His talent for making other
men speak, is however extraordinary.
In this respect he may be likened to
Napoleon. The latter was once raj.
lied at a party, by lady he was dan
cling with, on account of his awkard-
ness, in the quadrille. Tho truth is
madam, said the first consul, my par
ticular forte is to rather make others
dance, than to dance myself" The
speech that Grant extorted from Lee,
at Appomattox, gayo mere satisfac-
ton to the American people, than
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were SO full of hope in the resurrec-
tion of the "lost cause" from its Ap
pomattox grave, are opening theil
eyes to the fact that the freemen o
the North are not yet ready to sur
render to a beaten, and yet unrepen.
tant foe.
The Richmond Enquirer Of the
I'D, in a leading editorial under the
head of'An Outlook at tho Prospect,
says:
"Somc ofour unsophisticated Conser-
vatives in this State are exhibiting a
degree of depression over the "news
from Maine which is making both
themselves and their friends unhappy
land needlessly 10. It cannot be
denied that these good people are de-
pressed, for their sickly smiles would
betray the fact even if we denied it.
They read the comments of
the Herald and construe the
news in a;big disaster. Some of them
likewise.point to the columns Of our
neighbors, the Whig and the Dispatch
and taking counsel of their fears
straightway plunged themselves into
the gulf of dependency. Now this
is all wrong, and all of it is wrong.
Even if the cause Of constitutional
liberty bad suffered a grave disaster
in the contest in Maine"
We think "graver disaster" will
overtake their cause with Maine force
in October, that will have the effect
Of still farther lengthening their Wis
ages, and cause complete depression
Of their spirits, and the hopes OF a
new rebellion headed by Blair, and
aided by the Democratic party
North.
flour friends in Pennsylvania, In
diana and Ohio but do their duty in
October, and we are certain they
will, Grant will be elected in Nov. by
100000 majority OF the popular vote.
$50 boys a final bumper" &c.
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A Discovery.

The Richmond Enquirer and Eram-
iner deserves pewter medal, for
having after painful labor-discover
cd who the true heroes of the war
were. In late number, it says:
The true soldiers Of the Union
army-the Netherlands, the i.w.
"ings, the Rosecranses, the Halpines,
'.the Hancocks, the Blairs, and oil the
''other brave leaders Of the Federal
"hosts have given the order to "ccase
''firing."
What will little Mac. say for being
left out Of that tea party
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and the Supreme Court into submis-
sion to a forcible overthrow of recon
structiOn and all kindred ncta. and

and the Supreme Court into submis-
sion to a forcible overthrow Of recon
struction. and all kindred acts, and
that when the trainers of the Demo
cratic platform declared the same
"Unconstitutional, revolutionary and
void" that they still hoped to be
able to reap desirable crop Of votes
from among the vilest and most rev.
|olntionary men of the South by this
inccndiary appeal without melting
them as was done before to open acts
of violence.
Tho result shows that they have
been sowing to the wind, with an
excellent prospective Of reaping the
whirlwind: and that the defeated,
bafled, vindictive remnants of tho
rebellion taking Seymour, Blair and
Wade Hampton's language literally,
and as sufficient warrant to justify
them, have commenced the work Of
numbering and driving from their
midst all the hated loyalists Of the
South.
The only power strong enough to
control these bloody revolutionists,
who have already made the fairest
portion of their once happy land, o
charnel house; is the iron hand cloth
ed in a glove of velvet, which welded
the victorious sword of Vicksburg,
Missionary Ridge, and Appomattox,
and it is glorious augury for the
future peace and prosperity of this
+sountry, that the grand ground swell
Unpopular favor is setting in SO strong
in that direction, as torender It's con-
sumation in November well nigh
certainty.