The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1868-08-06
A NO, ONE LIAR.

readers will rccollect represents the
supposed to be decent side Of Cop
perhead politics, (something scarcely
visible with the nakod eye,) in con-
tradistinction to the bawdy house
sort, like tho Lacrosse Democrat,
saysin its issue of the 18th ult:
4 From 1861 to 1864, being four
years of war, tho radicals increased
that debt to $4,000, 100000. From
1865 TO 1868, being three years Of
peace, the Radicals added to the debt
$500, 100000, SO that after all the eff.
orts at reducing the national burdens
we find ourselues to-day, after three
years ofpeace, making up with four
years of war seven years of radical
supremacy, more than three thousand
million ofdoliars worse off as a nation
than we were in 1867
Now We happen to have lying be.
tore us, an official statement made by
Hon. David A. Wells, special Com
missioner of Internal Revenue, to
Hon. VIM. B. Allison, M. c., from
the Dubuque district of this State on
the 9th day of July last, from which
we take the following extract
Coincident with the above reduc.
ton OF taxation, or from the 31st of
August, 1865 to tho Both day of June
1868, the aggregate of tho national
Indebtedness, including cash in the
treasury, exhibits reduction, in
round numbers, of two hundred and
fifty millions (25O,0 ,OOO.) On this
abatement of the debt, the reduction
Of the interest calculated at six DER
cent would be fifteen millions $(i5.-
O0O.0OO) per annum.
Our readers will observe that these
contradictory statements cover ex-
actly the same period of time,-from
65 to 6S,-during which the menda-
cious World makes the increase of
our public dobt 100000, while
the able Commissioner shows it's re-
dnction to be for tho Same time
s25O,oOo,OOO.
And this is the sort ofpolitical pab-
ulum that venal, lying, Copperhead
papers cram down the gullible throats,
1.-THE babes of democracy.
't No less noticeable for its Infamous
perversion oftho truth, is the statement
that Radicals increased the public
debt from 81 to IS to 81, 600, OOo, 900.
That debt, every silver Of it, was
contracted to put down democratic
war; every man who fought in the
rebel ranks was then, and is now a
democrat in good standing every
man in this country who ever fred
upon, and trampled on tho American
Flag was a democrat; every brute
like Wade Hampton or Forrest, who
murdered our prisoners, are shining
lights in that party; while nine
tenths Of the men who wore plum
dering the government during the
war, thus increasing its magnitude,
were Democrats, and are Democrats,
or else came over into our party and
simulated loyalty, for tho purposeof
plying their Democratic thieving
propensities.
The debt then, every cent of it, is
Democratic debt, and every green
back, bond, or other evidence Of in
debtedness contracted in putting
down this Democratic shindy, ought
to have written across their faces
Democratic War Debt"
The Republican, and loyal party,
was the great posse conitatus that
hunted down and subjugated the hell
born rebellion, and they are just as
much, and no more responsible for
the public debt, than the Constables,
Sheriffs, Juries and Judges are re-
sponsible for the expenses of hound
ing to the gallows and State Prison,
the murderers, thieves and outlaws
that curse every community.