The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1868-10-29
From From the = D. Daily, Of Friday; 2sd. {
rs John +. Irish. s.,.et !.

seeking ladies, and Republicans, ans
to about 4 500 = empty chairs. " Y, ss5ls5 sias..
Irish ID . clever gentleman With
out amy of the characteristics lea1
marksof . democrat. He neither
| drinks tapgle. foot whiskey, 6r black
| guards hip opponents . ,Son the stump
which mnrks him At best as only |.
sort Of abnormal dsmocrat.gd a7au .
He has decided ability as 4 carps,
or sophomorical orator, but lacks the
pqngency and force, to bang.his fine
spun theories clean into, hnd Through
the thick pates ofan average demo
cratic crowd. 7sta9g1ao ~ u iq9
| e 70 .SsSYigff sGi rot R5ssF s.lf na (
AS It waslast night, many Of his
finely roundedperiods, aud glitterine
generalities, glided of Of that sudi>
ence, like water from i ducks back,
ando5 when 4, they n, did come
down with their applause, it was
Il II T.
generally at the wrong time, or else
when the orator gave his audience 4
hint that the time had arrived 70
laugh, By . suggestive y wave Of his
white handkerchief. 5nuoa sssw
His speech was almost . lvw6atan
repetition of the one he delivered
hero II i his il Joint ht,d debate bate win. aLopgh>
ridge. ,.sgs s,,Ii,,gs bss M arafT 's',os' :
r. he pitched into all tariffs for the
protection of home industry, with
a lively vim, which led one to believe
that he had not read his own N alton
alplatform, which declares for a .tarif.
for revenue upon foreign imports,
and sucho equal taxation under the
internal revenue law as will afford
incidental protection to domestic
manufacturers, and as will without
impairing the revenue, impose the
least burden upon and best promote
and encourage the great Industrial
interests ofcountry," or ours either
which has not one word on the tariff
question. IN it eaa.s' nsD2e. u osl'5silfa .
.9 We suppose that that plank, hsy,
ing been put into their creed like the
old d,catch-penny cry Of I. Polk, Dal.
las and the tariff of 42,n to humbue
pennsylvania schoveltyfanks, / int into
voting the Democratic ticket, which
they hAvejpst now concluded not to-
do, that Mr. Irish felt himself justii. j
ed in kicking this democratic brat
even if 1T was d member Of their own
family, - I.35,.1,,, I'm ~ ~. e g'al !
We were surprised to heara man
with Mr.. Irish's pretencesq to candor,
make the statement that all John
sons pretended State Governments,
passed laws repudiating the rebel,
and guaranteeing our national debt,
when he must have known, as we'll
as all the decently intelligent per-
sons in the house. that, those two
points were the very essence Of the
14th Amendment, which they steadi-
ly refused to ratify, until the recon-
structed were reconstracted,9 under
the present law, under which Z Of
them have been, re-admitted to the
Union. ew 4ga10 fpub n sbn
He made a numbering defence Of
the late Frank Blair, claiming that
his Broadhead letter, only, meant
peaceful, and legal resistance, TO- the
reconstruction, and other laws of
Congress, when he knew, and every-,
body else knew, that Blair in that
letter, We have frequently published,
said in PLAIN words that the Presi-
dent without any action of the iSu-
prems Court, should BY hisown die
Ia, declare them null and void, and
should use the army to trample them
into dust, and compel it to undo the
acts of the Legislative department Of
the Government. 'intapa bssi9agi4 q
MI, Irish knows that the moment
the President should attempt such .
high-handed violation Of his oAth,that
the Ssnste would impeaeh him, and
that peachment would probably Be
resisted BY the President, were he
Blair, and thai this would bring
iabont y conflict, again drencbing the
land with fraterrat blood, bat still.
the democracy arc tor peace, and If
any war grew out Of q dictatorial
President, declaring BY his own fiat
the laws Of the land unconstitutional
and trampling theml into dust, tho
desperate, bloodylradicals would be
held Responsible forit. salsm y 4ain4.
The negro came in tor, the usual
amount Of M, Ir.sh's polished venom,
and the only solution Of the great ne.
gro question which he couid arrive
at was ,bs their forcibls'. deportation, 70
Liperla'fo aaiwl ao9d bad daodw is .
& There is one, consideration i that
leads us to entertain Mr.. Flrish,s col.
onization scheme with s,5me favor il Is
aside de- from its utter imp pfacticabiIty-
and that is that if four million Of ne-
gro laborors were i ent to Africa, III
would greatly ben eft them, and tend
TO purify their ',lood, i'll reemoyiin4g oyiir4,
them from con tact with, their late
democratic r4lasters, and that several
millions of.azy, idle, lvagabond white
democra q IS, who draw their breath o.
life ! Q. thr ough the negro, would be com;
pelle dto do more work, and indulge
IN '.ess treason and politics, ioros elss
$ tarve to death, the latter ALTERNATIVE.