The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1868-04-30

| South is another manifestashen uy
Radlike hate and malignity. Hec
they counseled EN- to continyoo ir
that meeknis, the hoomility and
humblenis NV wich is so lovely in the
nigger, there wood hev bin no Ku
Klux, and the hair, or too speek
more eggsact, the wool nv the head
NV no one NV EN- wood hev bin
harmed, exceptin when the high
sperited sons Nv the South, after on
unwonted indulgence in the flown
bole, mite in a playful, sportive mood,
occasionally shoot or stab dozen OF
sich matter NV EN-. Thep hev brot
it upon themselves. Ask me now
about Grant, Sherman and them.'
did SO, and the President ansered
promptly, enforcin his remarks with
approprit testers:
II alluz reposed CRATE confidence
in Grant. For a long time he wuz
wonderfully reticent NV wich didn't
take no notls, for ez it waz incom-
prehensible to me how any one Good
differ with me, | sposed he wuz troo
to ne and the constooshen. l never
lost faith in his pateritism till he
insanely and blindly commenced
opposin me, and then resigned him
reluctantly. But he finally went
over. Wat an awful thing it is that
one who he'd won sich laurels ez he
hed-who he'd made sich name,
shood throw it too the earth by one
false step. But SO it wuz with Grant.
He had rendered me valyooable
assistance in putin down the rebel
lion, and he'd suffered almost ez much
for the constooshen ez / he'd, but he
rooined hissclf after all. Sheridan
me from the beginnin, thus
layin hisself out for all time.
Howard, ez if bit with the same
snake, wuz in advance nv him.
Seerman, Sickles, and the great ma
jority Nv the Generals who served,
did likewise. Rosso and Steadman
remained troo, and Hancock wuz
finally persuaded to stand by the
Ship NV State, but the rest NV EN-
persisted in plungin the country
into dissension and trouble by op-
posin me. When / think NV how
they rooined themselves-uv wat
ridiculous figure they. will cut in
history ez my opponents, ] can't
avoid droppin bitter teer or two.
1t wood be well to put in here, "The
President wuz vizably affected
"The removal NV Stanton and the
appointment NV Thomas in his sted
IS wat these disorganizers, these con.
centrators who oppose me that the
Government may be concentrated
into their hands instid NV bein
diffoosed thro mine, chcefy depend
upon. Wat is ther in it2 Stanton
wuz opposed to me, without wich no
government kin go on satisfactorily
10 the head thereof, removed him. |
How kin the goyernmentgo on with |
anybody opposin me?-ef nobody |
opposed me ther wood be no dis
poots. Tho people must understand
his, that they may put the blame |
wher b'longs. ! hev no objecshun
10 sayin that to bring about har-
nony and peece, / wood, of / Good, |
remove Congress, that the struggle |
us might be ended. But no |
ons can object to my removin
Stanton. viii they say that the |
tener NV offs act perfected him? l |
shell answer to wunst that / had
lecided that act unconstooshne long |
.go, and consekently it he'd no |
oindin force onto me. l weep con-
over the perversnis NV the |
men who will continyooally keep a |
oassin laws wich they know / will
declare onconstooshnel.
"Ez to the result | hev nary a
loubt. The people are with me.
Look at their anxiety for my tri-
lmph, and the sacrifices they are
willin to make. Why, over four
thousand Nv my friends residin in
Moo York were so anxious that my
,ther friends in Connecticut shood
succeed, that they went all the way !
% Hartford and Moo Haven to vote /! |
Wax there ever sich patriotism dis
played afore? Who kin doubt, |
when backed by sich adherents?'
The President signified that he
vuz done.
"Hadn't yoo better look over
,hese notes." sed |, there may be
,hings 700 hev sed wich 700 wood
not like to hev publisht."
"Nor' sed he. I" 1t don't matter
If | hev sed anythin that l don't |
,are to father. | kin easily deny it, |
md Randall and Welles will swear l |
never sed it. Farewell Be true to |
he Constooshen ez / constroo it, and |
he laws ez | understand EN-, and all |
will be WELL"
l left the CRATE man feelin that of |
le don't whale his persekooters, it |
wont be becoz he hazn't sublime |
in hisself.
PETROLEUM V. NAsBY, P. NJ,
(Which is Postmaster |