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The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1868-10-29
ROlted.

Clinton Parkhurst, Esq, formerly
associate editor of the Davenport
Democrat and one of the red-hot
democrats in Northern Iowa, has
been sojourning in Springfield, Mis-
souri,, for few months, and his con-
tact with Southern Rebel Demo.
Gratis, and his knowledge thus acquir-
cd, oftheir revolutionary tendencies,
has been sufficient to knock every
vestige of modern Democracy out OF
him, and make him now a Jealous
supporter of Grant and Colfax,
He writes Letter to the Davenport
Gd-ette announcing his conversion
stating among other things that the
South is upon the point of another
revolution, and that if Seymour and
Blair should be elected, it would pres
cipitate the Southern people, and the
whole country, again into the terri.
BILE whirlpool of civil war, and that
in his opinion nothing can prevent
this deplorable state of affairs from
occurring, except the election of Gen
Grant, whose hand of iron in a glove
of velvet, will alone be able to hold
those turbulent spirits in subsection
and maintain peace and quiet in the
country.
Mr.Parkhurst's experience corrob
CRATES that of almost every other maj
who has been South any great length
oftime. His letter has created grea
CONSERVATION among his old politica
associates at Davenport and else
where. n Gl $3.50
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.LET JEEMEs Co., The Land We
Loye gives model letter from
young lady whose sweetheart was
IN the Fifth South Carolina regiment,
to Mr.. Davis, President of the late
Confederacy, asking for . fdrlough
for her lover to come home and got
married. at 4 .,tea4s
"Dear Mr.. President: want You
to let Jeemes Clancy, Of company
1th, 9th s. G. regiment, come homo
and get married. Jeemes is willin', I
is willin', my nanny, she is willin',
his nanny says she is willin, but
Jeemes captain, he aint willin.'--
Now when we're al willin', ceptin
Jeemes's captain, think you might
let up and let Jeemes come. I'll
make him 60 straight back when he's
done got married and fight just hard
as ever" $3.50
Your affectionate friend, &c.
Mr.. Davis wrote on the letter "let
Jeemes CO." and Jeemes came home,
married the affectionate correspon.
dent of Mr.. Davis, and returned to
his regiment, and did fight as well IS
ever. @ Ift 2af III 1851 ~
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In the face of all tho abuse heaped
on Grant, by the small Democratic
Try, it is instructive to read what one
of their great leaders, to.wit: N. B.
Forrest, said of him in q recent inter
view with the reporter Of the Cincin-
natl Commercial. i4r a7
II regard him as a great military
commander, good man, honest and
liberal, and, if elected, will, / hope
and believe, execute the laws honest
ly and faithfully. And, by the way,
q report has been published in some
ofthe papers stating that, while Gen.
eral Grant and lady were at Corinth,
in 1862, they took, and carried off,
furniture and other property. l here
brand the author as a liar. l was at
Corinth only short time ago, and
| personally investigated the whole
matter, talked with the people with
whom he aud his lady tlived while
there and they say that their conduct
was everything that could have been
expected Of a gentleman and lady,
and deserving the highest praise
l am opposed to General Grant in
everything, but would do him JUS
tice."
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A DEMOCRATIC ORATOR IN DIFyr-s
cuLrY.-The Philadelphia Press says:
In the programme, as published in
the democratic papers, the name Of .
leading criminal lawyer has appear>
ed opposite TO the places at which he
had beer designated to speak by the
democratic executive committee
Chestnut Hill fell to the lot of this
eloquent advocate of democratic
principles; and q fcw evenings since
he started to fulfill his mission. His
private carriage was brought to his
door, and himself and q lady member
Of his family, who thought it good
opportunity to call on some friends
at the Hill, took seats therein. A
nice looking colored coachman took
his position on the carriage, seized
thel reins, and away tho fine pair Of
sorrels speed. Chestnut Hill was
reached, and thelady consigned tothe
care of her friends, while the orator
proceeded to speak piece on Sey.
AAOuA w SsAs Al tA0 uQlOCt Oh DIS Ar
gument he was appraised that the
democracy had attacked and were
beating his coachman, merely be-
cause he had black skin. Ho left
the platform, and being considerable
on his muscle when necessity res
quires, rushed into the crowd, knock
ed few of his partisans aoout I, and
with the aid Of the police, 2xescued
his::coachman. The crowd, however,
swore vengeance against the niger,
and the orator had to resort to q ruse
to get his coachman away. Himself
and lady had to occupy the front seat
Of the carriage, subjected to the cold
blasts of tho air from the hills, while
his coachman, wrapped up IN the
boss's coat, was snugly ensconced in
the back seat. Thus was this color
ed man taken away from demo.
cratic meeting by q democratic ora
tor, who eulogizes Seymour ct al,
Colored Orphan ASYLUM included.
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Just Think Of it.

Kind hearted, patriotic reader, Can
you imagine Washington, Green Q
Wayne, Knox and their political
compatriots, of the Revolution, 70.
ting together to turn ont of office a
capable soldier who had. his feet fro
zen of, At Valley Forge, or had his
leg shot away at Lexington or Bunk.
or Hill? Of course such basenees
among our glorious forofathers, is ut
terly incomprehensible.
This Questionable depth Of mean.
ness, was left to the Copperheads Of
Wapello County, who are straining
every effort to beat Cooley, who left
his leg in tho bitches Of vicksburg,
and Tower who lost another on the
bloody field OF Jackson tg f
Soldiers! see that your com.
rades names are on your tickets on
next Tuesday.
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Let Well Enough Alone.

The Republican party was born .
giant. 1t throttled the most power
full rebellion the world ever witness.
ed, and pulvsrized it to powder,
mean time it SO managed the fnan-
ces, and civil affairs of the country.
that the people instead Of becoming
bankrupt from the effects Of the war
as everybody predicted, experienced
an era unparalleled prosperity and
made more money, and more sub.
stantial progress than during double
that period Of time under any Of the
effete, corruptlprofigate, Democratic
administrations which preceded it.
Remember the fate Of the man
who said on his monument:
81 was well,
81 would be better,
II took physic e
& "And here I lie,
and 60 and vote for the men and or.
ganization, that saved the country
and it's finances, during the war, and
which is only able to save it in time
of peace.
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NA9BY.r
Posr OFFICE CoNFxDRIT K ROADS, \
which is in the Staff nv Kentucky !
Oct 20, 1868.
The Fate Of the BOOSTERS.

DEAR PITTSBURGH COMMERCIAL -
You ask after the roosters; I can an.
swer for one-ours. It went to pot
to day. 1t got into . stew, and now
it has gravy 'tattered to itsown level,
Does that not seem like Q true Dem
ooratic Old Cock / suppose all the
poultry will join it somewhere on the
banks ofthe Salt River: This fowl
Of ours coop Grated with birds OF its
feather is making q useless racket
It unsexed itself and descended to
cacking in an eggs-traordinary man
ner. It got corned early and late
It loved to steal-awhile awav, and
was only brought again within proper
limits by aine-strength. It feather
cd its nest at the public expense, and
raised Old46cratch with free soil doc
trines, treading them in the dirt UNI
der its feet. Il couldn't read, write
or cipher, but makes it's mark. How
unlike the stately swing Of old John
Han-C Cooks quill Thisdeparted fowl
was awfally plucked at last, and it
looked so small, and blue, too; much
below its supposed proportions in hue.
Who can repress . sigh ct the fate Of
this bird and all his fellows, - they
stand wistfally Choking DER the
pleasant autumn field and thinking
Of the days that are NO moreY Ny
husband weeps and wears Grape
which he borrowed from Bascom's
wife. Yours,
Mas. PrrRoIruM v..NAsBY.
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About EARTHQUAKES,

Our recent dispatches give funny
account of an earthquake in San
Francisco which drove the peoplssin-
to the streets, in their shirt tails, ire
spectiye of race, color, religion, Or
sex. 80 % "A
Democrats by this pismonition,
read the doom that awaits you, on
next Tuesday week, whom the great
political earthquake will not only
shake you out out of your houses and
boots, but even out OF your shirts,
and leave you stark naked, in all
your hideous ugliness.
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Come Boys in Blue.

Come, Boys in Blue, We brave and true!
In Freedom s'periled hour,
To vote or fight for truth and right,
Let traitors feel your power!
Five years ago, to meet the foe
mighty host We trod,
On tented plain, and stormy main,
Ye fought for Man and God.
Ye who have bled, think of the dead
Erst fallen by your side!
One victory more we now implore,
Else all in vain they've died!
Now, by the blood that, like q flood,
FROM patriot heart and vein,
Then drenched the earth that gave then
birth,
Their sacred cause maintain!
Though shot, nor shell, nor battle yell,
Proclaim the contest rife,
The same fell will, as vengeful still,
Maintains the stubborn strife!
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Like Priest, Like People.

Horace Greedy, the big hearted
philanthrophist; the eloquent cham.
pion of human rights; the man whose
trumpet tongued Tribune broke the
spell of Know. Kothingism, and pre-
pared the way for the elevation oi
four millions of chattels to the stat.
ure of manhood; a man who with
all his eccentricities is one of the
noblest men of the 10Th century, in
all that constitutes true practical
greatness, is the candidate of the Re-
publican party for Congress in the
9Th New York District.
John Morrissey, a bully and a
black-leg, who first doomed up in
Democratic politics, as the conquerer
of John G. HeeDan in the brutal
prize ring; brute whose broken
down nose in the centre, indicates
the ravages Of a nameless and horrid
disease; a man who openly and un-
blushingly keeps his infamous gamb.
Ing dens and brothels at New York,
Saratoga, and Washington where
thousands Of victims are annually
allured to bankruptcy, disgrace and
suicide; a man who divides his time
between voting against re-construc
ton and all other measures of Con.
gress, not stamped Democratic, and
counting the ivory checks that
he has swindlod his victims out of, by
the tricks of the faro box; a man
who in word is an abortion of hui
mainly, a libel on decency, travel
ing, living encyclopedia Of all the ills,
and vices offallen, depraved humani-
ty, is the candidate of the Democrat
ic party, and is now the sitting mem
Der from the same 9TH New York Dis
trict, and will in all human proba-
bility beat Greedy several thousand
votes.
The difference between the char
acter and the principles of these two
representative men, is as wide and
deep as the gulf between heaven and
hell, but who is there that dares to
say that they do not pretty nearly
represent correctly their respective
parties, especially in the great
Democratic strong hold Of New
York. 5 .tr .,,, 1885, 49,
Like Priest, Like People. ,Se5
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Inc following addfess has just
been issued by the proper authori-
ties. L. .. zs
HEADo'Rs SOLDIERS AND SAILORS Ma.
T1oNAL REpCBLIcAN EXECUTIVE
COMMITTEES, @ "i'9a9 t y
box 446 FOURTEENTH STREET,
WASHINGTON, ID. c., Oct. 10, 1868.
COMRADES: You met the enemy in
Maine and Vermont and struck him
telling blow, Again in Ohio
Pennsylvania, Indiana and Nebraska
After an unprecedented struggle, vic
tory inclines in your favor. a, "a
q Rest not upon your laurels!
be Your work is not completed until
the last vestige of treason and seces-
sion is trampled out. Dismayed, de.
morahzed, and broken, the enemy
waits but your eager advance, oil
along the line, to surrender at discre.
ton. @ ii
On your success depends the future
standing of the loyal veteren soldier
and sailor-of the widow and orphan
Of your dead comrades. 81,
Bold riders of Sheridan, Wilson.
Fitzpatrick, and Pleasanton! your old
commanders summon, you again to
the charge. Veterans Of the Tennes-
see, the Cumberland, the Potomac,
the James, the Gull, and the Trans-
Mississippi, the gallant tars who sail
ed under Foote, Porter, Dahlgren,
and Farragut repeat your victo.
RES. s ,,r ar37 = s. -
Let no vacant place be found in
your ranks on the Sd Of November.
The war record of the Democracy
clings to it like the shirt of Nessus.
It must be it's shroud. sf.
But seventeen days for earnest, Of:
fective work remain. Relax NOT
your efforts, and never again shall
the hated flag Of treason, secession,
and national dishonor confront you
Dress your lines! Advance your
colors!l Let your bugles sound the
charge!!! s'Push things"l!!! An over,
whelming victory awaits you!!!ll
By order of the committee.
|Hs H. A. BARNuM, Chairman.
N. P. CHAPMAN, Secretary. H1.
WILL A. SHORT, JAMES T. SMITH,
-, gis Assistant Secretaries.
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Vote for Judge Loughridge, your
faithful, able, and influential men,
Der of Congress. The Cops. will
trade everything on their ticket for
a vote for Irish. When they make
these base propositions tell them to
get behind me Satan! Vote the
pure unadulterated Black Republi-
can ticket, if you want clear con.
sciences.
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REMEMBER-Men of Wapello coun-

tyl when you come to cast your votes
this day week, remember that q
grateful Republican party has put in
nomination for Clerk and Recorder
two manned heroes, who fought in
the ranks most CALAMITY in defence
of their country. @I
u. M. Cooley was an orderly ser
geant Of the ed Iowa, and had his
leg shot OF, and lay all lone terrible
day, under the enemies guns in that
condition, before Vicksburg. He has
discharged the duties Of Clerk hon.
estly, efficiently, and without q
murmur Of complaint from
any one. Will you show
yourselves. worthy of the sacrifices
Of such heroic men? Or win you for
getting the commonest dictates of
humanity, and gratitude, cast your
ballots for his opponent An able
bodied lawyer, abundantly able and
qualified to make living in his pro-
fession.l
I'D. W. Tower lost his leg, fighting
bravely in the old 18th Iowa. AZ
soon as he was able to 60 to the front
again, he seized his sword and while
at his post at Tilton, Georgia, was
with his unsupported
regiment, and captured, and kept many
long months in southern PRISONS
he has discharged the duties of his
office skilfully, and faithfully, and a
people who would thurst him out Of
Office in his crippled, helpless condi>
ton, on the cold charities Of the
world, would be worse than bowling
Camanche Indians. Nobody is ca
pable Of such an atrocity, but Ku,,K lux
Democrats. But they can't do it
loyal men Of Wapello county! ifyou
get registered and do your duty
Before casting, your ballots see that
Cooley and Tower are on them. g
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II SEE BUT ONE SOURCE
OF SAFETY FOR THE COUN-
TRY UNDER THE EXISTING
CIRCUMSTANCES, AND THAT
Is THE ELECTION. OF GENER-
AL GRANT. Die in 1868.
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What if beyond this vale Of grief and
tears,
No cheering ray shall greet the weary
soul. 231fI iiih@ S@f I
What If our hopes, our wishes, and our
Tears Gtlf844 }a aHs
Shall all in vain have wrung this NOR
tai mould.
What II the future world no stores un-
fold, .s,g l3s,ls.stEl
oh! what shall satisfy the famiahed
soul, Jl9 s =. {sls
And whittier then shall 1t forever hsef
Is all this hope. this CLEAN Of future
light
SO wide diffused in every human
breast
But given man to leave him in the night
OF double darkness, and fallacious
rest?
All! ifbeyond this world Of woe and
fear
No stores, no hope, no CLEAN there b,
What less than thrice Knocked fools man.
kind appear $40 iisfR Ff3l.1 -
What less than thrice worthless thin6s
s. are WEI sea t-a7sf t'a&t 3tttfti sf H4tt
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Look OUT.-The Wapello county
Re bells will leave no stone unturned
to carry their county ticket.
Among other means to be resort
cd to will be ballot box stufinp in
Green, Pleasant, and Keokuk town.
ships.
Republicans watch them like
hawks, see that they don't swiudle
you BY these atrooious means, or by
bogus ickets, and all will b. well.
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slavery was in defiance Of the Consti-
tuition. The abolition Of the green.
back founded debt" will be vindicd-
ton of the old Constitution. "Aboli-
ton of the pubic debt and of unjust
taxation," is q text that will not
nerd long haired lecturers, or ranting
preachers to work into the hearts Of
our people. Thore will be showling'
thie side of "bleeding Kansas" We
do mot want it, but if the bondholders
dolct them force the fghtl It will
b. accepted"
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No Swapping Of Candidates.

~ ~"SRF~~o - OA~ASAAASH%SeSssss
We wish to say a few earnest
words to the voters Of Wapello coun-
ty upon the subject Of trading candi-
dates with the Democracy. Our op-
ponents know that upon the general
ticket both State and National they
are to be overwhelmingly beaten,
and so certain local candidates and
their friends are willing and anxious
to give q vote for any or all Of the
candidates on the general ticket if
they can induce Republican to vote
for a single local candidate upon the
Democratic ticket. Now, we don't
need any votes from Democrats in
this way; their votes thus cast would
be Of no political benefit to us, while
if, a considerable number of RepubG-
cans could be led astray in this
way, some of our local, county, or
township candidates might be de-
feated. We know of no reason in
the world why any Republican I'M
der any circumstances whatever
should vote for any man on the Dem
ioeratic ticket. 5s.is 2eal os
This method Of warfare viz: ira
diDgcandidates with Republicans is
the only hope that the Democratic
county candidates have Of success.
Wesay to you Republicans, let us
have none of this, spurn all proffers
Of this kind from the Democracy
The idea OF candidate upon the
Democratic ticket talking for Grant
hoping thereby to get Republican
votes is ridiculous; it is hollow mock
cry. Republicans let there be no
wavering along our line of battle on
the Sd Of November. There is not
a solitary man upon our ticket who
is not worthy of your suffrages, not
one who cannot justly demand the
votes of every one of you. Remem-
Der the effect of a few Republicans
not standing firm to the entire ticket
last fall in this county. the. Lesson
taught us by our action in the con-
j.. -
test . year ago, ought to be sufficient
to neuer repeat the error again.
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The Des Moines Register says thst
1.-THE Indian, who made the word, and
alone knew its definition, pronounce
Iowa as if spelled E-O- Wah-putting
heavy stress on the ending syllable |;
and they say it does not mean "beau-
tiful land" as has been generally and
POLITICALLY imagined, but has . mean
ing equally as poetical and far more
substantial: IAN Al,oays Home
That is, home pretty much forever
-or as long as you desire it. Weac-
cept the amendment, and pass it over
to the public for third reading.
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Very respectfully,
Your oDedient servant,

HENRY YARMOUTH. GOV.
Secy Schofield's reply which has
been telegradhed to the Press was
received to-day but General Buchan-
ans troops have not been in
the city since yesterday. The par
ishes named by the Governor consti-
tute the metropolitan police district,
created by the late act Of the legisla.
ture. The same act deprived the
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1t is rumored, says Punch, that
Calcraft the hangman, is engaged IN
compilinga history ofhanging down
to the date Of the abolition Of public
executions. He intends to call it
"The Decline Of the British Hem
pire."
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For the COURIER. &
Negro Suffrage In Iowa.
Ed. CoUR1ER;

Gen. Prentiss, de-
serves thet hanksof the people andall
the friends Of impartial Justice among
us, for the noble, manly, earnest man
ner in which he deals with the sub
ject that stands at tho head of this
article Has there mot been too little
said upon this subject during the
campaign2 WI Iowa say again this
fall, that she is afraid Of Negro Suf-
frage?
There are two classes in Iowa, who
will vote against Negro Suffrage.
l. All Democrats, While Democrats
at the South are counting the votes
of colored men, here in Iowa nothing
forms the subject for more. vehement
defamation, thanh egro Suffrage and
Negro Equality. ,asl n
2 Some Republicans with sorrow
be it said.) These again may be divi-
ded in two classes.
ID Those who feel and know that
it is a mere matter Of foolish preju-
dice, but yet who have not the cour.
age to vote according to their con-
victions-the cry Of Negro equality
frightens them and they will vote
'against the amendment. There is
no more use of arguing with them,
than with the boy who is afraid to
go to bed in the dark.
2 Those who say that the Negro
is inferior and not fit to be trusted
with the ballot. This view is essen
TALLY that of the self complacent
/" niger hating" party in regard to
this question. It is . pity that in
this country those who have so much
brains cannot be content to allow
their fellows, their rights, even
though they may not be so fortunate
as to possess the capacity, and the
culture of their would be oppressors.
Granted that the colored race have
not the intelligence and culture as a
class, that the whites have, it would
be miracle il, with more than two
hundred years of slavery against
them, they had,) what has that to
do with the question Of their rights
as freemen. a
Day laborers have not as a class
the culture ofprofesslonal men, ought
they therefore to be distranchised2
The mass of foreigners in our coun-
try have not the intelligence, especi-
ally in regard to the genius Of our
institutions, that native born citizens
have, shall they therefore be all re-
fused the ballot? edl 5
1 believe that we shall all coincide
-
that there in not among us
q moro peaoeable, law-abiding
class ofcitizens, than the :o!ored peo-
pie. They labor for us, doing their
work as well as the white laborer,
they are ready to bear with us, the
common duties and common burdens
ofthe co immunity. Why should there
be thissenseless discrimination against
them as
s Republicans OF Wapello County
Friends of Impartial Justioel Shall
not the vote for this amendment tally
next Tuesday with the majority for
Grant and national liberty? 80
A REPUBLICAN.
Ottumwa, Oct. 9th, SO.
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Senator Henderson has contrived
to make q speech for Grant, at ST
Louis, of such . nature that the Dem
ocrats talk Of re-eleoting him to the
Senate-should they carry the Legis-
lature-as.a reward tor It. '' "a
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The Astor House pays 1000 per
year for butter, SIS, 900 for -four, $780,
600 for meat, $4,000 eggs, $4,000
for milk and cream. $500 for friction
matches, 81, 900 for gas and $4,000
for coal.
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Township Ticket.


FOR Justices of the Peace
G. G. BLAKE,
FL. p. GRAVES,
JACOB SHANK.
For Constables
z. P. MASON,
EBER DIXON,
ASHAEL TERRELL.
For Supervisor
A. LOTSPEICH.
For Assessor
l G. A. DERBY.
For Trustees
ft N. HI. CARTER,
C. G. PETERS,
g. F. KNIGHT.
Eai23 For CLERK
lf w. Ell. @. JACQUES.