The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1868-02-27
The 0TTUMWAc0URiER
General Grants Habits.

There is at this moment, a lively
contest going on between Wendell
Phillips, Theodore Tilton and Benz.
+. Butler, on theone side, and Storey
d the Times, Brick Pomeroy, and
Clay Dean, on THE other, for the
blackguard championship of tho
United States. Their objective point
Is the heroic Gen. Commanding the
armies of the Union, whose bravery
and skill in the field, saved the na-
ton from destruction, and whose
modesty, good sense, and Republi.
can simplicity, has enshrined him in
the hearts of all loyal men, with
Washington and Lincoln. The last
raid upon his character, is that he
recently appeared on the streets of
Washington beastly intoxicated.
Everybody in America knows the
brave, brilliant, Irish officer, Gen.
lIalpin Miles O'Rilcy) by reputa.
tation. He is and always was a
Tammany Hall Democrat of the
strictest sect, and now holds lu-
crative Office in New York City, be-
sides editing the New York Citizen
Newspaper. He has been over to
Washington recently, and thus ven>
tilates this foul Islander on General
Grants character, put in circulation
by broken nosed republicans, foul
mouthed traitorous and Copperhead
cd calumniators.
'Itis altogether probable, so far as
Il can now see, that the Citizen may be
obliged to oppose the election of Gen.
cral Grant in consequence of the plat
form upon which the Radicalsare en-.
deavoring to place him; but it is nc
part of the Democratic creed, as n
was taught to me in the old-tims
councils Of Tammany Hall, to fight
with poisoned arrows. Let me, there
fore, after full examination, denouncs
all these recent charges affecting
General Grants habits as utter anC
damnable lies-the word 'sdamnable'
being not only justified but made i
necessity ofjustice by their character
and when / add that these lies, III 81
far as they can be traced at all, hav,
been traced back to General Butler'l
door-not only the malignancy, bu
the infamy of their origin will b
sufficiently apparent.
have converscd with at least .
score of officers who are known to M,
as gentlemen incapable of falsehood
and who, from their positions, hay
been for the past six or eight month
in daily-some of them in hourly
official relations with General Grant
from 8 o'clock a. m. until 4 o'clocl
every afternoon, Sundays excepted
and by every one of them-three, a
least, being known to me as person
ally and politically opposed to Gran
the erousstatementso of the III
dependent, Anti-Slavery Standard an,
Mr.. Wendell Phillips have been indig
nantly and vehemently cont addicted
have also conversed with numerou
ladies upon the point-and the eS
perience of infaIlible husband o
brother with whom occasionally 9Th
olives may have disagreed" illsug
gest what strict judges Of such mat
tiers these ladies are: and from ever,
quarter, without distinction of socia
caste or party, thesame evidence ha
been given:-These attacks upol
General Grant, in female phraseolc
gy, are 'stotal and scandalous fibs,
for he has been out every night in sc
ciety at balls, dinners or German
with Mrs Grant; and his habits hav
been temperate in the extre ne--eve
SO much as a glass of champagne be
ing rarely tasted at the dinner tabl
orat supper. 1t is Illuminating An
SO felt by the writer-to be obligc
to correct snch partisan falsehoods i
regard to the chief soldier Of on
armies; but is it not thousand fol
more Illuminating to such men as Tht
odore Tilton or Wendell Phillip.
that they should have allowed then
selves, withoutsufficien examination
to have been made General Butler
instruments or 'sconveniences, 70
the circulation Of such atrocious Ii
bels?'