The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1869-02-11

retrAc:ln, ana u 10 pOeSlDie tnAt tus
crops, barns and sich, wuz yoosed uT
at the same time. It wns durin, the
war, and at any rate, and ez the fed.
raj aUvsrnffient wuz, In his opinion,
to blame for The wdr, which never
wood hev bin carried on he'd Il yeeid
ed ez it ought to hev done, why the
fedral government ought 70 pay all
these losses. Nv course, Ishant put
all the Elders talk into the petishen.
Miss Jane McGrath's case, which
is one I shel push the hardest. Is one
wieh, if Congris does not consider
favorably, it will show that Congris
hez no bowels. Miss Grath is wo-
man. Nv course doorin the war she
wuz loyal, eE she understood loyalty.
She believed in her State. She had
two brothers wich went in the Con-
fedrit service, and she gave en- both
horses. But wood emmy sister let her
brother 20 afoot? Them horses must
be set down to the credit Of her sister
ly affection. 1t will be showed, !
make no doubt, that when her Oldest
brothers regiment, Che wuz Colon
eD left for the sect of war, that Miss
McGrath presented TO it SCOT nv
colors. witch she made with her own
hands, wich SCOT inclooded black
flag with skull and cross-bones onto
it. Sposin she did? 1t wuz loyalty to
what she considered her State. And
the tact that doorin the war she rode
twelve miles to inform Confedrit
officer that four Fedral soljers which
had escaped from Andersonville wuz
hid IN her barn shood not operate
agin her. Onto her piano there waz
q choice collecshun Nv Southern songs,
and there is a runner that in Lcois-
vile wunst she did spit in the face NV
Fedral officer, but what Of that p
Is a great government goin to in
quirc into such trifies. Miss McGrath
give me the names of three Fedral
Generals who campt on her place
doorin the year w the war, which
wood certify TO her loyalty, wich il
they didn't wood show that there
wusn't any gratitood in humanity.
Deekin Pogram hez w course
claim. The Deekiu's horses wuz Ia.
ken by fedral afficer, wich wuz the
moro aggravatin, ez the Deekin he'd
in addishen to his own, jist brough,
twenty five, wich he wuz TO hev de-
livered To Gen. Morgan Nv the Con-
fedracy the next day, who wuz to
hev paid for EN- in gold. They were
all gobbled. For these horses the
Deekin claims payment. He wuz
doorin the war strikly nootral. Ken.
lucky did not secede, neither did the
Deckin. His boys went INTO the Con.
fedrit servis, and on several occasions
he mite possibly hev cleaned his trus
ty rife and gone ont ~ mite to get .
crack at Fedral pickits. Habit i
strong, and ez ther were no school,
masters to shoot, the Deekin must
shoot suthin. He considered the wal
great misforchoon, and many q time
hez the old patriach, with teert
streemin down his cheeks, exclaim-
ed, "Why wont Linkin withdraw hi
troops and let us alone!" He hrz bir
since the close NV the struggle han
kerer artcr Peece. "Let us havt
Peace!' is his cry. "Give me back my
niggers--lct me hev things cz they
wunst wuz, and ] shall bee soothet
into quietood." lie voted for Mickle
Ian in 1864, and for Seymour in 1868
but that NV course wont count agil
him in the matter Nv the claim. Th'
mint he decided to put in tho CLAIM
he withdrew from the Ku klux, "
wich association he hez bin chief 70
this scekshun. He's sorry now, tina
he shot any niggcrs since the clos
| of tho war. He is an inofiensivc oil
man, whose pathway to the tom
| needs soothin. The horses he lost h
counts worth $1O,OOU, and he u
course wants remuneration to tn
amount Nv $40 900 more for the an
guish he suffered seein Nv EN- go.
Almost every white citizens uv tn
Corners hez claim Nv wich | sht
hev the prosekootin-that is ther
wich kin raise the retainin fee. Som
hundred or more who never he
nothin before or doorin the war, an
| are in the same condishen now, he
put in claims for sums rangin fror
$4,000 to $4,000, offerin me tn
half | get. may take cm. The
| kin swear to each others loyalt
wich will rcdoose the cost Nv evidenc
to q mere nominal sum.
| l shel HE me to Washington an
| get Mrs Cobb to take hold with IN
givin her share. IF she succeed
with Congris as wei cz she did wit
the President, the result be all tina
| / kin desire.
4 PETROLEUM V. NAsBY, p. NJ,
(Wich is Postmaster