The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1869-03-18
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Mr.. Nasty and NeV York-An Ken
in the Newspapers decides hin
against going to that City, ,ohich dc
| cision a little Arithmetic reuerses.
PosT OFFICE CoNFEDRIT X ROADS, J
(which is in the Stait NV Kentucky
FEBRUARY 20 1859.
From the Toledo Blade.
l notist in the public prints (wiaf
confooshen seeze) an item to the
efeck that the leadin Dimocrisy
(Which is the men NV wealth, wicf
hev stole themselves rich are anxious
to keep ther wealth and be bloated
aristocrats) hev determined to nc
longer perfect the thieves, bond-rob.
bers, garroters, burglars and sich,
who are maxim that city lively for
that class, and that when sich arc
taken they must take ther chances
| the same ez though they lived in 9th
er cities. How much it cost EN- to
get the courts for EN- l don't know,
but that our friends are to hev u
hard time Nv it hereafter, is certain.
One Nv EN-, brite and shinin lite,
| who was accused Nv burglary, CON-
plicatcd with a murder or two, wuz
not only ARRESTED and tried, but con-
| victid. and sentenced to Sing Sing
for forty years, and another for
twenty.
At first site this settled the gues-
ton Nv my goin to Moo York adver-
sely. I thot TO myself, if these infa-
tooatcd men presist in their determin-
ashen to hang and lmprisen all NV
these men onto, the Dimokratic ma
jority in Moo. York will fade out like
frost under May sun, and the Re-
publickins will carry it just ez soon
ez the courts git thro with ther
work.
How long it will take to kill off the
Dmerkratic majority in the city, by
law, it is very easily ascertained.-
There are suthin like twenty crimi-
nal courts in the city, and l spoze, eff
the Judges push things, each court
kin average one convickshcn a day.
We hev a real majority in the city
nv 10000. We hev given cz high cz
10000, hut 10000 NV these wuz re.
peeters. Now eff the courts hang
and imprizen 20 per day, and hold
sessions six days in the week, it will
take five years CT thereabouts to wipe
out our majority entirely, and throw
the city into the hands NV our natc:-
ell enemies.
Probably it wood be done 'oner
for the mint they begin hang
in in earnest, pertlkerlcrly ef they
commence on our leedin men, the
smaller fry will take fright and scat
ter. 1t is safe to say that by the
next Presidential elccshun the ma
jority in the city will be So redoost
ez to make the State shoor for the
Radikals.
he'd made up my mind to aban-
don the idea OF locatin in Moo York,
but an afterthought changed my pur
pose. l shell go to Moo York. An
ordinary State Prison will hold 1900
convix. The three or four prizens
the State hez is all full, and not ono
in thousand is sent to EN- who
ought to be. Ez a matter Nv course
new prizens will hev to be built, and
to accommodate our majority twen-
ty new ones will be required. Now
the Court Houseln Moo York hez al
reddy made the forchoons NV twelve
contrackters, wich hev all retired in
dependently rich, and experienced
calculators hev figgered that twenty
more could make their pile out Nv it
before if is finished.
A States Prizen kin be made to
cost ez much ez the Court House,
for Nv course they will be finished
with all the modern improvements
for the convix, incloodin gas and hot
and cold water The unfortrit men
ought to live in the same style ez be
fore incarcerashen. 1t wood be
crooel to deprive an Alderman or
member Nv the Board Nv Edycashun
NV the black walnut furnitoor they
hev been accustomedto.
Under thu present management,a at
least 80 men kin be made indepen-
dent out nv each prizen. 20 times
32 is $40, wich is the the precise
number NV Democratic leaders who
kin be made comfortable out Nv this
misforchoon to the party. There is
no great loss without some small gain
While we are redoosin our majority
by lmprisenin our voters, a porshen
Nv US will make our callins shoor by
buildin the prizens to hold EN-.
Who knows but if get my gro
sery started in time, l kin git into
the ring wich builds one of these in
stooshens! And efone w em shood
be finisht before the control nv EN-
passes out Nv our nands, who knows
but l mite rerchance be warden Nv
! one Nv emf Oh what happiness that
wood be! There in the conieenal
society NV Democrats, | Good happi-
ly pass my days. With the prisoners
l Good hold sweet converse We
wood fite our politikle battles DER
again-we wood talk of our campaign
and compare ez to what we had re-
spectively done for the Dimocracy
The repeters wood tell how many
times they had voted at this eleck-
shun and how many at that-they
wood narrate the partikklers Nv their
excursions to Connecticut, Moo Jer.
sey and Philadelphia, and SO the time
wood pass cheerily.
cant imagine more happy po
sishen for a man NV my tastes than
sich posishcn in States Prison in
Moo York. We shood hev there a
society all NV one kind. There wood
be no jarrin elemence, no discussions,
for our ranks wood alluZ be recr ,ot e,
from one source. There wood be nc
unpleasant relashon. Ez the Dim
ocrisy wood hev the appointin nv
the officers the sed officers wood. ei
they continyoo the practis now in
vogue in Moo York, be taken from
the Same class as the convix under
EN-, SO that ther wood lie no jealous
| ly or hart burnings. How sweet,
time wood glide on Ez l contem
plate tho picter, l do not reject tn:
movement at all. My haven Nv res
may, after all, be berth in a Not
: York prison.