The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1870-02-03
The Ekinoxshul Kownsal.


plezed with the stile in which wore
printers got up mi last episel, ez it
shows brite amount ov ,ntellick on
thare part, onli it semes to me list az
tho tina tride to mako me out a bad
spellur. it is unworthy Of men who
is spellin fur the.publik benefitto du
SIGH trick, and am shore eve cum
near unto an abrashun of crischun
language--that IL OF you ever swair-
fur them printers don SIGH q thing,
put lain awl disenshuns aside and
crlm'nashuns, hev TUX the present
opportunity to elusidat my views on
the oEqumenikul kownsel which are
settin in Romans. Wots it fur mi
kountrimen and wimmen? Is it q
re'e kownsel of wize serpints as
harmlis as duvs, or is it kownse]
for the benefit Of the pope who has
so meny bulls. il he is a cattle hur
der then he's got nuthin to du with
infalIlbility which don't belong to the
race ov shepurds. david was a shep.
urd but he didn't call eouinoxshul
kownsel to find out how meny bulls
was hlsn and how meny belonged to
his subiics-and then coodnt beside
and gobbled them all. no sur-he
wasn't SIGH a mamie didn't have
nothin but his sling which no bod
Good clame bat gullia and he didn't
elaine that little long. now the poap
has got Goliath confruntin him
mr.. Napoleon-and hese offered of
him cause if Mr.. Napoleon wus to sa
the wurd the poaps bulls wood
brake out Of paschur and rome round
the vide wurld of italy and france
and gore all the konvents and skules
down. but that amt what the pope
wants it's his intenshun to thro sand
in the ize Of his subjects SIGH as are
redy to tare thare shurts for him
and all the time a bildin up a power
which shall crown his he'd as the
king of the wurld. it amt his hole
nessis intenshun to heel disenshuns'
nur to civ up priestly despotism, but
to make a apecks of tho church
which society and st..it shall look up
to and then sot hisself on the apecks
awl them catholics which are a hat
mind to think freely, is to be subjuga-
It'd and hav no mind of thare own,
tina are to be bestes of burden and
pra for his holeness, and if tina sa
wun wurd aginst the most high 70.
min then tina air to hav thare throtes
cut. Tawk about your freedum-yu
tenicns, who uphold SIGH doctrine
as that which brushes out the bettir
feelins and holeyer asperashuns of q
man-man born in the image Of his
Creator, with a soul of his own to
saiv, which owes no allies ints to any
power destined to bid upon your
konshinses a inkubus which shell
dwarf yore intelleck and make gan.
creme of yorc activ brane. What
has his popeship ever dun fur yoo.-
did he ever shed drop Of blud-did
he ever luse mite Of sleep fur yore
kaws which is sufferin in the boys
Of Irelind, or within the brests of
them in this butiful land, WHARF tina
are paing such attenshun to the sweet
little puke of ingland Who haz come
over the briny deep to create a SEN
sashun. You not only konsine yors
luvd kaws to oblivion but yure soles
two, fur if the Pope don't like your
soul hele dam it aud then in yore
blind belefe youle let the devil take it.
Vp, men, and sho yore superiority to
be that yore sole is above the biting
tech of the horns OF any bull.
HIpPopoTAMUs