The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1870-07-21
Motley's Removal.

but poorlylinformed people. consider.
able clamor against the President for
removing J. Lathrop Motley, and
appointing in his place ex-senator
Theodore f. Frelinghuysen, of New
Jersey, as Minister to England, but
after the facts all become public, the
uncommon good common sense Of
tho President, will, in this, as in all
other matters, become selt-evident
to the people.
j. Lathrop Motley, as the way he
insists upon writing his name would
indicate. parts his hair in the middle
and has proven himself to be an Of:
terminate and distinguished literary
nobody. He was sent TO England ut
the dictation OF Charles Sumner
whose protege he is, and TO whom
he expects to 60 when he comes
to die. He had been constantly
urged by the administration to press
our Alab. ma claims, with dign ity
and firmness, but he seems to have
fallen more completely into the hands
of tho British aristocracy, who are
hostile to our American interests,
than even his gormandizing prcde-
cessor, Reverdy johnson, and pro-
missed in time to relieve the great
Marylander Of his well-earned belt
as the great American diner-out,
while his wife has already been pro-
nounced the best dressed woman at
the Court Of St. James.
To all the orders of the President
to urge our claims, he has replied
through his master, Senator Sumner,
until at last forbearance had ceased
to be q virtue, and Grant sent his
head to tho basket, and appointed
as his successor q son of that man
who ran for Vice.P President in 1874,
with Henry Clay, and whom the
machine poet Of the day, immortaliz-
ed in the couplet
..Hurrah, hurrah! the country's risen,
For Harry Clay and Frelinghuysen."
The new munster was distinguish
cd as Acknowledgement of New
Jersey, and was appointed United
States Senator, to gill q vacancy, by
Governor Marcus L. Ward, and was
elected to the same Office by tho
Legislature, in which capacity his
prc-eminent hereditary and acquired
abilities, enabled him to serve the
people of his State and the nation
with great credit, until swept out Of
Office by the reAuent wave of copper.
headism, which now submerges New
Jersey.
Sumner spoke two hours against
his confirmation, apparently for the
sole purpose of hearing the sonorous
music Of his own cracked bazoo, al
he didn't answer to his name on tht
final vote, while only three votes il
the entire body were cast in tn,
negative.
! The vote of the Senate, after ful
investigation of all tie circumstance
is sufficient vindication of the Presi
dents wisdom in the matter, Will,
j. Lathrop, who has been continu
ously in the best Offices within tn,
gift of the party, since Mr.. Lincoln
first election, con afford to retire fol
a while, without any great amour
! of blubbering.
In the meantime, if Mr.. Freling
huysen falls into the hands OF winers
and diners, and ncglects his mission
and ignores his instructions, and cuts
the President who appointed him,
and in other respects, like his prede.
cessor, proceeds to misrepresent his
government and the American peo-
pie, he may safely calculate that in
due time his time will come, and that
he too may be succeeded, by another
experiment from the hands Of an
Executive, who is pledged to correct
all mistakes he makes in bis appoint
ments, and who has tho nerve to do
It.