The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1870-11-17
Courier Uorrespondence.
1ore about C0x-The NcGarrahan
Claim-The Administration
vindicated- The Elections, &C., A

lU0uOt Iall 10 Win CUluASuUASsVu
from all who have MOI heps sely |
taken sides with NJ MeGarrabAn |
interest, in the now famous dispute |
over the ownership Of the Panache |
Gfands ranohs, or Who Ars'not %
obstinatAly aprejadieed On the side Of
tho '.martyrsd' ofaoial, Is TO be
incapable Of Judgment, on the issues
Joined. ssa
Without claiming for the President
that iniallibility Of word and deed,
that certain ill-advised supporters of
bis administration ascribe to him, his
determination toleave to the superior
authority, the decision Of . case taken
up BY it for adjudication, and his re-
fasal to b made party TO any such
Unemployment as General Cox,
unhappily for himself, was drawn
into favoring, are creditable to his
head and heart, and will command
the popular approval; confirming, as
they do, in the most practical man
ner, his inaugural promise to let no
policy Of his own override the
national will, q expressed through
its proper representatives.
On tho other hand, the voluntary,
and utterly erparts manner in which
ono Of the parties to the controversy,
is taken in hand by the departed
Secretary, and tried, condemned and
sentenced, has, at the least, surprised
the many friends Of that gentleman
here, who, fortified In their good
opinion BY 90 much of the corres-
pondence ~ he had chosen 10 mako
public, had not been over-scrupulous
In their criticism of his chief. No
wonder that Nc Garrahan resorted to
other tribunals, to the great indig-
na.ion Of the Secretary. apparently,
and to ell sorts of expedients and
dilatory motions, when be found that
| 4 silver mine had been opened in the
Interior Department itself. and that
its usually careful head had tumbled
therein.
This family quarrel, regretted as it
must DO, by the party At large, will,
happily, strengthen the confidence
of the country in Its ruler, and COM
pei even bic enemies to acknowledge
his integrity, or come down to plain
falsidcations of his acts and principles.
A. for his opponent-for such he
must now, for the time being, be re-
garded-the too generous eulogies Of
the democratic press, win doubtless
awaken him to . better sense of his
position, and bring him back to us a
gamer, by experience. curing the
war, ostentatious praise Of his gene
ralship by the enemy. would have
led General Cox to mistrust and re-
view bis tactics and positions, and il
ia not yet too late to reason by ana
logy, just here.
Should the result fthe newspaper
warfare and discussion not be as
favorable as your hopeful correspon-
dent believes, it may be we'll TO re-
member which side made the first
move. For days the President con-
ssnted to remain in . doubtful posi-
ton, rather than risk the slightest
injury to tho party on the eve Of the
elections, and endeavored to enforce
the Same prudent course on al, by
publicly declaring the eagerly-sought
correspondence 10 be of . privato
nature not subject to publicity. What
he has now given out, comes after
the elections, and is defense, not an
attack. 35
For once, tho elections have not
! particularly gratifed any body, except
the successful candidates. The ro-
publicans have lost more than they
Assentsd to, before the day Of trial.
and the democrats have gained less
than they claimed. Upon what
grounds they looked for such q vic
tory as they pretended beforehand to
DO sure Of, it is hard to say, unless
they counted more extensively upon.
the republican spirit of faction than
they should have done. As, however,
they owe all they gained to .such
divisions Of the dominant party as
were really maintained to the end,
there is every inducement for the
republicans to 60 to work repairing
these breaches in theirintrenchments,
before the grand onslaught Of 1872.
The firm. got prudent course aiken
BY the administration, in tho execu.
ton Of the new election law, in New
York City, and its vigorous enfbrce-
mont by the several heads Of depart
ments concerned, entitlc them 10
public confidence and gratitude The
city of New York had become o libel
upon republican institutions, and .
menace 10 o democratic form Of
lgoysfnnsnt. Its reputable, inhabi-
tants lahorsd, and, in fact, labor nov,
under . worse than eastern debpotsm;
for while personal tyranny may be
checked or restrained, perhaps, by
fears or acts of personal retribntioD
or Vengeance. the tyranny Of New
York Teposes in . system, and psr-
sonal rstribntion upon any Of its
miscreants would not unloose its
hold upon its victims. But as the
people who really desire 70 select
their rnlers may now 70 some extent
make known their wishes, thero is |
hope that in timo yet 70 come, under
an administration pledged to. WELD
ell the lawful powers bestowed upon
it, and q Congress rcady to grant