The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1870-01-27
THE WEEKLY COURIER.
I. 4. N Il. HERhhGK, HAMiETS,N. EDrrons.
THURSDAY. .....JANUARY 20, 1870
From tho Daily Courier Of Jan. 18th.
OUR NEW SENATORS.

u. wright tor the long, ana Hon
James B. Howell for the short Sena
torial term, by substantially unani
nous majorities, the former for six
years from March 4th 1871, and the
latter to fill out the term of Senate
Grimes, resigned, which expires at
the aforementioned time.
Judge Wright, was born in Indiana
in 1920, and is consequently in the
prime and vigor of well preserved
mind and body. He was graduated
at the Indiana Asbury University,
of Greencastle. after which hestudied
law with his brother Cat Rockville
Parke County, in that State,) who
served the State with uncommon
credit, for two terms in the Guberna-
torial chair; also in the United
States Senate; and who was later
Mr.. Buchannan's Minister to Berlin.
In 1910, Judge Wright settled at
Keosauqua, and at once became one
of the leading lawyers of the Terri
tory of Iowa, as a member of the
celebrated law firm of Wright &
Knapp, and subsequently of Wright,
Knapp g. Caldwell.
Differing from his distinguished
brother in politics, our Senator, was
an enthusiastic Wing, and ropresen-
ted Van Buren County in the Iowa
Senate in lS49-5O and in 1851 was
the Whig candidate for Congress in
this district, making a thorough
canvass, but getting most thoroughly
beaten in this then overwhelmingly
Democratic District, by the weakest
man Iowa ever sent to Congress,
to-wit Bernhart Hem, now deceas-
ed
In 1858, he received the compli.
ment of the Wing vote in our Legis-
lature for United States Senator
at the time that Democratic body
disgraced itself for the last time, by
electing a Dubuque dancing master,
George Washington Jones, to that
responsible position.
Judge Wright has boon on the
Supreme Bench almost continuously
since 1854, either as Associate or
Chief Justice, and it is not too much
to say of him, that in that position
he has acquired reputation as a
learned and profound jurist, second
to no man in the Northwestern
States.
He has perhaps more personal
friends and admirers, than any other
man in Iowa, and his election will
meet with we'll nigh universal appro-
baton among the people.
Possessing the highest moral char
acter; a mind unusually, logical and
deeply learned in the legal lore Of
his country, his career as Senator,
cannot well fail to be as brilliant, as
that of Judge.
Hon. j. B. Howell, is a native of
Ohio, and a graduate of Miam,
University. He, also, settled at
Keosauqua tbe same year with his
new colleague, senator Wright, es-
satblishing there the Des Moines
Valley Wing, which, however, he di
rectlyremoved to Keokuk and merged
it with the Keokuk Regis.er, which
eventually became, as it is now, one
of the leading papers in Iowa, under
the name of the Gate City.
Mr.. Howell is one of the ablest
men in the State has been from its
organization, leading champion of
the principles of the Republican par
ty !; and has never held an Office
before except the Post Office at
Keokuk, which he was kicked out
of by the renegade Johnson, because
of his unbending, sturdy devotion to
the tenets of that party, which blum
deringly elected Johnson.
The entire Iowa delegation recon-
mended Howell for Warran's success.
or at Guatemala, but in that instance
the ties of consanguinity outweighed
party services, and the President ap-
pointed Silas A. Hudson, not howev-
er, until he had received for the
latter, the recommendation of many
of the leading Republicans of Iowa,
which is f.ct not generally. known,
and which shol'd be passedto the credit
of the President, when he is censured
for overriding the recommendatio On Of
the congressional delegation.
Howell has an eminently sound
practical mind, and his long and in
fuentlal career in journalism, has SO
familiarized his mind with public
affairs, that he will perhaps be able
to render more intelligent service to
his constituents during his briefterm,
than any other man who could have
been selected.
Upon the whole, tho State of Iowa
is to be congratulated upon the fact
that her reputation in the upper
House of Congress, established by
Grimes and Harlan, is to be fully
maintained in every respect by
Wright and Howell.
The Davenport Ga-ette is down on
big Senatorial lobby's.
We hope that the lobby which the
editor of that paper was able to rally
to the support ofits candidate fol
Senator, as we'll as the vote that dis
tinguished individual received in the
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