The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1871-08-17
THE sN6AILnST MAN.

LII the peru phrases Vi Tue PERIOD
we have fallen into tho fashion OF
quoting men Of certain types and
classes in the superlative degree
Thus we have "the Oldest man" "the
noblest man." "the incest young
man." the darlingest man." ETC., etc
To this catalogue of champions OF
certain classes, is to be added the
SMALLEST man." which the same title
has been nobly won and should be
bravely worn by the editor of the
Mount Pleasant Press. While a
Democratic paper, and fearfully
Democratic, there is no paper in the
State so much exercised over the
Senatorial contest in the Republican
party. Its editor seems to have q
petty, puny and yet fierce and ma
licious hate of Senator Harlan and
his whole family, and so seeks this
opportunity to let caper his malevo-
lence and wrath. Not content, un-
der the convenient and cowardly
cover OF responsibility, in assailing
the Senator himself. his political,
personal, and party record, with a
bitterness which mere partizan zeal
could not inspire in any honorable
or decent mans breast, its editor
dwarfs himself to the proportions of
vicious vermin, to enter the family
circle, attack Mrs. Harlan, and pre-
sent objections to her as arguments
against her husbands further politi-
cal promotion. The fact that the
lady assailed, besides being one OF the
truest and most womanly of women,
is and has been for several months
quite seriously i'll, does not in the
least deter tho valiant attacking
party.
And what are the crimes he char
gcs the lady with ? Last week-as
we have before made mention-he
impeached her as 80 being unfit for a
Senator'S vito as to make her hus.
band unfit for Senator, on the ground
that in her girlhood days she was
actually milliner, and earned her
own living with her own Industrious
hands What gilded oats this ass
had fed upon, to imbibe this aristo.
cratic notion and prefer and press it
in country where honest toll is
considered the most genuine stamp
Of true man and womanhood, we are
not appraised. But certain it is that
he thinks 1t good deal of notion.
for the universal contempt with
which its first announcement was
treated by the entire press of the
State, did not force him to abandon
bis dIsgraceful attitude. This week
he return to the charge more fiercely
than ever before. 1t seems that,
nard-hidcd AS he is, he has been
made to feel the severe oensure his
former attack met with, Tor he in.
sists that, in attacking Mrs. Harlan,
be did it "nerely to show . state OF
things that that the public are cnti-
lied to know" Then he raves on
through column OF the thinnest
If twaddle and the most pitiiul of
We give q few specimens just to
show the smallest man as he is. First
We are Mortified with the astonishing
Information that
"Mrs Harlan IS Senator HarIan's
wife, and delights, while in Washing.
on, TO DO called Mrs. Senator Har-
an"
Who ever doubted she was Senator
Iarian's wife, and, being his wife,
Why should not society address her
IS such !? But being the Senator's |
vito and being called by his name is |
'ot hor only crime, for
1T has been said further that Mrs. |
Harlan is, in jac', the Senator, the
,rains, energy, and manager, poiiti-
ally as well as domesticaliy."
Besides being a wife she is wife
With brai..s, and actually has some
phuence with her husband. And
more frightfui yet, this ruthless re-
'ealer of family secrets and dread
elineator Of family faults, swears it
5 SO that
"Senator Harlan either controls his
gif,, aLI dictates tho course pursued
y her, or she dictates, and either
orn Of the dilemma is sufficiently
Objectionable to our people, and
hould be-" |,
Then we arc complacently told,
18th an insensate chuckle, that ''it is
lis showing which hurts and makes
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