The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1871-05-11
COUNTY, IOWA THURSDAY, NAY II, 1871.

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arpet-Bagger.
gAn.4nr Warren If AI.hama "a.
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P'l0u - sn0 lol'V~in6 seiy nsAusono
and humorous manner 70 Frank
Blair's charge ofCaruet bae govern
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But desire 60 notes another
onarge wnicn We eesr 2 reas oeai
aooa1 Vne iavonte name eppiied
70 our southern governmeal1 ~ our
Democratic friends - that g "oaEpetr
nag governmenta ana tno Norsneln
men, mostly soldiers wAos went 70
sne SOUTH alser tne war. efs ca',ed
sOalpes-Dsgge, nnOw sass De-
I ,oIe sne wsr, inc 0oGsn was pretty
nos pace Icl : Nortnern man WIN
Nol.ne,n luoIs O9s suPPosoo snst
one 81 sne reso,ss oI Inc war was tne
vlno'cauon % me rigns oI :ny cl'l-
1en OF TINS country 70 60 into any
pr ot sne country ana become 2
cI..len ano nave equa, Pon'lcal rignts
Win osner cislAens snoro' .nciuding
I!eeoom OF sPeecn ana Pohtlcai &C.
won. -.
oid NOT an!loiPate tnat snould
ma the senator from missouri aP-
Plylng 20 u0 wnae y unaelssooo 20 %
an 0oious aPPeIatlon, tnas oi car
Pe!-Dsgger. ! am Inc more sur
'riSou uooauo0 1 tninA No nus Deen
somosn.ng oI carPos-Dsgger Dim
sen. !! my memory serves mo rignh
ne "ens 70 LDuSlans aoout tne same
slme aua iol tno same purpose tnas
! went 20 Ais0ems, 70 raise cotton,
sn9 'nlnA nag aoout tne same iuck;
sno sm aseonlsneo snas ne snouio
% 90 reaoy 70 Deiieve al tne rumors
snss arc cifculsteo sOout carPetDag-
ee1s
Anow very wen snas wnen sne
0ena.or 1al.s lna0y o'spalselng way
sDos. carPev-Dsegers, ne 0oes nos IN
seno : 70 sPPIy J. 70 me personally, ior
I Know now kindiy ms feelings TO-
wsr1 me are; Oat am surprised that
ne snouio seek tne oisparagement OF
these men, who were mostly soldiers
ana some OF whom followed bis lead
10 the war against the rebellion, on
mere rumor, ior no has been the We
sim OF rumor nimseli, ana !! should
nave tnought that having folt the
lnJust'oe thereby done hlm, no would
not % 30 ready 10 need 1t as 70 9TH
ers.
remember . story which was
cufrent through the south, and was
PuOilsned generaliy IN the papers,
about the Senator from Missouri ,and
winch was doubtless as groundless as
most OF the stories that he hears
about ms comrades. The story Is,
snat 81 Pohtlcal meeting 10 the
neignDorhood where the senator had
MS Plantatlon, his Democratic friends
got ooioreo man TO preside, as ls
their haolt, IN hopes to get tho color
90 vote ior seymour ana Blair, ~
ter the wnite men had'got through
with tnelr speeches., which were
largely maze up OF abuse OF carpet
Daggers, VINO, u was alleged,
had gone down there to spy
out ana pinnoer the Iano, the col
ored president OF the meeting
was called upon tor speech
be said IN response, that he en-
dorsed all that had been said about
these oarpet-Daggers, that he himself
had been in the employ OF carpet
Dagger, ana had worked TOE hlm all
summer, and the carpetbagger had
gone on without paying him and,
said he, Il think you must all know
him, l have heard his name called
many times to-day; they call him
Frank BLAIR. lhaughter.1 j
"Carpet-baggers are Northern men
living in the South, and are like men
everywhere; there are some good
and some bad among them but lot
me tell the Senator, there are many
as good men among them as you
Will hnd among any equal number
OF men elsewhere. We have in my
State some OF the Senator's own OFF,
GERS and soldiers, who are all the
supporters Of reconstruction, and
who are in patriotism and morality,
if not in position and ability, the
peers OF the Senator. His gallant
and skillful adjutant general, whom
he will well remember, is one o1
them; and l do not think he, when
he remembers his services to hii
trial, his purity of private character
would expect his old commander, BY
any ina'rec.'on even' 20 cast any as
sean g. ~ - I M,.bo UsS'o on.S. A0 40. !.
war and honestly cast his lot among
that people and voted as his judg
mens anu conscience oaae nim. In
thasa os-ne. hsnsay Naw IS. -. -, !"
say TO the Senator that these s.carpet
baggers," mostly soldiers, who ar
! sne equals 10 bravery ana ndelty 2
j San..o. Gu ~y h:y.,x NY - aon;y ~ ~
. may saw, almost without exceptiou
: found upon NV side of Reconstruction