The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1871-05-11
tablished in 1848.
lHR 0l7UIVAg WEEKLY COURIER
4. Il 4. HzHfHFSh. HzRfI2FSSh }nDrroas
rHuasDAy Moar1sa, MAY lith. 1871
l8churs inst. Louis.

upon his return homo, Democrats
and Republicans rendered him an
IovAtion 1.-THE Southern Hotel. The
real and active parties in seizing
upon this opportunity, and bringing
abtut The gathering, were Demo
crafts and those Republicans who still
endeayor 70 keep up the division in
the Republican ranks, familiarly do.
nominated sorehsaded Republicans.
AT this ovation tho Senator made .
speech which he had carefully pre-
pared, and which was pronounced
from manuscript The crowd as
sembled, and at . signal given by .
prominent Democrat, gave three
deafsning cheers for Schurs and
/ Frank Blair. He was introduced to
the audience by the notorious Col.
Grosvenor, late Of the st. Louis Dem
ocrot, but whose few months Of edito-
rial duty on that paper were as de-
structive TO the interests and repub-
-lican principles Of the paper, 81 his
military career ia the rebellion was
corrupt weak and disgracefdl. The
Senator IN his speech asseverates 10
impassioned terms that he is going
TO be frank, to be honest and give :
full, clear and exhaustive exposition
Of his views, and thon proceeds to do
it, BY laying down several principles
which no claims TO be right, and
which arc the only correct ones, to
be held and sustained by any man or
party. The whole tenor of his speech
indicating this, that the grcat Repub-
lican party must come to him, and
not he yield to it, though it contain
tens Of thousands Of intellocts, as
bright, as honest, as capable Of judg-
ing as he is.
Ho is in favor Of general amnesty
because it will break down the bar
riers Of prejudice between citizens,
arising out of the rebellion. He seeks
. it were, to assimilate the whole
people in feeling and sentiment, but
he finds himself unable to so far as
simulate with his co-workers on
questions in which he stands in q
minority Of one to q hundred.
Now, if we read Alright the Senator
in this speech, his systom of political
assimilation would work admirably
if"ths whole world, and the rest Of
mankind" could all become Schurz-
ties and believe just as he does, and
permit him, from time to time, to lay
down the text from which the CIVIL.
lied world should preach. 1t has
never seemed to US wise in Senator,
who stands in q minority ratio of one
to ten, of his personal and political
friends, to say as he did in this
speech, in speaking of San Domin-
60 affairs: "a most fragrant sssump-
"tion Of the war making power by
"the Executive; an attempt unpre-
cedented and unparalleled in the
history Of the country, and without
"the apology or the shadow of
constitutional argument to palliate
cit" IL is the right of . Senator
to differ; it is honorable and nobit
to boldly and freely avow it. 1t ii
equally belittleing, silly and weak
as we'll as destructive to tho promo
tion Of credulity in his honesty, if b
charges, virtually, that his compeer'
and the President, whom the people
love and esteem, haye no shadow 0
constitutional authority for thei
acts, and must, therefore, be will
fully trampling the organic law o
the land under their feet, and viola
ting their solemn oaths.
That won't do MIR. Schurz! Yo
better keep ont Of company whicI
couples your pamo in its shout
of praise with that of Frank +
BLAIR, and you win have n
> cause to make so foolish spcech.-
Again tho senasSR says in speakin
! Of general amnesty. which he favor
. l"As l@have worked for tho cqu
rights Of man whether they be viii
: cor black, SO stand for the equ
. srights Of mon be thoy democrats
republicans"
Now, 10 there not the least bit
sophistry in that remark ? so plain
90 that the school boy of ten yearso
. would at oncc detect it.? Look
the proposition in tho light Of Il
Il thought. What had thScolored ra
done that they should be enslavt
ce that they should not have the &c
1. given rights Of men that they shot
- not have political rights? On I
" other hand, what have democr,
: done (for rebels were denocratsl Il
their treacherous, traitorous han
without a single exception, howe'
powerful, bloody or unclcansed
. repentance, should have all the
nv tramolled rights of On American
. izon, who is and always has been Il
b. to his allegiance. 1t strikes us tt
such remarks arc not in keeping W
" any mans professions OF politl
<lv honesty.
But there is one thing certai
. D. that tho Senator did not tell his
publican and democratic frie
about, and that is, whether he is
labor for the Union of the ropubli
eor hosts in Missouri. This most inn
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