The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1871-08-31
FALSE iNDEPupeDnNon

FALSE INDEPENDENTS.
In 1864, when the Democratic par.
", under tho load OF Little Mac., tho
grave.digger Of the Chickahominy,
resolved that four years of war had
boon a failure, there was small
band of individuals who thought
MIR. Lincoln not the man for the
times-that he had proved failure,
and that with him continued as
Chief Executive, the country would
go to destruction, as they claimed it
was then on the high road thither-
ward. Then, the Weaiiche Post, of
st. Louis, Mo-, now edited in part
and controlled by tho Hon. Carl
Scburz, was of the small BODY
named, and not being willing to
march in harmony With the great
union element of the nation, ia the
reelection of Mr.. Lincoln, in other
words, not being willing to abide
the decision Of ninety nino hund
redths Of the party to which, in the
main, they belonged, this small band
of individuals assembled at Cleye-
land, Ohio, and put forward as their
candidate for the Presidency, Col.
John Charles Fremont. In SO doing,
they deliberately, they wilfully. took
q step that they knew could havo no
Eother effect, If attended with even
partial success, except to elect Nc
Clellan and return to power the cop
perheads of the north, and, as con-
sequence, the rebel democracy of the
south. That Cleveland Convention
was brazen and notable exhibition
OF what is falsely claimed sterling,
noble and bold independence; .
claim which has no foundation, in
fact, for such action upon the field
in the very midst of the great na
t'onal battle. thon in progress, in.
volving the life Of the nation and
the triumph of liberty as against
slavery. 1t was only the independ-
ence of q fool or knavc, and SO has
history classed it. That movement
failed. The American people, having
in charge the preservation of tho
nation, were endowed with practical
conmon-sense views, and they gave
no heed TO this crotchet of the few,
who would have all men agree with
them, or else go in to destroy the
party which they could not control.
The Cleveland Convention had be-
come oblivious before the election
was held. Now that same great
party has still more work to per.
form, OF vast Importance to the
country. It's record has been glori-
GUS, its mis-steps few, and moiety
OF that party in the proportion to
the whole, at at least ninety to ten,
earnestly and enthusiastically favor
and demand the denomination of
Genl Grant. While this is the state
of affairs, this Same Westliche Post.
or what is tho same, its chief, de.
claros, in advance, that he will not
support Grant, and B. Gratz Brown,
the present Governor of Missouri, is
named as third candidate. In view
OF this, We say, as We have said of
the Cleveland Convention, wero it
possible to make any such third
movement, to any considerable de.
gree successful, it would only result
in the success of the Tammany Ring,
only in the triumph of Democracy;
and we brand it as o move false and
and assassin-like to the best interests
of Republican principles.
Happily, those moe who take such
crotchets, Az whatever motive
prompted, cannot draw after them
the Intelligent voters of the Repub-
lican party, but they and theirs will
sink with their ephemeral offspring
into merited disrepute and oblivion.
No one man, or set Of men, hold all
the brains or purity of the Republi-
can party, but its masses have con-
hdence in Themselves, and whoever
these masses shall designate as tho
Presidential standard bearer in the
campaign of ~, they will elect, and
the pharisaical individual, or individ.
uals, who shall stand aloof in their
mock purity, will be ground to pow
der as between the upper and neither
mlll-stones of an enlightened and
honest public opinion.
The ACCIDENT ON THE b. T. M
The Burlington Gazette gives the
following names of tho persons who
we're killed and wounded by the ac-
eident last Saturday:
Killed Albert Eyrhart, Robt. |
Taylor, John Baker, John Davis.
Grifiy and Agins.
Wounded-Patrick Baker, Robt.
a mbrose, James Garvin, Timothy
Foley, Dilley and Boyle. Eyrhart
was about to be married"
The officers of the road did all that
men could do in caring for the killed
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