The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1872-05-09
THE Ha1lHNNIUR IN nuSSoUKI.
The ranking demagogue in Americs
is unquestionably B. Gratz Bre---s-'

In his recent speech at Davenport, be-
fore the aggregation of Iowa soreheads
and ofiice-seekers, he drew parallel
between the condition of North Caro-
lima and Missouri, the former, as he
alleged, being under the yindictive
sway Of Carpet Baggers and Rebels,
and the latter sailing under the benig-
rant banner OF the Postum, of which
B. G.. is chief.
1t is not our purpose ut this time to
suggest that the work Of reconstruc-
ton and government in Missouri du-
ring the war and since was in the hands
of good, straight radical republicans,
up to the Brown era, and that B. Gratz
and his marsnpial crew of false bellied
politicians only succeeded to the con-
troll of Missouri politics after republi-
can government and law and order had
become accomplished facts through the
republican party. We only desire now
to say that while he was delivering his
rounded periods at Davenport. law.
lessness and murder was running riot
in his own State to such an extent thai
he has since found it inconyenient tt
attend the Cincinnati Convention.
Upon this point we suppose thu
great Republico-D Democratic organ O
Chicago, to-wit: the Times, ought Il
be good authority, and we herewith
submit an editorial from that paper o
the 3Oth April, only four days afteI
Browns millcnnial at Davenport:
| "Thc southwest, if that term in
cludcs, as it once did, the states ofMis
souri, and Kentucky, emerges from
savagery with strange reluctance
When these states were part of on
frontier. it was very natural that tn
bowie-knife and the revolve
should be prominent social elements
but now that they are rapidly becom
, ing the centre of population, as the
are already the geographical centre Q
] the country, it is reasonable to expec
that crime and violence will be KEEP
, within bounds by better public sent
ment. But this expectation is by n
/ means realized; on the contrary, tn
: people Of Missouri and Kentucky tt
G day have less respect for law and OF
4 der, and maintain q lower standard (
n civilization than the inhabitants of til
h newest rancho in the territories of til
II far west
It "The late affair in Cass county. Mi
o souri,, is in point; the bloodiest chron
d cles of Montana-or Or Colorado cam,
II produce anything SO utterly and dan
d nably atrocious. A your
i man who surrendered himself to Il
T. rioters without resistance, was riddle
l. with 40 bullets another, innocent
3 all connection with the bond bushes
,c was shot and left to suffer unspeakat
. toi1nents until death came to his reli
,e while third was shot dead, aft
le which his lifelcss corpse was beat
rs and mutilated BY his savage murds
N ers. Indeed, the Apache Indians cou
ut have learned new arts of cruelty a
ID barbarity If they had been present
le witness the revolving spectacle.
,e "Such events are deplorable, a
their occurrence in such old and POI
as lous states as Kentucky and Misso,
n ought not to be possible. That it
b. possible argues a radical defcctin /
lis ciety,--the absence ofconservativcs 8.
IN timent that would demand and sec,
IN the observance of law, and the ma
al tenance of order. The office of |
nv state, In the treatment Of such DISC
an ers, is to visit exemplary punishm
e. upon the offenders, that fear may y
d form the part that ought to be SAT
tie intrusted to better sentiment