The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1872-05-16


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THAT RECORD.
We have Frequently called attention
| to the stumbling, not to say shameful,
course, in many things, Of Horace
Greeley during and since tile war 50
far a. Il perta;ned 10 the rebellion.
Tho chanters Of errors. gross errors on
his part are numerous. We have dis
liked to call these mn. hut imnerat;ve
duty demands 1t, now that he has be-
come q candidate for President, hav-
ing deliberately gone out Of the Re-
publican party to do it aud expecting
his chief support from the Democratic
party, whose representative he must
be should he be elected. He looks to-
day for his chief support from the
oontn' ana u 10 on every Democfat ana
iAocrafs i' hps Inao nc VIII carry. heafly
every oou.nerh oa'e' ~ 40 'nis
tney must aomit 'na' ny Win nave thc
earnest support q Inc reDci DelnocIh-
cy OF tne ooutn' Au nluA ana III, Wild
the aid of coloreu voters whom the the
democracy can induce, unaer mise
pretences' 20 support MN. II Is iair
tnen, u % nucn supper. y counted ON
ior 0reciey rom tne souIn, 10 ask'
Wnat Is 'ne reason .nere1ors why
VIII those VINO iongntior ana still love
the lost cause, sustain hlmf Let US
see.
n = leaulng eui.ofial - tnc Now
YORK 1fso1ae oi NOV. YIN, 1ooo, MT.
dreeicy TOOK the sfohnd tha' the cot
ton states, having resolved 10 SO out
oi the onon, tney snoalu oe permll'ed
= ~ -. .oi PRIV. =. ',nS see 0ree-
icy . American Sonnlc'' Oh y page
ooS.
In Sept 1862, he reiterated the same
view In the following words :-"I
still insist, that If it had been proved
that the people Of the slave States, or
even the cotton States alone, had real
" desired to dissolve the Union and
had peacefully, deliberately, authorita-
tively expressed that wish, we should
have assentcd to it, at least l should. :,
This was the doctrine Of the right Of
secession. and coming fi.om the source
II did, Il rave ii11mcnsatroublc to the
g0ycfnlneuaG. 1t was scfSed upon by
the rebels Is ! sanction of their cause.
and pressed with effect.
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as herefofarc ? gIs n hacanse Mr C,oo.
,av ev;ncea IN ,,,;s n.rt;c,,.r ,ha ,o.l.
ncss ha d;d2 Ts u haca,,so ~ 1894 a.
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Lincoln. when Grant had lust been
checked before Petersburg with great
loss and sherman was unheard from in
the enemies country in his march to
the Sea. that Mr. Greclev so,oht 10
displace Mr.. Lincoln from the candida
CIV ne he is now seekiuo Ia force tho
great majority of The Marty to fnreoo
tho nomination of Grant their over
whe,m;ro,v cxprcsscd choice fnr tho
nom;nat;on2 i II because be went
and sat within tho sounl of NIAGARA
!, nr;t;sh sol, ona co,,so,,.d nil,
,ba onr;s.r;es of ru,.,,;on IN match ~,
ne,,cc with arch s,aveocra,;c rebels
.refrom the confedern,es took hcart
and chcered each other forward in The
contest. each DAYS protraction of
which, was dcsolatinr the hearths Of
northern homes by hundreds Of those
who willingly sacrificed life for the
unity of the nation and tic progress of
human freedom? Is it because, in his
pilgrimage sometime since to Texas,
(Which State, by the way, supported
him as II unit almost in the Cincinnati
Convention) he said that ''he hoped to
see the day when the whole American
i
people would feel pride in the SOL
diery achievements and military char
actcr of Robert f. Lee and Stonewall
Jackson" Soldiery achievements for
the dismemberment OF the Union and
IN defense OF slavery, TO oppose which
hundreds OF thousands OF widows and
orphans now mourn HUSBANDS ana
fathers slam! Is II Tor these reasons
that the South viii support Horace
Greeley for President; the South,
where Democracy always looked for
its strongest support? Verify, the
ways of unhoIy ambitious senility arc
past finding out or fixing limit to.
4 Is il To sucb Republican SO called
backed nv one in a hundred. one in
lfftv or one in twenty-tiye even
for arguments sake. that the balance
are to Weld and throw aside Grant
whom the great majority of ofninety-nins