The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1872-07-04
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DUBuour. June q.

DUBUQUE, June 81.
To the Editor Of the Dubuque Her
arid s--If / may be allowed O. m 0nt
and out Democrat, who has never yet
bolted regular Democratic nominal
tion, to intervene between the Pitts
burg Post" and our correspondent
Meddler, l will say by oil means ad-
hero to the two-thirds rule at Baltf.
more, and by ali means let that two
thirds be between Democracy alone,
and not between them and Greclcyites,
who, in my humble opinion, have, no
right to sit, as such, in council ~
members of that or any other Com
vention, which may assemble at Balti.
more to give expression for the Dom
ecratic party.
I take the broad ground that no
Greeley supporter has any right to .
seat in the approaching Baltimore
Convention, as / do that no one had 4
right, who favored his nomination, to
sit and vote in tho recent Democratic
Conventions held at tho Court House,
in this city, on the 9Th instant, or in
that which assembled at Des Moines.
Roth Of these Conventions were
called to represent the Democratic
party and for the purpose Of calling q
Convention of Democratic to meet in
Baltimore on tho 9Th proximo, for the
purpose of placing. IN nomination
Democrats to be voted for by the
people Of the United States, on the
second Tuesday in November next, for
President of the United States.
No Democrat who may be at Balti-
more has any more right to cast vote
for Greeley, ~ the candidate for
President Of the United States than he
would have to vote for Grant for that
ofIice. Both of those mon are now
the candidates Of the Republican party
so-called. Greeley represents . fFag-
ment of that party, and Is quite O.
vulnerable and Objectionable, in par
ty point of view, as Grant is, to ell
true Democrats who 20 for principle
and not for men or policy. Greeley is
in fact, moro Objectionable than Grant
for he has all his life been the mentor
Of the old Wing and the new Aedged
Republican party, who, through the
columns of the Tribune" laid down
the laws and the rules and regulations
for the government of Gen. Grant
when he accepted the nomination oi
the Republican Convention, of 1868,
and of the party which ruled in Con-
gress ever since the rebellion, as It ID
termed, which commenced on the 18th
of April, 1851, by the attack ON Fort
Sumter.
II Greeley's advice had then beer
taken the South would have quietly
departed in peace, as wayward
brethern." even under General Win.
field SCOTS ideas Of propriety. Gen,
Grant, then, and even now, perhaps
protesting to be a Democrat, was op.
posed to letting the Maynard breth.
rem depart in peace" and, as the
lesder of our great and Overwhelming
war party, vetoed that measure, and
has thereby kept the Union together
despite the advice of Horace and
Winfield. And after conquering the
brave Lee and johnson and their val
liant armies, he protested against their
arrest and imprisonment, As he doubt.
less would that Of the President, JEFF.
Davis, but, az such President obeyed
the wishes Of his constituents, as Lee
johnson, ETC., did.
There would, therefore, be mos&
reason and Democracy Ia neminatine
U. S. Grant at Baatfmore than Greeley
Give US Nj Ham, . nomination of old
fashioned Democrats for President and
Vice President, At Baltimore, and We
will elect them in November. If no,
elected You win have the satisfaction