The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1872-02-15
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urged forward by personal pique be- |
cause they cannot have things their
own way, seem to never learn that |
the people Of this country, the men
who in the last decade made the
greatest sacrifices in kindred, in life,
exposure, and in treasure, ever made
in any age Of the world for liberty
and for the Union, and who now
comprise the large majority of the
dominant party in the land, are the
arbiters of the acts, the destiny of
that party, totally regardless Of the
fancies, the eccentriclties, the mach
nations, or the stubborn willfulness
Of any prominent man or set Of lead
ers. One would suppose that expe-
rience would have long since taught
able mon of the party, by the fate Of
others, to avoid contest with public
opinion, but it seems this is not to be
the case, as men Of the best natural
Judgment and long and worthy ser.
vice in the party, become weak by
fiattery, and, imagining that the gap
ing crowd only await their nod to
obey, they set out in an expedition
of tweaking the noses of the dear
people and marshalling them in their
cortege Of followers. Happily for
the country, tens of thousands of
those who are accounted in the rank
and flo are just as capable, just as
we'll informed as lie the would-be
leader; therefore they discern at
glance the selfish motives of the con-
spirator, and leave him to wander
silently and alone into his by and
forbidden paths.
Nothing is more certain than that
no President of the United States
ever had the more universal respect
and confidence Of his party and the
honest thinking masses of the people
generally, than has President Grant,
to-day. Still, perhaps no President
ever had . more active set of CON-
spirators at work to compass his de-
feat. regardless Of the means used to
accomplish it, than he has. Yet q
few months the Vaccinations of
these men will run riot, and finally
receive such Waterloo defeat as
will forever consign the conspicuous
leaders 10 political obloquy. Sumner
tacks on to the amnesty bill his ex-
treme civil rights bill, which Schurz
votes against, but which carries, and
then when the main question comes
upoa amnesty, schurz lodges and
fails to vote, SO that the bill extend
ing further amnesty fails. This evi
IDENTIFY suits Schurz and tho oppo-
nents Of the administration general.
~, as it leaves this question an
element in the canvass for political
, buncombe.
u In various Statos candidates are
) presented for Vice President, and, il
the event Of Grants failure to b,
nominated, to be candidates for Pres
ident and some of the friends O
these candidates TOR Vice Presiden
are even urging their nomination fo
the first place as against Grant. L
there not the slightest daugor tina
the mass of Republicans VIII con
ceive the idea, in all this middle, tina
; some have designs for the defeat o
Grant, who have not the plack u
Just now avow it.
Horace Greeley, who has furnished
for years and years political news
paper pabulum for hundreds Of thou
: sands of good and intelligent Repub
iicans, is just now at cross-purposes
and runs counter to the popular cur
rent of thought among his readers
but he fails to make any impression
upon them. The facts and figures
the realities of Grants administra
ton, are before them, they are salts
t fed with him, and desire his re-nom
r ination. They see with half an ey
that the whole force of rebeldom
with their ..allies of the North, ar
coquetting with that disaftected Gle
mept, led by ambitious, designing
Republicans, to form a union fol
Grants defeat; they know that vic
tory over him, by this combination
is but the triumph of rebel Democ
racy they know that the elevation
of any Republican, NO matter wha
he has been, however able and tru'
to Republican principles he may hav'
, been in times past, he cannot be sue
cessful except he sells himself to De
;. mocracy, and that once in the Presi
/ dental chair, he could and woul'
only lock to them for support and ,
/ reelection, and hence would be full,
) and completely in their power. TIL
people are not to be deceived thus
they never have and they never viii
be thus cheated.
We are sorry to learn that Sena
tor ireland, Of Clinton county, wa