The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1872-01-04

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Never before Ia thA history 81
Iowa Rspablioanisn Aavs We had
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Btats % now. Never before has the
PRINCIPAL organ Of the party It the
Stats Capitol bssn thrown into suoh
avid sDd ungovernable trsnsy Of
!, rags, and spoutsd forth such reckless
Wholesale slandes upon some Of tho
rmost honored and most respectable
men Of the Republican party, q now.
Nerer before has Il occurred that
therspated State organ Of the party
has published columns Of falsehoods,
embracing within their scope many
OF onr most respected Republicans,
and which slanders have been trans
fsrred, bodily, TO the columns Of lead
ing dsmocrAtic journals, with most
evident gusto - rerubl authority.
Evidently : At Of desperation has
seised upon the State Rsgfst~, and
they have inauguratsd tho rule or
ruin policy. Three solid columns Of
the daily issue Of shat paper Of the
9Th inst, teom with absss Of Sens-
tor Harlan, espscialiy that part de-
voted to . commmunication signed
sod Guard" and which most point-.
edly chargss tho mos, henioas Of
fsnsss against the Hon. Elijah Sells, :
former ssla and hoAored oitisen oi.
the Ssass, whose nsms throughout
- ieDgth and breadth Of Iowa has
bssn the synonym Of honesty.
Cornered, foiled, and ignobly
ISnted in its charge which it took
ssccnd-handsd from Il. Y. Boynton
j In regard TO the Cherokee Indian
pensions, the man whom 1t had pro
apunced ss 4 base falsi6er totally nm
worthy Of credit, it now comes back
with another batch behind which
sknlks the a0ld Guard" Now We
hsve known ID days past Of q msga-
sine published in the city Of Now
York BY one Burr, called the "Old
Guard" and We believe it still -four
ishes, which espoused the Lost Cause
IN its full length and breadth, pub
licatiou akin in sentiment TO the in
famous New York Day Book. Are
We indebted for this recent elegant
and valuable piecc Of liter.tureto to the
same source, or has the writer from
his familiarity with the magazine and
IT. principles, adopted it's patronymio7 7
However this may be, il seems TO
have fingered long in parturition for il
bears date Washington, December
18th, and docs not sec the light Of
day until eleven days after ito author
had ohristened il. Was It ton days 10
transitu, or did tho sight Of il %
work upon our Rsaistsy friends weak
nerves ~ to furnish an apt illustra
tration of the bard's immortal lines
Thst 70 Be hated needs 6us 10 b sen, I
ZQt eeen too OFT, familiar with its laos,
Wsnrst endure, then pity. then embrace"
Let no rehearse little of the past
5sw days Of the Registers history in
regard to these Boynton charges.
That paper had refuted some two
years ago Boynton's slanders upon
Harlan oharaotsrising the author ~ .
villiher. About the last days of No
vsmber ofthis year, Boynton again
opened his battery aud hatched up
the alleged fraud in the Indian pen.
sion matter, which had not been spe-
officially charged BY him before, and
our Register friends said they did not
believe it, but yet they gave it in de
tail, coupled with oil the support they
could muster, and sent it broadcast
through their columns; and to this
day they have utterly failed to pub.
lish the facts and fgures we have
given in it's overwhelming refatation,
attested by the certificates of the
ofncers in charge of the same q
Washington. ls it unfair TO say o.
them,in view of all this, that they hav,
placed themselves in the category
Of the wanton gossiper who whisper
abroad under the insindating cover 0
, protestations Of innocence the gross
est calumnies. Never before was
falsehood more FULLY laid bare thai
; has boon that last story Of Boy nton's
stripped of the last vestige Of suppor,
the Register drops it, when it no long
Or has the shadow Of reason to urg
in it's behalf, but 90 leaves it ~ to le
Whatever Of venom it has sown i
connection Herewith do the work 70
which il was intended. Now it mua
needs have Q cover to rush to; Anotl
or libellous rampant behind which I
shelter itself and the "OId Guard
communication which had donhilaf