The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1872-05-30

Perhaps never In the history OF q
National Convention was there more
enthusiasm manifested than is now
exhibited throughout tho length and
breadth Of the land in reference to the
Philadelphia Convention to be held
June 9th. Hundreds and perhaps
thousands Of people from Iowa will
attend it. Philadelphia will swarm
with people on that day, and there will
be such display of the natural enthus-.
iasm that now lies spread broadcast in
ever nook and corner Of this Union
for Grant, as will arouse with active
life the Republican campaign Of ~.
Let us, in Iowa through an early
State Convention be able 10 take up
and rc-ccho the thunder tones for the
great hero President and incorruptiblc
statesman, to the end that wc may be.
in at the first onset of the battle. Tho
last six months have been 4 g
with plots and desperate efforts to
wean from Grant the popular heart.
Men high in station and in National
esteem have risked their AL IN the
wager of warfare against him, and
have already stranded In shallow
water or are fast drifting with uner-
ring fatality to destruction. The
fhngs of discord that Democracy has
n6urished, hoping to have them fasten-
ed upon the Republican party, have
struck deep into the bosom of the
benefactor that nursed the serpent
into life. Democracy, most wonder
fully to Behold, is itself in the throes
Of dissolution, and the Republican
hosts are ready, compact and eager for
the battle which promises All easy VIC
tory, and not only victory but the
virtual dissolution, death and burial
Of their ancient and despicable enemy,
Democracy. Yet thirty days and there
will not be found a single intelligent
politician Of any persuasion who will
not quietly admit the sure success of
the Republican ticket.
o.--
MACK writing from Washington to
the Missouri Democrats spcsks thus of
Lyman Ir6mb wing some tcfriblc
but truthful blows:
"This is very sad for Honest Lyman
and yet to q person familiar with his
career of pious fraud and patriotic
hypocrisy, it is not surprising. There
is such q thing as moral retribution at
work in this world of ours which,
sooner or later, brings all the Trum.
bulls to the dust. His first election. to
the Senate was the work of a scheming
hypoerite like himself working against
an honest man like Abraham Lincoln.
OF course he beat Lincoln. He would
have beaten Gabriel, if the latter had
mistaken his competitor for an hon
est man, as Lincoln did. From that
time out, he never failed to prove the
truth of Rochefoucauld's saying, 'thc
offender never parlons.' lie never
forgave Lincoln the oilenses of having
hfsna aah hif aedin xsti% IN R YOU'D ub hsyf hs aaisRd Rd
not Inc would injure Grant i'm 1872,
but he cannot. His dispatch to
Greeley, trusting in God for the sue
cess of the Cincinnati ticket, is the
joke of the capital, rs well il might be,
considering that men who trust each
other no more than Trumbul does, sell
domtrust God very much. However,
it would not be i'm keeping with his
character il he hadn't sent some such
dispatch. The man who arraigns the
extravaganza of the administration,
after he has drawn $4,000 from the
National Treasury for doing nothing
in the McArdle case, is hypocrite
enough to say that he trusts in God
when he knows the devil is the best
friend he has ON earth. The history
of the administration shows no other
outrage to equal that of Trumbull's.
As a Senator he would have made for
nothing the speech for which, made in
the chamber adjoining the Senate, he
modcstly put in bill of 100000. lie
is the first to cry retrenchment, and
the last to yield to demand that the
half starved clerks Of the departments
shall be fairly paid, but see how quick
ly he grabs at chance to put $4,000
into his own pocket for doing gabsolute-
ly nothing.