The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1872-08-22

John f. Farmsworth has been a Re-
publican Congressman for fourteen
years. He has been, up to q very
short period, jealous and enthusiasts
tic Grant man. He put himself on the
record as for Grant, and against Gree
ley, and went before the Convention,
for nomination and was beaten by Gen
Hurlburt, on the 10Th ballot. He is
now ont for Greeley and has just de-
livered a lengthy speech, at st Charles,
Ills, devoted to the abuse of Grant,
! and in laudation of Greeley, which to-
day, incumbers the Chicago papers.
The following is the consolation
which the traitor and libeler receives
at the hands of the Chicago Times,
| which paper favored Farnswo rth, as an
| Independent Candidate for Congress,
| before the Elgin Convention, and be-
fore his later shameless flapadoodle.
" Before the Elgin Convention, Mr..
Farnsworth said he thought Grant
infinitely preferable to Greeley that
Greeley, in the Presidential chair
| would be very dangerous and unsafe
man : that he should not consider
the country safe for an hour in the
| hands Of Greeley and that as he re-
garded Grant as the safel and better
man, aud as he had been nominated
by his party, he should support Grant.
Such was Mr.. Farnsworth's statement
of the faith that was in him, before the
Elgin Convention, with some of the
reasons why it was in him. After the
| Elgin Convention, Mr.. Farnsworth
says he thinks Greeley infinitely pre-.
| ferable to Grant; that Grant is the
| dangerous and unsafe man, Greeley
the safe, wise, pure, virtuous and pie
tcrnaturally honest man: therefore he
supports Greeley! Before the Elgin
Convention, he was opposed to the
4 dangerous and unsafe man in whose
hands the Government would not be
| safe for an hour. After that Conven.
ton he is in favor OF that dangerous
and unsafe man. Before that COnven-
ton he was in favor of the man who is
infinitely preferable to Greeley;' after
it, he is opposed to the Candidate who
is infinitely the better and safer ono
Surely these opposite faiths are utterly
irrcconcilabtc. Both Of them cannot
occupy the same space ut the same
time. Which ever one Of them is in
Mr.. Farnsworth, the other one must
be out of him, The Times is not dis
posed to question Mr.. Farnsworth's
1 veracity, and therefore is bound to be.
lieve that, before the Elgin Conven.
ton, the faith that was i'm him was that
which he said was in him. The pro.
| blem which puzzles the Times is, how
did that faith get out Of him, and how
did the other faith get into him, in its
stead? This problem, the Times il
sorry to say, Mr.. Farnsworth, in his
st. Charles speech. did not even at.
tempt to solve. Is it, like the absolute
and unconditional cause of things, an
insoluble mystery2 Is it, like the ways
Of the infinite, something that to the
| finite mind is unkowable 7"
| And now the question will naturally
arise, in the mind of every thinking
man, how such preternaturally i'm
maculate Reformcr, as John F. Farms
worth is, could have supported all the
| time, with. uncommon JUNCTION, sucl
an unmitigated scamp as he now
makes ont Grant to be, in his st
Charles speech, after the Republican,
| Of the First Qllinois) District have
thrown him overheard And -thi,
fellow is fair specimen brick, among
the yermin who are 10 consign to ever
4 lasting infamy, a man who has reflect
ed more honor upon, and done more
and better service for the Government
than any ono of its citizens, since i
| was founded