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

Streets, over the FoSt Onioe.
lo1A0D AO0DF11.
bn the 9Oth Of May Horace Greeley
ds up his mind and accepted the
nination which he received from
Cincinnati Conventions on the Sd of
". Seventeen days had expired be-
be came to the conclusion to say
or no. In the meantime the gem
dalliance with him on the part of
hocratA their promises made. and
hrances given him, their abject and
lning hattery warmed the old mans
hity, and he comes out with his &C.
btance consisting chiefly In an cpl
he Of tho platform Of the Convention.
says, however; thst he Is satisfied
Ethe ticket he heads has received
stamp Of approval from = majority
the American people. Horace is
billy satisfied, or whist il more likely
is troubled with an old and stub
En impeiiment In his vcracity. He
rthsr announces be accepts with the
stinct understanding that If elected
shall be the President not Of party
u Of the whole people. II would
cessarily follow ifsHorace should be
ected that he would be the President
the whole people. His emphatic
Rtement in this regard is cheap. It
one that can easily be made by any
bdy, IL . common and threadbare
hp-trap often used, but one which the
gnifed, disingenuous citizen and
htesman would not make at least in
nnection with so high an Office
pccssarily every administration must
We party embodiment Of men who
unsel, plan and support certain
le Of policy or system of measures.
President of this country, no exec
or I've ofany Nation, ever has been or
Ter will be free from such surround-
gs and influences. It is simply
hshy talk, cunning ad ctsptaadnns
pletive for the popular ear to make
parade Of the fact that he will be the
resident of the whole people, and not
. party. Horace alse pays very
Ugh compliment to B. Grstz Brown,
pd thanks the Convention for associ-
eing his name with his own upon the
6ckeA.
It might be appropriate to INQUIRE;
Ind certainly is very pertinent and
nportsnt question, who are the people
9at are to support him for President.
md whom he asserts constitute ma
ority of the people Of the country p
4 elected the men who have constituted
be great republican party during the
fcbcllion are to be beaten and over
powered by that element of the nation
which was for four years in arms for
The destruction of the Union, or who
gave aid and comfort as members of
The democratic party north.
It is true they are to be aided or
aust necessarily be, if success is at
aimed, by few of those who were of
he repnbl Jean party heretofore. Hor-
ices triumph will therefore be tri-
hmph Of that party which brought on
revolution and carried it forward for
he perpetuation of human slavery at
fhe expense Of a disruption of the Re-
public. 1t will be triumph too, of
that party not only in the matter of the
Presidency, but also through like COM
binations on members, of congress it
would be likely to be triumph in the
legislative department of the govern
ment. A triumph of this kind is not
only wiping out all disabilities impo-
sed for treason, but it gives the gov
ernment into the hands Of former dis
loyalists by displacing the men who
succeeded in conquering them, and
compelling them to cease their efforts
for the destruction of the government.
We do not entertain the slightest fears
that their professions of good intcn-
uons even under the lead Of some Of
our men who have apostatized can be
successful. 1t is not in the nature OF
things that people who have SO re-
Gently suffered untold woes at the
hands Of Greeley's supporters, should
again permit them to come into control
Of the government. It squitc enough
to forgive criminal and remit his
punishment without trusting him to
the extent of placing him in possession
of what you have.
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