The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1872-10-10
VOLUME "a.
ANoTHzR ApAMs N Tan rrnLD

ANOTHER ADAM1 IN THE FTnLD
| This time it is Charles Francis Ad-
ANS, jr, who makes speech, and
/ Quincy, Mass, is the place. He Is par.
| ticular to inform us that he is genu-
inc Adams, and the son of Charles
1 Francis Adams, who holds an import
1 ant position under the government in
Europe. He should have stated, also,
| that there never was a time in Ameri-
can history that all the tribe Of Adams
were not either holding important offl-
ces in Europe or at home, or dead bent
to get them.
He furthermore vouchsafcs tho infor-
nation that he was one Of the original
movers in the Cincinnati affair, in the
following remarks, which are charac-
teristic Of the average Adams mind for
modesty, to-wit:
Certain men met together at Wash
ington, and subsequently in New York,
editors, economists, politicians and
men of business, --few In number, be-
ing not more than Is or 20 in ali, but
welding an enormous power through
the press. We discussed the position
and probable course Of existing politi-
cal parties, and the machinery which
should be set in motion to influence the
current Of public events" !"
Fortunately for this juvenile Adams
he didn't attend the Cincinnati Con-
vcnbion, for the following reasons, viz: !:
fortunately for me / did not attend
the convention in which that move
ment resulted. At tho last moment,
and, at the time, to my own regret,
felt compelled to withdraw my name
from the call to which l had already
signed It, and to notify MY friends
that could not be at Cincinnati. The
unexpected prominence which was 90
LSuddenly given to Mr.. G. r. Adams %
candidate before that convention for
ced me to the conclusion that could
not go to it without placing him and
myself in false position. / did not
then represent the views ofthat gentle
man any more than do now. As you
well know, Mr.. Adams is very much
in the custom Of forming his political
opinions without much regard to those
Of his sons, and / can assure You his
sons claim the same liberty for them
selves. Hespeaks for himself; we for
ourselves. Nevertheless, in May last
the public might naturally have COM
cluded that I went to Cincinnati to
angle for him in those waters, and,
while an importance would thus have
attached to myself which was in no way
my due, my presence might well have
tended to compromise Mr.. Adams in q
manner which he would hardly have
approved, holding as he then did high
public position. Accordingly stayed
at home, and very glad Inow am that
did stay at home."
OF the party which went down to
Cincinnati for wool and came back
shorn he has the following:
We went to Cincinnati in open re-
volt against the party manipulations of
Messrs Conkling and Cameron, and
Morton and Chandler; when we got
there we were met by Messrs Fenton,
and Cochrane and Mcclure and Went
| worth and Iilton and Warmoth, and
they with the aid of Mr.. Frank Blair,
kindly proceeded to manage things
for us, III the good old way, and in tha
| first place to ptv-;a. .,ftn q canul-
date. do not see how we gained
\ greatly by this change of masters for
my part prefer the old set. We went
protesting against "carpet-bagism,"
and they carpet-bagged our conven-
| ton with an engenuity which excited
even our rueful admiration. We went
calling for free trade and they gave us
the most notorious and consistent pro
tectionist in all Amerlca. We vent cry
4 ing out against Capitalization, and say
ing "the world is governed too much" !"
and we came back with the great apos-
tie of unlimited legislation on all con-
ceiyable subjects for our chosen candi-
date. To cap all. the gentlemen who
| had thus handsomely provided us with
everything peculiarly offensive to our
feelings and antagOnistic to our con-
victions, then proceeded to add insult
to injury by treating us to choice bit
Of the purest electioneering cant, to the
sold white hat" of our singular candi-
date, covered the largest brain and
kindest heart in America They not
only insisted on our accepting an emp.
ty change in lieu of the improvement
to which we had aspired, but they &C
tually carried their undisguised con-
temp for us as reformers to the extent
}, of openly asking us to 60 into contor'
tions of ecstacy over their ridiculous
, compaign "Josh," made up like 8
scare-crow, of dilapidated hat and
shabby coat.
And after Mr.. G. +. A., jr., gets rit
!, Of his super-abundant gas and comes
down to common sense, he thus sensi
bly, closes his speech:
II was one of those who met oul
. southern brethren on number of hard
a fought fields. Seven years ago, whel
l Gen. Grant paroled Lees army, $
! "clasped hands across the blood,
), chasm,v and from that day to this hav
7 entertained only the kindest feeling
q toward my old enemies. Ireally cam
!! at this late day, see the necessity 70
! any more tears or Mysteries. The quet
:. tion of reconstruction is practically d.
- cided, and its gross abuses, which !
my place have never hesitated to d.
nounce, are at last repudiated of q
men. The southern states now nee
n above all things to be carefully 4
/. alone, but Mr.. Greeley and his SUI
~ porters insist on more agitation.
a. this miserable work l, for one, will M
&c abct them. / am, indeed, opposed
m them upon this issue more than upo
tn any other, and as a friend and wei
- wisher of the simultaneously hopiI
" to see it work out its own salvatie
quietly and peaceably-I feel cou
of not too strongly dcprecate the subst
a tuition at this time Of Mr.. Greeley Fl
Gen. Grant in the presidential chair.
1t would be chaos come again, whi'
rs heaven forbid!
k The defeat Of Mr.. Greeley has, ,thel
,c fore, become from our point of vis
20 20 the one good thing which can resi-
ny from this campaign. His success wou
be ourcomplete discontinue. Itw0u
90 far to demonstrate what we ha
most persistently denied, and the (
IN nial Of which was at the basis of
lch original Cincinnati movement. \
!, then insisted, as we still do insist, Il
~ the people oil this country were bo
, a Of which we ourselves were part Il
m the mass OF our fellow-citizens dislik
to be humbugged and liked to be tire
''@ ed as rational beings, just as we (
To- ourseives---no more no less.
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