The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1872-03-28
dollars to-day has received forty cents,
in real gold value. more than he Wopld

dollars to-day has received forty cents,
in real gold value, more than he would
have received three years ago this day.
There has been added twenty per cent
10 every dollar the iaboring men Of
this country have earned, and it has
been added because OF tho signal fidel.
ity with which that pledgc has been
kept, 70 maintain the faith of the ma
ton, honestly collect the revenues, re-
duce expenses and exting,iish the na.
tional debt as fast as he could.
A BRIEf Stretch OF THE PRESIDENT.
| TO hear these inen talk you would
suppose General Grant Was vastly In
ferior to such great magnificent states.
men az Polk, Pierce and Buchanan.
Who is General Grant--this man 50
denounced? When the war opened
be was earning 9 few hundred dollars
hnsaing leather in Galesla. He offered
bis services 10 the nation, and they
were accepted. He Went down to
Springfield, served there for some
weeks, helping to enroll and organixe
the regiments they were raising In IL
Enois. Finally they gave him regi-
nent. He had not money enough 20
buy sword with which to fight the
battles of his country, nor horse TO
ride. You did not know anything
about him: the nation knew nothing
about him; few had heard of him.
He had served in the Mexican war,
when young man, fresh from West
Point, and won two brevets for GAL
liant conduct, but nobody knew any.
thing Of this humble man. He took
his regiment and marched away. He
never asked anything of the govern
inent; he never disObeyed an order;
no never made any complaint, He
went straight forward and did his du-
ty, quiet, silent, modest man. About
the first thing we heard Of him was
that he took about twenty Ave
thousand men up the Tennessee river,
moved on the encmy's works, STACKED
an army Of twenty thousand rebels
and captured about fifteen thousand Of
them. You nextsheartl of him COM
ing ON the field of Shiloh, when it was
nearly lost, and they asked him If he
had prepared fOT retreat he said thAt
one boat would take all that retrcated
He defeated the rebel army that had
been nearly victOrious. Then he went
down the, Mississippi river, passed
Vicksburg, made movement into the
country. attacked the rebel armies,
captured Vicksburg, and then yon find
him at Chattanooga, TO save lost bat
tie +; you have heard Of the magnificent
victory he won at Mission Ridge and
at Lookout Mountain. He was then
brought TO Washington, and took
command of the armies OF the coun.
try, led the Army Of the Potomac
through the wilderness, fighting every
day IN the month Of May, 1854, put
his army before Richmond, and when
thsrhOur came, moved upon the doom.
"a city and received the surrender sef
the rebel army at Appomattox. Nine.
teen battles behind him, aud all vic.
toriesl He did not march his arlnv to
make parade through the rebel capi-
tai, but started of alone with his car.
pet-bag in his hand, for Washington,
to stop the raising of troops and the
manufaucture Of munitions, to make
preparations to disband the army and
save expense, and to save what he re.
garded, and what we all regarded as 4
very important thing, a general bank
rnptcy in the country.
oBL0QUY AND REPRoACH REWARD or a
FAITHFUL PuBLIC SERVANT.
We turned to this man when An.
drew johnson failed us, and asked
him to be President. He did not
seek the Presidency; he felt and said
that his post at the head of the army
was the post for him. We made him
President, and it Was his strength and
commanding influence that carried tho
Fourteenth Amendment. That same
influence carried the Fifteenth Amend
ment, and gave the black men the
right to vote in all the States. The
men who stood by the cause of anti.
slavery ard the protection of the
black man have found in General
Grant man who has stood bravely,
steadily and consistently on the side
of freedom and the equal rights of all
men. He has been President three
years, followed by obloquy and re-
proach. He has made some mistakes
in appointments, no doubt, but the lead
ing measures OF his administration arc
in the interest Of the country. The
masses of the people who have NO
grievances, who only want good gov
ernment, see it, aud feel it, realize it
They believe we have the best admins
trsition this nation has seen for forty
years; and they are right in this con-
viction. The Republicans of the coun.
try are looking to you, men Of New
Hampshire. to recover your State.