The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1872-10-03

were organized in great part by Dem
ocrats; and that Of the frauds actually
committed southern Democrats, 10 the
manner born, had their full share his
charges against the Republican party
would have dwindled to q small sum
of beggarly complaints. fApplause.l
One word further upon this subject
and / am done. Scarcely railroad
has been constructed in the Southern
States since the war, or is now in pro-.
gress of construction, that was not in
angurated and il not now, in great
part, being conducted and managed by
the much abused carpet-baggers and
the South to day owes to them q large
part of her progress and enterprise =
Southern abstractionists, State-rights
philosophers, and the bowling DER
wishes Of politics, who spend their
lives in lamenting the corruptions of
Others, hardly ever build railroads or
do other useful things. They are the
drones of the political hives, whom
"God, for some inscrutabas Df0vidence,"
permits to vex the pa6liC ear. tAp-
planse.] tls
IL hisspsech IN this, city, Govern
OF, Brown congratulated the country
upon the final solution and disposition
of the tariff question by RENTING ii to
the people of the various Congression-
Of districts, thus taking it out Of nation
81 politics and relieving the country
from all embarrassment. One would
suppose from his speech, that the tar
iff for the first time had been placed
within the reach and control of the
people by the especial grace and favor
Of the coalition. The pretense of TAX
ing the question out of national poll
tics, and renting it as q new thing
to the Congressional districts, is q
most transparent dodge and humbug,
and worthy only Of the contempt Of
intelligent people. 1t will deceive
nobody. Governor Brown had been
for years an ul tla-free trader, and the
Missouri-C Cincinnati movement was
started upon that basis; but after
ward when the coalition was formed
of men of all principles, and of none
for the sake of power and plumber,
and Horace Greeley, high tariff pro-
tective man, placed at its head, il be-
came necessary to strangle tho tariff
question and huddle it out of sight.
The astute managers thought they had
done this by declaring the President
should have nothing to do with it,
that it should be RENTED to the Con-
gressional districts TO be
ENTIRELY OUT OF THE WAY.
Nothing more clearly establishes
the dishonesty of the party, and its ex-
tremely mcrcenary character, than the
attempted disposition Of the tariff
question,
elook III vain through the speech
| es Of Governor Brown, for just and
fair statement Of the administration
of the Republican party. They contain
a covert appeal to the prejudices of the
white against the colored race. In
them he presents every act Of Congress
every measure of the Administration
for the protection of life, liberty and
property of the South, as an Oppress-
ion of the white people of those States,
as an invasion of their rights for the
exaltation of the negro. He presents
the instinct Of self-preservation in the
whites and colored Republicans of the
South, as an aggression upon the rights
and dignity of the white democracy,
the late rebels. He ignores the exist
ence of the murderOus Kuklux organ.
ilations, their killings, scourgings.
burnings,i crimes without name-their
exiles, threats, terrorisms, that destroy
the peace, happiness and security Of
half of the population of those States.
He seeks to magnify into dangerous
Importance the harmless societies Of
the colored people for the obvious pre-
text and an excuse for the existence of
the Kukluk, and for the bloody disor-
der which all the world knows have
occurred in those States, lie alter
nately attempts to persuade the colored
people into the conviction that their
future safety depends upon cutting
loose, from the Republican party of the
North and throwing. themselves into
the arms and under the domination of
enemies and oppressors. Leaving out
few vague and formal expressions
OF regard for the rights Of the colored
people, these speeches might have
been made by Wade Hampton, or Gen.
Forrest. He represents the people of
the North who have gone to live in
the South, as carpet-baggers, adven-
turers and robbers; he uses every ex-s
aggeration that can make the State
governments oftlle South odious, con-
temptible and powcrlcss. In short,
these. speeches while prattling of re-
Cancellation. and shaking hands
across the bloody cliasm," in every
part are calculated to beget violence,
passion and hatred to the Republicans
Of the South, and as all candid men
must admit, are brimful of aspcrsions
upon the Administration of General
Grant. Applause.