The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1872-04-04

No matter how constantly and Der.
sistently advocates Of universal amnes-
ty assert the loyalty of the South to
the Constitution as 1t is, and not as il
was, these fair-weather sentiments are
contradicted and Indignantly repudiat-
cd by the Southern press.
For instance, the Griffin gal Doizv
Ne,rs indicates in mhat direction its
loyalty tends, afterthis fashion:
''The Philadelphia C'sty ITEM wants
a few more legal sholidays. 1t sue-
gests the birthdays Of Franklin, Evans,
Lincoln, and some others.
4 ut would doubtless be good idea
TO have a few more. and especially to
have some new onss for the Southern
States. We don'd want any of Mr..
Lincoln in ours, no Fourth Of July, nor
any Of. the olden dlys. The Federal
Government captured these, and is
welcome to them. They can make one
of the birthday ofILincoln, old John
Brown, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Geo.
Francis. Train, or any other niger
man. but we don'tlwant to and won't
celebrate them worth a cent. The
North may have them. but give us the
birthday of RobeIt l5ALee, of Stone-
wall jackson, of our Gaorious confeder-
acy--Of the battle of Manassas, and the
seven days fight around Richmond,
e'The first we will celebrate with
ceremonies becoming the occasion.
and i'll terms, rs near as possible, COM
mensurate with the lives and glorious
deeds of our fallen chieftains, and the
blessed memories of our wOrshipped
C0nfederacy. The latter we will make
as lively as was the skedaddlin4 Y an
kee soldiery from those classic battle
fields. Let the north take theirs and
welcome to them, and let us have ours
all by ourselves.
I'VE will accept the Item's PROPOSE
tion on the above basis.
As parties stand to-day, ii the Re-
publican organization snrrenders pow
er il must inevitably pass into the
hands of men who entertain these SEN
timents-men who repudiate the
Fourth ofJuly equally with Abraham
Lincoln The holidays these South
ern patriots propose to celebrate
are the birthdays of Stonewall Jack
son and Robert Il. Lee, and the
Inauguration day ofthe JEFF Davis Con-
federacy. The battles they teach their
children to revere as glorious events
in history are those of Manassas and
the seven days fight around Rich
mOnd. On those bloody fields thous-
ands OF Union soldiers gave up their
lives, and others were dragged to the
Southern prison-pens, to be starved
and tortured or shot like dogs. These
are the men with whom the promoters
of the Cincinnati Convention are FRA.
| ternizing, and to whom they look for
the support of the ticket TO be there
placed in nomination. Ii is idle to
suppose that handful of malcOntelts
from the Republican ranks can, even IL
they so desire, control the policy Of an
administration brought into power
through such elements, by the defeat
ofthe Republican party. On the day
\ Of the Inauguration OF President 80
4 elected, Washington would swarm
i with adherents of the lost cause, impu-
IDENTIFY spouting treason and the nulli-
nrAti6n OF the Fourteenth and Fifteenth
amcndments or threaten the country
with new REBELLION.
Horace Greeley, in Texas, went very
far toward joining these gallant South
erner1Who propose to blot out Of our
hist0EH3he Fourth of July and Abra-
ham coln, in saying he longed for
the an ~Aen the name Of Robert z.
Lee q ia be honored and rcvered
equal Nith the dead heroes Of the
Union nies. But he did not 60 quite
!. lar er N for the men OF GeOrxia.
The p opher of the It16uMe should
, write eter promising to forget the
Fourth yuly and Abraham lincoln.
ana giS his adhesion to ssthe blessed
memor1 e the worshiped Confedef-
-Oceaa. y