The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1872-08-01
From the Chicago Journal
An Open Letter TO Horace orecsv

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From the Chicago Journal
An Open Letter TO Horaas QreGy.
You will excuse one occupyig SO |
humble a position in life as the uder-
signed, for presuming to address you
on the subject ofyour nominatio for
the Presidency.
| 1t is now more than twent-five
years since the New York I5Tbun first
became o irregular visitor in niy, fthelss
family. From that time until thininths
day of July last when you becsne Il
am forced to believe it was at yor own
suggestion the nominee of theOemo-
cratic party, have been a cnstant
reader of your paper. l have rusted
You as man of incorruptible prity in
politics. inherited this conidence
from my father, a lifelong aboltionist,
who never tired quoting Horac Gree
| ley as authority on any ofthe Issues of
the day. TWAS but natural, tlen, that
| should regard you as my ide.l of an
honest politician--and between whom
and the common herd of his fellows
| there existed the great difference to
which you have yourself refernd, 1. G.,
that whenever they wanted Office got
did not. 1. e
When | married and moved to the
| West, many years ago, acting on that
good old fathers advice ordered the
Tribune sent to me, for hadgrown to
regard you, sir, as no less q model of
political rcctitude and honesty than
was Jesus Christ of morality and vir-
tue. If occasionally perceived error,
or what l conceived to be error, in your
writing, l was prepared to award to
you the credit of being sincere and
hOnestin your expressions. There was
that about your blunt frank manner
that impressed me with an implicit
confidence in your determination to be
candid and truthful, no matter what
might BIZ the consequence. Iapplaud-
ed your magnanimous course in bail
| ing tho vanauished Davis, for / regard
cd 1t as an act of Republicau Inodera-
ton, and believed that Il was the
prompting of a generous, independent
spirit. 1t was an act of questionable
propriety for yott, but / waived its pro-
priety, and thought only of the chart
table heart that could disregard con-
siderations of propriety or consistency
in the bestowal of charity. 1t was a
| noble act, if done from pure motives.
But all other considerations were tri-
fling compared with your undying
hostility 10 the Democratic party and
its known corruption. / had witness
ed the detection and apostacy of here
and there one, but I was proud in the
| reflection that there was one American
statesman who could not be tempted
| to abandon his principles and forsake
his friends for Office and pelf.
But for your nomination to the Pres
idency / might have lived and died in
blissful ignorance of your true charac-
ter. After a lifetime of opposition TO
the Democratic party, during which
nearly every issue of your paper teen-
ed with warnings to your countrymeIl
against the villainv and corruption d
the Democracy, You turn your back
upon the friends Of order, give the lie
to your past life, and by becoming the
bosom companion and Prcsidentia
candidate of those whom you have {
thousand times denounced as rascals
blacklegs, traitors, ETC., attempt to dis
integrate and destroy the great Repub'
lican party, the champions of law and
order, the defeffdegs and preservers q
| the country and the promoters of youi
own greatness land all this because o.
your personal hostility to one man.
can but regard this as a most con
teInptible, mean and unpatriotic spirit
| the legitimate offspring of an immature
| ambition for Office. If have ever in
dulgcd in a suspicion that my part,
harbored a Judas, it did not point Il
the man who has omitted no opportu
nifty to denounce the Democracy as q
conglomeratcd mass of rottenness, i'm
morality ard treason" venture the
assertion that more unnatural ALI
ance was never formed than the on,
into which you have entered witt
those ofwhom you have so often warn
ed your countrymen to beware. re
member it was you who told mi
through the columns of the Yif6un
| few or no churches or schoolhonsea
there Democratic majorities were al
ways the largest !" that s'if there wa
not common school nor newspape
in the country the Democratic party
would be far stronger than it is :" tina
"all the vilest classes. the blacklegs
pugilists, keepers OF dens, criminals
shoulder hitters, rowdies, etc., all th,
scum and dregs of the community, ar,
drawn to the Democratic party by .
cord of sympathy"
Were you sincere in these assertions
| Were you honest when you expressed
the wish, "May it be written on m,
grave that ! was never it's follower
and that l lived and died in nothing ii
debtor!" Believe me, sir, the peopl,
of this country cannot be gulled into
the belief that your acceptance of thu
Democratic nomination was anything
less than an act of the most damnablt
perfidy, without parallel even in thu
corruption and yillainy of the Demo
cratic party itself.
How comes it that you arc found il
such close alliance withthose in whom
you have said "therc was nothing
clean! Has the Democratic party
with its two and a half millions of vo.
tiers, gone over to you, or have goo
gone over to the Democratic party ?"-
One or the other Of these propositions
is true. Your miserable twaddle about
reform is simply the thinnest bosh.--
Nobody believes it, or gives it even /:
passing consideration. As well under.
take to convince the people that Satan
was reformcr in the Garden Of Eden
We have your own word for it, Sing
Sing and the penitentiaries all over the
land ar 9 filled with Democrats. Are
they TO be your cO-workers i'm your la
Dor ofreform Do you abandon the
party that saved the Government for
the one that did all in its power to de-
| stroy it? Do you forsake the great,
high-minded Grant for the cunning
thief Tweed, or the noble, patriotic
Colfax for Seymour, that man of low
cunning and political trickery?
IF there was not a common school
nor a newspaper in the country" YOU
might be able to impose upon the Gre
d1lity of the people SO far as to con-
vince them You are honest in your
new-found faith. But to-day your
time would be much more profitably
employed in defending the memory OF
your ancestor, Judas iscariot, against
the charge of having sold his Master
| for thirty pieces Of Silver
G. l.. CoRwIN.
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