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

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Horace Greeley, in swinging around
the circle, eats dirt with u profuscness
wonderful to- behold. Who in the
name of Heaven would have supposed
that Horace Greeley could SO readily
adopt Democratic phrases as to say:
Having secured the rights of every
black man in the country so that he is
just as good as You or 1, we should
give the white man a chance, too"
We look next for tho genuine Demo-
cratic vcrnacnlar of "aigger" when
Horsce talks to Democratic audience,
from whom he is to receive his chief
support, in his Don Quirote jaunt after
the Presidency. This is akin to Chas.
Summers hate, when he declares Of
Grant as President, that "his memori-
ais and notices on oar flags aud ban
aers, and his presence IN the presidential
chair are a perpetual menace TO the
rights Qf aPortion Of the citizens Of our
country" Has it come to this, that in
order to conciliatc Southern rebels and
copperheads we must lay aside the
countenance of Grant in the garret, as
the widow sometimes does the can
vassed visage of her first husband, there
to collect tho dust Of neglect and for
getfdlness! What silly balderdash.-
Yea. more, what downright disgrace
upon the American name, to even sug-
gest such thingi To represent great
things by small, it is the practice of
spanking the disobedient child and
feeding iton candy toys to pacify it,
Il surpasses our comprehension to di-
vine how men like Chas. Sumner and
Horace Greeley reach such . degree of
debasement.
But this is not all; again Horace
Greeley, making plea for JEFF Davis,
Toombs, Breckenridge, &C., in his
swinging around the circle, a la A.
johnson, says:
"Whenever you say to me, your cap
Tain shall be punished for what you
and be did, l am punished with him;
Ifeel the blows inflicted on him ;the ring
that ties him to the dungeon eats into
my heart as well as his. No part of
that great people who struggled against
US in the South, now feel that they are
entirely pardoned and restored to citi-
zenship, SO long as any Of their leaders
or chiefs in the struggle are punished
for the common sin or error, or what
ever it is"
The great sympathetic heart Of Hor-
ace is stirred to its lowest depths for
the leaders of that rebellion which, as
their hellish work, placed the weeds of
mourning around three hundred thou
sand hearthstones in this land. And
why did they do it? II was not
in the cause Of liberty as was the revo-
luton of Robert Emmet, the Irishman,
in D8; it was not TO restore people
to freedom, as was Kossutll's effort
Oh no! 1t was to build up on the
American continent, dedicated to the
holy cause of liberty, a slave oligarchy,
to make this the corner stone of the
government sought to be inaugurated.
Now, forsooth, it is the plaintive cry
Of Greeley and Sumner that these men
ought not longer to see the form Of
Grant in the Presidential chair; that
now that black men are enfranchised,
let us look after these poor fellows,
Davis, Bcauregard and others.
Verify may we pity the sorrows Of
these poor old men whose whims
hates and misdirected ambition have
dragged them down to the level of the
vilest enemies of the human race.
Chas. O'Connor, in reply to lette,
of Thos. D. Carroll, Mayor of Troy, N
Y, in regard to his acceptance of tn,
Louisville nomination, says:
Il am only one among forty mil
lions my consent is not necc ssary Il
any public act of many, few, or one.
Which in plain English means tina
no accepts the nomination, but dom
like to say SO. 4.s
HORACE Greeley made speech q
Sunaurg, Pa, last night. He predict
ed "that tho States of Ohio, Indian,