Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1873-10-30
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The Thurman-Allen Bourbon de
mocracy of Ohio have this weel
throughout the State, amid the boom.
ing of cannon and the shouts of II:
partizans, been celebrating a victory =
Long they hare waited for such on
q opportunity.
IA In 1861 the great body of these men
together with Thurman who will be
. elected Senator, and Allen who is
EFelected GoverncrD amid the booming
sS6cannon upon TT. Sumpter, wished
"a their hearts that the American flag
should be struck and wore smiling
face when it went down. Thurman's
home during the war of the rebellion
3 favorite resort Of rebel prison.
efs; his voice, and that of Aliens, were
{ heard IN political contests, and at all
times, giving aid and comfort to reb.
els' Allen took the stump in favor of
y allandigham for Governor. In a
3peech, in his favor, made at Hamilton,
hio, In that campaign "a copious ex-
act from which we shall give in to-
norrow's daily Mr.. Allen said: aMr.
Lincoln has already struck dumb two
out OF the five senses of the people
IWo-fifths of our senses exterminatcd
py tyranny. / guess he will send
some fellow here to blindfold every
man for fear that he should wink some
idea into the audience. The striking
down of Vallandigham was the stri-
King down of every man here"
AS these men and nine-tenths of
those who elected them rejoiced amid
the din of the battle of Bull Run. at
the defeat Of the Union arms, SO now
they are overwhelmed with gleeful
delight at the success of these two arch
traitors of that day, and wheel those
cannon into line to assist in giving ex-
preston to their happiness, which
they sought to muzzle as against the
foe that attempted to destroy the ma
ltios.
In Iowa the same old presses that
printed treason the same men that or.
sganized and encouraged every form of
opposition to the suppression of the
rebellion BY the government the same
men that denounced soldiers as Lin.
spln hirelings and greenbacks as rags, |
Without value, shout at Bill Allen's
triumph and the decreased republican
vote in Iowa. The soreheads who
ave succeeded in obtaining office by |
tne votes ofthese men, with these their |
new allies, we may expect reform and |
good government from, over the left.
1t the daysever comes when the men |
who led the opposition to this govern
ment either on the battle field or in |
the civil walks OF life In its efforts to |
overthrow rebellion, shall rule the ma.
tion, (such man as Thurman and AL
len) then shalla premium be placed |
upon rebellion, and the example thus
set to future generations make rope /
Of sand Of the incentive to be a patriot
when another dark era may come upon
US. If the party OF reform is to awake
to life aud power this element, it will
be retrograde In its os,eusible object
and fraught with untold danger to the
Republic
A nation can never again be arous-
cd to spring by hundreds of thousands
TO the fore front of battle in its de-
fdpse, If those men snd that party are
returned to power which were once the
authors of treason. II Is this the pso
pie have always recognized, and we
have faith, they always will recognize
and vote down.