Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1873-09-18

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York Herald, mercenary newspaper
Its principles are based on cash. Iti
contents are made up Of what will
pay. Its sensational accounts of the
deeds of the most debased portion oi
humanity dished up like yellow cover.
ed literature, is tor pay. During the
rebellion it was par excellence the
rebel organ of the North. 1t hesitates
not one day to advocate one thing and
the next, another. This has always
been its character, at least, for fifteen
years past. 1t stands continually up.
on the auction block, ready to be struck
off to the highest bidder. All men &C.
quainted with the character of the
concern and w. +. Story, its editor
know this. Great corporations know
this.
1tnever hesitates to own Its shame
If IL be in the line of its chief aim
money. No street bawd ever wore q
more case hardened face than does the
Times man. He can relate the story
OF his own infamy with as imperten.
able face as the freebooter OF quar-.
ter OF century's experience. Heal
him tell OF the great Democratic party
which he once led in the northwest:
"When Lee surrendered, the las
ground of hope Tor the resurrection o
The Democratic party disappeared
Because when Lee surrendered the
last hope OF slavery disappeared, and
with it the last and only reason for as
serting that peculiar doctrine of state
rights, which was at the same time s
denial OF the equal rights of individu
ais. Never having been, and re Bder
ed incapable by its history of being
4 champion OF individual rights, th,
Democratic party, after Lees surren
der, bad no object in existence, an6
could give no reason why it should
exist. The historic party of the sla.
very era, its Emission" upon earth end
ed with the close OF that era. The du
ties and necessities OF the new err
tsAhuho q now pOiltAChl VIk 6uhz6lAOt
that shall interpret popular govern
ment not in the false sense of tn,
states right to arbitrarily restrict Of
take away individual rights, but Il
the true sense of the states duty Il
guard equally the equal rights of al
indiyiduals.
The Times, the memory Of who's.
despicable course In the rebellion
says above, that with the downfall O
Les perished Democratic principles
that is Also to say, the Times princi
pies were overthrown with Lee Al
Appomatox. "The Democratic party
after Lees surrender had no object il
existence and could not give reason
why it should exist. y
Nevertheless, after Lee had surren
dered the Times still stood by tht
Democratic party for some years there
after. All this places the Times in th,
situation of acknowledging that it wa,
an advocate of rebellion to save slav
cry and that that doctrine perished
when Lee surrendered, that that mo
ment the Democratic party had nt
reason to exist though the Times Ia
bored tor the party for sometim,
thereafter; that now the 1imes " hos,
Democracy perished with Lee, is tn,
crest teacher of the good honest peo
pie Of the country, and says to then
the party that whipped Lee, tho Time
and the Democratic party, is a corrup
party and is abusing you greatly. lTh,
Times is your champion, worth,
leader Of the honest masses, and 4
your leader we counsel you to breal
down and crush out the Republical
party. True. we instigated 4 grsa
rebellion in defense of human slavery
The Republican party opposed us an,
whipped us, but now we hope tha
you will believe the Republicans cor
rupt and that we are honest,