Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1873-05-22
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sOURED JOURNALIssa.
The New York Weekly Tribune Of |
the l4th inst. keeps up that Journals
well-earned reputation Of the hypo.
chOndriac growler,
Besides lite two columns of editorials
dressed in mourning for the death of
the late Chief Justice Chase and Cap.
tain g. +. Hail OF the Attic expedition,
It contains three columns of nervously
irritable diatribes at the administra.
ton and the Presidents One is emit.
tied the President and the Governor,
having reference 10 the condition of
affairs in Louisiana and in a sort of
quasi manner excuses and paliates the
acts of the factionists by saying: "The
policy of the citizens seems 10 be to
organize passive resistance to the ac-
ting State authorities wherever they
can do SO. with reasonable prospect
OF success; to disturb the peace NO
more than may be absolutely necessary
In order to assert their position !; and to
disperse at once whenever the Federal
troops are marched against them.-
Their action is not therefore civil war,
but great popular protest against IL
legal power"
Now that is a carefully and nicely
well rounded paragraph of most deli
cate and tender sop for the ,nurlcrers
in the most brutal and ficndish man
ner of say one hundred colored men in
a single day and for the arrest mall
treatment and plundering ofprominent
white citizens, who favor the reign OF
peace and order. Such conduct is (ac-
cording to the paper which displays at
its head In large letters, Founded By
Horace Greeley) merely "a passice re-
sistdnce" 1t occurs to us what sad
havoc this "passipe resistance would
make with the New York Tribune il
located In some OF the parishes outside
of New Orleans, il should be edited
and published as Horace Greeley for a
score Of years did edit il. We are in
clined to think that Whitelaw Reid's
y7assice resistance Of the factiOnists,
would soon leave less remaining of the
concern than was left of the city Of
San Salvador after the recent earth
quake there.
We must suppose that if the Tribune
folk could have a little experience will
those odsssce yesistdnts such az the ne
groes OF Grant parish had and hayin.
gone to glory, or its antipode, the,
could send back word 10 mortsls her
below, they would not .lenominate tn
action of the Louisiana resistants to III,
judicially recognized State authority
"agreat popular protest against ivega
poorer"
Having thus gingerly whitewsshe,
the factiontsts, the Tribune proceeds i,
aqueruions fault finding style TO tel
the Governor and the President how t
stop all the trouble. and wants Gran
toinstall a military government Thi
military interference to prevent mur
der, robbery and rapine in portions q
the South by the general government
Just what the Tribune has been howl
ing about ever since the initiation q
the inexplicable and sad ,aasco Of th
late Horace Greeley. Had the cours
suggested by the Tribune been follow
ed, then would il have had food 70
months to deal out to its tens of thou
sands of democratic readers and Il
few disappointed souied republican
patrons, telling Of the despoiism Of III
President, the Capitalization OF powe
and the utter incapacity of the Admin
istradon to rule the country except a
the point Of the bayonet.
of course it is not to be expecte,
that the Tribune will be pleased;
cannot be because it wills not to be
the gall and NORWOOD of some ma
lures 80 predominates that vindictiy
dtatribes must be the result AZ iuevita
bly, % the pomice oozes out in the pro
cess of publication.
Another editorial is captioned :
diplomatic Aspirants,' another A 81,
perHuous Defense, and still another =
"aNe Poorer of The Politicians" /
one Of these 1t finds fault with III
President, because it fears he will ar
point somebody Minister to Russi
that it does not think fit; in ano Their
arraigns the peace policy of the Pres
dent in captious argument; and lastl
it complains of Secretary Richardso
that robbery is permitted in his admir-
1straaon OF the Treasury Department
and cites case without pretepd;n
however to give facts.
Wholesome criticism with hone,
intentions and honestly and fairl
made is the duty Of the press, bl
querulous false and unfair CRITICS,
with sinister motives is the prostitution
Of the press.
The whole tenor OF the political Al
ticles in the New York Tribune al
now Of the latter character, prostitr
ton of the press, in which this ne,
legged candidate for democratic fave
snrpasses all of its elder companion
OF recognized standing.
To . great extent, like paper iii
patrons is applicable in this case. f
pecia}ly is this true with the patrons
former republican associations. As
rule they have become misanthropic
you cannot hold conversation wit
Taem upon general topics for i've mir
utes, but in nine cases out of ten.
will be on their part, one long draw
out growl from beginning to cndin,
and naturally enough their fellows i,
stinctively shun them to avoid thei
lu2u brions wall and spitcful indicl
ment Of everything and everybody.
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