Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1873-10-30

Col. Fred IIecker, on the 2lst. inst.
landed in baltimore having Just re-
turned from visit to his native land,
Germany. He was received by m as
semblsge Of German American citi-
Gems, and in little speech no made to
them, he spoke some most wholesome
truths rs follows:
"God be praised that 1 sgain stand
upon free soil, and can say, without
fear Of the gag that looms out of i'm
perish penal laws, whatever stirs my
heart, We kingless and emperorless
people know no laws Of majesty. Each
one Of us is a sovereign. Whist q con-
trast this. my reception, on the part of
free men, to my departure from Ger
many! The policemen of the German
Emperor dispersed the democratic
friends that had gathered at the door
Of my hotel in Fankfort-on-the.M Main
with the words: This is not popular
gathering to which the police has given
its sanction in the name of the law
we order it to dispense, Eait l,opulas.'
This ia called progress, Imperial Ger
man progress, and 1t is pufled mp from
the palace to the barn door. Aye, it
speech. ucii.orcd at an as. g. s.,... es &C..
tlval, had not gone into ecstasics over
everything imperially German, but had
said that this sovereign American peo-
PIE. this much abused nstion.-abused
in the interest Of princely poWcr-had
in one year solved four great prob
lens, the like of which orc not equaled
In the past history Of al! other nations.
We abolished slavery, and lifted up
the then human cattle to equality with
US; we discharged 100000 Of armed
men without any dctation, and left
them simply 70 look out for work for
their future existence VIC levied upon
ourselves an unparalleled tax, in order
to do justice. as honest mon, to those
who had aided Va in the hour OF our
distress. and finally, we established no
courts of blood and no Bastiles for
those who had sought to dismember
the Union. Show rue the like in all
accredited history. = They cry
about American corruption and swim
dies. Well, if corruption does show
itself here, il is in an acute way. The
bubble bursts, and we stamp the worm
Of corruption into the deepest miro,
from which il can never rise again
But the chronic. the drilled corruption
which, from q servile beginning,
crceps up to the upmsst official posi-
tiOn--wc do not know! Swindles P
Even Barnum himself might take les.
SONS from the stock swindles over
there, where shares that stood in tho
spring OF the year at 203, sold in the
fall ~ 10. All Yankeedom cannot
beat that, and AZ bankruptcies in vi
emma from the black Friday Of May 9th
to the end of August, that IL, four
months. are also no swindla, sup.
pose"
Archbishop Purcell, Of Cincinnati,
has issued manifesto dcnouncing the
Cincinnati Commercial as al intidel
journal. snd advises Catholics to not
take il.
The cause of this Is because the Com
naercial has combattei tho views ofthe
Bishop wherein he advocates, the
restoration Of the temporal power Of
the Pope. The term Infidel has taken
wide range in these latter days. A
man known rs an Infdel may be any
one whose belief Is contrary to any
one OF the multifarions. creeds in the
world. Hence tho Bishop in this case
classes the Commercial AZ Infidel, be-
cause ii opposes giving temporal
power to the Pope. and this definition
OF Infdel won,d include the whole
Protestant world. We do not like the
appearance of these Catholic bulls in
this country.
MEXICO, the sick man, as II Is usu-
ally termed, has takon under its new
President, Lcr0do, long stride to
wards religious liberty in that hereto
fore priest.ridden country. A recent
decree Of the President contains the
following:
"ARTIcLE j.-No person shall be
Obliged TO give his personal labor
without inst remuneration, or without
his tun consent. The State cannot
pcrmit that any contract shall be Of
fcctivo which shall have for its object
the limiting. loss or irrevocable sacri-
fee OF the liberty Of man whether on
pre,ense of industry, education or re-
ligion. The law, consequently, docs
not recognize monastic orders, nor can
il permit their establishment, no mat
tor what may be the denomination or
the pretense under which their estab-
lishmcnt may be sought.
The Columbia (Ky.) Dispatch says:
sTbc co,0rea Baptists. who lately met
in a.socistion Vi ihis place. resolved to
practise feet washing as A token Of
AZ humanity and love for nns another
Whatever the object. the result will
probably be- beneficial
Ihe .stafe Register ssys thaqW. ".
M the FoIJ2eld Ledger, Will
be- candidate tnr Chief Clerk ofthe
Honse Of Representatives. Junkin
would make q good one.