Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1875-02-03

'ssaty to form his JUDGMENT, and pftceeded to
,Sfaisn the Preaident as the doer Of the deeds In
Louisiana on the 4th Of January
To this day those arms have never
been surrendered, bnt are somewhere
secreted by the revolutionists.
In one portion of his speech Con.
King turned the tables upon Thurman
in the following happy manner:
"He next referred TO the recent disturbance in
he Penitentiary at Lincoln, Seb., and the call Of
he Governor for Federal troops from Omaha,
which were Immediately sent
''Mr. Thurman asked where was law for furn-
ching troops for quellins q disturbance m the
"Mr Conkling said he waa glad that humanity
vent 40 tar that even the couvicts in the pen,ten.
isry OF Nebraska wee cot without somebody TO
'peak for them. Why VA It that Of oil those
Who had supported the temple Of liberty acne had
brought forward . resolution in regard to the use
Of troops ct Lincoln. There had not even been .
spasm Of virtue In regard to it."
He uttered the following scathing
rebuke to Bayard, of Delaware, for
his fierce attack upen Gen. Sheridan {:
.'The right Of Sheridan had been challenged in
this chamber to breathe the free CIR OF the ReVub-
lic but should the day come when Q degenerate
apostate would sdjudge him unit TO breathe the
free cir Of this Republic then We he'd better burn
the memorials Of our forefathers, dance on the
tomb at Mount Vernon, and ming down the obelisk
on Bunker Hill. sheridspl sword was not the
stained sword of an assassin. The blood upon it
was Of those who tried to destroy the finest fabric
Of free government that world ever seen. 1t
was the sword Of soldier who had been nghtiug
that free government might not perish from the
earth. He tConklingl would gladly 10 this cham
Der let be ygones hut when the most Illus
trious soldier was denounced the retrospect was
forced upon him. sweeping denunciations and
dIspars9ement Of the national suthorifieo win not
pacify the south. They win not cssTy the next
Presidential election"
Thurman don't like the Blue Costs.
He has not liked them for mary years.
He especially did not like them during
the rebellion. The reason he did not
was, they would fight tho battles Of
their country against Democratic trait-
ors-because they would not listen to
his Copperheadism--becauss while he
was hanging like brake upon every
effort Of the nation to overthrow treas
on, soldiers did not like him, and were
not backward in letting him know il
because he, during the rebellion, en-.
tertained at his home, near Cincinnati,
Ohio, soldiers with gray coats, and
not those Of blue coats, and 30 he (Thur.
many got vastly better acquainted with
the gray than the blue, and wss then
most aftectionately kind to the former
and bitter towards the latter.
Judge Thurman, of Ohio, 10 an able
law yer, q sound thinker, = clear and
forcible speaker, and . cultured polish.
cd gentleman, bnt there is iagrained in
his very nature hatred to- the Republi-
can progressive principles Of the past
and the present, especially its grand
principles OF freedom and civil equal
ity for all men. In all that pertains to
the peculiar Institution or the South
he 10 as thoroughly Southern man at
heart ~ ever breathed, only he is not
hot headed, but cunning and cool cal
culsting. and thus is more friend to
them than they are to themselves.
This diagnosis of his character stsnds
boldly and clearly out from the record
of his life. As such he will appear on
the pages of the future impartial his
torian Such . man ~ he 10 far more
dang erous to the propagation Of the
universal recognition of the rights Of
oil, than any Of his hot.hsaded South
ern allies, because he 10 more plausible
and less demonatrative, but in fact none
the less fatal in his designs.
We cannot refrain from giving .
still further extract from the Senator's
great speech, - r
Mr.. ConklIng said that in the presence OF all the
turbulence, disorder and din which ruled the honr
In the Louisspa Legislature on jan 4th., the
senators said that everything Was peacesble; that
the Governor and oil others should have remained
silent spectators The Republican party, the
President Of the United States, and much Of the
residue Of msnkind had been threatened with de-
structioa because those whom Gov. Killogg sum.
mened, and who responded, were soldsrs--sol.
diers Of the United States; birelings they were
called by the Honorable senator from Msryland
(Hsmilton). he said they were hirelinxs. sea
~tthercd tNsm ny etstlng t0aS trey re0elve0 Only
eight dollrrs per month. Hirelings! But for
such hirelpgs there might mot now be eenste
Chamber to reverberate with the eloquence OF the
Honorable senator from Narylsnd. But for these
hirelipgs we might not now be permitted to
breathe the cir of . free republic. Thtsfem.
nant Of our army must remain somewhere, but II
found south Of Mason and Dixons Line, some-
bodys nobility WAS offended. Tue soldiers Of the
nation found 10 that section we're tured under the
anstbemas OF the Democratic party. branded with
epithete Of carpetbsggers scsllawss, white nsger.
and tho Ike. Their lot was hard one. One po-
ltics party never called Soldiers hlrcllngs until
they were summoned TO trsmple down rebellion
which lifted its bloody hsnds)to stab the republic
70 the heart. ItwAs not always 90 the DeMoci at
ic party wss once the soldiers party and the wsr
party. II applaudel the soldier IN former war,
ana sighed fos De% was, for Cubs, and for con-
quest ; but this vas 10 Whist was once free Ameri-
CO. He borrowed the words from the honorable
Senator from Ohio (Tburmenl. This wss once
shen slavery needed room TO expand. 10 1914,
when Andrew jackson set q military gusrd over
both houses ofthe Louisiana Legislature and i'm
prisoned Judge, the Democratic party glorited
him and made him President OF the United Ststes.
When the Democratic executive and Democratic
Secretary OF War dispersed and humilisted both
houses Of q stats Legislature, Congress and the
country rang with Democratic plaudits. That was
one page in one OF the most revolving chapters in
the history Of human TYRANNY and wrong Those
who occupied seas around him remembered the
occurrence When violence, intrusion, and out
rage. carrying the banner OF human slavery, stalk
ed with high head on Kansas, trsmping law and
right undev. foot. did the Democratic party spoil
ogize forit? Did the predecessors Of the Senators
apologize for It. No: they only sought to laugh
1t out OF court they only sought osmoke thunder
with ridicule. bleeding Ksnsss.'' he remem.
bered bow that cant new a the nast-head Of the
Democratic papers. There wss no apology. Oh,
no: border ruMspism 10 Kansss was denied in
this chamber Just ~ Southern outSsgcs are now.
The honorable Senator from Ohio Thurmsnl, ~.
tutc a. he H. would not make an apology for these
outragcs. ~
One Of tho nsnrpiDg members of the
usurping Legislature Of the State Of
A ~ aneas aud a man yphn fnuuhk four