Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1875-03-24

settles back again into the old rut
Then their character 10 fully under
stood by their fellow men - theil
thoughts are read - though an opor
book laid out for public inspection
They have been unfortunate in bust
ness life, or they have failed in their
political aspirations, or socially and
morally, by their own acts, they have
shipwrecked their character, or they
have been used to being . favorite
with tho public, and having tired
and voluntarily expressed themselves
40 desirous OF retiring from public
life, they have been taken at tteir
word, and have not been taken up and
placed in posi,ion, as they hoped for,
after . few years Of retirement had
wearied them OF private life. These
chaps, who thus charge the Pres
ident and the Republican party OF
perfidy, only hold up before q mirror
their own characters for public obser-
vation. Soured, embittered, their
gals overflowing, It 10 snsrl and a
snap from tho time they open their
eyes in tho morning until you hoar
them snore In troubled sleep.
just watch these fellows and sec
how they are every day dolling ou,
equal and exact justice; see how their
preaching and practice conform see
If their conduct don't prove how rig.
idly true 10 the old adsge Of "Out Of
the abundance Of the heart the mouth
speaketb," when they 20 giibly charge
dishonesty upon others. Do they
show themselves models Of honesty
these chaps, who upon all occasions,
snarl about the President and his par.
ty, a. naturally and continuously
IS . rotten mackerel casts OF its effiu-
via? Try them IN their business re.
lations, and see what reputation they
bear among their neighbors. So far
a. we have observed, We have never
been able to find any especial sanctity
existing among them. On the con.
trary, we have found them especially
lame.
: " IL wonderful how they snuff dam
ger 40 altogether coming from . man
who for twelve years, at the head Of
our armies, in the War department.
and in tho Presidential chair, has al.
ways been on tho side Of the Union,
freedom, and the largest liberty to all
men-who has never once evinced .
disposition to overruls the will Of the
people, nor given the least warrant
Tor their saying that ho wanted
third term, except Il shall bo wrong
fully argued that no wants It because
he has not satisfied these yelpers by
coming out at their bidding and say.
ing that he did not want It. IL II not
very strange that these yarlers spend
all their breath, all their snarls on .
man who has for 90 many years done
noble work 70 presesve the nation and
the liberties Of the people, whilc they
have no breath to spend in complaint
of tho old enemies Of the country, but
on the contrary, 20 act, that tho late
traitors are elected to tho national
halls Of legislation, instead Of those
who were loyal. Such conduct can
only be accounted for upon the theory
that these mems dispositions arc soured
from the effects Of their own inherent
error, and angry with themselves and
everybody else they act from fits Of
and become utterly -ecN--
less.
A failure themselves, they envy
men who have succeeded, and like sp pot
Of sour dough. swell and puff and
stink, out Of pure cussedness of nature,
brought on by their own foolish acts.
just like these men, were thu defAm.
ers Of Washington in his day-of Lin
colin, and SO on in the history OF our
public men. Washington was berated
as the Yilest of the vile, and the same
charge OF GENERALIZATION made against
him, under the name of Federalism,
that is now made against Grant II ID
nothing new. The vileness 10 with the
authors of these charges, and the yelp.
ers Of corruption and cussedness,
which naturally produce its kind in
charges and innuendoes against cvery-
body coming within their range.