Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1875-06-09

ing from the valley OF HinOm, never
ending. and naturally foreshadowing
its like in everything.
Speaking of General Grant and his
views upon the third term, the Bur-
lington Gazette says:
by degrees as inscnsible as those
which Grant has taken to defy public
opinion in the past four years of his
administration. Oliver Cromwell fast
ened himself upon the English people,
and under the pretencc Of protecting,
destroyed tho constitutional liberty Of
The mother country. Let us be watch.
full"
Gen. Grant at the head of million
soldiers who loved and honored him
with the highest acclaim that ever be-
fell q successful soldier, general ex-
allied to the highest military fame.
quietly and unobtrusively and gladly
laid aside his sword at the close
OF the rebellion. Following this az
General of our army he evinced no de.
sire other than to act faithfully in the
line of duty. Chosen President he
declared at the outset that he should
never have any policy contrary to the
will of the people. From Washing
toms administration down there has
never been President who has more
readily and gracefully yielded his own
views. when after fair controversy. a
majority of those who made him Pres
ident have expressed contrary views.
President Grant has been remarkably
yielding to the views of his political
party. His predecessor, johnson, had
"my policy" and in the most dictatori-
al manner, he broke faith with the
party that elevated him. This ':my
policy" man, this would be dictator of
a great party-this noted exhibitor in
the Presidential chair of the one man
power, showing his yaulting ambition
the Gazette democracy at once took up
and defended.
But to show more fully the incon-
sistency of the Gazette and Its party,
lett draw parallel in individuallife.
Take the citizen who through his
whole life has borne an excellent rep
utation--one who has been in various
places OF trust in society, who has in
deed been so placed as to try him as
by fire in reference to his virtue, to
his fidelity to the welfare of his race.
With such character to sustain him
and holding a high position in society.
suppose citizen arises as his accuser.
and says that fellow better be watch.
ed" Suppose again that this accuser
has himself no character.-suppose
lie has been known and read OF all men
as violator of law, swindler, or a
thief-or suppose he has endeavored
to destroy good society in behalf of
what the laws of God and man pro-
nounce bad society-or If he has not
been real actor in such deeds, he has
associated and sympathized with tho.e
who have committed such deeds-and
suppose further that tho fellow whom
he designates as worthy of watching
lest he override law and destroy good
society, be one of those who labored
and risked bis life to prevent the com.
plainant and his associates from de.
stroying the very foundations of the
good society he is now charged with
attempting to overthrow.
Do mankind give credit to tho con-
fessed and convicted scoundrels state
mcnts against the reservations of the
man of character whose whole life
corroborates his words? Most assn.
redly not. Apply now the same reas.
oning in the instance above cited to
the insinuations and charges made
against the President by the Gazette
and its party. The real strength of the
democratic party in the decade just
closed in defence of human slavery in
the clash of a hundreds of battlefelds.
strove to destroy the nation. Its last
President sat in guilty helplessness in
the Executive chair, while the demo-
cratic party sought to overwhelm the
temple of universal liberty, and did
spread ruin and devastation far and
wide. The present Executive owes
his scat to-day to the mastery valiant
work he performed as lover OF the
nation, Of humanity, and of liberty, to
prevent them from accomplishing their
hellish designs.
Now the defeated traitor or sympa-
thizer--the despoiler of the nation and
of liberty-the attempted destroyer of
the Republic with the brazen impu-
dence that is begotten of crime and 10
the true index of the hardened and the
heartless villain, affects to warn the
people against placing confidence in
man who forcibly stayed the traitors
hands, and whose whole life marks
he faithful citizen, soldier, General
md President. Taking the majority
Of what really constitutes the so-called
'eform party Of the day, who demand
hat the Republican party shsll be dis
,arded, and they take its place, we
ire led (if there be any efficacy in their |
leInand) to some times think what .
pity it is, that Judas Iscariot commit
ted suicide, since in after years he
would have been model reformer to
have taken the place of Paul and let |
the latter step down and ont.
The Chicago Times is an erratic
wandercr. 1t never can be relied up
on for the truth, as to its facts stated,
or an honest statement of it's princi-