Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1875-01-07

gained many political victories. owing
TO dissatisfaction and dissensicn in the
ranks and the prostration
of business interests, and the consc.
quent difficulty of labor finding ready
and remunerative employment. All
this has aroused the rebel democracy
of the South, and seeing the former
sympathizing democracy Of the North
successful, they have set about getting
possession of the State governments
in the South by any means, not stop.
ping at any threats to intimidate,
ostracism in society, any brutal whole
sale numbering or open armed 70.
bellion. We have simply to say, that
after having been go lenient with trait
ors following rebellion, now that they
again murder and rebel to carry their
their own political ends, another and
different policy is demanded than that
heretofore followed. The murderers
and traitors should be tried, convicted
and hung. Penn. who rebelled with
| force at New Orleans, and took poss-
ession of the State government, should
be one of those. tried, convicted and
hung. This We do not advise because
we have any wish or desire to see him
punished in the way of revenge, but
because society, law, and order cannot
| be sustained without such rigor in the
| application of the law. Besides Penn
there are scores Of others in various
parts of Louisiana, who should bt
dealt with in the same way.
| One half dozen prompt punishment'
of this kind, would at once vastly i'm
prove things there. We are awar'
that the..democratic party North wonlt
oppose such a course, but this VI
should expect from party that aidet
traitors during the rebellion with tn
warmest sympathy. II is true, bot
the democratic party North and South
when they endorsed the nomination
of Horace Greeley, gulped down a
; his abolitionism and his endorsement
of the Constitutional amendments, bu
what man, woman, or child will NOV
, willingly own that he or she did ne
know they lied when they did go?
II A Congressional committee is mo-
. at New Orleans investigating the la'
election. The White League demo
racy all testify that there was no II
Elimination, no fraud, no numbering {
) the part of the democrats. On Il
contrary, every Republican invariab
testities right to the opposite, and Il
plain history, the dark record emilia
oned to the world, indellibly shoy
. the truth to be as stated by tho latte
- General Sheridan is also in New O
:. leans, and yet on the night OF Decor
=, Der 3lst, Fabius Mckay Dunn (cole
:, cd assistant Appraiser of the Sta
was walking along on Canal strt
with friend, when they were fir
=, upon by two assassins, and Dunn.
:, stantly killed. lie was was.l1sed
quiet man, and it is not Tor State
he had any enemy. Iose life has
.o that he was by M
" Senator Blp~before this committee
~ been .hrfat tho White League is
- T'a secret body of democrats, the
! 10 object of which is to enable them
to be more efficient politically, ana to
bind each other by oaths to do their
Internal work of murder, and then
keep it a secret. This league 10 moth.
ing moro nor less than a conspiracy
against the government, and shows
how radically. wrong secret po-
litical societies are. Indeed, no secret
society is worthy Of life that NEEDLES
with politics. Here in the North, such
a society as the White League would
not be tolerated, though we remember
that sixteen months ago, a society
called the Protective Union, was can
vassed for by one man, at least, in this
county, and which society used, as one
of its final arguments, hemp. This
White League should be broken up.
JOSH aaAa~vaa - ovuin0rn AWsAsNWb
for indeed, it differs not from the lat
ter other than in name. If the White
Leaguers do not at once disband, they
should be proceeded against as con-
spirators. Finally, the way Southern
democrats are clasping hands across
the bloody chasm now, it is nonsense
to repeat more the folly of staying the
hand of stern justice.