Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1875-08-25
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| The s'bNTEW-OCEAN" - 1a1AAa
We give below, the principal part
| of an editorial from the Inter Ocean,
touching the invitation to JEFF Davis
to speak at the Winnebago county,
(Ills.) Fair. AS we have again and
again said, treason must be made odi-
GUS or there is no safeguard to the
country that treason may not become
equally popular with loyalty. If
traitors are to be honored, future
generations will see that it entails no
taint upon the actors, to be partici-
pants in rebellion. What motive can
there be strong enough in the future,
when the country is in extremity, for
her sons to rally around the stand
ard when it is trampled in the dust,
if the country is now to set the exam-
pie of honoring the traitors as well
the faithful. Set such an example,
and in the course Of human events,
should the time ever again come, as
come it may, when the nation would
need to call to arms her sons by
the hundreds of thousands, to pre-
serve it. what incentive could there
he for citizens to lay aside the dearest
relations Of life and risk their all on
the battle field! The Intey-Ocean
says:
The Louisville Courier Journal is
very much enragcd because the In
ter. Ocean objects to honoring JEFF
Davis as an orator in Illinois. We
expected as much. We know the
pestiferous little rebel who conducts
that journal well enough TO under
stand that when we prod jeff Davis
the Courier Journal man will squenl.
We are not at all surprised, therefore,
to find that our blows fell on Louis
vile as well as on Memphis. The ed
itor of the Courier J ournol is a type
of class in the South who might be
appropriately termed female bandits.
They don't fight, themselves, but they
want to wear. peaked hats all the
same. He has been diving around
for a dozen years or so, going down
inside The rebel lines, and coming up
i'm the Union camp, where he has
swung his arms and gestulated wild
", demanding that rebels be honored
and treated with distinction. While
the North was saving the country,
this bandit was proclaiming that the
county could not be saved. After the
result was accomplished, he began
lodging around again like garru-
lous woman at a poultry show, insist
ing that the rebel leaders should be
equally honored with our own, or else
the country would certainly be lost.
His infantile prattle was heard to this
effect at Bloomington, Ind, short
time since, where he commended
Robert Il. Lee, of Virginia, and one
Abraham Lincoln, formerly from H.
linois, he believed, as models for the
American youth. Because some peo-
pie did not relish this association of
Abraham LincOln's name with that of
the false Virginian, the artless editor
of the Couyter-J Journdl was furiously
indignant, and sputtered like a fresh
fish in hot spider. He wanted to
know if it were possible that he could
be prosecuted in this manner, and the
heavens refuse to weep! Could the
hand of despotism be laid upon him
to crush him, and the gods retain their
equanimity But he got over this.
Now, however, he has broken forth
anew at the outrage upon JEFF Davis.
He says: "The Inter. Ocean declares
that the action of the officers of the
society is gross insult to every de-
nnn al, -,
State" 'This is very sad" he re-
marks, but he wants to know "what
every decent man, woman and child
in the State are going to do about it
If no dispensation Of Providence in
tervenes." he continues, elf no acci-
dent by flood or field happens to pre-
vent it, Mr.. Davis will appear upon
the stand of the WinnebagO County
Agricultural Society," We remark,
i'm turn, that it is very sad, but Mr..
Davis will do nothing of the kind!
He has good deal more sense, traitor
that he is, than his little desciple i'm
Louisville, and will not intrude his
presence or opinions where they are
not wanted. We wish we could say
us much for the editor OF the Courier
y0urndl. And now we want to give
the latter and all others interested,
due notice that the Inter- Ocean will
continue to fight every stragglcr and
sycophant, wherever found. who
strives to eXalt treason i'm his coun-
try. The time may come when we
shall stand alone in this work, though
the action of the Winnebago people
shows such time has not vet arrived.
But be il so. So long as we shall con-
tinue to speak, il shall be i'm favor OF
making traitors and treason odious.
and against any honorable recogni-
ton of the Lost Cause or its unrepcnt-
ant chief. In this course lies the only
safety from new attempts of a like
character. We have refused TO BAN
ish or hang rebels, and they walk nn-
molested Throughout the land. Take
the remaining step, honor them be-
cause they Were traitors, and for no
other reason, as was proposed in the
case of Davis, and the last bar to con-
spiracy and disloyalty is removed.
No good citizen will advise such a
step. The men who commended the
selection of JEFF Davis as orator at
Rockford were thoughtless, or knay-
ish, or imbecile, or all three of these,
and ii is mercy that their unsecmly
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