Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1876-09-27

speeches-always bar
ing out Bob Ingcrsoll-which has
,cen delivered during this most ex-
campaign.
We very much regret that our space
will only permit us to give few of
he salient points of the speech.
lie commenced by showing that it
is as absurd to suppose that the bloody
chasm can be bridgcd, and that the
crime of treason can be erased from
the minds of the people during the
of men who subdued the
rebellion, as it was for the crime of
treason and toryism to fade away and
be condoned by our revolutionary
sircs during their lifetime. He said
he voted for Greeley to accomplish
this purpose, and would have voted
for David Davis or any other loyal
man who supported Abraham Lin
coin, but the democrats proposed to
ignore all questions of reform, and
fight the battle over with traitor
and copperhead as their standard
bearer; hence that party was alone
responsible for the .'bloody shirt" is
sue.
Upon this point Mr.. Wentworth
said:
Now, if We cannot forgive and for
get wrongs in their own nature, how
can we expect to forgive and forget
when we are doubtful whether the
issues purported to be settled by them
are liable to be reopened again !?
Applause.l l want you to reflect
upon these things, my fellow-citizens,
because they are introduced in argu-
ment here every day. Have those is
sues been settled? Do the Southern
States, which helped admit into the
Union by your suffrage, accept of the
situation, or are they waiting for
some convenient opportunity to again
wrest from the North the power that
it recovered by the sword.
There is a way whereby this thing
could have been taken out of the
campaign, and there is an important
point in this campaign that want to
impress on your minds. Surprising
the democratic party had nominated
one of the men in their ranks that had
been for the war, and then You would
have had loyal man at the head of
both parties, wouldn't you? APP
plause.] Had they taken such man
from their own ranks-and they have
; got such men-that sympathizcd with
i Abraham Lincoln's proclamation OF
emancipation, applansc], and the
republican party had nominated just
such man [applausel, where would
then have been your bloody shirt
And now, they having refused to dc
that thing, what other issue is there
before the people than that one ques
ton? Shall we remain as we are; a
. people recognizing the equality of tho
blacks as well as the whites, or shall
we go back to our condition before
the war. Applause.
Now, we hear much said of corrnp
t ton. If there is corruption in til,
General Government, who is it that j
responsible for not making that cor
ruption the main issue of this cam
> raign? Certainly none other thai
: the party that nominated a disloya
;. man againsta loyal man. Applause.
4 And whilst q traitor is running 70
), the president on one side, is our al
tention to be called Off upon thes
minor issues, so to speak.
n Now, you say, 1--WE are running
0 Northern man for president on bot
y sides.' Turn back few years an,
read the history of your country, an,
) what do you find? You find tina
t Northern men united, with soli
South, have inflicted upon this coun
try every calamity that il has eve
been cursed with. Applause Poll
ticians of any status at home seek t
get character by inflaming the angr
q passions of the South, and tell then
, if they will unite with the body il
the North, they will be able to con
: troll the Government. If you loo
back you see that the gag-law, deny
ing abolitionists the right of petition
tOriginated with a Northern man yo
j. find that the Fugitive Slave law wa
: signed by a Northern man; you fin,
n that the Missouri Compromise rcpea
c originated with a Northern man an,
t the attempt to force slavery int
c Kansas was the internal work of
d Northern president. Applause
l And l had rather to-day vote for
: Southern rebel than for one of thes
4 Northern men. [Applause.l Now
G when You talk to democrats abou
t nominating men that they could hav
: nominated, who would have settle,
9 this bloody-shirt campaign, they say
c "We would like to have done it our
s selves. We were that way. A grea
: many of our fast friends were tina
r way. but our men won't come out j
. we nominate such men. Greeley wa
put on, but our troops would not vote
l They wouldn't come to the polls
: And if we nominate any man tina
Q hasn't been tried democrat all thro
s the war, we cannot do anything-ou
Q men feel no interest in the election.
: They want the men that went dow
G with James Buchanan and JEFF Davi
4 to rise again with Tilden and Hen
0 bricks. Applause.] And if the.
q cannot be assured of that fact the
1 won't vote. And these politician
: say, "Our men won't come out.
$ This is their one thing needful Scum
+ on this one question, You can b.
d wrong on everything else.
g He next pays his respects to Lyman
Trumbull.
: "And another thing, my fellow cit
: liens, want to call your attention to
;, because it illustrates this thing all tn
:, way along. Here was Judge Trum
' bull, one Of the ablcst jurists in GU
|, State, who has represented it IL year
! with signal ability. lie called
= meeting the other night, as l Gale,
this, to address his fellow-citizen
. and the word went out that he was
renegade republican, and he didn
! have enough of democrats in tina
. congregation to make respectabl
! funeral. Laughter and cheers ii
: was unsound on the War. Applause
. Il find that this thing is tcllin,
! throughout the land. The other da
j, the news came to us that distin
: guished Judge of the Supreme Coul
!, of Indiana, who had supposed for
; years this thing had all been settled
i had come out against Tilden. refe
|" to the Hon. John Petit. was j
= Congress with him, and he was on
> Of that Spartan band who first me
in loyal caucus where we as demo
Gratis decided to fight Folks Admin
istration if il insisted on extcndin
: slavery into the free Territories
d Cheers. lie was in the convention
when we designated Mr.. Wilmot t
9 offer that distinguished proviso of his
I: Because, coming from him, he bein,
= the only free-tradcr in the Pennsyl
= vania delegation, we thought h
: would be more acceptable to the dem
i ocratic party. But what did the,
!, care ? 1t was the war against slavery
t and down must go the man tina
q thinks such thing. [Applause.
: Long years had passed away sine
, .Judg &c Petit had ceased to act wit
: the anti-slayery party, but he sees j
!, now, and l tell you, my fellow-citi
: zens, am somewhat believer tina
} once i'm grace always in grace. Laugh
!. teri And he will die an anti-slav
cry man.
Now we are told that there are con