Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1876-10-25


little comment Of editorial import
ance on the articles, but the bare
record of Hendershott versus Hen.
dershott, taken from his own paper,
Neither at that time or later in the
Fall of 1867, when portions of the
same articles were rcpublished in the
COURIER, to aid in defeating Mr.
Burton, who was then candidate fol
office, and at no time since, until
within very recent period, has il
been claimed that Judge Hendershot
was not responsible for these articles
Among the articles clipped from
the Mercury in the manner and fol
the purposessaforementioned, l find
the following,staken from that paper
of January Goth, 1868, and which wa.
republished in our Weekly edition o.
October Sd, 1867:
"FOr ourselves, ace sag no more me1
and no more money to carry on a IRA,
Of abolition, avdr. for the dest,gctio,
not only Of slavery, bit also Of til,
Union, Constitution, SIXTIES
RIGHTS and iadirid,tai liberty"
August 18th, 1864, the Mercury con.
tanned an editorial article entitled
"Stubborn Fucts" In this article
speaking of the failure of the attack
on Petersburg, Va, was the follow.
ing:
$50 far from taking anything by
his long digging operation, he met q
bloody repnlsc, attempting an assault
after it. OF course all good officers
know his negro troops, whom he tried
to use for lack of white men, proved
worthless as soldiers, and merely
numbered the field. So goodbye
Petersburg! Goodbye Richmond
Goodbye Grant! God be with YOU
all, according to your respective mer.
its. Meantime the raids it raid
We don't know. But our impression
is, that it is the advance of formid.
able army of veterans of the Confed.
eracy, who mean, with Lee at their
head, to take Washington before this
month is over. We do not care to
speculate further in war news. Sec
rotary Stanton has ceased to send his
| lying dispatches to our picayune
General John Dix. Nay God in his
mercy rid as Of Die and Stanton ana
their master"
Another article published in the
February 1867 expose, and later re.
peated in the COURIER of October 3
1867, is as follows from the Mercura
of January 80, 1864:
eve take it that there isno one SC
"lost to reason, christianity and en-.
frightened patriotism as not to desire
"the restoration of peace and good
"will among all sections of our coun.
"try. This cannot be obtained 6s
"fghting. Var and peace are antag
"onistic agencies. Var necer can
bring peace and true republican lib.
"erty. 1t may bring about Subsection
and cossdloge, but necer peace ana
"Hberty."
From the Mercury of August 25th
1864, was clipped the following and
republishcd in the Weekly CouRIEr
of Oct. 3, 1867. The occasion was
Lincoln's last call for troops:
at is a capital joke, almost as good
"as a legal tender grecnback joke a,
"sixty odd cents OIL the dollar. On
Gas Uncle Abe's bull against the com
oct, or his peace negotiation joke or
"Greely. Mr.. Lincoln is so full OF
"his jokes that it is no easy matter te
"run counter with them. His ma.
"tional ability joke of 100000 and
This mortality joke of l,OOO,OO(
American youths, and his mutilatioI
Joke of 5000 one arm and wood
Sen legs, and his mourning joke OF
"of $4,000 men and women adorned
in black"
In the Mercury of June 4, 1864
just before McClcllan's nomination
the following appeared which was also
published in the CoCRIER in Fcbrua
ny 1867, and Oct. 3, 1867:
"All the electors of the State there
fore are requested to participate il
"the election Of delegates to the con.
"vention Chicago Peace Democrat,
"Convention who favor speedy
termination of the war; who viii
maintain the Union by strict OBJ
servance of the Constitution of the
"United States in letter and spirit
"and who will insist upon their rights
sat an untrameled election to cxpe
from power and bring to condigr
punishment the guilty leaders of The
l"North and South who are prodigal
"ly, nay rccklessly squandcring thu
"lives and fortunes of the American
"people in a most rindictiUe partisan
"acarfare schich is manifestly the de-
"styuction Of the constitutional unso,
"of The states and Us rapidly tending
"tO bankrupt, to bruto1ize and Il
Atltcanize the nation"
/ In the same paper of March 9, 1866
shortly before Lincoln's assassination
appeared the following:
] "And Lincoln the greatest crimi.
nal on the face of the earth, for not
"only did he not attempt to nourisl
sand foster what little union senti.
"ment there was in the seeding
estates, but by his own acts anG
"thosc of his partisans in and out O
"Congress, destroyed that sentiment
"and the people of the South ar,
"more firmly united now than ever
"Dy his own folly he has brough
"about this state Of things and the fu
"ture historian will so record it,
| These articles and many others O
a similar character were published ii
February and March, 1867, and Octo
Der 3, 1867 in the COURIER as copiet
from the Mercury. ! am quite Ger
tain that the names of Henderson,
and Burton appeared at the head OF
the columns of the Mercury from CIV
cry issue which extracts were made
1 deem it proper to make this state
ment because of the fact that in man,
places in this district it is denied tina,
any such articles ever appeared in
Judge Hendershott's paper here, and
1t being also claimed in many places
that they were stories concocted in tho