Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1876-03-08

met General Belknap but on three
occasions, and then for very brief
periods, yet from many and all sourc-
es. without single exception, we
i have heard Of him as being of the
highest type OF honor and manhood.
4 While. therefore, we have no extenu-
alton 10 offer in his behalf, yet we do
ask for indulgence in fixing the meas
nre Of his wrong until the whole
truth shall come to light. On every
hand, with the President, with. the
! courts. and with the Republicans of
both branches of Congress there is
manifest the fullest determination to
know all, TO haze the most complete
Investigation, and TO deal out punish
ment as stern Justice shah demand it.
In the light of all this II must be
borne in mind that gricvous wrong il
couiined to no particular class Of In
dividuais. Day by day il is disclosed
in government 0faicials, in business
circles and in the Church Of God +:
/ yea, verify il is of most frequent &C.
cusrspca in the very bosom Of the
family circle. II is the glory Of these
times that corruption is being un-
earthed and wrong-doefs brought to
the bar of justice. The President and
his Cabinet say try the late Secretary
Of War for the otense Of which he
stands charged. and let jury of his
couptPy mete out to him justice.
With Aipl they will also try all 9TH
ers connected with ths affair. The
man c. p. Marsh, who made the ar.
rangement with the deceased wife of
the Secretary, does not rfmember
any persuasive words he said to
her, but lays it all to the woman
'she tempted me and l did eat" For
Marsh theTe mast be in every human
breast the utmost fealipgs of con-
tempt. 1t & O sprmisc in our mind
that is ever upperMost in regard to
him, that the guilty arrangement
which he says he made with Mrs.
Beikaap, is utterly paled and thrown
into the shade by the deep and damn
ing one he has recently made through
the intrigue OF the leaders of Tam
many democracy, and by which he
has sold himselfto open his lips for
say 100000 cash in hand-tO that
Tammany whose Governor would
net prevent the dangling Of innocent
black women and children 10 The
lamp posts OF New York during The
rebellion, there to be strangled to
death; that Tammany which was the
DEVOTED ally Of rebels in our great
revolution; that Tsmmany and those
rebels through whose instigation the
lamentcd Lincoln died at the hands
of an assassin, now again united into
the same old party are attempting to
seize upon the national government,
and corruption fund to purchase
what thieves may know. will be
poured Out like water. Let il 60 on.
Though this one and laat one may go
down. yet the American people know
that in the Republican party lies the
only hope Of tle nation, and that it is
only too glad to be presented with
the knowledge Of wrQng-doing in
any of its officer or itsleaders, to drop
them at once, and yet march right on
with the same steady and sure tread
TO victory. We present to our read
crs further information from the
Lnter-Oeeo0s specials, as follows;
ClScINSATI, Ono, March &C. r.
the man who gave the evil
dcnce before the House committee !
Secretary iselknap and fam |
lily, was for many years a resident of |
this city, He was a member of the
hardware manufacturing firlp Of Ty- /,
Ter, Davidson 4 Co., and withdrew |
from the firm during the war with I
x2O0, 600 in cash. After Withdrawing
he, with his family, boarded some |
time at the Burnett House, then the |
most fashionable hotel of this city.
and while there his wife became very
intimate with Mrs. BOWers, row Mrs. !
Belknap, and their intimacy eOntin-
ucd for many years. During the
war Marsh's name was connected
with many disrep4table schemes,
among which was that of
tpuarteFmaster Crane, who was court.
martialed ana Disguised from the SER
vice at Nashville on charges Of cor
ruption and fraud. IN the eXamina-
ton of this case il was shown that
Marst had made large presents to
Craue. something in the same man.
ner as IN the present instance. Soon
after this Marsh. With bis family, and
accompanied by Mrs. Bowers, made
a trip to Europe, where the whole
party speM some time in travelling
together. SO far as is known here
he has been engaged ip no active
business STAGE his Withdrawal from
the firm above alentiolcd. That /
firm furnished large quantities of
axes and other hardware to the gov
ernnent through Crane, the Quarter
master above alluded to, and it was
that these contracts were
procured by means NJ the bribes