Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1876-10-25
T,LpEN.s LITERARY BUREAU.

Previous 10 Samuel j. Tildcn's
nomination for the Presidency. that
gentleman organized a Bureau, COM
prising several of his friends, who
sent out regularly through advertis-
ing agencies-thc same as patent med
icine vendors advertise their goods
putfs of himself, and paid for them at
usual prices. Democratic papers OPP
posing him at that time, exposed this
disgraceful business. Among those
in our own State, was the Burlington
Gazette and the Spirit Of the Times
of this city. Since his nomination
this thing has been continued, save
that in the main, we presume, demo-
cratic papers felt constrained to pub
fish these articles without the usual
five or ten cents per line. In nearly
all cases these democratic papers have
crouchcd like whipped hounds, and
licked the hand that played this cum
ming, Infamous card, which they could
not approve at the time. There will
sometimes be slip in the best played
game, and early in this month the
Waukesha Democrat, i'm Wisconsin,
received its installment from the Blu
reau, and at once proceeded to pub
fish it. Afterwards some of the faith
full seeing the mistake, in breathless
haste sought the Office, and had the
editor suppress the article in the bal
ance of the issue. Part of the ISSUE
however, contained the article. 1t was
a mistake on the part of the clerks in
the Bureau. The article had been in
tended for a southern paper, and by
mistake was sent North.
We publish the article that our
readers may see how the old Copper
head, Tilden, Of 1861 to 'G5 is now
patting his old Confederate friends
ON the back. Here it is;
"Mr. Tilden's opposition TO the war
has been made the most of by our
antagonists. But it avails them moth
ing. The war is over. And it is re-
membered that some of the best and
purest men in the United States
opposed the war. President Buchan.
an, Willard Fillmore, Franklin Pierce
Stonewall Jackson, Robert L. Lee
John &. Breckenridge, Horatio Sey-
mour. George B. Mcclellan, and
hundreds of others were averse to
the war, and especially to the en-
ployment of colored troops and to the
emancipation of slaves. A majority
of the leading statesmen of Great
Britain and many on the continent
of Europe sided with the South
There was clean cut and honest diff.
ference of opinion all over Christen.
dom rs to the right or wrong of the
late rebellion. MIR. Tilden. with many
other distinguished men of our owl
and other countries, leaned toward
the South during the contest but was
none the less an American. And now
that section naturally gives him itf
united support. 1t goes solid for him.
There has been a disposition among
the timid friends of Mr.. Tilden to
deny that he was opposed to the war.
But Mr.. Tilden himself has never
sanctioned such a denial. He stands
now where he stood from 1861 to 1865
opposed to the war for coercing the
dissatisfied States of the Union TO re-
main in it. Mr.. Tildcn is still good
old-fashioned States rights democrat
OF the John G. Calhoun stripe, and
the Presidency cannot temDt him In
forswear his faith. And that is the
reason that the people like him. And
that is why they will vote for him
He refuses all opportunities to make
him say that the invasion of the
South was .justiiiable, because he be-
lievcs ii was not iustifiable."