Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-04-25
STANLEY MATTHEWS, of Ohio, steps
again to the front. He is in Washing
ton, and the inter Ocean special, I'M
der date of the 18th inst, saws:

LOu, uuu tllc xWGCF.CCCttW SpcCluI, uu-
der date of the 18th inst, says:
Stanley Matthews, who has been in
consultation with the President on
the matter to-day, remarked tonight
that the Louisiana question was
practically settled, and that the Com
missioncrs would probably leave for
Washington tomorrow.
1t is reported that Matthews has
written to the Commission recently.
In spite of the disposition one may
have to patiently await the issue Of
events and the hoped for good results
of the Presidents Southern policy, il
is too much 10 have this man So off,
cions and seemingly SO powerful at
headquarters.
The impression seems to force it.
self upon us, that from the beginning,
away back in the Congressional con-
test over the Presidency, this man
Matthews has been an influential fac
tor, and still continues to be in all
that pertains to the South Carolina
and Louisiana settlement. AS
more and more light Of this charac-
ter appears ON the surface, our dis
trust Of tho ruling policy increases.
A man who took q thousand men into
tho service as their Colonel, and then
abandoned them in a few months by
rcsigning and coming home, is not
the kind of chap we want to rely
upon in making terms with Southern
Democrats. The Inter Ocean, under
the caption of "Lct the President
Pause" uses some strong language
in very pungcnt editorial. We ex-
tract from it the following:
We grieve to say, however, that the
plan suggested by Mr.. Defacto Mat
thews seems to be the one which will
probably be recommended by the
Louisiana Commission and adopted
by the administration.
When the Commission went to New
Orleans they submitted to the con-
tending parties, under the instructions
of the President, q plan for compro-
mise. This was accepted by Packard,
but peremptorily declined by Mich
oils. The Commission then abandon
ed the proposition without word,
giving as reason that Nichols wo'd
not consent to it. They then proposed
another plan. This Nichols at once
accepted, while Packard positively
declined it. Did the Commission
thereupon abandon this plan also, be.
cause it was distastcful to Packard
Not at all.
Packard is Republican. He has
fought hard and periled his life for
Republican principles. He is sup
ported by men who stood firm for the
Union and tho Constitution when
fealty meant something and when the
price of it was prosecutions and mur-
ders at the hands of the rebels. What
recognition should be extended to him
therefor?
Nichols, on the contrary, was NOT
that sort of man. Nichols was q
rebel.
Nichols heads the rcorganized
Confederate army in Louisiana.
Nichols leads the men who mur.
dered that bravo old Unionist, DR.
Dostic, who stood in the doorway oi
Mechanics Institute, bravcly declar.
ing the'right of free speech, until he
was riddled with the bullets of a
rebel mob.
Nichols heads the men who chased
the fleeing black and white Republic
cans through the streets Of New Or.
leans in 1866, butchering them with.
out mercy and piling their mangled
bodies, amid jeers, in the dirty cutters
Of the city.
Nichols represents the men who
made the State a hell ON earth t(
those who dared to stand up fol
Hayes and Wheeler at the last cleo
tion.
Nichols is tho apologist and pro
tector Of those who less than three
months ago shot down at his owl
door brave public servant, for tn
monstrous crime of being Rcpubli
can.
Is ii to such man that the .Rcpub
lican administration and the countr.
owe debt which they must pay q
such cost2