Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-11-21

Union Soldiers and a Disreputdble
Character Generally Put ForUard
to Escort Mrs. Hayes.-A Gross
Discourtesy and Insult to the Presi-
dent and Wife, and to Union Sol
diers, Living and Dead.
ATLANTA, GA, Nov. 6, 1877.
% the Editor of the Inter-Ocean.
The President has been cruelty
lbused by some papers North be-
,ause of this sentence in his reconcile
alton and reciprocity address, deliv-
srel in this city: at is no discrcdit
10 you, and no special credit to us,
that the war turned out as it did,
feel satisfied those papers do lot
the circumstances under
which that address was delivered,
nor the surroundings Of the Presi-
dent, or they would be slow to find
fault with the patriotic sentiment
Let me recount these,
and first as to the circumstances
His Eminence,
WADE HAMPTON, OF THE EMPIRE OF
SOUTH CAROLINA,
had made speech to the good peo-
pie Of Georgia the night before. In
that he had pledged the President to
use no harsh expressions to them, and
he begged them to receive him kind
ly and treat him courteously-not to
regale him with rotten eggs, as it
were, and as many another good re-
publican has been by chivalrous au-
diences in the South. Whatever else
may be charged upon President
Hayes no man can truthfully say he
does not faithfully carry out the bar
gains made in his behalf by his
friends. Ask Stanley Matthe VS. and
Foster whether he faltered in any
particular in doing all they promised
In Louisiana and South Carolina
"Givc Hayes the Presidency, and be
will give you solid South" seems
to have been the promise, and has il
not been redeemed to the letter
Well, Hampton, an integral of tina
first dickcr, promised good behavior
and the President gave it them il
speech and smiles.
AAO oukAouuuAuSo WSlC ONCA IhOiS
interesting. Several military com
panies had turned out to receive tn.
President. A Southern reception il
not reception without martial dis
play. The companies came will
banners appropriate to the occasion
The cred, White, and Blue" was no
one of them. One was the coat o.
arms of the State of Georgia, neatl,
embellished with q Confederate flag
The national colors 1oated from tn,
balcony. The President was no
looking at them. but at the banner
carried by the gallant men who ha,
turned out to applaud him for hi
faithful performance of his part o
Stanley Matthews agreement. Coul
he do less than tell them that it wa
no discredit to them that we had
Union that they had failed in destroy
ing.
i But more: Little by little the pre-.
ent explains the enigmatical past
The Hon. B. j. Barbour is reporte
to have said yesterday In Virgini
that Mrs. Hayes deserved, b
thought, as much praise for the Pre-
ident's Southern policy as the Pres
dent himself; that she, in a gre,
measure. was instrumental in its il
auguration."
LET ME HERE RECITE A FACT.
q During the war, when blood WI
flowing like water in Upper Georgi,
the trains used 10 dine at Big Sha,
tee, above here. One Adams, with
, squad of men, came down from She
mans army and, while conductor, Ell
gineer and passengers were eatin
dinner, uncoupled the engine, an
started with it for Chattanooga
From Big Shantee to that point Il
average of grade is upward. The Ell
CINE was poorly supplied with voc
and water, and one better provide
was put in chase Of it. Adams an
his men gallantly rode the iron hor
until he could proceed no furthe
just as the pursuers were upon the
they abandoned the engine and toe
to the woods, only to be captured.
They were brought back to this cit
tried, sentenced, and hung. A GOO
: many of those who helped TO recei,
! the President will recall that hangin
, Eight men were hung upon one pol
The unsuccessful hero, Adams, was
man of splendid physique. By son
miscalculation of his height, or IL
length of the rope, his toes touche
the ground. One .. II. Jones, note
for his gallantry in disposing of iii
armed Union men turing the wa
got spade and dug the sand fro
beneath Adams feet, until his weig
was sufficient to choke him to deaf
With this true picture in mind, yo,
readers, and especially those spitefl
editors referred to in the opening
this letter, will not be slow to imagir
that this man Jones particularly nee,
ed to be reconciled. 1t has been don
just thirteen years after digging II
dirt from beneath the feet Of o chol
ing Union hero, he appears before Il
; people with the distinguishing hone
of the Union Presidents wife han,
ing upon the same arm that wielde
, the spade. Verify, there is more r
joicing over one sinner than ov,
ninety and nine who never sinned.
, do not quote the passage verbati
because the repentance" part is pra
tically superfluous under
MRS. HAYES POLICY.
Il am glad she did not hear the cri
icisms of some of those who got Il
two pictures mixed in their imagin
tons. 1t might not seem pleasant
be forever associated in memory wit
the proprietor of livery stable,
coffin shop, and one of those gri
palaces, described by Solomon, Il
steps of whose inmates "take hold Z
DEATH
u Now, these are some Of the circun
stances under which the address
were delivered, and some of the su
roundings of the President. He can
to mollify, and these hearers were o,
to be Modified by hurrah over Il
Union and the men who sacrifice
home comforts, ease, the smiles
family, and life itself. that the Unto
might be perpetual. Hampton. Jone
Hill, Gordon and Fitzsimmons wei
Modified. The Union men migl
have been little surprised, and eve
Inundated, seven or eight montl
ago. They were not now ; and if the
were not, what right has your Nortl
ern editor to criticise and find fault
He would not do it if he was not OF
posed to the South having its .srights
Truly, MoLLITlED GEORGIA..