Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-12-05


Tribune, has become frightened al
the results of the slobbering policy.
He has had his fapiack larboard flip
per to the ground, Che is deaf in his
starboard one), and hears tho follow
ing ominous sound from the Merid.
ian. Miles,, Mercury:
tsIf Mr.. Merrimon had shaped his
repeating bill to abolish all tho sec
tons Of the law which pension the
soldiers who fought in the Federal
army in the Civil War, he would have
done what pride demands of South
ern Senator, and what a delicate
sense of honor in o Northern Senator
would approve"
Which he publishes to condemn in the
following half-hearted way:
1--WE have opposed any scheme to
pension Rebel soldiers or their wild
ows and orphans, because the Gov
eminent should not be compelled to
pay men for seeking to overthrow it,
especially after it has given these men
Immunity from punishment, and be-
cause the very proposition il an insult
to the soldiers who fought to preserve
| It, and an outrage upon the memory
Of those who died on Southern bat
tie fields. and in Southern prison
pens"
He also plucks up courage enough
to copy the following New York 7a-
bune report ofan interview with Sem
ator Conkling, to-wits
"What does the South want2 1t
wants from the Government money
to build the levees of the Mississippi,
money to construct railroad to the
Pacific, money to scoop out every
Southern river and creek, money to
refund the $75, 100000 Of tax collected
on cotton, and, in the end, money to
pension the Rebel soldiers. This
money, if it is obtained at oil, must
come from the North; it must come
in large part from New York, be-
cause New York pays one-tenth of
the whole revenue of the Govern
ment. Whether the South shall be
allowed to take this money from
Northern taxpayers is the real South
ern question which must enter into
our future politics. Lackadaisicsl Re-
publicans, who took no interest in
the campaign Of this year, will very
soon find that they have very great
interest in the success of the Itepub-
lican party
And then with an audacity and
Imendacity which would put TO shame
the inventor Of lies himself, Medill lays
all theblame ofthe Decentralization and
weakening of the Republican party,
which is the only buiwark against the
consnmmation of these things, ut the
door of Conkling and the other stall
wart Republicans who have main
tanned the Republican faith without
the shadow of turning.
More than two years ago the Con-
RIER put itself on record in much
stronger terms than the above quo
tation from Senator Conkling, and il
has no reason yet to modify its predic
ton. II believes that the Confeder-
ates of Congress, under the lead of
Senator Gordon, are just as intent to
capture tho Capital, and transfer the
Richmond government to Washing
ton, as when, in 1864, under that same
Gordon, the rebel army was defeated
and hurled back, but not until its col
umn had got within fonr miles of the
Capital.
And when the time comes that the
Lost Cause shall become the Nation
al Cause, and when the Rebel soldiers
are pensioned, tho slaves paid for,
and every species of property de-
stroyed in the South during the war,
added to the public debt, thus water
ing government bond down to the
value of fair Wallpaper, Joe Medill,
George William Curtis, Carl schnrz,
Sam Bowles, Stanley Matthews, Mu-
rat Halstead, Whitelaw Reid and
William Cullen Bryant, who have
been hamstringing, disemboweling,
and emasculating the Republican par
| ty, will make good pail bearers, as
the next best friends Of the bond
holders, when they bring about their
own funeral, through the aid Of these
same political pirates.
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