Ottumwa weekly courier., 1878-07-24

THE republican party, since '6l,
has had two great battles to fight.
There have been great many minor
battles but the following are the inn
pOrtant ones: The first was to save
the nation from a democratic rebel
lion. That it did. The next was to
save the credit and honor of the ma
ton, and that it has virtually done,
though not yet accomplished in name.
When the republicans would issue le-
galtenders to save the life fthe nation,
the enemy said they were unconstitu-
tional and would soon be utterly
worthless. When after the Union
had been preserved the republican
party would save the national credit,
then the enemy said give us more
greenbacks-mo of the unconstitu-
tional money and SO they would
destroy the honor of the nation they
had failed to destroy at the point of
the bayonet.
The republican party said they
would whip and conquer traitors, and
they did it. They have also said they
would pay the debt thus incurred and
not repudiate it, and would make
greenbacks as good as gold. Victory
in this last struggle is at hand and
against the same old enemy, save
here and there disappointed, ambi-
tious, bad men have led astray some
good men from the republican fold.
We have all along had much ankle
ty as to this last great struggle, for it
has required a sacrifice to do it, just as
it required a sacrifice to march to bat
tie, under the old flag, to whip trait
ors. We rejoice to-day in the victory
gained in this last great battle with
feelings akin to that which resulted
from victory at Appomattox.
HENRY CLAY DEAN made green
back speech, not long since, i'm Oska-
loosa. He with Brick Pomeroy has
been canvassing this state not a little
this year, and Pomeroy Greenback
clubs-we mean clubs organized un-
der his auspices are more numerous,
according to reports, than any other.
These two gentlemen are invited to
the State Greenback rally at Des
MpsnaC Snn,, tn oopn off 90 Snaa l. org,
Besides Dean has expressed strong
desire that the democracy of Iowa
should endorse greenback candidates
for Congress. Dean has recently made
a communistic speech at Kansas City,
Mo. The Gate city says:
we have received in full Henry
Clay Deans late speech at Kansas
City upon national politics. 1t was a
thoughtful, learned and eloquent plea
for reputation of public debts. 1t
was a very fascinating and great ora
tion devoted to a bad end.
The Gate city also gives the follow
ing extract from the speech:
The time is coming when there will
arise among the people ''men with
sand in their craW, iron in their blood,
God in their love and hell in their
hate" Then there will sweep across
the land whilwind-acyclone which
will redeem land intended to be a
land of freedom, but now a realm of
white slavery and cOnfscation.
In 1868 this Dean published a book
of about 500 pages, entitled "Crin'es
Of the CirH Var and Curse Of The
Fundiag System" We quote briefly
from pages POT and 22l of this book.
Speaking of the debt incurred to sup
press the rebellion, i'm which he was a
most notorious copperhead, Dean
wrote:
"The people are not bound by the
Constitution to pay this debt, because
it was entirely unauthorized by the
Constitution. 1t was created in VIC.
latiOn of the Constitution for the pur-
pose of overthrowiHg the Constitu.
tion."
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'sThere are three ways of disposinp
Of such a debt, each Of which has it,
conveniences.
~. By repudiating the obligations
of the debt entirely, which would
bring the burden of the evil upon the
rich, who have boarded their means
and invested them in government cred
its.
~. By funding the debtand paying
the interest on it after the manner o
British debt. This impoverishes the
poor and places them where the Brit
ish have left their poor, i'm perpetua
servitude. The funding system ha
been elsewhere examined; or
"3. By abolishing the funding sys
tenn and banking system, built upol
it, freeing the people from its onerou
burdens and in its stead issuing certif
icates, emitting the holder to sucl
share pro rata, as he may be entities
to upon final settlement, i'm whicl
the public lands, or part of them
may be hypOthecated for the redemp
ton of these certificates.
s"The liberty of the people demand
an immediate abolition of the who'll
funding SYSTEM"
Now Gen. Weaver, since he left tn
republican party, seems to have beel
sitting at the feet of this GamalieI
q. p Il. 3. n