Iowa capitol reporter. [volume] (Iowa City, Iowa) 1841-1855, 1847-12-29


ABtwerp, for WHOM, at least, weaeel ~
Mofised TO speak thus far, it is unneces-
sary to say, that they WI spurn si'e prop
osition, as they would the vile, dsparv sd,
creeping thing through whom il il made.
Tothat creature, we will only say-avaunt,
reptile You mistake your calling when
you think to play the tempter. Had Lu.
cifer not chosen an infinitely less repul-
sive minister, Adam had never been BAN
ished from Eden. ~ ID $50 - y
The editor Of the Reporter has grown
excessively polite towards his cotsmpo..
raries all at once. Perhaps ii is owing to
our rapping him over the knuckles 50 Of
ten. From some. cause, his
tone has changed very much recently.
Hawkeye. ~, ...
The above is decidedly .oo good joke
to be lost. For the novelty of,he thing, let
us recur TO few Of cur late expressions
touching this old lunatic-whom we cannot
asoid noticing occasionally-for The pur-
pose Of ascertaining what it is that he re-
CARDS as ercessiye politeness on our part,
snperinduced, as he intimates, by his crap
ping US over the knuckles SO often"
In the Reporter Of October Goth, we
instanced the well known fact Of his hav.
ing "danced merry hornpipe at the fex-
ible point Of boot, vigorously applied BY
a prominent member Of his own party
before whom, within short time ,hereaf
ter, he was found abjectIy bringing 10 kiss
the foot that kicked liim.'' This was BY
way Of accounting for his subsequent ex-
emFtion from deserved chastisement; and
we added: "The very dogs in the street
disdain to bark at such creature.
In the Reporter Of December lst. this
passage occurs: "We have therefore stu.
dlously refrainedfrom any expression IMP
on the slanderous reports concerning DR..
Matson until we saw him thus bru,ally
assailed by one 1.-THE editor of the Hawk
eye whose hang dog co,nies,qnce vefe
alone sufficient to ineareeraie him pithin The
rats Of a penitentiary." &a@
La late "lhaffer on .Nafurai History"
we spoke of the difficulties encountered
by na'uralists, on account ofits .royeling,
swlnish propensiiies. &C., in assigning To
the hsure head Of the Hawkeye its pro-
per grade in the scale Of animated creation
showing how art had triulnphed over
science, and put the question to rest, by
representing this noudescrip, creature as
"a cross between the cur, the monkey and
the BERKSHIRE 1t is equally true, how.
ever, that in the same connection, we
conceded to him the dignity of genuine
monkey, and instanced the tlat,ering man.
ner in which his claim to that rank had
been viEdicated by the Territorial Ga
zctte.
But what i: is that he regards as erces-
size politeness in Us, we are at loss to
know, unless it be our declaration that,
"whenever hereafter he should show his
teeth or cut up any of his monkey shines"
we would merely sieze him up after
the manner of the Gazette, and "exhibit
him Tor the amusement of cur readers. %
He appears to be perfectly delighted with
this proposition. Having already tried
the experiment once or twice, he evinces
no displeasure at the sharp sticks poked
at him by the spectators, and apparently
enters with much zest into the spirit of
OF the fun. Well, such being the natsre
Of the animal, We cannot find i, in Us ID
"rap him over the knuckles" for his
grimaces. II would appear that We must
perforce be ON friendly terms with this
unique, lying, tricky, pet of ours. .fs.