The miners' express. (Dubuque, Iowa) 1849-1854, 1851-10-01
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER a5, 1851.
The ScOurge of Nature.

.e There are kind of people in the world
constituted by nattsre aid modelled Wy educ
. ton, that they are everlastingly dissatisfied wi
i the world as it is At times the seasons do n
move along to suit them--the sun rises too ca
le ly or too late-scnds forth too much or too lit
:. heats too often obscurcd by clouds, O.
r Then, again, the people are deficient III te
II thousand things essential to their happines
The government is too radical, or too conserv;
tive Those who make and administer the law
d are either knavcs or fools. Neighbours childrc
II disturb their cquanimity--a carpenters saw, G
: blacksmith S hammer or stone cutters chise
n annoy thcn-the cows low too loud, and the in
] tcrnal degs and cats keep up nocturnal sere
! made, to disturb their fitful and phanton-riCtde,
>sluinbers. Aud when these i-tempered an,
/, severely afflicted creatures can find no plausible
texcuse foT intcrposing a complant-nscn5bl
I Ecism-rcgardess of the admoni.ons of con
j science, and determined to find channe
; through which to communicate the s.agnan
waters of a ds.ein2ercd mind, they resort tt
misreprescnting peoples views miseonstruine
heir motives, misquoting and Inisapplying thei
llnguagc, and presenting them before the com
munity in the uncnviablc light of knave OF
fool.
/ We h.ppcn to be scourgcd with one or two such
characters in the editorial fraternity in this State
and we can only hope, for their own and the
public peace and credit, that time and experience
viii remove the malady, obliterate these dark
spots upon nature, and restore them TO proper
reconciliation with mankind, more enlightened
| appreciation of nature i'll It's simplicity and vr
tue, and practical exemplifcation of the
faculties Of reason as endowed by their Crca-
! tor
! We find ore Of these peculiarly constituted
beings answering to TIE cshtorship of the Daren-
port Ga-efic, appropriately styled by one of our
whig cotemporarcs, F." Picayurc S,llf,tcrs,' and,
although we are no advocate of long names, we
think, would very well bare the addition of
Pin Nan-as we can find no better sirnile
for illustrating the tw:stings and turnings
distortions ane contorons, absu-,,ities and CON
tradictions and extremely irritable and fractious
department Of this sprout of literature in his cdi-
t7=ial career, than by likcning him to an unruly
and fractious boy under the excitement of fire.
qucnt loses at game cf pins
1t has always been the peculiar province of
this discordant knight of the quill, to differ with
his neighbors upon the most trivial questions,
to ridiculc what would strike an ordinary intel
iect as forciblc and just-to prcmaturely con-
tradct what failed to carry with it volume of
tcstimony-to condemn everything not susccpti-
bic of being readily undcrstood-to misstatc,
miscons.-uc, msapply, and torture the language
and ideas of cotcmporaries into whatever form
would best serve = selfish and sinistrr
Indeed, 50 uniformly has this spirit pcrvadcd his
editorial lucubrations, that he has acquired the
reputation, if not the appcllation, of universal
grumbler.
We do net remember that we ever agreed
upon any general or local. social political
question and the period which records depar-
ture from this self-constituted lac of the man s
nature, will present an important era in his life
and place under an everlasting weight of OBJ
legation. Never has there opportunity pre-
sented itself for attacking us with cause, or
without, in front rear, but it has been snatchcd
and improved with the most marked avidity.
And our views, and the language accompanying
them, have been tortured in the most shocking
and absurd manner
it's to notice one ofthese instances ofbad faith,
that have thought proper to ndite this article
Some days subsequent to the late election, we
wrote an article stating what we regarded as the
cause of the near defeat of the democracy in
this county, and took the liberty OF calling in
question, in very plain terms, the course of cer-
lain democrats in the county. TIN! article was
taken TO pieces by the editor of the g Gazette,
and such portions as reflected upon portion o f
the democracy in this county, were quoted as
applicable to the democracy of the State; pub
lisled as democratic testimony to establish the
unsoundness of the democratic party, and our
self complimented, if we mistake not, for sin
cerity and candor. His erroneous quotation Of
the article we felt called upon TO correct. Our
correction did not please this fractious knight
of the quill, and he responds by making
correct quotation of the paragraph he had
previously msquotcd, and calls upon the demo
cracy in this county to discouptenance the man
as no gcattaan, who would put forth such
sentiments. We are as little astonished at the
vlclation, as alarmed at the Indignation, of our
c Temporary. The public have had frequent
exhibitions of the former trait, and we have
been so repeatedly the subject of his coarse
animadvcrsions, and !" belabored' with the title
Of "no gentleman" that we have really be-
come ind d!tfrrent to his application of the term
and almost insensible to the severity of its SEN
timent Should Mr.. Sanders bcstow NOR,
complimentary title upon us, we should begin
to Question our own intrinsic merits for he has
become, from habit, so accustomed to using the
word in its odious sense that to use it in any
other would be SO far subject of curiosity and
and elicit a strong personal desire to examine
ones self We feel no personal hostility to this
gentleman, but on the contrary pity hin, as the
unfortunate victim eG an irritable and deeply |
afflicted nature. SO far from feeling hostile
towards him, we would gladly indite d pane
Gyric upon his virtues, III we knew OF any tlat
he possessed. II he does not hate himself worse
than we hate him, he never will be denied the
credit Of strong personal attachments, or mis-
taken for man without his full share of self /
esteem. 1t would be ungenerous and ig noble
to visit wrath upon one who possessed neither
the good sense to appreciate the motive which
ms Igatei it, or the frankness to acknowledge |
the correctness of its application. Our motive
in indiiing the above article is to set ourselfI
right with the democracy of the State, and i'll
possible, convince our Davenport neighbor that |
we feel no hostility TO him, and shall be duly
thankful when he can so tar change the system
of his editorial tactics, as to treat us with that
respect and courtesy which is becoming to him
self and the profession.
GIVE HIM a CALL, EvERYBoDY-Mr J. C. !
WEATHERBY, is about to open splendid stock
OF fancy and staple goods, a few doors above