The Davenport gazette. [volume] (Davenport, Scott Co., Iowa) 1841-185?, 1851-10-30
4 NEW Track OF AN OLD ENEMY.

A NEW TRICK OF AN OLD ENEMY.
We have several times taken occasion
to correct Billy De Merit, editor Of .h'
Dubuque Express, but he has made sucl
IN awful 'howling under the lash that IL
very pity We have spared the rod and
il appears indeed from what follows
spoiled the chldr Billy mus. have beer
under the influence Of spirits moro arden
,han any We have yet been enabled TO ia
fuse into him, when he penned tbs follow
ing moroccan. Ex-senator Jones don't hole
his picaninny he will vet break leading
strings. To render the following effusio,
supcrlatively ridiculous, we would state
,ha, no such article as the one alluded To-
nor anything resembling i, has appeared
in the Gazette. Had moi nature saved
him the trouble, we should give il AS our
unqualified opinion that Mr.. De Merritt has
made an ass Of himself:
"CENTRAL IowA."-A late number Of
that inralaable chroniclcr Of passing e.
vents, the Davenport Gazette, contains
long article complaining bitterly because
our Senators do not visit Davenport. Our
ueiRhbor says Senator Dodge risits tht
North and Senator Jones the South, but
neither condescend to visit the " central
portion Of Iowa." (mesning Of course that
little burough Davenport and thereupon
.'picayune" reclines into al "amrfuI' fit Of
dependency, Of nearly columns length,
imploring the COED people to correct the
evil. Well, now, say nothing about Dav-
exports being the centre Of Iowa." our
Senators have no business to pass BY u
without calling, and we can tell them as
our neighbor has done, that they must do i
40 more, or we shall be induced to report
them to the people, for their grave, serious,
deliberate and conscientious deliberaticD.
A beautiful ret Of Senators surely, 10 pass
BY the "Centre Of Iowa and not stop to
sag hop are you, TO tho old man, smile at
The old woman, and kiss the babies, in or
der that such sly evesdropping creatures as
the editor Of the Gazette, might raise hue
andscry through the newspapers, that they
were elec,ioaeering.
Il never will do gen,lemen--pass Dav-
export no more without calling, and be GER
tain that you do not leave the town, with
out seeing that master genius Of the Ga
zette. who you must be aware holds your
desiinies in the palm Of his hand, at least,
so far as the Centre Of Iowa. is concerned.
Oar readers must excuse the plainne.s
Of our language above, but forbearance
sometimes ceases TO be a virtue and il be
comes necessary in dealing with such IN
mitigated meanness. to apply words that
can be appreciated by the subject. We
had thought the above emanation proceed
ed from The mired condition Of the ideas Of
the presiding genius Of the Express, unit
we fluid in subsequent number Of his pa
per, an abusive personal article, that be
trays its source in every line, and founded
upon what again purports to be quotation
from the Davenport Gazette, but which, a
the above extract. was doubtless concoctet
within the narrow precincts Of MIR. d.
Merits own mind. As the latter is aimee
at ourself we do not regard il, but as tht
former is intended to disparage out city, i
demands at least the notice from US Of I
reference back to the polluted and degen
crate source whence il issued.