The miners' express. (Dubuque, Iowa) 1849-1854, 1852-03-10

SAYS she 81 do confess,
rather kinder sorter like,
The freedom Of the Press"
San Jose Tssitor.
From the Keokuk Dispatch.
Oar Senator...Ge0, w. Jones.
Attack, have lately been made from various
quarters, with a view, it would seem, to "write
dawn" one Of our Senators-Geo w Jones. =
Having discovered no weak point to assaii in
what the Senator has already done, his enemies
for his sserrors of omssion, and
rally him for not approxmating more closely to
their notion Of ga great man"-such as an Iowa
Senator should be.
They make "mueh ado because he has not
been puissant enough to bear down, like Ajax
sil the outside lobby pressure against the State
Railroad bills, and to overcome, in his single
self, the desperate log rolling, and the Prodigal
money Speeding, and the "selcsacrihcing
madness, which the last staggering thrors OF
Burlineton and other leaguers against the State
have set % work to aid in their war against fate
and the balance of their fellowc,tzens. Cen
Jones very prudently wrote home for '.hre TO
meet Are" in this prairie ffolic of waylay ing
spectators and guerilla politcians,and because
the FIRE came, and the ravages Of the ambushed
able to discomfit the stipendiarics OF the lobby,
after they had emptied their pockets to cater to
Congressman and Washington parasites; and
because these blown out hacks and starving
adherents to sinking borough whose fortunes
they are running for mere personal political
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT, will have to return home,
unre warded and unhonored, moneyless and
without name At home or abroad, with the
only of having thrown their
winters time and their dimes into the chas'n Of
Washington corruption; therefore, these men
are uproarious, and desperate, and will play the
brarsart like all wrath, and will move heaven
and earth, 10 upset General Jones. Their itch.
ing desires to step into the Generals senatorial
shoes makes them strut large and utter ''great
swelling words,' while the whole amount of
their upatriotism" or "(bless
them y you could put into your pipe and smoke
it.
We are persuaded to think that this coterie Of
quill -drivers, when they shall have finished their
lsbors, will be compelled to bite their nails in
sheer chagrin and bitter disappointment. They
who would sasirise down men Of prominence,
should know how to tip their pens with more
ofs.corroding GALL than do any of those efforts
We are asked to be amazed at. Even the sever
eel Of such onslsughts, are more likely to give
-ccnspiciousness 70 the character assailed and
awaken sympathy in his behalf, than to har-
rass or harm him. The object Of these attacks
may be made invincible by just such means,
while these "noble Romans" his wrathful as
sailants, will still have to s'peep about under
his huge legs, to find themselves dishonorablc
graves" These blind sbeaters Of the air. in
their Juror against our Senator, seem to forget
this. They are probably OF that class who are
doomed 10 perpetual disappointment, because
their unfortuna ate haste overrides their prudence,
and because their ken Of human satisfaction and
comfort is limited to the circles Of Office.
They have been 80 long patient browsers in
he political field that they have become sud-
derly rampant, and all at once throw up their
heels and execute strange antics which destroy
sll the dignified effect Of their pristine demure-
ness, and viii consign them still to the pasture,
10 hide their season. They are like noviciates
in wearing the Lions skin and their excess Of
srcpidation makes them shake themselves. and
t~tray the uncquvocai signs of Jack Donkey
ship.
We do not undertake to act as the eulogist Of
Gen. Jones. We arc very ready to allow that
he has mt cs.aycd to glorify himself and give
name to this State by elaborate and eloquent
rhetorical displays, and in this regard there are
not 10 men in Congress whose efforts during
the present session, thus far, would entitle them
- complimentary paragraph. Mr.. Jones has
profitable and important, untirng and
strenuous exertion for the success of the meas
s,res which are t. intellectually benefit his State.
I'VE venture the assertion that no State in the
Union has had in Congress a harder working
delegation than our own, and Of all Of them,
none have been more jealous, laborius, unfinch.
ing, persevering, resolute and effective than
Gen. Jones. This much we can say, honestly,
and without an attempt at praise. 1t is very
easy to represent that members # Congress,
because their speeches are few in the reporters,
are therefore idle, but in this case the charge
would be VIGOROUSLY false one. We know
that they have done, aud that they have worked
early and late, and if they fail we shall lay
the blame to the lobby enemies Of the State and
not to those who have thus been its steady
friends.
We are not authorized to say that Gen.
Jones desires or would accept q denomination
to his present post With that we have moth
ing TO do. We express no preferences and
champion no favori,es. We are only pursuing
our unalterable course, viz: TO defend every
democrat, without distinction, against all unjust
attacks Whatsoever. When we shall cease 10
follow this course we shall travel out Of jour.
nalism altogether If our best friends leave
us and essay ihnse forbidden paths which though
yelled with the flowers of ambition lead to dis
honor and death, we shall part from them with
! SIGH and 70 on our way. We shall not be
tempted BY our own personal feelings, or by
those Of others, to farbear TO defend democrat
who We believe 10 unjustly sssailed. Public
men etand upon their own merits and come be-
fore conventions and the people upon their own
strength. but they have right to expect this
simple justice from the hand of the public
press.
In conclusion, We re-express our belief that the
assailants Of Gen Jones have adopted mos'
unfortunate policy. We could have advised
them in advance, that to throw down the gusnt
let with sounding voice 10 not the happies
method to prepare for 4 successful combat
They are in for it now though, and have provok
ed contest which will require all their for.i'ud'
and stamina to bring 10 = creditable issue.
Sir Charles Napier in the course OF recen
letter to Lord John Russell, said 'sThis
not the time, my lord, to afffont IN officer VIII
has rendered some service 10 his Queen an
country, when France, with an army OF 4OO,OO
men, i in blaze
u The Presidential election, nexs fall, wi
Be governed BY The apportionment OF electo,
under The 1870 census, and not that Of 1850.