Des Moines courier. ([Ottumwa] Iowa) 1848-1854, 1852-03-04
The Capital Reporter and -oui
EailrOnd.

The Capital Reporter and our
IailrOnd.
By the poli,cness Of friend we have
been permi,,ed 10 look over the Capital
Reporter Of the 25,h uls., I've have new
er di.grfaced our exchange ls' with such
a receptacle Of Billingsgate as it las al.
ways 5een,) and have read with disgust
several editorials emanating from the
brain Of that greatest of asses Monsieur
lie Grande Bying.on, the acknowledged
though unannounced spirit that throws
venom and blackguardism out through
the columns of the Reporter and would
fain pass them Of for argument, facts
and wit! Everybody that does not wor,
ship Iowa City, and acknowledge that
she has presumption right to all requests
20 the State, is despatched and bedaubed
with all the Billingsgate which Monsieur
lie Grande Byington has learned, from a
long and continued practice. to use with
erea. gus,o TO himself and the disgust Of
all decent men. " '" "'S''. @....5
The Reporter characserizes the people
Of Southern Iowa as ''conspirators,'
"highwaymen," &c. And why! for
soo.h! Simply because they have the
foresight. and independence to advocate a
proiec. tina. is feasible, and has some
thing of National character! Because
they do not advocate the silly and USE
less projec, Of building railroad where
none is needed, and if built would never
pay expenses Of running il to say nothing
of the cost Of building it, as Dubuque,
Keokuk and Iowa City are doing. By
ing,on talks about gas! Surely the friends
of Monsieur lie Grande's project deal in
gas, for they resolved to build their road
grant or no grant, and one half of them
can, pay their taxes! and among that
number is Monsieur lie Grande, their
acknowledged champion! pies Ia hum
bug! Tioe la Monsieur LIE Grands
Byington, Esquire!! 1'a -
We have a few plain questions to
ask Monsieur lie Grande, and first we
wish 10 know what he thinks of the two
articles. on our first page, copied from
w .
.he' Oekaloosa Herald! Second, don't
Sou believe sha. the unmanly and uncall-
ed for course you have pursued toward
Southern Iowa, will work out the ruin
Of the "centre"i Third. don't you be.
lieve that the Capital is bound to be re-
moved soon, and that you have "bi.ien
off your noses to spite your faces"!-
Well, we guess you have. as you will
find out to your sorrow. A doubtful but
jus. cause sometimes justifes desperate
means, but we never conceived that such
language as is used by the Reporter was
jus,i6able, no matter if they have des-
perate cause.
When truth and decent defence of
our project for road fails. we will cease
to use any means to obtain our ends
But SO long as we are assailed by the dis
appointed demagogues that other States
have repudia.ed and cast of. and who
here set themselves up as paragons OF
decency and dicsators of State policy,
we fear no evil, nor entertain any doubts
as to the feasibility Of our project; our
success in Congress; and the Ultimate
completion Of this truly national work.
And though we do no, suppose our road
will run by every mans pig-stye las
certain road contemplated is promised to
run) still every man in Southern Iowa
Ia portion Of Lee county only, excepsed,)
is in favor Of il, and will stand by il un-
ill il is built. And inasmuch as you
have thrown down the glove; have for
ced US TO assume hostile attitude, we
will never bury the Ratchet until that
greatest of all humbugs (the Dubuque,
Iowa City, and Keokuk railroad) is de-
funct; until the cars are running from
Burlington 10 the mouth Of Platte River,
and the Capital 10 removed from Iowa
City TO central point in The Des Moines