The miners' express. (Dubuque, Iowa) 1849-1854, 1852-06-16
Sir my country requires my services
am re1du TO march "
From the Muscatine Enquirer.
UIITTl REM

This notorious individual has again placed
him.rlfn attitude to be noticed by IA. We
have branded him with trickery and funkeysm,
with falsehood and venality, over and over
again; and yet his love Of notoriety, prompts
him again TO incur the stripes, for the sake of
being noticed. He does not love US, only as
he would the p,llory which brought him before
the public gaze-indeed, we have been the target
for his most venomous abuse, the object Of his
unsleeping hate, from the day we thrashed the
Brntonism out of him, and forced him 10 apol-
ogize to the public for meddling in matters thai
did not concern hun, over his own signature.
Oflate, we have seen the necessity of repeating
the correction-and our first reproof has called
forth characteristic outburst of rage, froth,
epith.t, and futile wrihing in the grasp If con-
science for moment sitive to its own infancy.
He charges us with being sssold (last winter)
TO the enemies of Muscatine" 1t is the only
charge he has ever been able to bring against
our consistency, or fathfulness 10 friends or
party; and this charge we leave TO be tried be-
fore the jury Of onr whole fellow citizens, with
ont note or comment. Here our devotion to
the true interests of Muscatine, as far as we
understand them, is not doubted by even our
enemies. No special pleading is necessary to
rebut an accusation 80 groundless. He tests OF
our influence We are willing to measure it
solitary case IN which our correcting hand has
worked sllutary results. He thinks we are non
compus. as q politician. We can we'll afford TO
leave that question to the decision Of others
A commission of lunacy might find verdict
of ssdaft'' in our case-in this the verdict would
be "more knave than fool-potu." Be this as
it may, we have no accounts to settle with
friends betrnved, party sold for silver, con-
science that distrusts all good, and a heart On
fire Of its own disappointments. chagrin am
infamy. He don't like our friendship for Sen
ator JoNEs-he cannot understand the sense of
Justice that leads an honest man to mete out
praise where it is deserved, though not paid for
it-or how we can lift the lance in defence Of
Senator Jones, while we neither belong to him,
or are Of the number Of his allies. We defend
Senator jones from his attacks, Just as we would
defend neiglibor from the fangs OF a copper
head-Morgan's prototype in one sense-not
because we place him above any other faithful
and efficient democrat, or desire his reelection
above all others, to the post he now 50 worthily
flls-bnt because we honor true man, and
have the instructive enmitv IF our race against
the whole snake species He says he is about
to enlarge his paper, and will choose his subjects
accordingly A change Of stvle is more des-
rable but 1t would be better ifhe could enlarge
the meagrer mantle Of Pharisaism with which
he strives to hide his treacherous designs from
the gaze Of men. But no degree Of prosperity,
M fortuitous circumstances which may give
him power and pclf, as often happens to the
rogue, can change his nat re, or make him ought
less despicabe than he now u.s. We, too, shall
soon cast away those old types, and dress our
paper in new. We hope to find them in better
employment than lashing, with scorpion whip,
the knavery Of J. NJ. Morgan. Until that time,
we shall give them an occasional notice.