The miners' express. (Dubuque, Iowa) 1849-1854, 1852-04-21

ssThe Express propheticatIy."
On Friday preceding the late election III thi
city, the Express prophesed as tollows:@
"Farley 10 hard to beat IN all requisite quaIlfi
cations, it is true; but he can be beat. The No
mans, you know. were hard to beat, too, but still
they were beat, and Hannibal it was who did it
; Clear the track for Emerson
To understand the above beautiful extract, Il
should be paraphrased, thus:
\ Farley, you know, is hard to beat, but Han
nlbal Emerson can do it. Attend! great Han
nibal himself conimands you-Hannibal OF horse
power fame!
With all due reverence For the profound learn
ing of our esteemed neghb6rs OF the Express
We do not appreciate their classical aius:on in
this instance. The comparison, it carried out
| might prove rather unfortunate to the late can
ddate for civic honors. Ofcourse, the Express
is aware that Hannibal, the elder. was as COM
pletely routed by SCipin as Hannibal. the y'un
ger, was by Farley. Then again, to AVOID the
enemy, Hannibal the ancient hero, committed
Saicide-that was the way he finally beat the
Romans-but we trust that Hannibal, the mod
ern hero, will no! think Of initiating his llustrl
Gus predecessor.-Irt6
We clip the foregoing characteristic specimen
Of braying, from the Tribune Of Wednesday
What pity it is, that our good citizens have
not tile consideration, to furnish our jureniie
| friend across the way, with an opportunity to
exhibit his historic lore. He seems to be afraid
that the public, appreciate but little, his literary
merits. He wishes them to understand, that
with the name of the immortal Hanai5al, of
Car,hagenan fame, but that he too is equally so;
that h,s literature extends beyond 0urc, and
that, he is familiar with seipio, as well as Han
nbal: and well posted also, in the suicidal
policy OF the unhappy African, by which he
finally beat the Romans.
We were not aware that Hannibal had finally
beaten the Romans. We are purely indebted
t. the literary supremacy of the ,udie jureniie
Of the Tribune, for this last important fact,
running as it does, directly counter to all here
tofore authenticated history We have always
been laboring under the Git would seem mista
ken) impression, that, Hannibal had,not finally,
but temporarily defeated the Romans. In this,
we imagine ourselves to be fully sustained by
the universally received faith in that history,
which declares the brilliant and Successive VIC
tories of the great Carthagenian over the Ro
man arms, during the whole of the winter Of
the year in which Hannibal first crossed the
Italian boundaries. If we recolect Alright,
even Scipio, on one occasional least, during tina,
same winter, found it convenitn mt to leave the
field to his bold antagonist. We reccollect al
so on another occasion, the alarming announce
ment by the Prmtor the city of Rome, "Our
Consul has been slain and the whole army van
pushed by the enemy" We recolect that the
enemy was Hannibal.
But we suppose our learned juvenile, will say
to all this what the old lady did, to the neighbor
who quoted St. Paul to prove her error, viz
All (said the old LADY, that's jist where st
Paul and me differs So we imagine our
ighbor will likely tell US that, to the above
cited instance being evidence Of defeat, it is
jist where he and the Pretor differ Our sap-
ent friend seems to have forgotten that, man
may be the victor in fifty contests, and yet, f
naiiy be himself defeated.