The miners' express. (Dubuque, Iowa) 1849-1854, 1853-02-09
MEETING HIS REWARD.

Mr.. Merritt, whose sudden and unaccou abb
exit into public life in Iowa as Editor of th;
Dubuque Miners Express and by accident Stat,
printer, and whose extraordinary assn Gmptions o
genius has led him to denounce, disparage, Sian
der and besilme every one who had the inde-
pehdence to think and The candor TO speak il
opposition to his views is at last meeting hi:
) just reward at Iowa City. The work has com
menced and we hope il will not cease until he
and all who are inclined to follow in his foot.
steps and obey his councils, made to see the
true light in which the public view them -
Until "thcy see themselves as othe.s see
them.
Mr. Merritt having abused the privilege ac-
corded to hum, one of the corps Eeditorial, oi
a seat within the bar of The Senate and taken
advantage Of his position to make contempt
ible personal attack on Senator who had op-
posed the election of Gen Jones for cause
which he stated the Senate took up the matter
aud MIR Merritt only saved his bacon by deny
ing this correspondence. In other words he had
TO deny the authorship of his intaJ.sous letters
from the Capital containing the attack on Sen
ator, in order to save an expulsion from tie Sen
! ate.
! Our correspondent from the City says that
few if any one there believe what he says.
- From the Toaca State Democrat and Dubuque
Herald.
Our attention has just been called to the pre-
ced,ng article, which we extract from the above
named sheet Of the 26th ulno.
We are truly astonished that any journaI
claiming responsibility, with community whose
impulses are honest, should possess the hardi-
hood to perpetrate such wanton and malicious
fabrication, as that contained in the above arli-
Gle. From the pnraseology of this article, we
presume it to emanate from our newly imported
editor from Jackson county Iowa, whose char
acter for yillifcation, and distemper for reading
men out of the democratic party, compelled
him to close his Office in Jackson Co and find
new theatre for the dissemination of his vile
trash and new subjects upon whom to scatter
the virus of his rotten heart. We have but lit
tie affinity with spirits who live upon the full
some batteries Of such as recognize them, only
so long as they can use them and then kick them
off as they would an old shoe. We find
better company and more profitable employ
ment
Our entry upon our present profession is spo-
ken of, as sssudden and unaccouatabie crit into
public life IN Ioaoa." We do not claim much
merit, or age editor and have never
consi idered that the length of time that man
had resided in the state, or followed profession,
should add too, or detract from his reputation
But if this be the standard which, Messrs Ma
hony and Dorr have erected for the government
of this community, we trust as a very humble
member of it, that we shall be entitled to all the
credit that may attach TO longer residence in
the state, and longer participation in the ed-
toria! profession, than either Of them. As this
is standard which, as the state becomes older,
they may find it difficult and embarrassing to
and adopt new one-such for instance, as, that
the toes shall be certain length, the eyes
certain color, or the coat tail of certain style
OF all the frivilous pretexts for the justification
of unlicensed personal abuse, the old settler hob
bg, is the most naked and contemplate. But to
the expulsion of Mr.. Merritt from the bar of the
Senate, which these toadies have harped SO
much upon in private and through their sheet
Mr. Harris it is true felt agrieved at the use
made OF his name and We did not blame hun
of the authorship of it, he had the manness to
leave his seat and approach us outside Of the bar
and voluntarily proifer his hand to US. 1t re-
qured but moment TO satisfy him, by exhibit
ing No of our Daily paper, that it was not an
editorial correspondence, both from the h, aiding
of the communication and its phrascology. And
It was the work of but few moments 10 salts
fy the entire Senate, that W e had nothing to do
with writing the article. Any man who will
take the trouble to scrutinize the article will
readily perceive, that it was written by mem
Der of the House.
As to the estimation in which we were held
by the General Assembly, we certainly shall
never lose anything in comparison with the
editors of the mongrel. We have formed many
acquaintances in each house of the Legislature,
which we esteem highly and whose friendship
we shall ever feel it pleasure to recognize and
perpetuate and which we have no reason o doubt
is cordially reciprocated.
1t amusing to witness the extraordi nary eff
for's of this mongrel junto to disparage our char
acter
We do not intend to give them much notice in
future and should not have noticed them al this
time, had they not produced in our absence, a
false impression, touching the affair at Iowa City,
which is calculated uncorrected to initiate
against us.
The correspondent spoken of, in the eonclud
ing paragraph of the above article, had better
clear up his own character for truth, before he
D-esumes to question the truth of those, who
have defed him time and again to establish his
invidous declarations The man who has been
publicly posted and convicted Of being libeller,
should be duly guarded how he impugns, un-
supported by the feeblest shadow of evidence,
the veracity of others.
The state Printing is an old matter, but yet it
should teach this peurile correspondent, that si-
ience in some cases. is tie best discretion that he
can adopt.