The Davenport gazette. [volume] (Davenport, Scott Co., Iowa) 1841-185?, 1854-06-29
Mr.. Grimes Triumphantly Sustained
saturday, June ~. 1851.

'ot e"H.'uate, VT. NTlInes, aimed with
fatal precision when he set up as n target
the ayowed sentiments Of certain southern
ers, in regard TO the peculiar adaptation Of
the broad acres of Iowa to the fostering
OF the southern institution, and the instinct.
Of its present inhabitants in respect to the
preference Of negroes 10 German popula
Ition. Our readers will remember with
what triumph Mr. Grimes sustained himsel
by fastening upon NJ. Butler, Of South
Carolna, the utterance of the expression
which he attributed 10 him, that Iowa woult
be more prosperous with the institution Of
slavery than with her German population
They will remember the alarm the remark
occasioned Mr. Dodge and his nmbra Jones
and the regeneration Of the S. Caroline
Senator, when unfortunately nobody woult
+" save him from his friends" and they probet
him 80 ungraciously with searching ques
tons. And again, how that Mr. Dodge ant
his fancy colleague, in their ill-advised
though honest attempt, TO rescue their be.
loved CONDUCTORS upon the Nebraska Bill
from the obloquy o; the accusation. that the
people Of Iowa loved even negroes more
than the Germans, addressed to Messrs
Toombs and Dawson, .Sna.1rs from Georgia
letter inguiring whether any one of theil
colleagues in Ms House had ever uttered
such an incendiary remark. Those Sena-
tors were jus, about as well posted with re-
gard to " What the members Of the House had
said is you are. reader, and replied as intel
ligently, though with not SO much honesty.
Mr.. Grimes Is IN old lawyer, bird not
easily caught with chat, and knew some
thing Of the elect any such ayowal would
have coming from hlm, occupying as he did,
the station as candidate for the highest office
in the State, and no doubt accordingly in
formed himself satisfactorily in respect TO
the truth OF the remark before he uttered it..
Met and shamefully vauqushed in this
flor, to dodge" the question, our Senator
from the Burlington district, makes tool of
Mr. Hem, the bird who assisted to hatch
the Nebraska egg, and kind OF Her
cues Of this little man 10 help him from.
the slough in which an over-foniness for
German votes has prrcipita,ed him. Ac-
cordngly We find correspondence between
Mr Hem Of Iowa and the several game-cocks
81 Georgia, in which the former propounds
the important inquiry in respect to the ne
grocs, and also whether either OF them had
uttered the reasonable remark attributed to
some one Of 'hcr number BY Mr.. Grimes,
when he said, 4 distinguished Reprcsen-
tative from Georgia has announced that in
fifteen years Iowa will be slave State"
In reply, the Representatives say, No
such idea was certainly ever advanced, or
any one from which such a reference could
be drawn, in anY SPEECH made by either Of
us" In common parlancc this is whipping
his majesty around ihc stump, in plain Ian
cuage It is subterfugc Now remark The
vii, ness of the little foxy Stephens; he
does not deny having uttered the remark,
but says he did not use that Language IN a
speech A lawyer would term this the small
est species of pettiiogging. Mr.. Grimes,
in his reply to the article of the Iowa Sen
ators published in the Union newspaper as
editorial says in speaking Of the expression
under consideration:
! "The opinion was expressed by the Hon.
Alexander H. Stephens of Georgia, in the
presence of the Hon. Charles Mason, Com
missioner of Patents. 1t was publicly ea'
pressed, and doubt not conscientious!y be
i.yed. The remark was repeated by judge
Mason to several citizens OF Burlington"
Mr.. Dodge has seen this reply of Mr.
Grimes and Mr. Mason, fellow Democrat
to whom the remark had been made, was al
that time in Washington; why then did moi
Mr.. Dodge address his correspondence to
that functionary! Because he knew Mr.
Mason would reply that Mr.. Stephens dtd
make the remark in his presence. Unt
Mr.. Mason comes out and unequivocally de-
mics that Mr. Stephens ever uttered such
remark in his hearing, Mr.. Grimes will stanc
,riumpfan,ly sustained in his assertion ant
Nr Dolce and his tool Mr.. Hem, utterly
defeated in their ungentemanly effort tt
tfastcn falsehood upon the Wing candl
date for Governor.
E.ro,,o1o we have sat VIII
,;nr this evening-apl its nov the twcl''f
,,o freorcntIy paused to note