The Cedar County advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Iowa) 1853-1856, 1854-04-08
latter from the Hon. John +.
Cook.
House. OF kIrREsEyrATisE"
March 20, 1854.

House OF kEPREsESTATNEs.
March 20, 1854
DEAR SrH:--I am in receipt oil your
favor OF the 9th inst, and also yours Oh
the 9Th, with the remons,raace agains,
the repeal of the Missouri Compromise,
You are right in surprising that shall
oppose this vile scheme Of Northern
;reachery; this unholy attempt to tribe
with sacred things.
Ere this reaches you the news OF the
passage of the Nebraska and kanzas
bill through the Senate will have spiead
over our prairie homes, and as far as the
Senate is concerned, proclaim to our pco-
ple tina, the sacredness OF compact and
compromises are but play,hings in the
hands Of demagogues and presidential
automatons.
| feel tina, if ever l was right in any
public act Of mine, it is in standing up
alone, as one oil the Iowa delegation, and
protesting against this act Of bad faith,
notwithstanding my colleagues are pleas.
ed to aid the treason by their voice and
votes.
| am receiving remonstrances every
day from Iowa, and am thus assured that
others are awake to their rights and dare
maintain them.
The fate of the bill is uncertain in the
House, bu, I've, hope the popular b. anch
will save the country from pending
wrong. The news from New Hamp.
shire shows that Pierce's own State
spurns the treason. TIE Legislature Of
that State proves to be an,i-repeal, while
a, the same time i, is just rebuke to the
fainting hero. Yours truly. SC.
JOHN p. COOK.
The above letter was written to gen
tleman in Linn county, and clearly de-
fines the position Of our representative
on the all absorbing question OF the day.
The Miners Express, Of Dubuque,
gives the letter an insertion, and its au-
thor an obloquy tina, is rather too tart to
diges, well. He says Of Mr.. Cook:
That be is regar ded in this country as small
beer, or one horse politician. with feast Of
breeches and famine Of brains.
And again:
Yet, even This miniature politician, this boy
in mems clothes, this pe,tiiosging pupil Of Ce-
dar, who occupies position INFINITELY above ms
merits. from an accidental defe :tion in the dem
ocratic ranks, presumes to assa,l measure.
which is founded in justice and equality, as .
"vile s.heln. Of Northern treachery."
In our individual capacity, we are op-
posed 10 Mr.. C3ox IN politics but we
must say that such execrations as the
above will do him no injury. |, IS not in
our opinion the proper way TO make
speed agalns, a prominent man BY spit.
ling a, him such vitupera,ion as ap-
proxinates to fish market slang. Mr..
COOK is still regarded as 4 Cedar County
nan, and as such the county is proud OF
him. The Erorsss again says:
All this, gentle reader, is from John P. &c ok,
whose political education and professional rep
utation. were acquired in the vicinity Of Upton,
Cedar County, Iowa.
How lamentable' nowyery unfortunate
it was for the Hon. j. P. Cook, tina, his
former residence was at Upton, and no.,
a, Dubuque. He should have acquired
a, leas, citizenship at that city, before
presuming to accept the nomination for
Congress: this was fatal error IN the
Hon. Gentleman, Yet as the matter has
turned out, we Tip,onians may feel fiat
tered tina, we have such an ence!len, DO.
li,ical and legal school here tina, we can
produce such distinguished graduates a,
the Hon. JOHN +. Cock.