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

our candidate, .dr. GriMes, aimed with
fatal precision when he set up as a taroe,
the avowed 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 instincts
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 himself
by fastening upon M. Butler, of South
Carolina, the utterance of the expression
which he attributed to him, that Iowa would
be more prosperous with the institution O.
slavery than with her German population
They will remember the alarm the remark
occasioned Mr.. Dodge and his umbra Jones
and the regeneration Of the S. Carolina
Senator, when unfortunately nobody would
save him from his friends" and they probed
him 30 ungraciously with searching ques-
tons. And again, how that Mr.. Dodge and
his fancy colleague, in their ill-advised
though honest attempt, to rescue their be-
loved coadjutors 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, .Sza.ors from Georgia
d letter inquiring whether any one Of their
colleagues in tas House had ever uttered
such an incendiary remark. Those Sena-
tors were JUS, about as well posted with re-
gard 10 what the members OF the House had
said IL you are. reader, and replied as intel
iigen,ly, though With not SO much honesty
Mr. Grimes is IN old lawyer, bird not
easily caught with chat, and knew some
thing a. the elect any such ayowal would
have coming from him, 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 vanquished in this
fort to dodge" the question, cur Senator
from the Burlington district, makes tool OF
Mr. Hem, the bird who assisted to hatch
the Nebraska eag, and kind OF Her
cues Of this little man 10 help him from
the slough in which an oyer-tondness for
German votes has precipi,ated him. Ac-
cordngly we find correspondence between
Mr Hem OF Iowa and the several game cocks
Of Georgia, in which the former propounds
the important inquiry in respect to the ne
rroes and also whether either of them had
uttered the reasonable remark attributed to
some ono Of ''leir number hv sIr, 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 reference could
be drawn, in ana SPEECH made by either Of
u.s. In common parlancc this is whipping
his majesty around ,hc stump; in plain lan-
nuage it is subtertugc. 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 pettifogging 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. II was publicly ex-
pressed and doubt not consclentously be-
ieyed. The remark was repeated BY Judge
Mason to several citizens OF Burlington.
Mr.. Dodge has seen this reply Of Mr..
Grimes, and Mr. Mason a fellow Democrat
to whom the remark had been made, was at
that time in Washington; why then did not
Mr.. Dodge address his correspondence to
tha. functionary, Because he knew Mr..
Mason would reply that Mr.. Stephens did
make the remark in his presence untl
Mr.. Mason comes out and unequvocally de-
mics that Mr. Stephens ever uttered such
remark in his hearing, Nlr Grimes will stand
triumphan,ly sustained in his assertion and
Mr.. Dodge and his tool Mr. Hem, utterly
defeated in their ungcntlemanly effort TO
ifasten a falsehooi upon the Wing cand''
date for Governor.
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