The miners' express. (Dubuque, Iowa) 1849-1854, 1854-06-07
HON A. G.. DODGE.

II is TO US as it is, no doubt to every citizen
OF Iowa, Of State pride and private
pleasure to see The distinguished position which
Senator Dodge occupies in the eyes of the
nation? Thee IS evidently no man in Con
gress at ttis ,ime, ard doubt If there be any
out OF Il, who ills so Iarge space IN the IS
timaton "i p"l lc ans, g'ta, and small, or who
is So gerera'iy pointed out as tav"rite, for
mere Distinguished h,nnr' If this has been
said before through tie columns ofhe Express,
it is not brcarSe say 81, huc because we are
gratIigd at having an opportunity 10 repeat the
kind gratulaiions of strangers 1t will not sur
prise to find some two penny Lawyer, even
in Iowa, sneer at all This, and say by way of
kno, k down argument Dodge has never
read blackstone - bu, We can confidently reply
that he has read better book, for be has stu
died the book Of na lure in the school of the fair
GODDESS herself Unhr The hoys OF the
East whose minds III youth are corrupted by
vicious associations, as well in densely settled
manufacturing districts as in the purlieus and
alleys of large cities and carry their evil pro-
pensIties to the capital of the nation, he was
sent to Washington as the R preventative OF
Iowa fifteen years axo, with heart pure as tine
bamy air of his native prairies, and in the Ian
guage of a distinguished writer " the alarm
bell may wake him up at any hour OF the night
during his whole political life, and he would al
ways be found there and always right.
Gen Dodge is no, ambitious for fame. Those
I ,,,h, L. oct hat his ar
| is his retiring modesty A backwoodsman from
his birth and the spn Of farmer; child oil
Missouri, a boy OF Wisconsin, and man OF
Iowa, he is great wi hnut knowing it, and hon-
es, as he is great Have we not those yet
among US who saw him work in his flannel shirt
and buckskln pants for years through the Lead
| Mines? He was raised amid the privations and
hardships Of an extreme frontier life, and fol
lowed the fortunes OF his veteran father in the
Back Hawk war to defend the homes of his
friends and neignbors. Such is the life OF the
man whose fafae is now the property of the ma
ton, and whose fithfu advocacy OF the constr
tuition and is com promises has gained for Iowa
the proud title OF I. the Cockade State 0f the
| Northwest
| Althoug gh we are often led 10 think OF the
grow ng greatness of our Senator, and have not
lhrsitated 10 tell our readers what is thought OF
him abroad. we confess that we were carried oh
into our pr sent rrh ,ctons by the receipt OF a
pager called the Southern b nner, published at
Athens in Georgia 1t was sent to gentle
rnan IN his ciy by friend in Charleston, >. y
II contains Gen. Dod1e's letter "n the Nebras
ka question, addressed to the L mmany Hal
me, ting in New York in March last, with mos
fa,terns comment attributed to the pen oi Gen
Howell Cobb The wriier alter exiailing tht
character of Gen. Dodge. says that nothing
would afford him higher satisfaction than t6
vote for the General for the highest office
within the gift Of the people. This Is saying
great deal, but whit more than he mer't'
both for his ability as a statesman and his integ
rity as a man.