Daily Davenport gazette. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1854-1855, 1855-03-10
Davenport, sasar ,sy. March 10. 1855
Br;s.aisr 0soeTsl Augustus 'Cnsar Dodge
Uritsd states Senator irom the State O
iowa ana Minister Pleuipctsntiary to the
sCourf az HaArfd


article which appears in the Chicago if'-
sans Of last week. We copy nearly one
half Of il, partly to show our readers IN
what estimation Gen. Dodge is held by
some men, partly to endorse and psTsly to
condemn il. In other columns will be
found two or three paragraphs expressive
of the views Of editors OF his own party OF
Gen. Dodge's appointment
We canno. approve of the first paragraph
of the extract which follows. The Ian
caage is too caustic, 1t reflects ioo'aasA nlpoa
the GOOD sense Of the people Of Io'aa' Ad-
nit that Gen. Dodge is all that is here at
tributed to him and what is the conclusion
n ia. that the citizens OF our State are
either the most ureompromising demo
Gratis" in the Union, or are 50 intensely
ignorant as to be unable TO perceive the
difference between the education acquired
in the bar-room or that obtained at the
university. Though ambitious aud wo-
fully mistaken in the course he pursued
upon the Nebraska question, yet We would
not detract from the claims of Gen. Dodge
IS gentleman His course in Congress
has never been characterized by such con-
duet as would distinguish him as pot-house
politician. Ii he has not done much good,
certainly, save his vote on the Nebraska
question. he has by his irnprudence done
no harm to the interests OF the State he
has SO long represented in Congress
While it is true lows could aeSe sent a
better man to represent her interests in tn
national councils, ret IL must be admitted
that many a more incompetent one might
have been selected for that responsible o.
ice. In the person Of his colleague. a
popiniay better suited 70 igurt in a bail
room than the halls Of Congress, We see
what the Democracy might have done
had they not have sent Gen. Dodge 70
Washington.
That Gen. Dodge has bssn repaliated
by his own State is unqaestioaably true,
aud it IS equally true, that the Administra-
Son has rev arded him for this base deser
uorrof his constituents, b. foreign mis-
sion. That he viii seal the disgrace Of
the Administration aud the country al the
Court Of SPAIN. We do not believe; unless
he continues, blinily as when he sustained
the Nebraska bill, 10 act as The supple toal
Of prohigata' power. That his appoint
ment is bad precedent cannot be denied,
out the entire course or the Admin stration
is but series Of bad presidents and to de-
part from the rule were to rupture its policy.
That Gen. Dodge deserves a particle OF
credit, over and above the honor aud emolu-
ments of his office already received, is all
sheer nonsense, and any effort to get IN an
expression upon the subject is a bare-face
attempt to manufacture buncombe, Butto
the extract
OF the fitness of our Minister for the sta
ton TO which he is elevated, few words
will suffi ce. Brigadier General Augustus
Cesar Dodge is one OF the many politicians
whose idea of Craftsmanship is DEVOTION
the most thorough, unthinking and blind
obedience-to the changing dormes of the
bogus democracy; and whose idea Of demo-
cracy as a governing operative, vital force
in cringing servility 10 the demands AZ the
southern slaye-power. Without education
at home, except such as may be picked up
in the street corner and bar.room caGcuses
of Iowa; without mental cultivation. except
such as is attainabie in the pestiferous nj
mosphere Of Washington political life. bar
barous in the use of his mother tongue. aud
wholly unac lnaiated with the speech of the
people among whom he goes, and as utterly
ignorant of that poIitest Of languages which
is the Court dialect ofall Europe: un!earned
in the topics that constitute The staples Of
conversation among gentlemen; q man of
narrow views and no originality; shame
less partizan; an ultra pro-slavery dough
face, in whom "thrift has followed f4wninp;"
of boundless pretensions and little brains:
with all his fathers pomposity and none of
his dignity; fiattered By those whom he has
served, into the beIiefthat be is the success
or if not the rival OF Douglas; staggering
Western politician who has been advanced
without merit; promoted by the jugglery
that politicians know how to use; disownad
and repudiated By the people Of his own
State, who are tired Of him, personally and
more tired Of the faction TO y hieh be be-
longs,-he goes to Spain 10 complete aud
seal the disgrace of the Administration and
.he country, whieh DIR. Soule began!
We are so accustomed to seeing the Re.
public misrep presented abroad By the loafers
and yagabonds, whose political services or
whose boundless impudence has made them
applicants for missions and communicative
h,,a beon ca chgaka5 in f;rnn mast rs, IL -
drunken vsgaries Of the Hsnnegins, the
abominabie stupidities OF others who have
filled important s.stionp abroad that the
sppoi n,mentofthe Iowa aspirant--res pect-
ed az he is, third rate county court lawyer