Demoine courier., 1855-01-25
REPORT.

or The Committee on Federal Relations Of the
Senate Of Io,ca on that portion Of the hua-
gnrdi Message Of his Ercellcncy, GorerHor
Grimes. phich has reference 10 the subject of
sldrery-Ioud City: ID. a. Mahony and j..
b. Dorr, Stdtc Printers.
Such is the title page of a document. which
we have a right to suppose was printed al the
expense of the State, by order Of the Senate.
We have no means of knowing, but as that is
the usual mode of doing business, it is to be
presumed this document. signed "UpELL,
Chairman" was read in the hearing of grave
and honorable Senators, and by them ordered to
be printed;
tains? A grave argument disproving the views
of his Excellency upon the subject of slavery?
No. We have two or three pages of insiped
and trashy remark, intended as a ''bagatelie,"
which should ironically reprove the Governor
for referring TO Federal relations-to slavery,
&c. And there is a degree of coarseness and
vulgarity about it, which would forever prevent
its producing the effect intended. The author
evidently mistook verbosity and egotism for
playfulness and wit, and abuse for severity
Even as a forensic effort, delivered from the
head of a whisky barrel, it hardly could have
any very great effect, unless upon the author
himself.
We shall not stop to question the taste or dig
nifty of making the documents of the State the
vehicle of publishing such trash. We shall
not stop to inquire whether slavery extension
is a subject with which the people of Iowa have
any interest, or upon which the Governor OF
the State had any right 10 remark. 1t is not for
us TO determine whether re provin /, the Govern
or for expressing his views was q part OF the
legislative duties of the Senate or not. We
shall pass on TO the last paragraphs of the re-
port, where we find what, to us at least, is some
thing new under the sun. We find a page,
more or less, devoted to propogating some scam
dial, the precise meaning of which we cannot
make out. 1t is attempted TO convey the i'm
preston by inuendo, by italicising, &C., that the
Governor has, in his previous life, been guilty
of some pecadillos or offences, Of which tho
committee are advised. In short, the attempt
is made, as tale bearers and scandal mougers
generally proceed, to blacken the Governors
character, by insinuating something, the precise
meaning of which is purely obscure, bat which
the reader is expected to consider very dread
full
The Senate is engaged, through IFS commit
tees, not only in reproving the Governor, but
in bespattering his private character! Not sat-
isfed with insulting, they conclude by apply
ing personal abuse.
High minded honorable men seldom yield to
the baser passions. 1t is left for shallow medi
ocrity to employ his little modicun of intellect,
quickened and sharpened by envy and malice,
in hunting up and giving currency 10 whatever
may stain the good name CT those above. He
doubtless feels that whatever could, by detrac-
ton, take from another's good name, was so
much added to his own scant reputation.
$50 a wild Tartar, when he spies
A man that's valiant. handsome, wise,
If he can kill him thinks inherit
His wit, his beauty, and his spirit;
As If Just so much he enioved
As in another is destroyed"
IF scandal mongering is thus despised and
despisable in an individual, what shall we say
when engaged in by a branch Of the govern
ment? II an individual is looked upon as de-
based, and degraded by such an occupation,
what is to be said Of a State Senate, thus opeu-
ing a "scbool for scandal" And this is the
body that "absfuatulated I" lest the State should
disgrace itself by the election of a Senator!
We shall wait and see if there is an editor in
Iowa with so little self respect as TO publish
this nasty and libellous attack? We shall see
how many are willing to lower themselves TO
the level of the Stale Senate. The Gazette has
shown its usual good taste and discernment by
copying it? But even its nav could not stand
the dirty inaeado at the latter end. The editor
was ashamed to put it in. At least we have
charity enough to put that construction upon
his ~pretence that he had not room for the BAL
alice of it. Who else will publish it? We
want to see it circulated from one end of the
State to the other. Let us see how many press
es there are in Iowa, willing TO lend their col
umns to a scandai-mongering Senate!-[ Hawk
Eye.