Quasqueton guardian. (Quasqueton, Buchanan County, Iowa) 1856-1858, 1857-06-20
THE ANIMAL STILL IN SPAsMs.

THE ANIMAL STILL IN SPASMS.
H Our neighbors of the Civilion,
| (whom We regret we cannot with the ap-
prevail Of our conscience, qualify with
the fattering prefix of illustrious, y
which they extend to us) have apparent
ly not yet recovered from the " fit' into
which they were thrown a couple Of
weeks since, but still continue to splutter
forth their nsuseating slobber at US from
between their set teeth However, as
might be expected, it does US no harm,
and tends merely to render themselves
disgusting both to friends and enemies.
The venom don't reach us, Mr.. Civilian,
which you will find when the spasms
leave you and you are enabled once more
to use your optics, but simply runs down
over your chin and falls upon your own
person.
We are compelled to relinquish the
euphonious souJriquet of A. B. &. c.,
because, we apprehend, Mr.. BARNHARr,
finding what kind of company the late
change was likely to introduce him into,
has sold out his interest in the establish
ment and is "going west" Neither do
we like to say trio," as formerly, for
though Mr.. MErcALr is Mr.. BARNHARr's
successor, we should be 10th to think
SO meanly of him as to suppose that he
had anything to do in getting up such a
meaningless personal TRADE as this. For
these reasons we object to addressing
them as formerly. Couldn't the assinine
animal father his precious offspring, and
let the public know to whom it is indebted
for such a prodigy? We feel assured,
if he would, it might find home out
side of the Ciclian office.
We can never consent to follow the au-
thor OF these articles through the filth in
which he wades, but shall meet him at
any and all times upon direct issues, eth
er of party or otherwise. In previous
article be asserted that we got down up
on our knees to the county-judge and beg
ged for the tax-list. We of course threw
the lie in his teeth, and referred him to
the judge himself. He now says: If
you did not get down on your knees to the
Judge, you did the same at the feet of the
County Treasurer-only difference in
the name that's all" There is in this
assertion, We must admit, what we can
not say is found in any other that has
emanated from that source, spice of
truth. There is, in fact, under the die
tatorial rule of our present judge, but lit
tie, if any difference between County
Judge aud County Treasurer. Judge
RoszELL, for purposes Of his own, ex-
acted and obtained control over the mon
eys of the county, had those moneys de-
posted in his own Office, and undoubt-
eddy used them for his own purposes
Thus, then, there was and is but little
difference between Judge and Treasurer,
"only difference in the name, that's
ALL" To that extent you have told the
truth, which we believe you did mad
vertently, but as for the rest-lies, all
lies. Were the late Treasurer not with
in the narrow limits of the tomb, beyond
the reach Of appeal or consultation, we
should content ourselves, as we did last
week, with referring the charge to the
officer you connected it with, and you
would then undoubtedly be compelled to
swallow this lie as you did the other. We
are not the man to cringe for favors, nor
have we ever bartered away our birth
right. Can the writer truthtully say the
same
This is the only point of issue which
the author of this pot-house production
has touched upon. The rest is taken up
in trying to see how many epithets can
be applied in certain number of SEN
notwithstanding nothing but his own
shallowness and the weakness of his
cause. He evidently feels uneasy on the
subject of the Tax List, as he introduced
the matter himself. We have always in.
tended to say few things upon that sub.
ject. but have reserved them for little
higher game than the Civilian. So don
get excited /; it will come, and all in goot
time, depend upon it.
E There are FIVE daily papers nov
published in Dubuque-three Republ.
can and two Democratic. These five al