Bellevue gazette. [volume] (Bellevue City, N.T. [i.e. Neb.]) 1856-1858, 1857-01-29
He had his Price, and got H..

He had his Price, and got II.
A dishonorable member from Nemeha,
having had his entire measure taken
his moral highth and depth ascertained-
by the uncivil engineers of Omaha, has
peddled himself, his constituents, and in
part, the Territory, and has become a part
of the personal assets of the Rotten Row.
Honor self-respect, decency and conscien-
tiousness-all that was worthy, all that
was ~manly-have changed places with ali
that is rotten, foul, corrupt, and still the
article of traffic has not the grace to be
ashamed.
On Thursday afternoon, as the hour
appointed by prior resolution for the final
vote on the capitol question, in the House,
approached, Mr. Finney of Nemeha, with
the uneasy and laboring air of a guilty
conscience-with the impress of Petty
Larceny Cd offence, visibly stamped upon
his countenance-declaimed in open day
his W bill of SALE The consideration
which he averred to be the condition of
the transfer must be branded by every
man, who has had a days experience in
Omaha, during the present session, rs an
unconditional and shameless lie. Did he
| not have wit enough to ape honesty Of
= motive with a decent hypocrisy. His at
: tempt to barricade himself behind the self,
. denied libel of the corruption of the ma
8 jority,' as an excuse for joining a lawlest
}. band of public knaves, is a resort which
would shame hypocrisy itself. Conscienc,
h made him a coward knowledge of hi
pollution and filth tied his bastard tongue
and the cringing sutfusion of petty scoun
drelism, forbade his aping the compare
II lively digniied demeanor of the boil
Ie william.
While we might examine a f~allaciou
"a defence, of elaborate ~villiany without con
descention, we can hardly stoop so low a
- to strip from this false and imbecile pallia
IL ton of Finney's, the transparent gauze c
g honesty, with which he has invested i
n Granting that what he said relative to III
W corruption of the majority was true
= founded no right in him to trade away III
10 dearest interest of his constituents.
r. s~elf-pollution is proper retaliation upon
TX corrupt majority, her Mr.. Finney is
" man of virgin purity with trimmed lamp
and plenty of Oil. Did his constituent
send him to the House to accomplish tn;
no which they and the remainder Of the Tel
n ritory, except Omaha, have been en- lea
to yoring TO accomplish ever since the fir
;S location of the capitol viz: the removi
of the Seat of Government? or did the
u send him there to retail their cause an
the stern interests Of the Territory, becaus
to forSooth, he-Omniscient biped-believe
his co-adjutors to be corrupt. Could Ii
f~oulnesS OF the majority infect the right,
y GUS causes Man cannot pollute principl,
p The former is mortal and tranSitory-th
latter divine and eternal. 1t would see
that the corruption Of the majority, fu
in nishes no pretext for putting three-fourtl
:; of our population upon the shamble. Az
' hitting all that is claimed, this ridiculo,
no apology of Finney's cannot stand the tie
en- of examination. Through its torn al
on rended folds, fascinating subdivisions
bo o~range-colored metal, and enchanting pill,
of quit-claim deeds loom up in cloudle
W perSpicuiiy.
Oh There is a sub-thermometer degree
IL GOODNESS about Finney's excuse for h
zip sudden transit, which his perspiring visag
plainly indicated, he did not experien,
himself, while speaking. 1t is inexplici
bic to US that Mr.. Finney, upon so serio.
q, an occasion could perpetrate anything
oe faceiious and ocular. lie Joined The N
rs nOrity, because Of The corruption of
we mgjority. Great God! How his pure al
". spotless Soul-measureless in its extacy
IA having escaped the fold of the sin-ridd(
" ma ority,-must revel in the ETHEREAL, a
Cd sociations of the immaculate North Dou,
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