The Council Bluffs nonpareil. [volume] (Council Bluffs [Iowa]) 1857-1867, 1858-12-25


We hope our citizens will not fail to be
represented at the Railroad Convention to be
held at Magnolia next Thursday. When
shall we have meeting to appoint delegates?
1t is time We were moving in this matter.
.sshow' Of An.ecedents-A Con- ratula-
tory Ep,s,lc from Car,erville.
The following cpistlc was evidently in
tended for the private perusal of our worthy
contemporary of the Bugle. But, as it has
fallen into our hands, justice to the Railroad
genii, induces US to lay it before our
readers. We hope our neighbor will look
with q lenient eye upon our assurance,
in thus making public private congratula-
tory letter, addressed to himself. The let
ter camo into our possession, we suspect,
through some sleight- of-hand manGuvre,
which wecarc not to diselcse-bearing such
palpable evidences Of its Democratic origin,
that We could not resist the inclination to
help on a Kilkenny warfare. On the con-
trary, had We had the least reason to sus-
poet chat some rascally Republican was
thus trying to bring into reproach the tar
fame Of our contemporary, we should have
transmitted che document, unimpaired, to
its rightful owner-that the "dear peeps"
might not have been any wiser for its mad
rertently fnllins into our possession. But,
here is the fetter-resd it:
CARrERrILLE, Dec. 22d, 1888.
TO COLONEL l.. W. BADBlrf:
Dear Sif-Pcrmit
INC to congratulate you upon the success
attending the escrtons you: with Others
have rendered in opposition to the grand
fraud attempted to be perpctratcd upon the
State of Iowa, by extending the credit of
the State to tho construction of Railroads,
which has now received its quietus by the
Governor adopting the views you have
ontortaiped on this subject since the question
was hrst agitatcd-by bankrurss and de-
fcatcd politicians. Your friends are all in
ecstacies over your article in the last Bugle,
upon the late State Aid Railroad Convention,
in which You so thoroughly unmnsk and
expose all such dcmagogues as TEST, JAMES,
BALDWIN, LARlMER, STREET, IloNS, KEEPER,
and host of others, who have been endeav
ing to delude the people with the idea that
Railroads are general benefit, and would
do great things for this country. This may
be II wholesome doctrine to "corncr-iot"
spectators, but will not stand the test Of our
philosophy, which teaches that man, in a
state of nature, enjoys more true happiness
thnn when surrounded with all the luxurics
incident to the civilization Of the nineteenth
century. In other words, that Railroads are
Il curse to any country.
This is said to be the general opinion of
all the Indian tribes scattered over the
country, and especially with tho Saes and
Foxes, who once lived in peace and quictncss
on the head waters of the Des Moines, in
this State. But, Col, We now have these
self constituted regulators Of public opinion,
npon the record in favor of State Aid to
Railroads, and wc will now and hereafter
nail them to the cross. They are writhins
unler the true position you have given them
in their aspirations for place and power, and
have been cndcaroring to detract and vilify
your character, by representing to the peo-
pie that your antcceIents are even worse
than theirs. That you were once wander
ing nomad with the Indians, and then i'm
bibed those doctrines you now so heartily
adyocate-of hostility to all kinds Of public
Improvement, and especially Railroads.
Some say that, after you had led ayagabuId-
izins life with the Indians, you was nom
mated for the State Senate and defeated by
clergyman, although the district in which
you ran was strongly Democratic. Some
say that you were Receiver Of Public Monies
at this place, and that you quarreled with
tic Government because you wanted to
keep all you received, and the Government
wanted You to disgorgc. That your rcla-
tons with the government ceased by the
Government disgorging you, and that after
this you assumed the management of o
nchorsc Theatre, and even crucifed some
characters which you attempted to person
ate. Others say that you are crazcd on the
subject Of MI conventions, since you were
Mt the expense of sending delegate to the
late Congressional Convention, with the
expectation of being nominated for Con-
gress! 1t is charged, also, that while you
preach one thing you practice another; and,
rs an instance of this, they say that you
advocated the proposition for the county
taking 100000 in the NJ. & NJ. Railroad,
and when the election came, you roted
dyainstit.
If you did, there is one consolation con-
nccted with it, and that is, you are right
upon the record. Again, it is said that you
once ran for the Council of this city, and
was overwhelmingly defeated by Chief
Justice SHOEMAKER, who is said to have
!; remarked at the time, that sooner than tar
@hish the latter end of well-spcnt life by
\cing defeated by man who, in New York
u been m Abolitionist; in Eastern Iowa,
been a Wing; and then pretended to
Democrat, he would deny his name
Ind na longer make any presentions to
responsibility This is said to have been
sworn to by Mr.. FArERwEATuER, very
respectable citizen of Burlington. 1t is also
said, that after this defeat by Mr.. SuoEAA-
KrH, there was jar in your domestic rea-
tions, which did not harmonic for two
weeks, in consequence Of the triumph Of the
Chief Justice.
These, my dear COL, are few of the
exhumed relics Of the past, now falsely be-
ing circulated to tarnish your character,
heretofore unimpsaehed and unimpeachablc
even such as now traduce you! While your
a., ,orrsa NAV have lost YOU some few of