The Council Bluffs nonpareil. [volume] (Council Bluffs [Iowa]) 1857-1867, 1858-10-09

We have indubitabie evidence tnas tns
shots We fred Inst week, were no random
ones-thcy did good execution, il We may
be allowed to judge from TIE immense
amount Of autsering they oeca'ioned. We
brought down our game, and oecasioned
great gnashing Of teeth and prolonged bowls
10 the vicinity Of the Receivers Office. But
the organ comes to the rescue Of the Land
Office, and with unblushing effrontery, pro-
ceeds to give us an example Of "Satan re-
buking sin.'' Now, word with the Bugls
in regard to "personalities." Our readers
will bear Us out in the statement, that dur
ing the past year and half, We have never,
until last week, in the least INDUCED in per-
sonalities. Can as much be said OF the
Bugle7 Every candid man must admit quite
the contrary to be true. We might name
several instances wherein the Bu9ls has in
dulged in gross and unprov oked personalities
but we will content ourself with naming but
one. The people of this city, will recollect,
that on the 4th of August last, tho Bugle
made an unwarranted and unprovoked per-
sonal attack upon J. R. FArERwrArHER,
agent of the B. & NJ. Railroad. 1t was
grossly personal and slanderous.
This personal attack was SO gross and
outrageous, that the Burlington Gazette,
(unscrupulous as that sheet is known to be-
could not stomach it, and took the Bugle to
task therefor. In reply to the Gazette,
the Bugle said "that no man
will be PERMITTED to lie about US, with i'm
puuity nor do We intend that ar
individual shall escape, by putting in the
plea of being a private individual net prop
erly before the public"
And yet, strange rs it may appear, this
immaculate sheet-the Buqle-has the au'
dacity, the effrontery-the unblushing i'm
pudence-with the evidence of its cwn col.
umns before it, reeking with personal attacks
to take the Nonpareil to task for indulg
ing in personalities" Great Caesar! has
it come to this, that we must learn editoria
courtesy from such paper as the Bugle.-
"Angels and ministers of grace defend us!'
-"can such things be and overcome US like
a summers dream, without exciting GU,
special wonder?" But, in all seriousness
when we become so stepped in moral turpi'
tuie-so lost to all knowledge of what il
due to common humanity-so lost to shame
and given over to personal defamation-se
derelict to all obligations of honor ant
fairness-so unmindful of the common
courtesies of life, as to be justly subject te
the structures of the Bugle in regard to the
prophecies to be observed in conducting q
newspaper. then We will retire from the tri.
pod, and seek congenial associations with
such men rs addressed the Democratic Con
vention in this city, on the 25th inst. It'll
then, we beg to be excused from associatine
with 80 vile herd.
Now, we have a word further with thi.
Col. PALNER-this "honest" Col. PALMER
The Bugie says we have slandered him.
This is mistake, it is not in the power Of
motal man to SANDER him, unless it were BY
calling him on honest high-minaed man.
The organ says that we have taken 'sadvan.
tage of a question of fact" to pour forth q
TRADE of abuse and SANDER against "hon.
est" Mr.. palmer. If the holding him per.
sonally responsible for wilfully and mali
ciously lying about US, aud setting forth hi:
character in its true light, can be calico
abuse and SANDER, We plead most guilty te
the charge. But, in extenuation, we may
cite the reader to the example set US by thu
immaculate Bugle-"that no man would b.
permitted to lie about him, with impunity.''
Them's our sentiments. 1t will be seer
however, that it was not the Bugle that gored
the OK this time-that accounts for the les
son that has been read to US! ooh consisten.
cy, thou art indeed jewell"
The Bugle pettifogs the case of the "NIad
Receiver" with great skill and its usual
sneaking tactics. Too base and mean to ad-
nit that this "honest" Mr.. PALMER lied about
! US, without any cause or provocation, it tries
to dodge tho matter after this fashion,
Read:
CAS- to the fact in question. the proof. depending up
on the files Of that paper, is not readily to be got at
That's all gammon-the files of the Nom
pareH can be 'readily got at" They are
at the service of this "honest" man-PAL-
MER, or any other man. Further, we hereby
agree to pay any man one dollar minute
for all the time he is engaged in looking
over our files, provided he finds anything
even in the remotest degree approzimating
in substance to what this "honest" PALMER
said We had published. Come up to the
scratch, or ever hereafter hold your peace.
The fact at issue in this controversy, may
be stated in nutshell. On the 25.h inst,
this "honcst' man PALMER, his brain crazed
with bad whiskey, stated about US what he
must have known to be false--it was base
coinage of his whiskey -crazed and di,ordcred
brain-and he has not the manhoodto come
forward and acknowledge that "he lied
lied in his heart-lied in his throat" Until
he does that, we shall treat him as all libel.
ers should be treated-keep his name before
the people, and brand him, as he deserves,
in and out of place-a wilful and malicious
libeler ! Our neighbor Of the Buyle may
account for our treatment of this s'honess''
Mr.. PALMER, upon what supposed hypothesis
he pleases, he cannot divert Us from our
purpose-let the consequences be what they
may. Abuse of US, by the Bugle, cannot and
will not shield this "honest" Mr.. PALMER
from the moral responsibility that attaches
to him, for the unprovoked attack upon Us
on the "grand gala day Of the Western
Democracy" If the Bugle thinks it will,
he has our carte blanche for that purpose,
for all time to come.
VOTE FOR DEXTER {. BOOMER,
Judge SCARF Prsspects-Firss Rate Letter from ,