The Council Bluffs nonpareil. [volume] (Council Bluffs [Iowa]) 1857-1867, 1858-08-14

Tho Fodder Question.
The organs and orators of the ''harmo-
NOUS" party. languishins in the agonics Of
lank starvation, are just now ringing the
changes in wonderful unity, upon what they
are pleased to term the Speculation, mis-
rule and gross malfeasance" of the "Black
Republican administration of the State
Government They grow eloquent and
lachrymose over the trumped up and imagi-
nary plunderings and populations of the Re-
publican State officers. They were wont to
particularize, some few weeks since, but the
utter falsity of their charges having been
proven, to their great dismay, they now con-
tent themselves with "glittering generali-
ties" From their insipid vaporings, we arc
led to believe, that the insane idea of re-
surrection of the Loccfoco party, in this
State, at some remote time in the future
has taken full possession of their added
brains, and that they are now living, shout.
ing and somersaulting, principally on faith
md fiction.
Orators and organs counsel the "harmo-
nious'' to bury all local differences or diff
ferences of opinion on questions of policy,
and in united phalanx, take up arms in fa-
vor of the fodder question. The leaders are
languishing from the effects of the weak
Cruel diet they have been forced to subsist
upon, since the Republicans took possession
of State affairs, and cut off the supplies
they were wont to draw from the State Urea
sury teats, hence their loud, long and pa
thetic appeals for another pull at the life
giving cordials, ere they are called upon to
witness the entire disintegration of the par
tEaeshnh 56e:- n"Wewefer 't1 beiIeve rhsht;
they are precious set Of economists. I'm
der their guardian care, populations and
swindling in the affairs of the State, would
be unknown-the terms would become OBJ
soletc For further information on this
subject, We suppose they would refer US to
tho economical and incorruptible admins
tration of BUCHANAN, and to the choice and
unique fnanciering operations of Chevalier
EADs, with the School Fund. Regarding
party success, with its disposal of patron
age, as the great question of politics, and
having been foiled in their pursuit of spoils
in one guise, they logically conclude they
must henceforth strive after them in anoth-
or, and thus they select one battle cry after
another, as one after another fails or grows
impotent, in the hope, that the divinity of
success may, by chance, be propitiatcd.-
Having failed under the rallying cry of
"Squatter Sovereignty" and of opposition
to what they were pleased to call "negro
equality" several times in this State, and
having no better hopes of success, if their
energies were devoted to the maintenance
of the principle involved in the "Dred Scott
Decision," they are all at once silent and
grum on these questions, but are troubled
with diarrhea of words in relation to the
fodder question. They feel orful bad about
representations of Republican State officers
they do, and are determined to leave moth
ing undone that INSCRIPTIONS partizans can
do-and we know the Democratic party is
capable Of wonders in this line-to foist
themselves upon the Treasury, that they
may fatten and riot upon the spoils of Office
in n manner never before attempted by any
party, Ia the present National Admins
tration. They are counselling all the rank
and file to ignore all differences of opinion
upon questions of policy, and to bend all
their energies to the work of OBTAINING the
Republican party, in the vain hope of there
by being enabled to stand up to the rack
and "feed" as it was their wont to do in
anys 'sauld lang syne." They hold out
glittering promises Of retrenchment in the af-
fairs of our State Government, but the
trick is too transparent to mscad any one,
for the rank and file are even now upon the
vulture wing, ready and waiting, in anxious
suspense, for the "good time'' to come,
when they may fasten upon the prey con-
quest may acquire. But they need not lay
the aattering JUNCTION to their souls-the
thing cant be did-the people will not be
hoodwinked by the "stop thief'' fodder
question-it will require more than the in
sane gablings of the hungry Office seekers
in the van Of the Harmonious Lecompton
and'nnti- Lecompton squad, to convince the
people of this State, that the Republican
State officers have been guilty of 'specula-
ton, misruls aud malfeasance in Office, and
that the fodder question is the great divid-
ing political question of the day. The is
sues Of the present campaign are well un-
people arc not Indifferent
as to whether Slavery be voted up or voted
down, o. the DoJcLAs cohorts would have
Is believe-as will be evidenced at the polls
next October, when, it will be found that
he Democratic party in this State is about
5000 majority nearer oblivion, than it was
1t the last election. The paramount issue
IS single and prominent, and the freemeu of
this State will allow no other to come be-
tween It and their will, for one instant, and
moro especially, such an one as this trump
ed up fodder question. Pile on the fag-
COTS. let the cauldron sce,he and boil. our
cause is just, and founded upon the immu-
table principle Of RIGHT, and we have no
lear Of falling into the hand. Of the .Dan.
ties" or Philistines.