The Council Bluffs nonpareil. [volume] (Council Bluffs [Iowa]) 1857-1867, 1858-08-21
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VILLA Z. DAAhE, u "oSnc.
FOR coSanEss-rIRsT DISTRICT,
SAMUEL X. CURTIS.
The Democratic Game OF Brag.
Our up town neighbor, Mic swber.like, is
continually whiting for som eth n5 to "turn
up" In his list issue, be acknowledges to
having been driven almost to the verge Of
despair, in consequence Of the painful sus-
pense attendant upon a constant lookout OF
"scveral weeks for the opening of the cam
pnign,n on our part. Poor fellow Had
we but known, or even surmised, that there
was q likelihood. or even possibility, OF
our neighbor becoming dcmented, unless We
'sopened the cumpaign," we would long
since have taken steps to insure the Democ-
racv Of Iowa against such dire calamity.
But, not knowing how the "land lay' in
that direction, and it being matter Of per-
feet Indifference to US whether our neighbor
vas "open" or "shut" during the campaign
in consequence Of never having known
his status during political contest-"
did not deem it incumbent upon US to "open
the campaigu' until our forces were all in
the field. On account of the deep distress
i, has occasioned our neighbor, We sincerely
deplore our seeming procrastination, and
promise not to do so any more.
Having satisfied himself that the campaign
is now open, with much gusto, and great
flourish Of quotations, he commences his
usual game Of brag, and, with one blast
from his brazen instrument, makes his
pro-slavery cohorts turn up the white Of
their eyes in the most ecstatic delight. He
takes up the "fodder question:" and dis
poses of it in manner refreshing to those
leaders Of the Demo cratic party, who have
been forced to subsist upon ''week cruel
diet" since the Republicans weaned them in
1854. Not only that, but our neighbor, with
IN eve to the "main chance" expresses in
tense solctude for the future Of the Repub-
lican party. lie is fearfully exercised, lest
the "opeung' which he discovered in the
last Noapareil, shall cause the ''Black Re-
publican horles to rally and make spirited
fght before the campaign is closed" and
thus force the Candlebox Democracy, to
forego their contemplated foraSt7g ercur-
sion in tho vicinity Of the State Treasury.
We svmpathze with our neighhor, but we
cannot forbear telling him that something
will ..turn up'' at the ballot-box, on the
10Th Of October, that will consign him, and
his foragins party into an ''openins" not
at MI like the one he discovered in the
.Nonparcil-a "opening' where Democrats
cease from rallying, and the "niggers" are
Mt rest.
Our neishbor seems to be deeply Impress
ed, with the old obsolete idea, that prin-
ciplc Of gulbility peryadcs all nature, from
the catching Of sparrows with salt, to the
securing Of political power by "a i! There
fore, it is not to be wondered at, that he
rortrays in glowing colors, the indiuiSibHity
Of the great harmonious" party-its devo-
ton to principle-its economy-its love OF
the 'sring of the true Democratic mesal''-
its adherence of ''trcasury eaters"-and its
risible determination and power to make
Black Republcanism inriSible-as stool
pigeons to cntrap the unwary-
"ThiS it is, and nothing moysV'
The iudivisible, visible and invisible hosts of
the Dem 'cracy-a paradox, slrety-a7e
told, by the organ grinders, in swords that
Breathe" that Repubcansm is on the wane
A. - = -, H. - "a
that all they have to do is to administer upon
it, effects. We would advise them, howev-
or, to delay taking out papers Of admins
tration until after the election Of le6O-its
effects will then be more visible-for it is
rapidly efsctinJ the disintegraton of the
Democratic party, and 1860 will find our
harmonious opponents discovered, discord
ant, without form, and void. And, not
withstanding our ncighbor trusts, that when
the "nut shell'-the ballot-bo is opened
(this fall it will be found that the Black
Republicans have been weighed in the bal
ance and found wanting" we can assure
him, that the ides of October will find the
Democracy Of this State risibly in the mi
norlty. The masses of the people of Iowa,
are not SO gullible as our neighbor would
have Us believe, and the "brag game" will
not win. Something more potent, than the
"stop thief' cry of piundering- the
equally senssless misnomer, democracy of
Iowa lndivisible,' will have to be brought
to bear, before ''this end SO devoutly to be
wished for" will be attained. But our
ueighbor, like
"-Antcny
Is vallan. and detected, for b starts,