St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1858-03-04

amount Of improvement, surely we are
far in adrance Of you. Why, sir, Just
climb up that commanding cmi.
hence" Of yours, and for once take an
honest view Of the Cedar River Val.
ley. The light that will break upon
your contracted vision will create IN
establishment equal to that Of the
boys when he looked over the hill and
ran back exclsiming, "Ma'am, I didn't
know the world was half 80 big I"
We ore happy to hear that your in
habitants have such excellent grit"
as in case Of war they would be servi-
ceablc, for then grit is az necessary as
it 10 in q grindstOnc. We are some.
times inquisitive permit Us to ask a
question. In your parody from Add.
son you say
-" break through the thin array
Of his throngcd lcgions"
This was sense in the original where
it said thick array" Our question
is this: How can you break through
the thin array Of tArongsd legions" ?
We merely ask for information, wish
ing to add an item to our store of phil
osophical lore.
We now beg leave to refer again to
the first article Of Mr.. Wilberforce, and
to his charge against the senior men,
Der Of the firm (alluding to St..
Charles). The charges were that he
selected and insisted upon the place
Of doing business, and had built costly
buildings near his own, at the expense
and against the protest Of the rest"
Those charges we characterized as
being glaringly incorrect. If true
they were grave charges, and the
main points in his article if not true,
they were no points at all. What
does he say to our charge? He
simply "infers that am a paid con.
tributor and entirely excusablc for
whatever assertions his (my) inAamed
imagination may prompt him (me) to
make" Is it for O moment suppos.
able that, if l had untruly charged
him with being glaringly incorrect,
he would have rested thus quietly un-
der the imputation? Not at all. He
would have turned upon me fierce Of
1.-THE cubless tigress in her jungle raging
substantiated his charges with proof
and rctorted my charge of incorrect
ness in much shorter saxon. But i,
happened that my statements were in
controvertiblc admitted so by him.
self; first, by not denying them, sec.
ond, by his impotent attempt at justifi.
cation Of the second charge giving us
scripture therefor; and such scripture
Whoever looketh on the county
buildings, to lust after them, hath
built them in St. Charles already
We would only say, Judge not thai
you be not judged"
We believe we are done for the
present with Mr.. Wilberforce. We
presume the printer could easily con
vince him, that however "ominous ,
the signature Of Weber might be,
it was equally genuine with WILDER
force, and also crafty his curiosity as
to the amount we receive for our com
munications. We are modest or VIC
would do it ourself-but we hereby
grant him full license, as far as we arr
concerned, to give you all and every
item referring in any way to the sub
|ject, STIMULATING only that it shall b.
done in the most private manner pos
sible.
| Mcssrs. Editors We intended q
the outset to have taken up the var
GUS places named in turn, briefly N
ticed various claims and left the cas
for the people to decide but we hay
described at such length the merits {
the County Centre that we fear on
article will be longer than you 6argai,
, ed for. But bear with us a iittl
, further, and if such should be tn e cas-
, we will make proper reduction. Th
law, believe, in reference to count
. seats, is such that but two places ca
. be voted upon at the same electio
and provides that one of such place
shall be where the County Seat a
: ready is. This being the law, S
: Charles is one place to be voted fol
! with the County Centre and Rockfor
: each giving notice that petitions wi
i be presented to his Honor the Count
Judge, asking that the order for a
= !, election may be given, each for the
= respective places.
1t seems to us that the object d
, sirOus to be obtained in every count,
viz: that the County Seat should
as near the geographical centre of til
county as q good location can be oil
tanned, would not be secured by r,
! !, moving the County Seat from s.
Charles to Rockford. Rockford is
= beautiful village, but it possesses n
= = advantages, that we are aware of, OF,
st. Charles /; aud being more distar
from the county Centre, there would
! a loss, instead Of gain, to q MAORI,
2 Of the inhabitants Of the county. In r
gard to the advantages of St. Charlie
: we are willing the reader should tai
: Mr.. Wilberforcc as authority upo
: that point; and as it has already Al
: peared twice in your columns, we wi
: not repeat it. Outside opinion, if
is of any Importance, is pretty VIC
: known.
, Three different sets of commission
ers, at three different times, have l.
Gated the County Seat at st. Charlie
We remember nearly two years sine
having curiosity to sec the stickin
of the county stake. The commission
ers met in St. Charles, went to Floy
and from Floyd to the County Centr,
By the way, a neighbor of ours the
owned the soil at the Centre, and t
ingratiate himself into the good grace
of the commissioners, he voluntcere,
his services as cicerone, also the ser
vices Of his team and carriage as con
veyance. He piloted the way from
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