The Council Bluffs nonpareil. [volume] (Council Bluffs [Iowa]) 1857-1867, 1858-12-18
Railroad t;e.,i-fhe,r (ssniu, and Spirit.

coagulation and conglomeration OF con-
vcx and concave Railroad theories, on the
part OF some dozen or so Of Lawyers, arc
prin,a .facie evidence that the Missouri Slope
is thoroughly alive to her interests, and on
tho right road to material greatness, then
We have great reasons for rejocing-then
was last Wednesday n glorious day for tho
people of Western Iowa! For on that day,
in Council Bluffs, the great commercial en-
porium of the West, the genii Of Railroads
to the number Of twcnty-fy convened at
Concert Hall, and then and there laid the
foundation for the speedy upbulding OF our
glorious and beautiful State, (ride the
speeches Of the lewyers,) and OF western
Iowa, more especially. We are forced to
term them ge,,ii, from the fact, that by their
own admissions, they were intermediate bo-
ings, between men and angels-somo good
and some bad. The good ones were rad''
cally different from the human species
they were above sordid or mean action
their every movement bcing superlnduccd by
the hope ofbeneftting downtrodden and help
less humanity. They were above any con-
siderations Of future political rewards,
and only asked the people Of this glorious
and beautiful State (ride speeches as "fore-
| said) to give them II little pecun'dry add
in the way of State loan of ten million
dollars, or more. "Only this and nothing
more!' The bad ones, and there were only
two of them, were of the order anthropo-
glottus-could talk, but were mcreparrots-
ride speeches of tho radical genii. In other
words. there were two delegates opposed to
an extra session of the Legislature, for the
purpose Of granting State aid to our Rail-
roads.
The radical genii had no bowels Of com
passion for the anthropoglottus order
| they denounced them in unmeasured terms,
as demagogues, as politicians, seeking for
future rewards, (cool, very as opposed to
tho best and most vital interests of our
glorious and most beautiful State-ride
speeches, as. aforesaid. Not only were their
maledictlons poured out upon the devoted
heads of the two legitimate members of the
genii order, but upon every being, clothed
in the garb of humanity, who wns opposed
to their pet theory of State Aid. They were
especially severe upon the press of the State
the two leading papers of the Missouri
Slope (ride speeches again) not excepted, by
any means. Mr.. BABBlrr and ourself were
pointedly alluded tour motives impeach-
cd, and our audaciousness severely rebuked
-ahcm! Wehavc no disposition to quarrel
with the radical gcnii, for their expressions
of contempt towards ourself and the press Of
the State, but we think tho Daniels that
came to judgement at Concert Hall, might
have been little more considcrate--might
have measured out their imprecations with a
, little less gusto-and been full as effective
of good results. That the press of the
State of Iowa is faliblc, We can readily be-
liovc-that it is at times governed by mo-
tives of policy, is self evident. That it is as
corrupt, unreliable, and given over to parti-
Fan purposes, as some of the genii stated at
Concert Hall, We nrc fain to deny, in toto
That, in almost unanimously opposing IN
Extra Session of the Legislature for the
purpose of testing the sense of the people of
the State in regard to the expcdcucy and
propricty Of loaning the credit of the State
to aid in the completion Of our Railroads, it
is actuatcd by party considerations, we most
cmphatically deny, and call upon the genii
for their proof. While we are willing to
accord to the yenii all their attributes of
divination, We question very much the cor
rectness Of their revelations in this particu-
lar, and doubt the infallibiity of their source
of inspiration. 1t is very easy to mako
charges of the kind in queston-it only re-
quires little assurance and malicious dis
position-but it is quite another thing to
substautiatc them. We might charge home
upon these genii with their own ammuni-
ton, and with equally good grace, but will
forbear, and extend towards them that dis
tingushcd consideration, which was so sig
nally and wilfully withheld from US. Will
ing to conccdc that, in their deliberations
last Wednesday, the genii were actuatcd
solely by a benevolent desire to benefit tho
glorious and beautiful State of Iowa (ride
speeches, as aforesaid, and VIC claim for
oursclf, and for the press of the State, n
like concession of honest motives, for the
position we have felt constrained to take on
the subject Of State Aid.
But, aside from our previous convictions,
the Convention of Wednesday satisfied us
that the movement is an unmitigated hum
bug that it is, in no sense Of the word, a
movement Of or for the people. The Con-
vention was called for the entire Missouri
some tuenty organized
Counties. FIVE Counties were represented
bv-fpen'y-Gre delegates! As We have sta
ted elsewhere, not one County South or East
of this were represented. Mills, Fremont,
Page, Taylor, Montgomery, Cass, Audubon,
Adair, and several other Counties on the
Slope, had no voice in the Convention. Pot
twattamie County delegation consisted of
ten members, SO that our readers, if they
are particularly good at figures, can, with
the aid of a slate and pencil, very readily
arrive at the number Of delegates in attend
ancc from abroad. Truly, it was royal
gathering! To our mind, the facts stated,
show conclusively that the people of the
Slope were not duly opprized of the move
ment, or else had no faith in the acts Of the
Convention, or in the line Of policy it pro-
posed to inaugurate. Therefore, We pre-
sumo nothing, when we say it is but too eri-
dent that the Resolutions, adopted at the
Convention last Wednesday, misrepresent
the sentiments Of the people Of the Missouri
Slope!
We had hoped to have hccn able to give