Daily Iowa State Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1856-1859, 1858-03-12

tho modcsty ofthe Gazette in assuming
70 be the prop and main stay of Cook
b Sargent. II that firm depends on
tho 0asstts for support and standing it
leans upon broken reed. We have
reason to know, however, that Cook Il
Sargent, although they have used the
Gazette As tool, have always felt for
it that contempt which one must feel
for the blind instrument, which cannot
see the mischief it may be made to do.
The Sanders have been the Rodcrlgo
for the banking lagos to use, play up
on and despise. Their cunning mana
gsrs scst them on dirty orrands in the
streets to beg away our subscribers
and to lie US down, and the poor
wrstches actually believed they we're
doing the State service; they were
told to publish the greatest talsehoods
concerning our business and the condi-
ton Of our finances, and they did it
without murmur they were COM
manded to vouch for transparent lies
about redeeming an old farmers 5000
wildcat in money, and they did not dare
refuse; in short, they we're ready to do
the meanest tricks for their employers
but they never we're Of the least benefit
70 Cook l. Sargent-never. They
have merely been pair of straw heel
ID witnesses, whose perjury was clear
TO dullest visions-and no wonder their
suborners despisc them. Cook Il
Sargent it is true, have fallen from
their high estate-they are no longer
the financial Napoleons Of Iowa, but
common business men, a good deal in
volved at present, with hopes Of COM
ing out even by and by-but, thank
God, they have never been SO low as to
look to the Gazette as their mainstay
and protector.
1t may be well enough to allow the
Gazette to prattle on about its saving
Cook 4 Sargent from ruin, and our mer-
chants from insolvency, without let or
hiudrsnce, for it is doubtless some sat-
isfaction to its childish editors and
does no harm to the public. Perhaps
II would be cruel to disturb their CON-
placency, and we shall leave them to
revel in their halluclnation.
We do not deem it necessary to say
one word about ourselves or the course
Of the Democrat. There is much that
remains to be said about the wildcat
iniquity, and We intend from time to
time to enforce the necessity Of raising
Florence to par. Our citizens are all
agreed that Florence is not worth in
tsinsically one cent on the dollar, and
that to throw Florence out in this
emergency would be to involve Cook
; Sargent in hopeless bankruptcy, and
stsaighten those who have taken their
four months drafts. Whilst those
Arguments have their weight with us,
we believe the part Of prudence to
throw Florence out now, unless there
y good reason tor hoping that it will
soon b redeemed in something better
tAaa Burrows 4 Prettyman's checks.
We mean, therefore, to insist that
Florence be raised to par or retired
hon circulation, and VIC know that we
vim succeed in our demands.
With regard to our Evening CO.
temporary, We can only say that we
Aepe il will bear with equanimity and
christian resiguation the structures Of
~ Gssstss. Many better men than
'oqoiss Johus have been abused by
~ % better than the two Sanders,
- ~ have every confluence that
sur evening cotempoararys philosophy
IN ssahls him to smile serenely on
~ et philippics ofths Gassste.-
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