The Council Bluffs nonpareil. [volume] (Council Bluffs [Iowa]) 1857-1867, 1858-09-04

.Ru.si.s Dslsss ~ Firs--.Csaiss ~ Dsssss',
The Buele, and the Burlington Gazette,
(par Mobile fratrum,) are doing up large
job Of special pleading, in rain endeavor
to make the people of the Arst Congressional
District believe that Col. Curtis refused to
try political conclusions with Mr.. TRIxBLE,
upon the stump. The Bugle, on the Oath
ult., blusteringly asked why Col. CURTIS did
not meet Mr.. TRIxBLE. At Concert Hall,
on the same evening, the Col. responded to
that inquiry, stating that future to meet
Mr.. TxIxBLE was no fault of his, but person
al Inconvenience. We made the same state
mcnt in our issue Of last Saturday-"that
it was Mr.. TR1xBLE who found it inconreni-
ent to make the arrangements" for joint
discussion. Yet our neighbor processes not
to be satisfed-he affects to believe that
Col. Curtis is the challenged party, and not
Mr.. TRIxBLE. Not satisfied with the erro-
neous and unjust statement, that
The list Of Mr. Trimble's appointments with an invi-
tation extended
hands Of the Col before he published ais list Of sp-
poiutments.
our neighbor copies an article from the
Burlington Gazette, a portion of which
reads as follows:
Trimble challenged Curtis but the latter gentleman
was until after the publication Of Mr. Trimbles
appointments, when in the most sneaking contemplate
manner, he gets up series Of appointments, and with
the mpnlcnce Of the d. or John Teesdae he address,
Mr. ~, hpfa Wit m n
meetings he has called. He sneaks through portion
the District after the publication Of Mr. Trimbles
appointments made the 7h inst and then challenges
M Trimble to moe, him at series Of meetings pub
shed for the first time in the "lowa Citizen way up
F. Des Moines the 18th, eieren days after the
publication Of Mr.. Trimble's appointments, and more
than weeks after be had been requested to join In
making arrangements for canvassing the District
Bah the dodge is evident.
This, our neighbor tells US, is the truth.
of the matter. We wont say that he
knew the above statement of the case to be
unfair, unjust, and not in strict accordance
with tho facts, because MIR. TRINBLE may
not have kept him posted-nevertheless,
there Is strong presumptivc evidence of o
wilful design to misrepresent. Mr.. TRlNBLE
nor his man Friday, made no such state
ments here in public-they have yet little
regard for truthfulness. Mr.. TRrxBLE knows
that Col. Curtis, courted joint discussion
he knows there is not a particle of truth in
the statement that the Col. is "snesking"
through the District, in order to avoid a
discussion with him. So far from declining
discussion, Col. Curtis wrote to Mr..
TRlxBLE, from Keosauqua, on the Second
of August, inviting Mr.. TRNBLE to meet
him at Dcs Moines. Keosauqua is but 26
miles from Bloomfield, the residence OF Mr..
TRlxBLE, and there is a daily mail passing
between the two places. In al! probability,
Mr.. TRIMBLE must have received the Coils
letter on the Sd, or 4,h Of August, yet, in
stead of accepting the invitation, Mr.. TRIx-
BILE on the !Serenth, publishes, at Bloomfield,
list of appointments and appends public
invitation to Col. Curtis to accompany him.
Afterwards, on tho Eleventh, Mr.. TRIyBLE
writes to Col. Curtis, explaining why he
could not accept the proposed meeting at
Council Bluffs. As the Bugle and Gas ette
have charged the Col. with lodging dis
cussion with his opponent, and the public
cards of Mr.. TKIxBLE seem to imply some
reluctance or lack of courtesy towards Mr..
TRIMBLE, we have procured copy of the
correspondence between the two gentle
men, which we publish below, and call at
tention to dates, for the purpose Of showing
who first inrited and who declined Discus
sion. After remaining at Des Moines till
the last of the second week after extending
the invitation to Mr.. TRIxBLE, Col. Curtis
proceeded to make appointments, which he
cannot break for the purpose Of following
the tHs Hs Of fec NJ !H T Ihs
appointments before his own were made, is
maglignantly and maliciously untrue. We
know to the contrary. Read the corresp,n.
dence, and draw your own inferences.
MR.. CURTIS TO Mr.. TRIMBLE
kEosAueUA, August End, 1858.
Hon. II. II. TRIMBLE-Dear Sir II had
intended taking your plan en- route to Des
.Ao'""'5 IVA 'h' P"' FoSS Va "11uSihS tue
campaign for Congress so rs to suit our
mutual convenience as far as possible; bu,
| find the roads and crossings Of streams so
difficult that it would be impossible for me
to 60 that Way and meet expectations have
created at Des Mones. | shall therefore
proceed by Steamer to Des Moines, where |
would be pleased to meet you in discussion.
if consistent with your arrangements, aoy
time towards the close of this or fore part
of next week; which arrangement Of time
or any other suggestion would like to be
Informed Of at your earliest convenience, BY
letter addressed to Des Moines.
As | named to you in Keokuk, / must
proceed from Des Moines to Council Bluffs.
where will be pleased to meet you if We
do not meet at Des Moines.
The roads are so bad, and the crossing Of
streams so difficult, | cannot arrange a list
Of appointments for the district, and have
no doubt you will fully appreciate this diff.
Guilty. Very respectfully,
Your ob't serv't.
SAM'L r. CURTIS.
Mr.. TRIMBLE TO MR.. CURTIS.
BLOOMFIELD, August llth, 1858.
Hon. S. r. CURrIs-Dear Sir Yours of