The Council Bluffs nonpareil. [volume] (Council Bluffs [Iowa]) 1857-1867, 1858-09-18

ton with him on the subject. Thus sssais'
lie went homo to foost."
THE INSANE HOSPITAL.
The next charge made was, that tleAp-
propriations made TO erect the Insane Hos
pitel Ut Mt. Pleasant had been used "a pro-
mote partisan purposes. This lie "v(ht to
roostS when il was shown that Z ssed TO
promote any party interests ct 81 II must
have been those Of the Democratic party,
because The Superintendent, HNry Wins
low, Esq, who employs oil the mes engaged
on the work and pays out every dollar ex-
pended upon it, 10 lifelong Democrat,
and votes no other than the Democratic
ticket.
SWAMP LAND AGENT.
They next charged that the Republicans
passed law at the last session, authorizing
the appointment Of swamp and agent, ex-
pressly to give IN Office to the Hon. James
Thorington. But when il was deemed i'm
portant to abuse Gov. Love for not appoint
ing Mr.. Alter, of Muscatine, to this Office,
they strangled their own offspring, and ad-
mitted what was the truth, that the bill was
introduced into the General Assembly by .
Democratic member, engineered to it's final
enactment by I. s. Parvin, ESQ.,, and voted
for by every Democratic member Of both
Houses.
BOARD Or EQUALIZATION.
Tho old stock being exhausted, a new
coinage of lies is now to be propaganda
We have before Us copy of tho Democratic
Clarion, published in Davis county, which
furnishes ~ specimen Of what their char
acter il 70 be. In all our observations of
newspapers we must confess that we never
before saw 90 many falsehoods crowded into
90 small space as are contained in about
one hundred lines of the Clarion under the
caption, s'More Money Demanded by the
Ruling Dynasty" 1t would be useless to
attempt to refute these falsehoods one by
one, but we will allude to one or two Of them
by way of sample.
The Code of the State creates Board of
Equalization Of the State assessments. Sec.
4S2, .. 50 Of the Code directs this Board to
preserve unchanged the aggregate amount
Of the State valuation, but they are required
to apportion the valuation among the sever
al counties equitably as may be possible
with the information before them. For ex-
ample, if the average returned valuation Of
farming lands in Van Buren, and Appanoose
counties is six dollars per acre, and three
dollars in Davis county, the reasonable pre-
sumption would be that the valuation in Da-
Wis county was too low. The Board would
therefore raise the valuation in Davis to
correspond with that of the surrounding
counties, and lower the valuation of other
counties SO as to "preserve the aggregate
valuation of the entire State" Such cases
as this have happened every year, and al
ways will happen. Such o case has happened
this year in Davis and in six or seven other
counties. The assessment of Davis county
was never remarkable for its correctness, as
il evidenced by the fact that the valuation Of
town property in that county was placed in
1855 ut s. i 1928, and in 1856 at $40, 1872, or
about one-seveEth of what it was estimated
to be worth one year before the last date.
The assessment Of real estate in that county,
exclusive of town property, was reported in
1857 at $2,734, GAS, and this year it is re-
ported at 81, S23,29 or at $9ll ,64S less
than last year. Does any one suppose that
the lands in Davis county are really not
worth thirds as much as they were last
year? Under these circumstances the Board
Of Equalization, guided by the assessment
of the adjacent counties, raised the assess
ment of Davis county to avalue correspond
ing with that of the bordering counties
They could not decrease the valuation of
those counties because it would disturb the
valuation Of the grand schedule, but they
could make Davis county pay her proportion
of the State expenses and the law required
them to do Something more, nothing less.
But it should be borne in mind that the val
uation Of Davis county, after being raised
by the Board of Equalization, amounts to
only $2,552,6l5, or $ls2, $50 less than last
year.
But says the Democratic organ, ssnot only
have they been content to add to the assess
ment, but have raised the rate of taxation
from one and quarter to three mills per
dollar" and then proceeds with an array of
figures to show that whereas the tax Of Da-
Wis county was 81 ,643,33 last year, it will
this year be $40, 500 IA, under this increased
per cent. Now, the fact is, that thu Board
of Equalization, instead Of raising the per
cent. Of State taxation from one and a
quarter to three mills, actually lorered ii
from t,rO mills TO one and half mills,
and the State tax in Davis county, and all
over the State, will be just one quarter less
than it was last year upon the same value.
Can there beany apology found for such un-
blushing mendacity? We ask the Democrats
if they do not think the public sentiment of
their party ought to require their editors in
making their statements, purporting to be
facts, to come at least within one hundred
per cent. Of the truth?
Such are the miserable shifts to which the
IS
have the evasions and falschoods of their
newspapers been exposed and ''gone home to
roost." Instead Of manfully meeting the
great questions ut issue between the Repub-
lican and Democratic parties, they cover
themselves with infamy by the propagation
of the most barefaced falsehoods in their
attempts to avoid these issues.
Their appeals and their fabrications are
adapted to the particular locality where they
are to be used. Whilst their papers are de-
nouncing the Republican party Of the State,
their candidates for Congress, in their anxi-
ETY. to secure an election, are willing in some
localities to declare to Republicans their
hostility to Mr.. Buchanan and their deter
mination not to vote for him should the
election of the next President be carried to
the House of Representatives. But are they
willing to pledge themselves to vote for the
Republican nominee in that event? In this
vicinity they imagine the winning card
to be hostility to the colored race. They
seek to degrade degraded race still lower
by arousing still greater prejudices against
them. There are someweak minded persons
who imagine that there is faint of aristoc-
racy about the ownership of n negro, and
who plume themselves upon the fact that
some one of their remote ancestors was the
proprietor Of one. Such men believe that
they would be guilty of great impiety if they
did not forever maintain the divine right Of
human bondage. They may change their
residence from slave to a free state, but
remain foreigners still. To such the argu-
ments Of the Journal are appropriately I'D.
dressed.
To our friends throughout the State, and
to our friends beyond our State limits, we
desire to say that the success of the Repub.
lican party in October next is rs sure as that
there will be an election in that month. All