The Council Bluffs nonpareil. [volume] (Council Bluffs [Iowa]) 1857-1867, 1858-09-04
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RreSSS anu uiS ToCcut oulo epccCu ~ OVbOoast
Hall, in this city, seem to have produced .
decidedly bad effect upon the editor Of the
Bugle. He con neither make up his mind
to the one, or get over the other. The
speech, especially, seems to haunt him by
night and by day-to destroy the peace alike
of his waking and sleeping hours--and, al
together, to put him in an awful fix! What
will become of him if he keeps on sweating
and putting, and spouting big words at this
rate until election, no mortal man can tell.
Really, cannot somebody hold him-he is
certainly in a dangerous way, and needs the
Kind watchful care Of his friends, if ever one
did. "
Just look at the last Bugle, and all doubt
ON this point will at once vanish. Three
yes, almost four-long columns of that do
lectable sheet are filled with the most re-
markable collection of big words and windy
phrases-of long adjectives and longer
epithets-that were ever crowded into the
same space-ail poured out upon the head
of the Republican candidate. Has any body
read all this farrago Of nonsense and abuse?
Yes, we did hear of one man who had done
so-aud, not to be outdone, we have at
tempted the same achievement, and faith to
say, We have accomplished it. The feat, we
confess, was an extraordinary one to look at,
but We got over it without any bad effects.
As we went along, we picked up few straws
which it may perhaps be we'll to reproduce,
Just for the fun of the thing, and also that
our readers may see how ridiculous demo-
cratic editor can talk.
Let US first look at the epithets lavished
upon Col. CURTIS. lie is called ga wooden
man." "inaated representative" "political
mountebank" and "weather cock" ga po-
litical trickster and traficker, destitute Of
principle or honor,'' and whose "inordinate
conceit prevents him from exercising any
influence in Congress-" That will do for
the Col. Next, the famous editor pitches
into his opponents. He calls them "aban-
doned out. casts, renegades and political
traf6ckers," "festering with corruption and
feculeut with the multitude of rotten isms,"
and lot moro of just such things. Verify,
the man is mad at US "Black Republicans"
but then, he is madder yet when he gets at
the speech itself. Don't the big words then
come out with will? Stars! what nigh
ty dictionary the editor must have swal-
lowed, to enable him to get of such sound.
ing phrases. The Colonel (says the Editor
stood forth 40 the "Sir Oracle and Knight
of the order of Latter Day Republican
Crusaders to amuse the people
with cock and bull stories to as
found them with fine spun sophistry, drawn
from the logic of demagoges or the lexicons
of political humbugsery," &c.;and then too,
his "discussions were labored, lugubrious
and Eighty; his conclusions igenously OBJ
scure, enveloped in afos of sophistical as
sumption, oil ending in smoke" Wonder
full! was it not? Surely the Bugle editor
il genius of q rare species, or he never
could have strung together such colec-
ton of "lugubrious'' and "pointless''
phrases.
But, We have not space to dwell upon
these scintillations, and must pass on, to
notice the way the Bugle attempts to an
swer the irrefragible arguments of the Re-
publican cadidate. Here again, We shall
find him original in his way of handling
the subject. Just look at a few specimens.
Col. Curtis, assumed that the Declaration
lnasnsadpfs in dfsr Ha that tas al
Of happiness, promulgated the great princi-
pie of human rights, upon which our Gov
eminent is based. That is s'aboliton phi
lanthropy," shouts the Bugle, and must be
put down. The speaker mex, showed that
the Constitution was based upon the grea,
idea of liberty as opposed to slavery, and
that the earlier action of the government
was all on the side Of the former. That
is "abolition treason" cries the Buqle.-
Again, Col. Curtis showed that the Rrpub-
lican party is loyal to the Union, and the
Constitution, but the Bugle editor, instead
of refutins this position, works himself into
terrible passion, falls to calling names,
and talks about Compact with the Devil,
league with hell" Col. Curtis showed
that the influence of the present admins
tration, had all been exerted against free
dom and in favor Of Slavery in Kansas, but
the Bugle can only reply "Beecher's Bible'
aud 'Sharp's Rides" lie next exposed
the enormous and wasteful extravaganza of
the present administration, by which the
expenditures of the Government have been
run up to Eighty-Six Millions of dollars in
single year, and the Bugle can only re-
spond with the silly pretence, that all this
was necessary to protect the people from
the incursions of hostile Indians! Finally,
Col. CURTIS declared that he would vote for
the admission of Kanzas rs a Free State,
without regard to the number of its inhabi-
tants, and yet the Bugle editor says that he
"faled to define his positionr' Other po-
sitions of Col. Curtis are passed over in
silence by this Buchanan Editor, on the
principle, we suppose, that "discreton is
the better part of valor," an apothegm which
it would have been we'll for him, we opine,
to have thought of sooner.
But We have taken up more space with
this four-column assault upon Col. CURTIS,
than it really deserves. In truth, it really
amounts to but very lttle-mcre "sound
and fury, signifying nothing" We can tell
the Lecompton Democracy, that it must re-
sort to some better instruments of warfare,
than these, or disgraceful defeat will be
sure to overwhelm it. Coarse abuse, idle
dcnuncation, pointlcss charges, and vapid
witticisms, will not do. The people cannot
be misled BY them. Their hearts are with
the Republicans in this contest-they know
that our principles are those of the Consti-
tuition, that our purposes are to secure as
cendancy of free principles in the Govern
ment Of the country-our determination, to