The Council Bluffs nonpareil. [volume] (Council Bluffs [Iowa]) 1857-1867, 1859-11-26
AT HIS OLD TRICKS.
Our neiphbor of the Buqle is q wonderf.


Our neighbor of the Bugle is wonderful
man. Not only that, but he is can abl'
m "a "popular favorite'-aud Omar
of much real worth of character" No
only that, but he has often told Us that hi
was an amiable man. Not only is he anna
BILE, but the very personifcation Of courtesy
When he has anything to say, he says it II
the most gentlemaniy, courteous, graceful
and classical style imaginable. He Away:
couches his arguments and ideas-and, ever
bis invective-in the most elegant diction
Vulgar uttersnces or sentences, he mos
especially eschews. There is nothing $50"
fung'' about him. To our knowledge, he
has never, in the least particular, shown
that I" William Quinn" or J. R. Fayer'
weather, departed from the truth OF his
tory" while detailing the leading incidents
of his remarkable life. We think we are
safe:in saying, our neighbours future years,
(iudging from the present, y will in no wise
belle his earlier ones. The high-toned
gentleman of "pioneer times" in Iowa, is
the heightened gentleman of to-day. His
course towards his political opponents, has
even been marked by the most sentleman!y
courtesy-just such as every one would ex-
pect from u man who had represented an
intelligent and respectable constituency in
our State Legislature-just such as every
one would expect from man, who came
near Being elected to the U. S. Senate, when
Brgadier General GEORGE WALLACE JONES,
was succeesful-just such as one would
expect from man who aspired to the Office
of Lieut.. Governor, President of the State
Senate, and presiding officer Of the Board
of Education.
We hazard nothing in making these state
ments. In proof Of what We say, let facts
BIO submitted to q candid people: For
instance, in retaliation for our suggesting
that he had as much as he could stand up
under to father the editorials Of the Bugle,
what could be more expressive, subllmely
classical, and courteous, than to call US
"saarlng little cur" What profounder
argument was ever addueed, than to call the
Nonpareil :" certain Abolition or Bromn
Republican paper of this City" Well may
our neighbor "defy competitions in framing
cIassically cutting, and scathing sentences.
The blazing rhetoric of JoHS RANDOLPH is
no more in comparison with BABBiTT'S
than penny candle to the full efulgence
of noon-day sun. This blazing western
comet, with the polished pen of Junlus,
writes us down as intensely mean in
niggerology "-not only that, but that we
{" cannot prevent (our) pitiful spite and
li;.le..9ss from sticking out through every
line. on oil occasions" Wha. more sublime
than that? Who, but our distinguished
military contemporary, could express so
much in so few words? Who, will now say
that BABBIrr ought not to have been elected
Lieut.. Governor of the State of lowa-or
ought not to have been elected to the Senate
instead of Jones? 1t may be, however,
that he would no. have been so great a man,
if he had been, in early life, subjected to
the deleterous influences of Fashionable
society, and good living. 1t is evident,
from his oun admissions, that he owes his
present greatness, to the fact of having, in
his later years, had. his lot cast among a
community Of pigmies-as well as to the
potent influences of retirement from public
life, since defeated BY Chief Justice SHOE
MAKER. From this showing, i; Is very evil
that such genius as BABBITT's
-'awells more strong and clear
When close cUmiued-ike bottled beer ~
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