The Council Bluffs nonpareil. [volume] (Council Bluffs [Iowa]) 1857-1867, 1859-06-11
1.-THE GOLDEN BUBBLE BURsTED.'

COUNTY Central Commute.
1.-THE GOLDEN BUBBLE BURsTED."
As there is no end to the disingcnuous,
terrible, frightful and verbose thunder
holts of denunciation lcvelcd against the
"pikc's Peak Swindle," and those accused
of being instrumental in getting it up, by
our eastern contemporaries, SO there Is no
computing the amount Of crockadlle tears
shed by tho aforesaid worthless, in behalf OF
the " unfortunate victims" This stampede
among the gold seekers has proved per-
feet god send to the quill driving harlequins
OF the eastern press. For the past three
weeks, we have scarcely picked up an e1-
change. without meeting with the stereo-
tvped phrases" Pixies Peak Swindle"-
tho " Golden dclusion Exposed"-" Terri
bic Suffering on the Plains "Letter wri-
tiers hung by Disappointed and Enr"ged
entrants - "Missouri River Towns to
DC Distroyed"- "The Inhabitants fIecins
the Towns r'-s: Great Excitcment!'- oil
ending with tho expressive, though excess
sjyelr modest, assertons-"WE told you
so !,-"Wr knew the whole thing was q
base swiudlc, gotten up by unprlncipled
spcculators, for the purpose Of fleeing the
deludcd oncs!" Yes, they knew all the
time that tho Cow would eat the grndstone'
There is no Disgusting that fact. But, the
most singular, and to US, most unaccounta-
bic. feature, Of these wonderful and w0dy
icremiads of the eastern press, is the degree
of comfort and consolation they seem to de-
rive from the supposed premises. that all
tho towns along the Missouri River, were
to o"knockcd into a cooked hat" Through
the flow of improvscd saline, the clovcn
foo. protrudcs itself Enthusiastically, and that
the :. border towns " are not now IN ashes,
and their inhabitants swinging in mld-alr,
food for yulturcs, is certainly no fault OF
our eastern neishbors. We know full well
the exact import of the words, when VIC say
that the press of some Of the cities on the
Mississippi River, and farther east, have d.
,ectly counsc!cd the returning emigration to
the commission Of inccndiarlsm and murder d.
And wherefore? Simply because these men
had the temcrty to undertake trip to the
Rocky Mountains, in search of gold, and
when nearly to their destination, acting as
hefore unon the dictates Of their own juds-
mcnt, turned their faces homcward, upon
lust such authority as that which induced
them to make the venture. Tho inhabitants
Of the "bovdcr towns nor the editors OF
frontier papers, nor their correspondents,
even, at this day, have no wish to recall a
title OF the course they have pursued in this
relation, nor are they possessed OF desire
or inclination to shrink from any measure
of responsibility that can by any stretch OF
tho imagination Of even an Infatuated mob,
DO charged to their account. This is no idle
bombast, it is sentiment that pcrvadcs even
the inmos, reccsscs of the hearts of every
man, woman and child, on the Slope; and
i, gives US unfeigned pleasure to say that
the great majority of the returning emlsra-
ton that we have come in collision with,
mngnanimously acquit the people along the
Missouri River, of the dastardly charge Of
being in any way responsible for the emf
grafton to Cherry Greek, or for the repute1
disastrous results attendant upon the late
stampede. The above facts our eastern
ncigLbors can digest at their leisure.
1t were worse than folly-nay, even mad
ncss-to expect the Munchausen's and
..Diobola's' Of the Eastern press. to pub
lish anything like the truth respecting the
movements of tho panic stricken emisrants;
it were the height Of folly to presume they
would not set down aught in malice"
respecting this border country; it were
equally foolish, to suppose, for an instant,
that they would give the uUdisguised facts
in regard to the gold fields, should such
come into their possession 1T is not thelr
forte; they prefer prcvarication, "excting
tales of the border" canGrds of villages and
towns rlundered, and their streets slippery
with the gore Of their murdered inhabitants
All these things they have been regaIIng
their readers with for the past few weeks,
spiced with lachrymosc combinations tor the
.Great Humbugged."
But, we of ''the border" have this con-
ISOLATION, that, unremittlngly as our eastern
neichbors have labored to bring vengeance
down upon our devoted heads, 1t has been
ssloye's labor lost" They have accomplish
ed naught-':we still live.' There have
been no acts of violence-no destruction OF
property-and no lawlessness whatever
manifested, on the part of the returning
emgration-thep predictions and counselings
of eastern charlatans, to the contrary not
withstanding.
We don't mind having our motives an
pusned-our kind acts transmogrhed into
damnablc treachery-providcd it is done
with any show of reason; but VIC now end
here protest against the taking OF the
.spound of fesh," on no better showing
+han the subsidized eastern press have made
acainst US. When, by any reasonable show
If even circumstantial evidence, we are
convicted of the charge of originating or
sustaining what they are pleased to term
tina spikes Peak Humbug." then, and not
t;ll then. will we quietly submit to the taunts
ond denuuciations of those presses, whose
course of action were ever traceable to the
,,r;nc;nIe embodied in the well-known cry
~eStop Thief"