The Council Bluffs nonpareil. [volume] (Council Bluffs [Iowa]) 1857-1867, 1859-09-03
NOTES OF A POLITICAL TRAMP.

NOTES OF A POLITICAL TRAMP.
Mn. EDITOR Demo political letter
writers and democratic editors are exceed
ingly prone to give the rein to their imag-
ination and let it soar until it gets entirely
beyond the range Of probability. In short,
the great majority of them seem to regard
it as a natural and necessary affair, that
they should tell big stories concerning the
sayings and doings Of their champions, and
lie a little for buncombe. That such a
course is natural to them, am not at oil dis
+ osed to question, and that it is impera;ively
necessary, no candid man who sees their
champions and hears them declaim, will, for
a moment doubt, and here l wish it under.
stood that, although the above as a general
rule, applies equally we'll to the uuter. fled
all over the Union, yet in this letter, refer
particularly to the democratic candidate for
Governor and his Lieutenant. 1t certainly
speaks highly for the far-seeing wisdom Of
the Iowa Democracy, that when they had
so much better timber in their party, they
should have foisted these Indifferent sticks
upon the aforesaid letter writer's and editors,
to be manufactured by them into state Off
GERS, and still binder were they, when they
permitted General AUGUSTUS CESAR DODGE,
and Col. LYsASDER W. BABBITr, to stump
the State and exhibit themselves to the
people. One Of these gentlemen, at least,
had high reputation for craftsmanship,
and it would have been better for him and
for his party, had he staid at home till after
election, and amused himself with an occa-
sional game of ten pins, or any other inno-
cent diversion. But, utterly regardless Of
consequences, they turned him loose upon
this "barren desert;' sent out among these
matter of-fact, hard-fsted, wide-awake
farmers of the slope, real live general,
fresh from the gay Court Of Isabella. with
the dignity and mods and scrapes of the old
Castiian hidalgos still clngng to him sent
him out here with his pretty speeches about
" kinky hair and thick lips and fat noses,"
" learned and conned by rote, to cast into
the teeth" of whom? Why the Hawkeye
farmers, who learned, when they were little
boys, that fact of natural history, that the
negro has curly hair, thick lips, and fiat
nose that astonishing fact, which the Gen
eral took so much pains to promulga,s
amongst us ignoramuses of this "waste and
bowling wilderness"
As for his redoubsable Lieutenant, or
woull-he Lieutenant, am not aware that
he ever had any reputation for statesman
ship to lose. He has never been to Con,
sress; never been to Spain; never been over
this moral vineyard anywhere very extern
5 vely, and | presume, from his lack Of
general intelligence, that he has never taken
much pains to post himself about anything.
except the unprecedented extravagances Of
the Black Republican party, (the black pre-
fix being put on, presume, by our demo
cratic friends to denote the difference
between two prominent features in our
respective creeds, which is simply this
That while we Republicans believe IN letting
the negroes remain black, as they are, the
Democrats, with warm hearted humanity.
truly laudable, are in faver of mixing with
them md b!eachin. them out as fast as
possibility So you see, Mr.. Editor, the Col.
IS not altogether to blame for his political
and general ignorance, for he has not had
A chance. But having II strong pcnchant
for stumping it, be FASTENED down to Glen
wood to meet the General, and he has since
been following in his wake, occasionally
catching breath of inspira,on-Spanish
often reminding the slumber-
ng fires Of his undeveloped genius, with
ne sparks tina. scintil,ate from under the
oondorous slcdge hammer of his liustrious
hyperion.
At GlenwooJ, these two war horses Of
Democracy are harnessel together for the
,attlc. With the lofty tread Of conscious
they come prancins into the
Bluffs, and after showing elf to an aston
shed multitude. they are of again with a
promise of mighty deeds, aud with - pride
n their port, defiance in their eye" they
% sweeping away to the North, among the
aw settlers and " shifting sand-hils - Of
he great Missouri bottom.
l. is doubtless true that the General had
ioped to snake off at the Buff, that ugly
GLOW, who from the East to the West had
ssIan and again met him on the stump. and
lad as often torn to pieces tho finely spun
political webs he had woven. and held up
he shapeless fragments to the gaze Of
discriminating people. Our gallant stand
'rd bearer, had, at every meeting, laid on
he lash of logic, till his victim wrlthcd in
orturc. At Oskaloosa, by his conduct, he
virtually acknowledged that brains were at
! discount, and tina: he would fall back up
IN his muscle, and at Glenwo God, he repeated
hat acknowledgement in terms that could
lot 10 Misunderstood. 1t is an old adage,
( that ACTIONS speak louder than words,'
md General DUpGE's actions at Gienw God,
laid to kIRKwoop, ri am not match for
'ou intellectually, but can thrash you with
ny fists '-an awful mistake of his, how.
'ver, owing, probably, to the dattery Of the
Queen. for be would, doubtless, have soon
discovered that the machine used Tor press
ne tho hands of titled senoritas, was mis-
'rablo weapon of defence against tho bunch
If bones with which KIRKwoop would have
Knocked him into "cocked hat" in lees
han half a minute.
Those tremendous gaps between the places
# speaking, and the limited time given to
i'll tho appointments, were strong evidence
If a cunningly devised trick, on the part o:
he DEM cratic Central Committee, to assist
heir discounted warrior, and give him
:hance to escape from HARDWOOD, without
disgrace. This sympathising committee,
foresaw that HARDWOOD might
aayo h;o orn on,o;r."opts oo,t;,,,