Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-09-02
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DopGE DENouNcEs THE AGRICULTURAL COL
1EGE.--In his speech at Council Bluffs, Gen.
Dodge denounced in severe terms the last
Republican Legislature for passing the state
Agricultural College Bill. He declared sucn
an establishment wholly useless and unnec-
essary, and that the money to be expended
upon it might Just as we'll be thrown into the
sea At the same time, Mr.. k'rkwooa
defended the College, and said ne was prooo
of the vote he gave for it.
Farmers, what do you think of this! Dodge
has drawn, during the past four years lron'
the public treasury, the sum Of so7,ooo' as
Minister to Spain, and yet he cries out against
expanding few thousand to aid IN Developing
the agricultural resources of this great anu
growing State He is in favor OF acquiring
Cuba, in order to extend and strengthen That
..d;vine and humanizing institution slavery
=, cost of at least thirty million dollars, but
opposed to any expenditure for agricultural
nurposes. Millions for slavery--not one ceh'
for agriculture, is his motto Will the people
Of Iowa endorse it? t-
aTur Prov HANDLE TICKET. This deri-
sivc appellation, suggested to US by our
onnonents. has returned home and is horribly
plagung its inventors. That tough, crookeo
stick the "Plow- Handle" is frightfuliy
careering about them in its industrious course
iostling and poking them in the ribs until they
fairly howl with modification and rage
Amongst the Democratic organs most vocal IN
this respect is that resuscitated sheet' 'he
Burlington Gazette, which endeavors 10
escape the due reward Ct its mlsdeeds oy
voeiferating "not GULLY" to the indictment
urged, and will find it of about as much AVIAN
as in the case of rogues generally. The
GaSette goes into fidgets at the bare sight OF
a 'plow cut" and declares it to be gull
trap.p That it is some kind OF trap he mas
the best of reasons for knowing-h0 helped
TO make it, and, as is evident, has got
his foot in it, Neither is he SO much mis-
taken' In the name, as it was originally
intended for a gull-trap. Since its adoption
into our family, 1t has been devoted to honest
purposes, and is known by different name.
But, gentlemen, if yoy~dont wish to share the
fate Of rats "a had better get down into the
luysuT and be covered over at once.
DouGtAs AS AN EssAYIsr.-SenatorD Douglas
has written an article in Harper's Monthly:
on .srhe Dividing Line between Federal and
Local Authority Sovereignty in the
Territories" 1t is an elaborate defense OF his
ideas upon the question of slavery IN the
Territories. He contends, as he has always
done, that Congress has no authority over the
subject, but that it belongs exclusively to the
people of the Territories; and, as he has
always done, he carefully avoids stating who
constitute the people, and by what means
their respective rights are to be determined.
The essay is about up to the average Of Mr..
Douglas speeches. 1t is copyrighted by the
Harpers, and cannot, therefore, be published
by the newspapers without their consent, "a
ABOUT PLAYsD Our.-The Albany Evening
Journal remarks that all there is left of sham
Democracy belongs to slavery. OF itself,
nothing remains bat dry bones. In the free
States. Buchanan Democracy has no: on acre
or rood, or even foot Of ground, lnndis-
nuted. to stand on. New England has not
only driven them out, but barred the doors
against them. New York is unshangeably
free. New Jersey and Pennsylvania. rcpudi-
ated Buchananism last Fall. The whole West
has discharged the Administration. Il And
North Carolina, Tennessee and Texas, though