The Council Bluffs nonpareil. [volume] (Council Bluffs [Iowa]) 1857-1867, 1859-12-17
REVELATIONS ACCORDING TO Rabbit.
Being Prognosfications in regard TO the Future Of
Howell, Teesdale, Durham and Maynard.


Howell. Teesdale, Durham and Maynard.
BY that Able Man" and Popular Favoritc,' >
COL. LysANpER W. BApBIrr, SEER.
more generally knoWn as THE - Man of much
rea! north Of Character"
CnArrERI.
The fate of a notorious newspaper serb.
bier named Branch, of New York City, as
described below, may be cited as a warning
to some Of the more licentious of the Black
Republican editors in Iowa. Outlaw a1C
outcast as he is-despised by all decent mer
-scourged from society by common sen
timent of indignation and horror at his
crimes hunted by officers of the law--sknlk.
ing from iustice-hiiing, like IA wild beast
from the face of Misunderstanding, naked anc
consumed with remorse-yet Stephen IL
Branch, during his brief career as public
libeller, was doubtless rs firm in his position
as iippnnt in the vocabulary of Islander, as
well sustained by interested partlzans, ana
fOurishcd as bravcv. rs either Of the Iowa
editors here alluded to. He was rs bold
rs mendacious and impious, as How
ell, of the Gate City, who, with pen drop
ping atrocious lies, undertook to trace Il
simIituie of himself to Jesus Christ; rs
blind and insensible to his own drpravIty, as
selfrightrous and ostentatiUus Ill PROBES
sions of moral purity, while revlinS upright
men and invading the sanctuary of private
life, as the pharisaical Teesdale, OF the De-
moline Citizen; rs ready Mt lnvectlve, as
hardened, eager and truculent in dong the
dirty rk of his employers, as Durham OF
the Hurk- Eye, the especial mouth piece,
tool and toad eater of jim Grimes rs glib
and pert in obscenescurrility-a abandon
ed in the PRONUNCIATION of malicious lies
rs insolcnt, lawess, vile and british in the
crime of defamation, rs Maynard Of the
Nonpdrel. This is saying quite rs much ms
the truth will warrant, for it is morally i'm
possible that any mortal creature should
ercel the above named notnblcs in those dis
tlnguishing traits of character. But for a
season he tiourished the samo-pursucd his
fnyoritc vocation with rs much
immunity, as much Ze>t and bravery,
as either Of thrn-was cinIIIv at home IN
his native element of filth, and with them,
ghou.nkc, maklng' most heli,h men!s Of
rood mems names,' glOri'd IN the debase-
mcnt Of public morals and rxuited in the OBJ
vious effect Of the deadly poison thus nFus-
ed into the social atmosphere.
Ina word, Branch, rs Il newspaper writer,
was an cxrmplar of Black Republican NOR
atty, and among the Abolition fraternity of
I,v, wand shina n. ,l,e be,n ;jeal nf edi
,,ri.I excellence lie wonIb undouhtedIv
lao olnc,rd Stat, Printer ar MIGHT even as
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