Daily Iowa State Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1856-1859, 1859-03-26
VOLUME 4.


| BoSnio'J 'N'P.
. been pleasant one TO dweii uPon-ahd
plaip. unyarui-hel description Of his menta
and moral peeuliari'ies. though 1t might II
highly acreptablc 10 the readers of The
Poiice Gagctte, would be decidedly cut %
place in the DsMocEAT, which Is staniard
family ne wspaper Indeed, we do not be
ljeve we should ever have condescended to
notice the felIow again, had he not IN ye'
ter1ays Ners obtruded himself on our no
tice, and compreased in the short space oi
q column and a quarter, lies Of such mon
strous proportions and satanic blackness,
that we feel it our bounden duty to expose
their anthor. Here let us say that We will,not
be go lost to our own position. or SO blind
TO IIubbeils, as to elevate theS4AHo the
rank of an antagonist; he is no more an
antaqonisf Of ours, than he is Of his betrayed
and plundered clients, Loomis Co, OF
New York
Hubbell opens his budget of falsehoods
with some peculiarly touching remarks con-
cerning the "lamented IIildreth." II Is but
simple Justice to our beloved and departed
senior, to say, that he was man OF too
good Judgment not to detect llubbells real
character and of too true heart not to de-
test rim for his crimes. 1t was the desire
Of Judge Hildreth, often expressed long be
fore his decease, to get decently rid OF Hub
| ble. and he was only waiting for tit oppor-
tunity TO discharge him, when he was pros
| trated on bed Of sickness from which he
| never rose Abont one month after Judge
| IIildreth's death as we cordially concurred
in the judges or:nion of Hubbell, and know
ing that his connection with the DEMOCRAT
was tremendous drawback to its prosper
ity, We seized the first opportunity that OIL
fereJ itself, and shook him off forever On
the eve of the Gubernatorial election, when
he supposed We could not dispense with
his services, he demanded that his daily
STIPEND should be doubled, and that we
should pay him two dollars day instead OF
one, which was the price at which he had
solicited employment from US. Within five
minutes after his strike for higher wages,
Mr.. ilubbelrs connection with the DEMOCRAT,
much to our benefit, and much to the graf
iiication Of our readers, finally terminated.
He still continued to lounge about our Of
flee, as we supposed, for the privilege OF
inserting in our local columns, reports OF
cases before the Police Court in which he
appeared as attorney, and in which it was
generally remarked, he might with more
propriety have figured in the capacity of a
party SO much for his connection with the
DEMOCRAT, as an editor-a connection which
has been more disastrous to the paper,
than all the other adverse circumstances it
has had to encounter.
Having ceased to be an editor, Hubbell
had the ambition To figure As Il pander-a
go bet ween, or pimp. and had he spark
of self respect, he would blush to blazon his
self sought infamy to the world. If the
account Of his ,loings and motives in con
nection with that five hundred dollar trans |
action be true, then public opinion has not
been unjust in believing him to be as rotten
IL knave as ever went un whipped ofjustice.
1t is O noticeable fact that while Mr.. Tai |
mage remained in town, lIubbell never |
made his charges specific, though he has
time and again injected dirty insinuatiors
about "black mail" in the columns OF the |
Ne,cs; but now that Mr.. Talmage, who he |
says negotiated the whole thing-is far |
away on the Missouri river. he comes out |
with charge Of corruption and. black mail,
which he supposes we cannot disProve.-
Fortunately for us, we have the means VI
mailing the lie, and convicting the liar.
The only evidence he oHers-besides his
own assertion, which is no evidence at all, |
wherever he is known-is Il communication !
in three lines, from Mr.. Talmage. addressed
to dear Hubbell' Dear Hubbell! "Pre-
cious dear" Ioomis Il Co., found him-"pre-
cious dear" did that poor woman find him,
whose case was the subject of that commu.
nication. The villainy of the man passes
all belief-for who would suppose that that |
little note should he twisted and distorted |
into a threat for black mail against Rail
Road Company, when in reality it referred
to the case of a poor servant girl for whom
HubheIl had transact ed some business. Some |
time before the loan began to absorb the |
public mind, lIubbell, IS an attorney, re-
covered for poor Iri sh girl, a small sum of |
money the hard earnings Of many month |
Of thankless toll, which went in search OF |
the amount lost by Loomis 4 Co., some |
years ago. She came to the DEMOCRAT office |
and wanted him advertised as a highway |
man" Talmage, out of pure good will to
Hubbell, dissuaded her, and undertook an |
amicable settlement. He applied to Hub
bell to do the honest thing. Hubbell prom
ised and procrastinated. and at last Talmage |
in the billet referred to, gave his ultima
tum, and declared "the day of grace is past
In this fellows hands, the evidences of his |
own shame, become the instruments Of ac-
cusation against his neighbors. The proof
that he is q scamp, he uses to convict us Of |
blackmailing. The note in question had no
reference whatever to the Railroad loan
What can exceed the impudence of the |
wretch who would twist it into q demand |
of black mail I
A few words in reference to those five |
hundred dollars 1t is we'll known that we |
were always in favor Of the Railroad loan.
and the first paper which advocated it.
Indeed, We set the ball in motion Early |
in September. we urged the building Of the
Cedar Valley road; the first meetings at the
Council Chamber we're held ct our sugges-
tios. and the course pursued by those meet