The Council Bluffs nonpareil. [volume] (Council Bluffs [Iowa]) 1857-1867, 1859-09-24
GOOD WORD FOR DODGE.

We trust the people CT Iowa will be mind
full, when they 60 to the polls on the llth
proximo, that General Augustus Caesar
Dodge has been laboring for some months
under head of steam fit to propel the Great
Eastern from Holyhead to Portland, and
that very disgraceful defeat might SO affect
his nervous system as to induce rash act.
We have no wish to hear of his having COM
mittcd suicide about the middle Of next
month. We are his friends. We desire
that he may live long on the land. The Re-
publican party have use for him. They wish
to keep him for salutary public example
Of the genus Doughface. He has his uses.
They are not in the line of legislation, or
the Management of the ship of State, it is
true he Acknowledges that the most impor-
tant act of his Senatorial career was to in
troduce bill for the organization of Ne
braska Territory without knowing anything
Of its provisions. Possibly the bill was
drawn by the same man who wrote jones'
speech-the Rev. Henry Clay Dean, then
Chaplain of the Senate. Jones forgot his
speech when he rose to reh arse it: Dodge
took warning and never read the bill at all.
Still Dodge has his uses. We Intend, there
fore, to say something in his behalf, with
view to ease his fall, preserve the vital
spark, and so forth, and so forth.
Dodge's natural impulses are not wholly
lead. With different training in youth he
might have made useful citizen. A great
man he could never have been, because the
DEGREES of nature were enviously opposed to
the Dodges in the Grs. Instance. But Caesar
is not responsible for the intense bigotry,
the blind preJudices, the unreas oning devo-
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ize him. These things were educated into
him. Having no grasp of mind, no enlarc-
ed perceptions, he is incapable of taking IN
the idea of progress. That which was
dropped into his mind-as stone into a
weli--twenty years ago, remains undsturb-
ed and unmovable. lie is perfectly honest
in his beliefs. lie actually thinks it is his
duty to run after niggers whenever and
wherever he may be summoned by an Irish
Deputy Marshal. He is fully convinced
that this great Union will be dissolved, un-
less the people of Iowa do the same thing.
He honestly regards the defeat of Mr.. Kirk
wood essential to the preservation of the
Constitution. lie believes in his Utmost
heart that niggers are somehow necessary
to the perpetuitv of the Republic. Beyond
this little creed his ideas of government, of
squattcr sovereignty, OF federal relations,
ETC., are infinitely vague and confused. lie
goes for the bred Scott decision because he
understands that it is somehow pro-slavery,
and because other pro- slavery men 60 for it.
But in all this there is nothing which can be
called dcpravty of heart. He was taught
these things quarter Of a century ago more
or less, and his is a nature which can un-
learn nothing. The ingenious writer who
discussed the question, " Have We a Bour-
hon among US 2" lost his case BY presenting
the claims of the Rev. Eleazer Williams in
stead of Dodge's. II it was the distinguish
ing trait of that noble family that they new
er learned anything and never forgot any
thing; Dodge is qualified to try titles to the
throne of France against oil creation.
These are some of the reasons why the
people Of Iowa should not deal with Dodge
MS with person exhibiting malice prepense.
His insane demonstrations on the stump are
a consequence of bis honest belief in the
dangers which threnten the country if the
people do not turn doushfaces.-I Chicago
Press & Tri5.