The Council Bluffs nonpareil. [volume] (Council Bluffs [Iowa]) 1857-1867, 1859-03-26
A Rrace Of HfisadirrS.

The fiery valor Of the two Iowa BrigadIcrs
.-Brgad!er General Augustus Caesar Dodge
and Brigadler General George Wallace
Jones, of the Iowa Niitia-knows no dis
erection. All their lives, these illustrious
chiertuins have been in Office. Brigadcr
Dodge, under the leadership of his iIlus;r-
Gus father, achieved early rcnown in the
civic as well as the tented field. Since boy
hood his ratons have come from the distin-
gushcd Cummissary, Uncle Sam. And so
of the other BrigadIer Jones
Brigadier General George Wallace Jones
he flashed his sword in the carcass know MS
the public" when hardly out of his teens.
Since the day that their charge upon the
public crib was crowned with success, they
have been burning for other and more glo-
rious conluestS. With most astonishing
recslessness Of personal danger, they have
kept the field when discretion t2de them
furl their banners and retire. Bat with
sword in hand, with p!um"s tossing in the
air, their persons adorned with the insignia
of victories won. their eyes nglow with the
urdor with which they are animated they have
maintained the iisht; and until very lately
victory has always smiled upon their Prov
ess.
Bat, in the urrisings and downfalIings Of
Of dvnastics, both have at last come sho:t
Of their fodder. rs JnHb WIS siam ut the
horns Of the altar, 80 have rt,s" captains to
the host been smittrn at the bnng Of our
great peace establishment. the trd"rnI
Treasury. They have been driven from the
public crib. und they cannot eat their
swords. Brighter General Augustus Caesar
Dodge has been warned that h must vacate
-, = / ( Il
George Wallace Junc> has been ont Of Office
Just nine days. in GLIDING Sundays. la the
meantime. h. has been vnllJusiy employed.
The breath had not left the body Of the late
Postmaster General when he made II daring
assault on the Waite House for the boots of
that lunctlonery. lie was rrpuIsci with
difficulty. Fearing b"mbnrdmrnt. or Il
coup dc main, which no executive defen.cs
cpuid withstand, the President rendered him
the mission to New GrnnnIa. Douhtlcs$ he
thought the warilke habits Of that people
would suit the II lrtIal instincts Of Il Jones
BsiGadi"r General George WnIlnce Jones. Of
the Iowa Militia Bat NJ. The chjtftaln
ch.yita.n smoking with the inc nse Of the fray
--victorious IN IL hundred conflicts at the
peoples cash hp1-sh1Ii h" 90 TO n place
where negro equality IL tolerated, where
skirts are indci"ntciy hrief, and palchOuly
unhearI of? Not jones' Erigadlcr- Genr-
George Wallace Jones, Of The Iowa FencI-
blcs.
But what Of Dodge Rrigader- General
Augustus CeSor Dodge, whose family tree
rcddens with the carnage of half century
of Office holding? His element, too, is the
blare of trunpcts and the clash Of arms.
which tell Of the storming of the treasury
Where the fight is ,hIckest. where the breach
is widest, where the roar is Ioudest, there
is DodSe-Dodge of Iowa. a vacancy in
the Executive chair of that commonwealth
is to be filed in October next, and Briga-
der General Augustus Caesar Dodge is
again ateIj. "Dodge for Governor is
Dodge's war cry. s'Jones for Governor "
will be JONES' war cry ere month is past.
Then will confusion wake his masterpiece p
Then Will the prophecy of the comet be full
filed. BrigadIrr- General Augustus Caesar
Dodge. Brig"dier General George Wallace
Jones !-Nicago Press & T,ib.