Sioux City register. [volume] (Sioux City, Iowa) 1858-1871, 1859-01-13
deeply interested in the passage of that

Inc liilnVlb SthtIol E8uIOau 70 DuDt0JtO,
held at this place 10 July, 1855, you com
plinented me, in exalted terms in your
speech on that occasion, Is the person
who procured the amendment making Du.
buque the terminus Of the road, and al.
though you knew that hundreds of your
constituents we're there present, you did
not intimate that the same had been done
contrary to your wishes. You were then
addressing an Iowa audience whom you
wished to proptiate.
Again, sir, when you last visited Du-
buque, (26th August, 1851, you had On
interview with J. B. Dorr, the editor of
the Express q Herald of this city, who
had ever since you introduced the Kansas
and Nebraska bill into the Senate, been
your bitter opponent and the opponent Of
the measure. The next morning an edi.
,orial article appeared in that paper, Of
which the following is IN extract:
"But Illinois is not tho only State which
has been benefited by the policy and by
the labors Of Stephen A. Douglas. All
the Western States are indebted to him
for the material prosperity which is OBJ
servable within Their borders. We be-
lieve, however, that our own State, Iowa,
stands next to Illinois in her obligations
to Mr.. Douglas. To him more than to
any living man is owing the magnificent
railroad system planned out for her-the
system which is destined to make her one
of the wealtbiest and most important
States of the West. Even our own good
city of Dubuque owes, in great measure,
her present Importance to the labors of Mr..
Douglas. She knows that the extension
of the northwestern branch of the Him
OILS Central to the opposite bank of the Mis-
sissippi has greatly added to her prosper
ity. and the land grant roads running from
here to the interior vii still add more to-
wards making her the commercial metrop.
oils Of the region north and west of Chi
cago.'
Two numbers Of the paper containing
the above extract were sent to you the next
day. one to Galena and the other to Chi
cago, with the expectation that you would
have the honesty to spurn the offer thus
made you by your nc,cly acquired advo
cate here, to the detrment Of myself; for
whom you then protested friendship. In
stead Of doing SO, however, the same arti
Gle was re-published in the Times, your
organ at Chicago. and that, too, within a
| very few days after it came out here, and
| whilst you were still at Chicago. necessa-
riiy within your knowledge, if not at your
| request. Thus, cir, at one time you ex-
tol|ed me in unmeasu-ed terms for caus
ing Dub uque to be made the terminus OF
the Illinois Central railroad when address
ing an lotca a. 'iencs: at another, you al
low Dor, your ally, aud my inscription.
opponent here, to filch that which justly
belongs t, me and appropriate it to your
temporary benefit. And now, when ar.
raigned before your constituents for allow.
ing me to make an amendment to your
bill, to the disadvantage Of Galena, tas the
people there believe. YOU resort to the
dishonest and un,eorthy prete1t Of saying
you were compelled either to allow the
amendment to be made, or TO lose the bill
entirely, because "they myself and col
leagnel ,eere immoEabke dnd iasistei O.
de.teating the biR,' &c. Neither Gen.
Dodge, his father or myself, ever voted
against YOU or Gen. Shields on any amend
ment or proposition offered to the bill
The vote was generally two to one in ia,
vor Of the bill, and it finally passed by
yeas and nays &c to Ia, SO We had not, as
you allege, the power to defeat the bill, as
still it would have passed.
My amendment was offered without con
sultation with any one, not excepting my
own colleague, nor any one of my constit'
uents. | am proud Of having procured
such benefit for the State which has
trusted and honor , me, but would spurn
it had it been obtained "by COLLISION
with yourself or any one elsa charge
never within my knowledge made at Ga
lena or elsewhere. until now meanly insin'
uated by yourself
This, sir, is the third time that you have
made mfamously .'akse " accusations
against me, and that have been COMPEL
ed to tasten the lie upon you. Though
you may. at the sacrifice Of democratic
organization, have effected triumph in
your own State, as you say, 'over execu
tive and congressional dictation, can
look with contempt upon any fame or pc
sition you may have acquired By a union
with white spirits and black, blue spirits
and gray" Black Republicans, South
Americans, disappointed olice.seekers
&C.. as | do upon the miserable resort to
opprobrious epithets connected with my
name, but covered vita contingency
which gave you sure escape.
GEO. WALLACE JONES.
p. s. This was prepared at the time and
place it bears date. and would have beer
sent to you had | known where it would
reach you As Won are still canvassine
the country, address it to you n, your
own home, and publish copy Of the same
in order to make sure of its being seen
by you. Gro W. JONES.
BAY Mr.. MASTERS, who has been hon