The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1859-03-31
A Brace Of Brigadiers.

Iue ueTy NaioT vi lue TWO iowa DrlSaulerS
|-Brigadier General Augustus Caesar Dodge
and Brigadier General George Wallace Jones,
of the Iowa Militia-knows no discretion
All their lives, these illustrious cheiftans have
been in office. Brigadier Dodge, under the
leadership of his ilustrious father, achieved
early renown in the civic as well as the tent
ed field. Since boyhood his rations have
come from the distinguished Commissary,
Uncle Sam. And so ofthe other Brigadier
Jones-Brigaiier General Geo
Wallace Jones he feshed his sword in the
carcass know rs ''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 glorious conquests. With
most astonishing recklessness Of personal
danger, whey have kept the field then dis
erection babe them furl their banners and re-
tire. But with sword in hand with plumes-
tossing in the air, their persons adorned
with the insignia of victories won, their eyes
aglow with the ardor with which they are
animated, they have maintained the fight /;
and until lately victory has always smiled
upon their prowess. .f ... ........
But in the uprisinss AMI downfaIIinys Of
dvnasties, both have !. last come short of
their fodder. As Joab was slain at the horns
of the altar, 50 have these captains of the
host been smittcn at the bung of our great
peace establishment, the Federal treasury
They have been driven from the public crib,
and they cannot eat their swords. Brigalier
General Augustus Caesar Dodge has been
warned that he must vacate the Spanish
mission. Brigadier General George Wallace
Jones has been out of Office just nine days,
including Sundays. In the meantime, he
has been variously employed. The breath
had not left the body of the late Postmaster
General when he made daring assault on
the White House for the boots of that flnc-
tionary. He was repulscd with difficulty.
Fearing bombardment, or coup de mria,
which no executive defcnses coull withstan |,
the President rendered him the mission to
New Granada. Doubtless he Thought tn.
warlike habits Of that people would suit the
martial instincts ola Jones-Brigadier-G GEM
raj George Wallace Jones, of the Iowa Mill.
tia. But no. The chieftaip snD'iin, with
the incense Of the fray-vctorious in a hun
drcd CONFLICTS at the people cash box shall
he 60 to place where negro equality is
tolerated, where shirts are inIelicatcly brief,
and patchouly unheard of? Not Jones'
Brigaaier-G sneral Wallace Jon,s, of the Iowa
Fencibles
But what of 3rigalier- Genera
AuyustuS Caesar Dodge, whose family tree
reddens with the carnage of a half century of
office holding. His element, too IS the blare
oftrumpets and the clash of arms which tell
of the storlning Of the treasury. Where the
fight is thickest, where the breach is widest,
where the roar is loudest, there is Dodge
Dodge of Iowa. A vacan:y in the Execu-
tive chair of that commonwealth is to be filled
in October next, and Briga lier- General Au-
gusus Caesar Dodge is again afield. dodge
for Governor is Dodge's war cry. "Jones
for Governor will be Jones' war cry ere a
month is past. Then will confusion make
his masterpiece p Then will the prophecy
of the comet be fulfilled. Brigader- G cneral
Au5ustus Caesar Dodge, Brigadier- General
George Wallace Jones II Press Dc Tribune