Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-08-05
Boast of n Servile!

duty, voted for every one of the compromise
measures in all their phases, stages and con.
ditions, including the Fugitive Slave Law-the
late Senator Sturgeon, of Pennsylvania, and
ourse'res, being the only three Senators from
the entire non-slareholdiag section of this
Union ,cho coted for it."-Dodges Speech o.,
the Kansas NJ brasta Bill, FEB. Is, 1854.
Here we find the great Augustus Caesar
Dodge shamelessly boasting of his treason to
freedom and betrayal of his constituents, by
voting for that inhuman and barbarous statute,
the Fugitive Slave Law. And, as if adding
insult to injury, he soon after completed the
dark and damning record of his treason by
voting for the Kansas Nebraska bill, Of which
act he boasts to this day. lis the height of
presumption for this man now to present
himself to the people of Iowa, and ask them
to endorse his official conduct The people
have not so soon forgotten his humilia:ing
career in the Senate, for which they spurned
him and sent Mr.. Harlan in his stead He
may glory in his shame, and boast that he
outstripped all his Northern associates in
servility to the slave power-the people will
"leave him alone in his glory"
"TnE ow-HANDLE TIcKEr."--The DAY.
export Neus, in scurrlous article about our
Gubernatorial candidate, asserts that he
(Kirkwood) is wearing "Grimes' old Clothes"
and by that supposes to frighten ''genteel'
people from voting for him. Very well !
There remains, we are happy to know, quite
a numerous class enough to elect the Gov
crnor by about 10000 majority-who agree
with us that it is much more creditable for
man to appear in secondhand clothing
honestly obtained, than to strut in the finest
of broadcloth, procured at the expense of
somebody else. We do not assert that Gen
Dodge's tailor bills, either in Spain or this
country, are left unsettled-we have no posi-
tive proof of that; but, if paid, his official
history sufficiently indicates whence the
money came-that it was mercilessly wrung
from the hard earnings of persons other than
himself The Ne,cs in this instance has but
unwittingly displayed the distinction which
aside from his superior qualifications marks
Kirkwood as emphatically the man for the
people. The people have never lost their
wholesome adherence of snobbery, and this
attempt on the part of the Democratic press
to revive that hated institution only the more
effectually seals the doom of its infatuated
high priest and worshippers. In Kirkwood
the people recognize the man who is proud to
be their associate and equal, one glance of
whose eye assures them of integrity beyond
the reach Of malice to assail, and a spirit of
independence that reflects the genius of this
country.
The Ne,os makes hideous ado, Also that
Kirkwood should have had any "prudentap'
objections to speaking in the open air. Will
the sage editor of that paper do us the justice
to say we never yet claimed for our candidate
an immunity from the ills which flesh is heir
to? Kirkwood is neither god nor demi god,
but human; and, as it happens, is not at
present in the most confirmed state of health.
Beyond THIS we cannot imagine OF reason
that should prefer between indoor or out
door speaking The intrinsic merits of the
man are not affected either way. The mis-
fortune thus far has been that Dodge will not
condescend to let his voice be heard either in
or out of doors. Kirkwood, though more
than proof against the assaults of his unscru-
pulous adversaries, does not expect to cope
successfully against sickness and death. He
will, in all probability, die a natural death
some day; but not until long after he has
served his countrymcn as Governor of this
State; long after Dodge has been politically
entombed and forgotten; and not, we hope,
until sham Democracy itself shall have ceased
to impose upon the credulity Of any portion
of the free and enlightened people Of the
North, East and West.