The Council Bluffs nonpareil. [volume] (Council Bluffs [Iowa]) 1857-1867, 1859-10-29
POLITICAL AUTOBIOGRAPHY.

The last number of the organ of the
would-be Lieut.. Governor, contains pc
litical autobiography Of one Of 81. B's."
Land Officers in this city. 1t is rich arti
cle-aboanding 10 the most startling assn
rance, the coolest impudence- most
idle vaporing, and the most disgusting self
adulation. For instance, this wonderful
Land officer, says he was guilty of the most
careful engineering, "-"ardueus labor and
cease!ess vigilance during the late cam
paign. lie next gives the present County
Central Committee stab under the fifth
rib, by contrasting the results of their en-
gineering with his year ago. He says:
"During one years. services as chairman
of the Central Committee WE found no
difficulty in enlistir9 the active interest and
harmonious action Of the Democracy Of
this County!" Pull that sentiment through
your teeth, Messrs. Riddle, Larimer, Bah
tt, Hall and Johnson! The past harmo
nv Of the Democracy of Pottawattamie
County,i:s solely attributable to the ''nrduous
labors and ceaseless vigilance" of j. BIS
Land officer! And then to think how that Off
Ger has been misused Nothing so base as
ingratitude! Hear the old man complain of
the indignities he has suffered, at the hands
Of his political friends! He says-''re
bare suffered iadiaaities at the hands Of
asen protesting Democracy, which FEW
sromd hare submitted to, SILENTL \, as
ere hare done J" But with this confession
of the g stings and arrows that patient mer-
1t of the UNWORTHY takes" comes Il
warning. He has come to the conclusion
that it is "noblcr in the mind to take up
arms against a sea of troubles, and, by OPP
posing, end them," than to patiently sub
NIT to the sea Of indignitics that have been
heretofore hcaped upon his devoted head,
and issues his pronunciamento to that eff
feet, as follows: " Past .forbeafGnCe
MUST NOT be tahen as q criterion for
future impunity!" The whole power Of
tho government--and office will be brought
to bear upon those ''professed Democrats"
who have offered indisuitics to this modern
political Hercules. The jig is up-Test,
Larimer, ct. al. must look well to their
heads, Or they will be in the Land office safe,
carefully labelled for Washington. We
cannot Do this pronanciamento of the roll
s.nteer editor justice in one issue of our pa
pert is too full of meat for that. All its
beauties cannot be seen at one glance
Meth cr can all its salient points be referred
to, in the brief space of one leader. We
shall therefore treasure the document-ex-
anime it our leisure, and comment upon it,
from time to time, until we have disposed of
all its political bearings, as "review of
the Past, and counsel for the future,' in
s. Pottawattamie County Politics. 1T is
rs fruitful Il theme for elaborate comment,
as the Presidents Message, Or the Insur-
rection at IIarpcr's Ferry.
Since the above was in type, we have re-
ceived a communication from one of the
" professcd Democrats" referred to by the
immaculate Land officer, which will be found
in another column. We are determined
that both sides shall have a hearing.
THE STANDARDIZATION.
We publish. from the Baltimore Ameri-
can, somewhat detailed account of the
recent tragedy at Harper's Ferry, Virginia.
OF all foolish, rash aud fanatical movements
the world of the 10th century has witnessed,
this seems to be the mort foolish, rash and
Neutrality-suspicious. reason, motive or prov
ocation- nothing to redeem it from DELHI
crate and wlful butchcry, without the hope
of accomplishing anything thereby. No
plea of justification can be put in, for
Brown and his associates. They murdered
the peaceful inhabitants Of Virginia, and
the plea Of wrongs sustained in Kansas, or
any other section of the country, should not
and will not, We hope, shield them from the
utmost penalty of the laws they have SO
llagrant!y violated. If Brown, and his
handful of men, in melting this instruction,
were actuate' by other motives than those
Of revenge, and the insane hope Of "plun-
der" We have most signally failed to real
ize their import. The Burlington Gazette,
however, with keenness Of scent the best
blood hound might envy, says this IIarper's
Ferry eHeute sis but another Of the legit-
mate results of the teachings and tendency
Of black rcpubicanism." Dignifed and
owlish Democratic politicians in Council
Bluffs have given uttcrance to the same
sentiments-and have even expressed regrets
that the tragedy had not occurred prer.ous
to the late election, as it would have had
great bearing upon the result in the several
States! They manifested great contempt f9r
"bleeding Kansas" but we should not he
surprised hereafter, to hear them echoing
and re -echoing piteous lamentations over
"bleedins Virginia!' We have neither time
nor space, to refer to this matter more at
length at this time, but in conclusion, will
say that the Republicans are just as much
accountable for this Virginia Instruction,
as they are for the Cafre or India insurrec-
ton, and no more. If any political party
is responsible for this bloodshed, it is the
Democratic party. The way some Of the
Pottawattamie Democrats talk, we are led
to the belief that the lnsurrecton was got
ten up by the Democratic party, to make
capital against their opponents.
c. 3. 4 ST. JoER.R.
The people of Nebraska City, satisfied
that the division OF this read lying between
the Iowa State line and St. Joseph, will be
speedily constructed, have taken steps to
extend the road from the State line to a