Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-03-25
[From the Chicago Press and Tribune. !
A Brace of ESrigadiers.

The fiery valor Of the two Iowa Brigadiers
-Brigadicr General Augustus Caesar Dodge
and Brigadier General George Wallace Jones
of the Iowa Militia knows no discretion
All their lives, these illustrious chieftans
have been in office. Brigadier Dodge, under
the leadership of his ilustrious father
the tented field. Since boyhood, his ratons
have come from the distinguished Commits
sary, Uncle Sam. And so of the other
Brigadier- rigader Jones' Brigadier Gen
eral George Wallace Jones; he tieshed his
sword in the carcass known as "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 conqucsts. With
most astonishing reckessness of personal
danger, they haye kept the field when discre-
ton bade them full their banners and retire
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.
But, in the uprisings and downfallings of
dynasties, both have at last come short of
their fodder. AS Joab was slain at the horns
of the altar, so have these captains of the host
been smitten at the bung of our great peace
establishment, the Federal treasury. They
haye been driven from the public crib, and
they cannot cat their swords. Brigadier
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 Gen
eral when he made daring assault on the
White House for the boots of that filnctionary.
He was repulsed with difficulty. Fearing a
bombardment or a coup de main, which no
executive defences could withstand, the Pres
dent rendered to him the mission to New
Granada. Doubtless, he thought the warlke
habits of that people would suit the martial
instincts of a Jones-Brigadier General
George Wallace Jones, of the Iowa Militia
But no. The chieftain smoking with the
incense of the fray-victorious in hundred
conflicts at the peoplee cash -box-shal he go
to place where negro equality is tolerated.
where shirts are indclcately brief, and
patchouly unheard Of? Not Jones' Brigadicr
General George Wallace Jones, of the Iowa
Fencibles
But what of Dodge--Brigader General
Augustus Caesar Dodge, whose family tree
reddens with the carnage of office-holding !?
His element, too, is the blare of trumpets and
the clash of arms, which tell of the storming
of the treasury. Where the fight is thicl1est,
where the roar is loudest there is the Dodge
Dodge of Iowa. A vacancy in the Execu
tive chair of that commonwealth is to be filled
in October next, and Brigadier General
Augustus Caesar Dodge is again a-feld.
"Dodge for Governor" is Dodge's war-cry.
"Joncs for Governor" will be Jones' war-cry
ere month is past "Then will confusion
make his masterpiecer' Then will the
prophecy of the comet be fulfilled! Brigadier
General Augustus Caesar Dodge! Brigadicr
General George Wallace Jones!