The Council Bluffs nonpareil. [volume] (Council Bluffs [Iowa]) 1857-1867, 1859-08-20
Correspondence OF the NonpareiI.
kirkwood and Dodge 1t Glenwood.

Glenwood, Aug. 10, 1859.
Ed. NOSPAREIL-Dedr Sir: Yesterday,
Gen. AUGUSTUS CESAR DODGE, the cham
pion Of the Iowa Democracy, and the Hon.
$. J. KlRKwooD, Republican candidate for
Governor, met at this place to discuss the
present issues between the two great parties
Of our country.
Gen. DoDGE led of in speech Of an hour,
and in better style than those who knew him
expected. His Introduction consisted of an
aliusion to his unsolicited nomination as
candidate for the Office Of Governor, and a
rehearsal of the varied services he hid rem
dered his country at home and abroad, and
a modest allusIon to his record as guar
anty Of what his party might expect in the
event of his election. He next paid is ad-
dresses to his opponcnt-pass;ng high en-
comium on his accomplishments, and init
mating that his audience should prepare
themselves for rich entertainment at the
, close of his speech. In the next breath, he
charged Mr.. KlRKwoeD with once having
hec,, Democrat, md with the sin Of de-
serting ,..s party Just prior to his removal
to Iowa, becapsc he might have noticed that
the Republican star Sas in tac asceniency
IN the latter State-rouGdi off he imputi :
ton with the remark, that Mv. ~. was well
pleased to permit bis ubolitioc friends to
enjoy their principles if he Coula lave the
spoiiS.
Next, the General pitches into the Insane
Asylum. In lis inception, he charged upon
s. that man GRIMES" fraudulent intent
its progress, was markell with extravaganza:
and, before it might be finished, he feared
the treasury Of the State would become
bankrupt. But the point he endeav ored to
make, was that the Republican party, and as
that man CRIMES, were at the bottom Of thi,
iniquity his eloquent competitor.
Fast in review, he touched upon the State
prlntiits-the establishment Of the Agricu
tura College, in the OBJ cure county of Sto-
ry-all the workings of the Republican
party and ''that man CRIMES" and all damn
ing proofs Of the utter unworthIness of the
party.
His mode Of attack on the Agricultural
College was nimtabie, and only cxcelled BY
the manner it was refuted.
On National politics he was both elevated
aud condescending. The party to which
his opponent belonged, was an anomal, -
some might call it the Black Republican par
ty-he would simply speak of it as the Re-
publican party. For the old Wing party
now no more--he had holy reverence its
purposes were noble; its leaders patriots,
but the Republican party, 10 q! it was stencil
in the nostrils of all wel!-meaning demo-
Gratis. That party was disturbing element
in our country-it would agtate the subject
of Slavery. In Wisconsin, through its Su-
preme Court, it bid traitorous defiance to
the decisions of the U. S. Supreme Court !;
and, in Ohio, it refused to re- nomlnate Judge
Swan, because he had given an opinion sus-
tanning the bred Scott Decision; in short,
it would not stand by the Compromise of
1850, nor do anything else agreeable to the
South on the sabject. But the Democratic
party was all right! Contrary to the pre-
dic'ions of the Republicans, under Demo
cratic administrations Kansas had been or
ganized and would come into the Union a
/ free State-so of Oregon. Then followed
an elaborate apostrophe to the memory of
| HBSaY CLAY and notice of the cruel eat
ment CLAY, received in his last DAYS from
the Republicans, while the Democrats sus-
tanned him. These, believe, were his prin-
cipai points-the details, l, of course,
omit.
The Generals hour having expired, our
candidate, without noise or pon,p took the
stand. He commenced by thanking his
friend for the too fattering allusicns he had
made to his powers of oratory--said that as
a citizen Of Iowa, without extraordinary
pretensions, he had been selected bv the
! Republican party Of Iowa rs their candi-