Sioux City register. [volume] (Sioux City, Iowa) 1858-1871, 1861-01-19
Sipnt Gitp 3tgister
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY Is, 1861.
For the Register.l
A Sketch Of the Rev. and Hon. Delaz-
ON smith, late U. ). senator.
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For him to feel abashed. was an inter
impossibiity. To sense Of shame, he
was utterly impenetrable. Dead to all
these finer feelings which constitute the
grace and charm Of life, he hung toppling
over the dread abyss Of perpetual drunk.
enness. To frequent the lowest haunts OF
vice, was to him pastime in which he
daily indul ged. To gamble at doggeries,
and hazard money at horse races, was a
species Of amusement to which he was
constantly addicted He cast the baleful
shadow of a consummate bacchanalian
He, at this juncture, sought to secure the
captaincy of a company Of soldiers for the
Mexican war
With unblushing effrsntery, and the
coolest possible impudsnce, be demanded
Of the Iowa Legislature that they should
pass . resolution recommending him to
President Polk for ths aforesaid Office
The Legislature could do no less than
laugh him to scorn. Learning nothing
from past defeat, he capped tho climax of
his astounding impudence, by demanding
of the Democratic State Convention the
nomination tor the gubernatoral chair Of
Iowa. 1t is hardly necessary to add that
he was very uncersmoniously whistled
down the wind. Finding that the conser-
vatism Of the Democratic party sternly
frowned upon his wild, vaulting ambition
he was forced to pause in his licentious
career. Now that all hopes of political
promotion wei, dissipated into thin air.
he sat himself down to contemplate the
causes which untaiingly brought about
an unbroken series of defeats.
After long continued self Examination,
he found that to be unprtnciDied was, in
the long run, a line of policy which always
ended disastrously. When he arrived at
tho wholesome conclusion that he would
henceforth be an honest man in all the
moods and lenses of honesty he publicly
renounced his infdelty, ard very wisely
Joined the Methodist Church. lie married
into Methodist family, and Immediately
obtained license to preach that Gospel
which he had, in the most shameless man
ner. publicly ridiculel and Knocked.
THIS astounding change created an i'm
mense sensation in South eastern Iowa
Skep,icism was struck dumb, and the in
terrogatery was at once propounded 10y
Knockers at Christianity, "Must we lose
our boldest champion p Having expend
ed the morning Of his days in the vain and
futile attempt to dsmolish The Chris tan
system, he now welded the club of Her
cules agains. all the bold adherents OF
Tom Paine.
Infdelity howl-d with rage when his
ponderous blow, fell thick and fast upon
lis hideous head Having championed
for many dreary years the cause Of Tom
Paine, he well knew the vulnerable points
Of his disnolical system. The Age Of
Reason was so completely demolished by
his irresistible arguments, that its stanch
est defenders fed in dismay from the
feld of contest, lugubriously trailing their
dari, banner in the dust The members
of all the evangelical churches in that re-
gion, loudly reioicel to see the scrred
ranks Of unbelevers broken aud con fused
and after brief struggle, filled with con.
sternaton. DELTA.
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