The Council Bluffs nonpareil. [volume] (Council Bluffs [Iowa]) 1857-1867, 1861-06-01
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Ma. Ep,roR :-On my arrival home from
Des Moines, l noticed, by glancing at the
Buale, that Rabbits stock of billingsgase
is no. yet exhausted. Indeed, ! have no
doubt ii is inerhaustible, hat would sus-
ress to him that be send to Baltimore and
import Plug ugly to give him lessons and
improve his style, for, although the Ian
susse he uses is villainous enough for the
purlieus of the pit, he has an extremely
awkward shutting way of using it.
The expense of employing such a tutor
would be considerable, but doubtless JEFF.
Davis would foot the bill with Mississippi
or Confederate State bonds, which Rabbit
could lay away for future reference, as pre-
cious souvenirs Of his devotion to treason.
called him traitor, and | repeat it. His
senseless balderdash about not knowing who
| am, is like the rest of his contemplate,
cowsrdly lodges, and his heaping disgrace
full epi.hets upon me, is waste OF ink, for
| have lived in this community for years,
and the people know whether or not l am
such villain as Babbitt represents me to
be. called him traitor and stand ready
with the proof to substantiate what have
said. He asks for specifications of his trea-
son. Thought gave them in my last so
plainly, that che who runs might read" but
his ob.useness is equalled only by his cor
ruption, and will be still moro specific.
The treason refer to, he will find in what
are called the s'leaders'' of the last four is
sues Of the "Counea Bluffs Bugls," a Sc
cession sheet, edited and published by L. W.
Rabbit and others. The readers of that
sheet, Republicans and Democrats, pro.
nouncs those leaders treason, with a full
understanding of what treason is. l have
not time nor space to copy them, and it
is needless for me to do SO, Cor Babbi.t can
turn to his own files and save me the troub-
lie. Then he can take the Constitution of
the United States of America, and turn to
section Sd, article Sd, and if he is not too
stubborn to read, he can read as follows:
Treason against the United States shall consist only
in levying against them or i'll adherins to their
euemes, GIVING THEM AID AND COMFORT.
Now does Rabbit have The devilish eff
frontery to deny that those leaders refer
red to give aid and comfort to the enemies
Of the United States, or does he deny their
authorship. Did he seal them from the
Montgomery Mail, or Charleston Mercury.
If so, it proves him guiltier still, as he put
them in as editorials, thus adding petty
meanness to wholesale treason,-o is he SO
blind, and given over to madness, that he
don't know the significance of the terms,
aid and comfort, and enemies. He has kept
up persistent howl against his countrymen
who are engaged in the noble work of saving
the Union from being destroyed by the
thieves and assassins arrayed against it. He
has ignored Douglas and his other great
Democratic leaders, because they are speak
ing and fighting for their country. He has
denounced as usurpers, the men who were
legally and coustisutionally elected to fill the
highest Offices in the gift Of the American
people, and who are now backed by twenty
millions of freemen, irrespective Of party or
creed; men who know what treason is, and
have pledged their money and their lives to
put it down. Babbitt is man Of some little
intelligence. He certainly can understand,
if he will, the plain provisions Of that Con-
stitution he has sworn to support; and,
from his traitorous course, it is self evident
that he has forsworn his allegiance to it,
and that the piratical compact of JEFF. Davis
and his Confederate traitors, is now his
political sheet anchor, and the rattlesnake
flag the banner under which he rallies.
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