Buchanan County bulletin and guardian. (Independence, Iowa) 1866-1869, 1867-09-13
BULLETIN. VOL. 3, NO. II.
"TwEsTy.FIiRsT IOWA..

It i said that Col Van Aada wrote ihs
arii le in the Herald Of this city over tic
aignstur. of "2ls iowa" The Iowa Fails
Sentinel yen,llates the Col. es follows:
Some two weeks siuce, the Dubuque Ter.
aid published . three column SANDER againsi
Col. Merrill, the Republican nominee for
Governor. l. was sgned " list Iowa, tbs
regiment commanded By Col. NJ. 1t now
.ranspires shat the author Of this calanaious
attack upon as brave and homes. man as
liges. i none other than the rotoriously
drsnken dog, S. g. Van Anda, y Delaware
Coupty. 10 give our readers hiEt Of the
character Of thls li5elIer, We state that when
.ac writer saw him asi some three or focr
months since) he sas ged in drunken
earoasai ID Dubuque w.th three OF four pro-
tessional stable graous, IN vhich the hoa>
tioua of bad whisky were .et off with the
most disgusting vulgarity and profanity. On
inquiry We ascertain ed tha; these " dr.nks,
long drawn out, were very common With
:" list Iowa" He mas, have been in ore ol
his mellnwest moods when he peuned the
vile bel, AS he enloyizes Mcclellan and Nc
Clrrgand As the bri 1htes. heroes of the late
war, while Grant. Sherman, Sheridan, Thorn
as and The like, are Bat accidental be roes.
When il becomes public ;ha. ). g. Van An
IA, the candidate for lie lt.-Governor on the
kaursroo ticket of 1855, is the writer of the
libel. no one will hesitate to pronounce it
aad It's author too low and con,emptibic to
merit any notice whatever.
The Avscsiine J1s,aai also responds a.
follova:
To those who kne~ Col. vAn Anda In by
gone years the inielii sence continued III this
rough paragraph will be exceedingly neian-
choiy. The attack up Col. Merrill refer
d to vas packed as full OF falsehoods q IN
egg is OF meat. Il WAS particularly severe
on Col. Merrill for his alleged conduct al
the battle oi Har.syiile, at which battle Ma
jor Van Anda was not present. aud. OF
course, Of lis own knowledge knev nothir Z
OF il.
Bat vi b that tiss-e Of faisehoojs against
Col. Merrill We haze na;hing 10 do here.
We are panied - leavn that i came from
Col. Van Auda. The sad condition "a which
he is shown to be reduced by the .SeatiHel
viii &c cunt Tor the aT.icle. Attacks upon
gallant mcn, coming from horse boys aud
their associates, will not be net BY honora>
bic gentlemen.
The sane paper replies 10 an article tlat
recently appeared in the keokuk Const..u~
tioa charging Col. Merrill with cowar''ice
and attempting 20 prove it by Ii. Col Dun
laps report. The Journal says:
The Constitution says that 1t. Col. Dun
laps official repor, I the battle Of Harris
vide Is no. Cum pllnentarY 10 cOl. Merrill,
II. Col Daalap never nsade an Official re-
port Of his operations in tia. battle. He
seut a seii-prnising account OF il 10 Gen.
Warren, but knew well that il was no off,
cial report, ard 50 s.iI not put in il the prop
81 channel. He WAS himself under Col.
Merrill, o whom his report must have been
naae. Gen. Warren, in bis report Of The
affair, says. . Col. Merrils dispositions were
made with great Judgment and .olnass. "
Further aloug he says, TO Col. Merrill, in
command Of the .orce. an under high OBJ
ligat ons for his prudeu, frmues. and good
di.ros .tions.
We simply make these stasemsn;s to show
, The utter talsi;y aud lncxcusableness ot dem
ocra.ic IS everaiions to the contrary. Poor
Col. Van Aada was empioyed By the Duba.
que Herald TO assail CO.. Merrill, but We
think that paper has hren astonishsd At the
uncommon sallabilisy Of its colleagues.