Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1869-09-23

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ton, in these dull times is really
refreshing, by way Of a change; but
to be startled by such sudden blast
to be fercely commanded to stand
up, and squareIy face the immense
horror whereof the Democrat dis
courses SO neryously, is too much for
human nature to meekly bear. Hear
him:
"Wc have before us a document
issued at the direction Of the Treas
urer of this County, of much interest
| to all, and OF absorbing interest to
some thousands Of citizens Of Marion
County"
Listen now, We citizens of Marion
County, and hear your doom.
"The document is Radical Stump
Speech, written in blank verse, filled
with proper names, and reciting in
doIefuI language the fact, that in de-
fault OF the payment Of Taxes, the
| property Of large number of our
farmers, widows, and poor men will
be offered for sale 10 the highest bid
der, at the Court House in this City,
on the 18th day Of October"
There! That is the most remarka-
Bile document we ever heard Of; and
with what felicity is it described!
First tits flashed before the excited
reader of the Democrat as a "Radical
Stump Speech;" then, as if to add to
the awfulness of the vision supposed
to be conjured up in the Democratic
mind by that expression, it is further
said to be written Gin blank verse!"
This, to some cold line" Democrats
will be very terrible.
But this is not ALL This hideous
document" is "flled with proper
names, and rccitcs in doleful lam
guage the fact" dc.
TO thus describe document" as
a "stump speech" written in
blank verse;" and composed of moth
ing but "proper Names" The says it
is filed with theA), and the said
"proper names" manipulated in
such an ingenious manner as to
make them "recite in doleful lam
guage the fact" &C., is literary feat
in description, only within the power
of that rare class of intellectual prod
egies who are represented historical
ly by Munchausen, and Mother
Goose, and of whom the editor of the
Democrat is probably the best living
specimen in America.
But warming with his subject, he
he cXclaims with burning sarcasm
at is loyal to be slave; their party
leaders demand it of them," &c. y
Then, frantic with despair, he
shouts "When will the people awake
from the sleep which is rendering
them helpless! When will our
Farmers and Producers, our Mer-
chants and Mechanics open their
eyes to the facts, and seek the proper
remedyw
Oh! there is a remedy for the inn
pending peril. How Thankful we
ought to be! And the Democrat
kindly points it out in this way:
"There is the remedy. We have
pointed it out an hundred times in
the last few years. The serpent's
head is the Radical party, and its
destructive policy. Crush this head.
Remove its leaders from Office" DC.
That's easy-very simple. The
only difficulty about it is, that the
"scrpent's head" (the Radical party
is composed of a large majority of
the "helpless' people, and to advise
the people to crush this "head" to
cure the evil is very much like adj
vising man to knock his brains out
to cure the headache.
And all this wonderful harangue
in the Democrat, about the Delin-
quent Tax List, which our worthy
County Treasurer has published be-
cause it is his duty to do SO, under
the lava law that has probably
existed ever since the organization
Of the County, and originally was
framed, enacted and carried into
effect by the Democratic party itself.
TO attempt to defeat the law re-
curing the publication of the Delin-
quent Tax List, would be like trying
to defend the Golden Rule, because
the law is good and righteous in
itself, and has received the unquali-
fled sanction Of all parties.
The article in the Democrat to
which we have called attention, was
probably written with view to in
fuse little moro life into the next
Democratic Convention, that is called
for next week. 1t was intended,
doubtless, as stirring bugle cry to
action; but it sounds too much like
Chinese gong. OBSERVER.
[NoTE.-Theabove communication
was received and put in type last
week, during our absence at the Fair.
It should have appeared in our last
weeks paper, but was crowded out.
ED.
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