The Gate City makes the following flattering mention of
BAUSMAN, of the Des Moines Times:
Bausman says that slavery is not the cause of the rebellion
and the war. Yes, Bausman says so. – J.
B. Bausman writes and publishes that recondite truth for the benefit of
Governor Kirkwood and Colonel Crocker and the rest of mankind. Bausman gives his readers to understand too,
in his peculiarly chaste style of writing, that Governor Kirkwood and all who
agree with him, are “unloyal,” and
that Col. Crocker is a coward.
Who is Bausman? – “Aye, there’s the rub!” Who and what is J. B. Bausman? The fellow has a record but the world has not
kept it. His record is in the papers,
but the public are not cognizant of it.
Brusman [sic] is a political bastard, “a hermaphrodite, the ‘spawn’
of the unloyal” embraces of certain
weak-kneed Republicans, with the weaker backed fraction of the Mahony Democracy
of last summer. Bausman was the
conductor of the Commonwealth, the organ of the said Republicans, and as a
result of the aforesaid “unloyal” embraces
between the Journal and the Commonwealth, the organs of said weak fractions of
the old political parties, the Des Moines Times was “spawned” upon the public
and the Journal and Commonwealth died in the effort.
Bausman survives to certify that slavery was not the cause
of the rebellion and the war. If we had
a blind pup for whom there was little hope of vision, we would drown him
incontinently.
– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye,
Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, February 1, 1862, p. 3
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