Iowa news. [volume] (Dubuque, Upper Mississippi Lead Mines, Wisconsin Territory) 1837-1841, 1837-09-09
IOWA NEWS.
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DU BUQUE, SATURDAY., sEFT. 8.
hEmOyAG...The office Of the ssIOssa
News, has been removed 20 = newly
finished building ON Locust Street, OPP.
pssite the residence q Jadee LOCK-
wed.
We have several times alluded to the ire
o,lar;tv or the mails, ON the west side of the
Mississippi, as well as the insufficiency Of
the mode of their conveyance.--heretofore a
general cause Of complaint. In our paper
Of the o6.h ult. after abiding to the article
Of our brethren Of the Wisconsin Territorial
Gazette, who have suffered more from these
evils than ourselves, for we see in our post Of
fee, many eastern packages Of newspapers for
Burlington, we mentioned our confidence in
the disposition Of the Postmaster General to ex-
tend to US every facility consistent with his Of
flee, and that when once informed Of the true
situation of matters, relief would be afforded
US. Since then, the General Agent Of the Post
Office Department---one. who by several years
service, and faithful discharge of his duties,
has acquired the unlimited confidence Of the
Department, visited this place, and from the
facts laid before him, as well as what has
come under his own observation, he is fully
satisfied that additional facilities for the regu-
lar transportation Of the mail should be extern
ded to US, and has given instructions to Post
masters in other parts Of the country that will
greatly relieve many parts Of our Territory,
whose letters and papers have heretofore laid
atalle Post Office in this place, the present ar
rangement on the southern route, being made
4uase: The Agent will represent our case to
the Department, and recommend many i'm
pIovements to take places after the list of Janu-
airy, 1888.
We can now confidently assure our friends
and subscribers u the Iowa District, that after
the measures taken and recommended by the
Agent, our paper will regularly reach them,
which has heretofore been delayed for the eau.
Sos above mentioned.
The Agent left this place on yesterday for
Mineral Point, and will, we understand, in a
short time, visit the principal places in the
Territory, in all of which, we presume, he
will find that his services are much needed.
We frequently see the subject OF the forma-
ton of sNative American Societies. noticed
in the eastern papers, which we look upon with
feelings of the deepest regret. urged by many
respectable Wing papers. The course which
the leading papers Of both parties pursue, is in
eur humble opinion, destructive Of those prin-
ciples and feelings which should fill the minds
Of the people Of this mighty republic, in order
10 harmonic society. The subjects of any
foreign power are not entitled to the rights of
the ballot box until they have legally become
citizens of the United States, and when this
is done, all stand on the same grounds as re-
CARDS political privileges, and should in every
respect, be so considered, yet we often see ar
ticles assailihg the exercise Of these rights by
those Of specified countries, and as often do
we see then. addressed to them, calling on
them, AS A BODY, or as the descendants of a
nation, to rally in defence ofcertain principles.
This tends, as matter of cours, to unite them
in body, and hence they lose that desire to
acquire the manner and customs, and imbibe
the principles Of the American born people.
We find in an exchange paper, an extract from
the Troy Wing, an article, calculated 10 pre-
JUDGE that people against the supporters Of
principles which one party avow and maintain,
in which il says:---
1.-THE children of BiGoTrED, CATHOLIC lag
LAND, like the FROGS WHICH WE'RE SENT OUT
AZ A PLAGUE against Pharaoh, have come into
our homes, bed chambers, and orens and knead-
ing troughs. Unlike the Swedes, the Germans,
the Scots, and the English, the Irish, when
they arrive among us, too IDLE AND VICIOUS TO
clear and cultivate land, and earn comforta-
bic home, dump themselves down in our large
villages and towns, crowding the meaner sort
ofaenements. and filling them with wretched-
ness, filth and disease. In political point Of
view. what are they but mere MARKETABLE
cArrLsl And to the dlsgrace Of our country,
it is difficult to say which Of the great political
parties is most anxious to turn the influence Of
the Irish to the greatest account"
Agreeable to the laws first enacted. during
the days Of the sages Of the revolution, for
eigners were permitted TO land on our shores,
and BY aspecifed residence, and an oath Of
allegiance to our land, and renouncing all con-
troll Of the rulers Of the land Of their birth, en-
joyed all the rights Of American born citizens.
We frequently hear Of mobs attributed to GER
tain nations ofmen, mostly Of Irish, which is
in measure, the result Of such treatment.
Mobs, coming from what country they may,
should be put down by the strong arm Of the
Law: The eminYantS from any fnYeiNn cns,r.