The Iowa patriot. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1839-1839, 1839-08-29

while MCGOWAN is full ten years older,
and not to be mentioned the same day for
personal appearance. They have been
married six years, and have until these
suspicious were excited, lived very happi-
~ together.
CHE CRY OF THE POOR AGAINST THE
RICH This is the title Of the leading
article in the last Wednesdays Globe,
copied into the Evening Post Of yester-
day, which-from the circumstance that
it contains more and greater falsehoods
than any other article in the number
we presume has by this time travelled
nearly the rounds of the loco foco Jour-
nails. We shall take up room only to ex-
press one or two Of its most stupendous
and mischievous fabrications The Globe
says:
''The history of all Governments ex-
"hibits the struggles of two great parties:
tone rallying under the hammer of the
rights of property, the other under those
"of persons
/ Now, there are millions in this coun-'
try who put faith in this libel, and who
believe, as the Globe would have them,
that the party now supporting Mr. Van Blu
ren's administration is that which sup
ports the rights of persons, while the
Wing party supports the rights Of prop
erty. Reader! do you believe any thing
of this! If you do, we implore you to
give heed for few moments to few UNI
deniable facts:
Alabama is one of the few States in the
Union which has under all circumstances
held fast to the name of Democracy, and
which has uniformly supported Jackson
and Van Buren,. In Alabama none but a
freeholder can vote; in other words, the
rights Of Property prevail over those of
Persons.
Vermont is one of the few States in the
Union which under every mutation has
stood strongly opposed to Jackson and
Van Buren,, and which is therefore term
ed by the Globe Federal State. In Yer
mont every citizen is entitled to vote, no
matter if he never owned foot of land
or paid tax in his life. How can this
be true, las we know it ISL and the
Globes assertion not false?
Again: the State of Virginia held a
Convention few years since to form a
new Constitution. She was then over
whelmingly Jackson Van Buren, State
of course Democratic one, Sin favor
of the rights Of persons" according to the
Globe. Now the Constitution then franz
ed not only recognizes and favors emphat-
ically the 'Rights of Property" and
makes freehold basis of suffrage, but it
actually authorizes man who owns land
in three or four counties to vote in each
of them, while he who owns none cannot
vote in any! Call you this advocacy of
the "Rights of Persons?" tits proper to
state that the original Constitution of
democratic Virginia was still more ia
vorable to the s'rights of Property" and
less so to the .'Rights Of Persons than
the present.
!: We might fill columns with testimony
directly to this point--that the "Rights
of Persons are better guarded in the
} Wing than in the pretended 'sDemocrat.
ic' States, and that the ''Rights of Prop
} erty' are more overbearing in the latter.
We believe not one of the Southern
States. in which Van Burenism is pre-
dominant, recognizes the Right of Per-
sons'' to political power simply as per.
sons, as do the Wing States of New
York and Vermont. We have seen il
positively asserted, and believe, that the
! original Constitution of Tennessee which
:. General Jackson assisted in forming, al.
} lowed the Right of Suffrage to none who
did not own two hundred acres of land
At any rate very large freehold quali6.
cation was required to enable one to be {
Representatives condition wholly in
consistent with the sRights Of Persons .
We have thus adduced some obvious
and indubitable truths CLEANED from the
l open page of our country's political his.
tory. Do they not completely upset the
reckless assertions of the Globc?-N. Y,
! Wing.
A INDUSTRIOUS HAIL SToRM.-We were
shown on Saturday, the remains of a huge
!, hail stone which was picked up soon after
a very serious hail storm, in the vicinity
J, Of Jefferson City. 1t was found by Dr.
] Henry of Jefferson City, about four miles
out and after carrying it that distance i
weighed one pound and a quarter, and
measured thirteen and half inches ir
circumference! T. B. SM1rlr, Esq, O.
Arrow Rock, in this State, believing it the
largest stone Of the kind ever found, was
curious enough to procure a bucket, ice
and blanket, and bring it to St. Louis
whittier he was going, and after arriving
here in the stage, with his mammoth stone
it measured IL inches in circumference
!, four days after the storm! We rather guess
: that this cant be beat. Mr.. Smith also
J, informs us that the storm was unusually
: terrific and violent-that the ground was