The Hawk-eye and Iowa patriot. (Burlington, Iowa) 1839-1843, 1840-06-25
LOCO FOCO CONVENTION.

LOCO FOCo CONVENTION.
The friends Of Mr. Van Buren, held q
Convention in this city on Saturday las
for the purpose Of appointing Delegates
to the Van Buren, Territorial Convention
which is proposed to be held at Bloom
ington on the 9th of next month. From
the efforts that had been made--from the
imposing call that had been circulated
throughout the county in Gazette Extra
form, we were prepared to see something
Of large gathering. But after drum.
ming up their forces during the whole
forenoon and waiting till the afternoon
for their friends to assemble, all they
could muster Of their own party did no
amount to one hundred.
"a The meeting was organized by ap
pointing David r. Chance, Esq. Ch.ir
man and Col Charles Nealtey, secre
tary. The Chairman undertook to ex-
plain the object Of the Convention-iD
! the course Of which explanation he made
the gra.uitous assertion that the Wings
had undertaken to 6roa0 beat them
hoped those present would behave .hem-
selves-and seemed to labor hard to show
sthat the meeting was not got up. to use
his own language, by the Erecutiue.--
We do not know that any one ever said
that it was so got up.
Jas. w. Woods, Esq. then moved the
appointment Of Committee Of five to
draft preamble and resolutions. After
the appointment Of the Committee, some
strife arose in regard to DR. Davis adj
dressing the meeting while the committee
were out. This arose on account Of con-
sPicuoss member having pledged himself
to good wing before the meeting, that
there should be no speeches made, until
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after the committee had reported. One of
the gentlemen who made the motion for
DR. D. to speak explained that as he did
not call for the doctor to make speech,
but merely to address the meeting, he
hoped the gentleman would not persist in
his objection. The gentleman deemed
this explanation sufficient, and DR. D..
commenced his address. He attempted
to give description of the two parties
which were in existence at the COM
mencement of our governmeht-Federal
and Democratic-both Of which he ac-
knowledged to be equally patriotic. At
tempted, we say, because he took for
granted that all the odious features attri-
buted to the one, and all those desirable
In the other, were the, real doctrines of
each; a course, which history will not
corroborate, or if it does, we cannot well
see how he could award much patriotism,
to that party which he said advocated a
life tenure to the Senate, life tenure to
the President, and a government as arbi-
trary in fact as the one from which it had
just emancipated itself. The least we
could call such "a government would be a
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limited monarchy, and there is not gene
rally much patriotism in such concern.
throughout his whole speech-we mean
Gddress-he assumed premises and jump
ed at conclusions which were wholly
untenable. He threw dust in the eyes of
MS hearers by crying Democracy, Je fer.
sonion Democracy, National Bank, High
Pressure Tariff. Continuous Internal I'm
provement, and Hard Cider, and other
favorite catch words of the party. insist
ing that the same old parties, Federal and
Democratic, still existed. He made a
sad blunder in mentioning one circum-
stance and not naming another. In al.
luding to the opposition to James Madi-
son, the democratic candidate, and in the
bringing out De Witt Clinton against
him, he forgot to state that part which
now belongs to the history Of our coun-
ny, and which informs us that MARTIN
VAN BUREN, was one Of the leaders in
that opposition. Yes. Martin Pan Bu.
rem opposed James Madison and sun.
ported De Mt Clinton. He forgot Il
mention that. Our limits forbid going
into thorough review of his address
every one present must have seen that il
! was . tissue Of misstatements almost from
beginning to end, and if the doctor can.
not plead the cause Of his constituents
'ohe,a he goes TO Congress, better than he
did that Of the Democracy, we shall con
slder ourselves poorly represented by sucl
delegate-tha,'s all.
During the Doctors speech, Jas. W
Woods, Esq. as chairman ofthe commit
tee, reported preamble and resolutions
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