The Hawk-eye and Iowa patriot. (Burlington, Iowa) 1839-1843, 1841-02-11

Labarge that condemned her to stand ir
the pillory.
Money was easy, and the markets firm
| Some demur had been made at Con
stantinople, as we'll as by the English
Admiral Stopford, in ratifying the Con
vention between Commodore Napier ant
| Mehemet Ali, but inasmuch as the British
Government had approved that Conven
ton, and that it had been urged-requir
ed, we might say-in despatch of Lore
Palmerston upon the Porte, that it toe
should accept this Convention, there i:
little doubt the matter was all arranged.
81 Louis NeW Era.
From the Quincy Illinois Wing.
OUR LEGIsLALURE--sTA ATE DEBT.
NEW COURT, sc. sc.
1t is generally known, that as a state
we owe large debt-that no provision
was made for the payment of about one
hundred thousand dollars of interest fall
ing due the first Of the present month
and that the governor at an expense oil
fifteen or twenty thousand dollars conven
ed the legislature two weeks before the
regular time of the meeting for the ex.
press purpose of providing means to pay
that interest. 1t was generally expected
that all the energies of the Legislature
would be directed to that object, and tina,
in view of the PROSTATE condition of the
finances of the state and the embarrass.
ment of the people, the low trickery and
intrigue Of the parlizan politician would
be sacrificed OH the altar of the country's
good.
How have these expectations been re-
allied!
The extra session passed without any
thing being done to save the faith and
credit of the state, and ended in weak
and wicked attack upon the State Bank.
We say wicked, because, by hurried and
unexpected resumption, the Bank was
unable to continue her accommodations
to produce buyers. The immediate con-
sequence of which was a reduction in the
price of Pork. to the great loss of the far
mers Of the country.
With the new session commenced a
disgraceful scramble for office; character
lied by more little meanness than was ev-
er before exhibited by any legislative bo-
dy. Wing officers, whose term of office
would have expired in fifteen days, were
repealed out of office for no other reason
than to provide places for hungry expec-
tan,s. 1t is now nearly two months since
its commencement, and that scramble ra-
ges with increased rancor. Already are
all the wings displaced, and their places
filled from the ranks of those men who
seek office as means of living, and there
is yet large number of them to be pro-
vided for. Hence the Constitution must
be violated. Judges who by the consttu-
ton hold their Offices during good behav
ior, and can only be removed by two.
thirds of both branches of the Legislature,
are to be degraded from Office by the will
of bare majority. Eighty or ninety
clerks are in the same manner to be re-
moved, and the same number of probate
justices, elected by the people, are to be
led into the 'slaughter pen,' by this dem
ocratic Legislature; and one of its own
choosing to be sent in their stead to each
county in the state, with increased civil
and criminal jurisdiction, with grand
and petit jury at his heels, dispensing
Justice, in the language of its foster faith
er, "wilhout FORM" and he might add,
without law, common sense or any regard
to right.
Why is this new court project at this
time sprung upon the people? May not
the legislature employ their time and tai.
ents more to the advantage of their con-
stituents, in devising means to save the
tottering credit of the state, and relieve
the endorsements of a suffering people:
Have the people demanded this disor-
ganizing act!
Was its propriety discussed by the
members of the Legislature before the peo-
pie when they were candidates!
Would it not be democratic to allow so
important measure to originate with the
people? ;.
Can they find no cause to stay their
mad career, in the fate Of similar pro-
iect and its authors, in Kentucky!
1t is not our purpose to answer the a
bove questions. They are proposed for
the consideration of the people. 1t re-
mains to be seen whether they will sus-
tain their agents for failing altogether to
do what they should DO and for doing what
they ought not to do. As yet they have
done nothing towards paying interest on
the state debt, except to send an agent to
New York, to hawk aboutin Wall street,
three hundred thousand dollars of state
bonds, and beg capitalists to take them as
a pledge for eighty-four thousand dollars,
10 be forfeited if not redeemed in short
time.
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