Southport telegraph. [volume] (Southport, W.T. [i.e. Kenosha, Wis.]) 1840-1850, 1843-03-07

The observation-disclosures to adjournment
the Legislature were to have assembled at Madison
yesterday. The Governor by proclamation has al
called Legislative meeting on that day. There
appears to be great uneasness among the Hege fol-
lowers of the Executive lest the Legislature should
refuse to surrender their right to the will of the 60
vernon. Hence there is world of coaxing, urging,
and threatning by the Doty presses and the office
holders the legislature are impudently told that I'M
less they abandon their position and act in obedi
ence to the will of the Governor, they must expect
nothing less than political humiliation.
There are those who determined the will of
the Governor shall be obeyed at every hazard, and
regardless of every consequence. 1t furnishes a
development of the slavish principle by which
some men are governed; the will of one man is re-
garded paramount to every other consideration
That this is true representation of the position
which these individuals have assumed, let facts
speak. The members of the Legislature who as
sembled at Madison the first Monday of Deem
Der last, composed of both political parties
they canvassed the position Of the Governor with
regard to the legality of the session, and have re-
corded their verdict-that verdict was given with
unanimty almost unparalleled in the history ofleg-
lslaton. Thirty of the peoples legislators, (f we
recollect right were of the opinion that the Gov
ernor wrong, and but t,oo were found willing
to stand by the Executive and endorse his views.
Yet with this public expression of the peoples rep
re.enatves, the followers of Doty still insist the
will of the Governor must be obeyed, and that the
almost united voice of the peoples Legislators must
be unheeded.
But this is not all-these same deciples of the
man power seem disposed to treat the opinion of
the Congress of the United States with the same
contempt, that they do the decision of the Terri
by the testimony of men of both political parties at
| Washington, that large majority of the House of
Represe ntatives believe the Governor of Wisconsin
! to be wrong, in the position he has taken on the
subject of Legislative session in December last
While the question Of the legality Of the late meet
| ing of the legislature under discussion in
| Congress, some of the most prominent friends Of
President Tyler, took decided stand against the
| course of Gov Doty, and in justification of the
| Territorial Legislature. And it is matter which
scarcely admits of doubt, that had there been a
direct vote taken on the question by the House Of
Representatives of the United States, the Legisa-
ture of Wisconsin would have been sustained by
vote Of nearly two to one. If then that portion
of the members of Congress who, from political
considerations mi ght be regarded as most likely tc
sustain the Executive of this Territory, are found
| arrayed against him in this matter, in what pit
table position does it place the Governor and his
| adherents.
The strange predicament in which the Dotyites
are placed may be briefly stated follows:-First,
they are obliged to maintain that the will of the
Governor is superior TO the will Of the Legislature,
and that the opinions of one man are entitled to
more consideration than the united opinions of the
Peoples representatives: second, they are Obliged
to maintain that the opinions Of Gov. Doty en-
titled to more weight than the opinions Of the
| House of Representatives of the United States -
| Was there ever man-worship more servile than
this! Reader, what think you of such strange de-
votedness to an individual man! What but the
mysterious power of Executive patronage, could
| lead men into such labyrinths of inconsistencies.