Southport telegraph. [volume] (Southport, W.T. [i.e. Kenosha, Wis.]) 1840-1850, 1844-07-30

quiet ana fepOSe OF tue ihudoHdhis Nndt
glorious ease we should enjoy. if Mr.. f..
could succeed in relieving the people en-
tirely fom this burdensome business Of vo-
ting.
We stated in our last, that for such leg
islation as had been detrimental to our ter
ritory, the Wings were equally responsible
with the Democrats; and we called upon the
American TO make specifications, TO disprove
this assertion. The attempt was made in
the last American, and we leave the public
to judge of the importance Of the specifca-
tons made. tits, in our opinion, emerging
from the dminutive end Of the trumpet,
with vengeance. The reckless legislation
of the loco focos consists in an attempt to
make an anti-Doty man Of Mr.. c. M. Baker,
which attempt it appears was successful
In addition to the ridiculous character of
this rigmarole, there happens TO be but a
very small modicum of truth in the whole
of it, 1t will be news to those acquainted
with the facts, that Mr. c. M. Baker, during
the course Of last session, in any wise vas
cillated in his course Of conduct Towards
us, individually, we were not satisfied with
his course but we know that he was uni
versally esteemed an upright and consistent
man. We did not ourselves approve of the
design of sending him to Washington not
but what great confusion existed in our ac-
counts, but we believed that to settle these
accounts was matter between the General
Government and its agents, and being so,
that the Government would not treat with
any other individual. As TO the motires for
sending Mr.. Baker to Washington, the as
sertion of the American from beginning to
end, is gratuilous and without a particle of
evidence to sustain it. We have the best
reason in the world for knowing it tissue
of misrepresentation, got up by the editor
of the American to sustain himself in false
position.
AS for the general charges which are con-
tanned in the article, admitting them TO be
true, the editor has not shown that they
more properly belong 10 the loco foco than
the wing party.
But the editor has made his wonderful
specification against the loco focos, and in
return we will make a specif cation, and
as the question is one of reckless legislation,
the specifications may take their relative
importance. About three sessions of the
Legislature since, prominent Wing of the
Council introduced bill to the effect that
the Secretary. of the Territory be authorized
to borrow of the State Bank of Illinois some
$40, 900, to defray the expenses of the Ter
ritorial Legislature. This bill was advoca-
ted mainly by this prominent Wing, passed
first by the Wing Council, and then sent to
the House, which body it passed, and was
vetoed by the Governor. This Bank was
then in bad repute, and failure was antici-
pated. Our wing Secretary of the Terrific
ry, who is now stumpng it for Clay, as he
wends his way to Texas, was in the secrets
Of this Bank-he knew the money could be
had-indeed, that it was desirable to get as
much of it afloat as possible, in view of the
premedtated failure and he and the prom
nent wing of whom we have spoken, con
ceived the brilliant design of getting it of
on tho people of this Territory, where i
would have fallen dead loss. We know
of no one act of the Legislature, so fraughl
with detrimental results, as this, and the
history of the bill we have correctly stated
Names can be given if desired. Will the
editor make some further specifications.
| The last two sessions of the Legislature
are the only ones in which The Loco foco:
have had majority in both branches of the
Legislature We venture the assertion, and
we challenge a disproval, that they have
been the most profitable and least detrimen
} tai sessions which have been held since the
territorial organization. They were Ger
tainly attended with less expense, and with
Out. VIC DclltNS, OiiC ISHt vi w bAC
territory. The previous sessions, which
entaied on us the debts which we labo
,, under, the wings were in the majority in one
branch or the other Of the Assembly. Such
are the facts, and yet week after week the
editor calls on the people to rid the Terri
tory of tho blighting effects of Loco-focoism
In the Rhode Island case, the Wings arc
wonderful stcklers for the supremacy of the
enactments that be- This is always the
creed Of tyrants. When they have the pow
er they make enactments intended to de
prive the people of any voice in their owl
government, and then cry out for the supre
macy of the laws:-the supremacy OF the
laws made by few to enslave the many
The British cried out for the supremacy o
the laws when the Americans threatened IL
take up arms TO vndicaie their rights: ano
when they did take up arms, George Wash