Iowa territorial gazette and advertiser. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa Territory [Iowa]) 1840-1846, 1846-02-07

woe, tobe the supreme law Of the State
This is what the doctrinsof the hawkeye
iends to.
The Hawkeys says, 'shers can be no
democracy where majority do NOT gov
erns We agree with. him. But At The
next breath, he denies the right ofthe prss-
enf people to say, through their delegates
in the convention, that the Legislature
shall not charter State Bank. From the
fact that the future people Of Iowa may be-
come favorable to the incorporation Of a
State Bank, a. we trust they never will, he
argues that the present population ought
not to declare against such an institution
in their fundamental law. This is won
derful reasoning, surely! FRS. say, there
can be no democracy where the people do
not govern, and before that is cold, say the
people oIght not to NEEDLE with this ques-
ton, but leave it in allegiance, because fn-
tire generations may think differently
this is wonderful democracy! Democracy
as we understand it, teaches that the pres
emf population have right to carry out its
viewsiniisla laws, making provision in those
laws, for the alteration or amendment, if
subsequent generations shall think differ
emily. But the Hawkeye says, no, you
have no right to speak, because some future
aristoracy, or monarchy, or some banking
monopoly, may not, in after years, approve
your sentiments!
Again, the Hawkeye says in substance,
that whenever majority Of the Represen-
tatives shall wish to do certain act, which
act would be unconstitutional, after such a
desire on the part Of the majority, the con-
stitution would be "no longer a democrat
&c instrument" Wonderful logic tha,!!
The constitution Of the United States saws.
"no person except natural born citizen
shall be eligible to the Office of President .
Now, according to the Hawkeye, it ma
jority Of Congress should wish to elect a
man who did not have these qualifications,
the constitution Of the United States would,
ips, facto, be anti-democratic thereafer.-
A majority Of Congress passed Bank char
ter in l84l, but constitutionally, it could
not 60 into operation. Friend Edwards
has discovered therefore, that we have no
democratic constitution. By the Hawk
eyes reasoning, every constitution Of every
State Of the Union or nearly all Of them,
have turned out to be anti-democratic, for
they have, if we mistake not, all, or near
ly all, been amended, because it became
necessary to the subsequent welfare of the
State Yet we never dreamed, nor did
any scakefL man, ever dream, that there
fore they were anti-democra.ic! Indeeds
their very democracy consisted in this, Ina,
in each Of these constitutions provision was
made for their future alteration or amend
ment. They were always subject to tn.
will Of the people, whenever they wished
to amend them. Yet the Hawkeye ha.
found that what was SO subject to ths
will Of the people, was anti-democratic.
: sets,sf we may hence learn what ourfed
eral {, iends call anti-democratic. Anything
that the people have the control Of, TO handl,
according to rules Of their own prescription
is anti-democratic! And therefore, an,
thing the people can't control, but what i
sacred to aristocracy, is democratic! OH
wonderful friend Of the people! you are
friend Edwards!
To conclude, zoe soisA all TO notice, tina
the federal press Of this place and else.
where, in Iowa, have two objects in view
BY this new song Of ''no party First
like the cat who looks so heavenly mindeo
on the mouse she is already eating in i'm
lagination, they intend 10 lnll us to sleep anc
get majority in the convention. If they
fail in this, they mean, in the second place
to get a constitution SO loosely framed, thai
provided they can get into power but 70,
one year, they could fasten upon this State
vi'hoa either hope or means Of repeal, al
those cheating institutions that have proves
such curse to the western States. lie
the people see to these things in season
Let US have a convention of sounl demo
crats, for they are the only men republi
can people can safely confide in. 5e
Matters Of interest to Iowa.
i A strenuous effort, in the shape Of petit
tions to Congress, are now making to OBJ
tain an appropriation for the removal O
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