Burlington hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1845-185?, 1846-07-30
The Constitution and a State Co.
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vote IN tavor OF Convention to form
Constitution. By large majority they
resolved to remain as they were. The |
party leaders and expectan,s of Office un'
der the national and State governments
were not satisfied; they had the decency |
however. to wal, until August. 1912. be.
fore they again called upon the people 10
vote in favor Of State government; and
although the vote was required 10 be rira
roce. yet the people again determined
tina, they would not seek admission into
the Union.
Greatly mortified at their repeated
failures to compel the people to yield to
their wishes these anxious expectants pass
ed third bill through the Legislature 10
take the sense of the people on the calling
of convention to form constitution; and
again thay resolve the vote shall be ciUa
uoce. In April. 1874, at the township
elections. when very small vote was
taken, there appeared small majority in
favor Of convention. In August dele
gates were elected, and in November
constitution was formed. Allseemed now
in proper train 10 crown the eager hopes
Of those who so long had waited for a
sight of the promised land of estate Gov
eminent" Alas! that those hopes should
be wi,hered in the bud. The proffered
constitution is rejected as thing too vile
to be touched.
The vote upon this instrument in April
ls45, ought to have satisfied its most
devoted friends, shat their bantling was
s,ill-born. But in desperation at the
defeat of all their pa,ernal hopes, they
resolve to adopt course of all others. for
wise men. the most foolish and suicidal.
Not satisfied to suffer the dead 10 sleep in
peace and be decen,ly buried, the attempt
is made by means Of the Legislature that
met in May. ls45, to breathe into the
lifeless and defunct body of rejected
constitution, the breath of life. 1t i:
again, at the bidding, and TO satisfy the
longing appe.i,es Of party leaders, sub
mitted to the votes Of the people, ant
instead Of being permitted to vote by bal
, 10. in the established mode, as they hat
before done in April. they were required
to vote uira uoce, as if there was lea
tina. some members of the party woul'
no! obey party orders. This submitting
dead and rejected constitution again T.
the people, with the hope of forcing
down their throats by unwearyifg impor
,unity, was the best evidence that coul
0 be desired that the authors of such
? scheme had no object in view but tn
j qualification Of their selfish desires-ne
9 the good Of the people and the Territory
: 1, is matter of pride that the efforts c
f these designing men met with so sign:
). discontinue last August. The peopl
f then administered a rebuke to officia
dcta,ion and interference that will lon
be remembered by those who have p,
their spirit and patriotism to such sever
trials.
r From this brief review of the efforts
/. designing and intriguing men TO force tn
d people 10 adopt an odious and objections
). BILE constitution, and the indifferent success
d with which those efforts were crowned
:, we were led to suppose that the who
h matter would have been suffered 10 re-
lie until the people themselves should max
10 some movement, indicating that the
is were tired of Territorial form Of 90
e eminent, and anxious to enter the Unto
D. as an Independent. State, with willing
ness TO take upon themselves all the re
X possibilities and duties which such
x. change Of condition must necessari
r. impose. But it was not the design Of Il
re office-seekers to suffer things so to renal
|. These political quacks had found, as the
r. supposed, willing and profitable pa,ier
TO and the patient was TO be dosed ad hbitu,
lit with all the vilainous compounds co
tanned in the loco foco laboratory. 4
n, sooner is one Of their prescriptions !
jected by the nauseated stomach Of Il
er people, than their ready zeal furnish
re another, until between boluses and bla,
ly draughts, there is some danger that Il
i, political body, defunct and inanima,e, W
nj be handed over to the surgeons for disse
d. ton in the hope Of at last finding out I,
hit disease, which with their vilainous nc
ar trums they have vainly endeavored
he cure.
be There is no evidence to satisfy re
ey sonably liberal man that the people
as, Iowa desire TO GO into the Union, even
las they could do so with constitution e
trely suited to their wishes. They ha