Iowa capitol reporter. [volume] (Iowa City, Iowa) 1841-1855, 1847-03-03
Not Dead, but speechIess!
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The Standard II silent as the grave up
on the subject q the great Postum Wing
demonstration which, came Of here On the
22d ult. For several weeks in success
sion, that sheet was earnestly engaged in
drumming up for the occasion; and though
we do not reoollect that the editors openly
recommended such dissertation Of the
natal day Of the great and venerated
Washington, yet it is well known that ev-
er since the 9Th Of January, design had
been very generally entertained BY the
leading federalists, 10 prostitute that sa-
cred day to their unholy party purposes.
Old Hawk, (hog,) in his editorial corr
respondence, in speaking Of the prepare
tory meeting, said that since the Wings
had been deprived Of particina.;..-.. u,
'he eeleefa''0 =, tne eighth, they were
/ determined to have a glorious time on the
twenty. second. Immediately after the
eighth, both these wing presses loudly
deprecated the celebration Of such ma
tional days BY political meetings. Fear
ing the effect Of that enthusiastic meeting
Of the democracy, their party strove, a
day or two afterwards, to get up meet
ing 10 counterfeit its influence; but this
proving total failure, they concluded to
defer the matter until the 22d, when they
thought to throw the democracy quite into
the shade.
Flaming hand bills were accordingly
issued from the Standard office, calling
the faithful together, and announcing that
General Zachary Taylor would be noni-
mated as The Wing candidate for the Presi-
dsncy. But, oh tempora! oh mores! how
were the faithful mortified! how were the
genuine long-iailed coons shamed and COW
cred with confusion, when the King Pos
sum, swinging himself clear into the are
ma by his smooth tail, triumphantly mount
ed their hobby and bore of the palm Of
vietoryl How was the puri:anical federal
organ at the capital dulab founded, to soc
McCorty steal the thunder which was to
have terminated the wing party, and turn
it against all parties, the Postum, but not
the wing party, excepted! How were
they all amazed and thunde.-struck, (and
that with their own thunder, too, to find
the wing party at once annihilated ard SUI
pereeded by the Postum party, headed by
McCarty! Taylor was nominated fos the
Presidency, it is true; but with this ex-
sress understanding that, like McCarty,
he .e9onged "a neither party, and had no
principles.
How are me mighty fan>n! Oh, tell it
not in Gath, whisper it net in the streets
OF Askelon men'ion it MOTTO the honest
portionOf the Wig party. l~-A-.-- .~oA.oa
alarmed and SEX refuge in tine harbor of
democracy-')at the wing party Of Iowa
is no more! THAT the principles which
formed its b,sis, are utterly repudiated!-
that the imposing structure is RACED
to the ground-while on its ruins i.
reared party which glores in the eu-
phonious and significant cogncmen of
g Possnm," composed of the cast-ofis and
fag-ends of all parties, and headed by the
most notorious and most universally de-
tested political changeling that ever dis.
graced Gods footstool!
No wonder that the Standard is mute.
We coinmisserate the dependency Of the
editors. They remind US of the paddy,
who, having been Frustrated by the shock
of galvsnio battery, was asked by bis
wife il be were dead? "Ugh, nc, Judy,n
he replied; Sim not dead, but I'm spaich
less"
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