Iowa capitol reporter. [volume] (Iowa City, Iowa) 1841-1855, 1847-06-02

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all knew Congress would refund. He and
the few democrats Of the house urged il
with an eloquence and power that would
have lighted up flame Of patriotism in
any breast where but single spark Of .ha,
virtue was cherished. Again and again
the wings voted down all aid to the Vol
unteers and turned them off with sneers.
reproacles and contempt, under the pre.
text that it was ,cicked and a,cful 10 coun-
tenance and encourage such war! Private
citizens furnished what the legislature
denied, and instead Of the ragged compa.
MES which the wings hoped 10 see dis.
persed. or sent out in restitution to dis.
honor the state, the regiment was landed
in Mexico better equipped and disciplined
than any volunteer corps that had preced.
ed them, and at their head was the gallant
Col. Gushing, whose resolutions the whies
had voted down, and wl.o ia nnu.-,arnmot.
ed to the rank Of brigadier general.
At the same time ia vote Of thanks
to Gen. Taylor end his gallant army for
their splendid victories, proposed by dem
ocrats. YVES uoted doDn BY the wings, and
the men Tho periled their lives for their
country were denounced as cut threats,
plunderers and assassins
The governors message was sent to .
committee to get up an abolition anti-war
report. They prepared one as full Of Bit
teyness toward the President and all en-
gagged in the war, as was Shimei when he
met king David with his army at Bahurim,
and cursed him as a murderer and wick
ed monster, and threw stones at him -
But The report was held back to wait the
political issue, in order that these peace
men in war might see whether they could
not make political capital on the ether side
of the question. There was danger that
the Mexican war would become too popu-
lar. The editor of the Atlas, who was
chairman Of this committee, after filing
his paper from the storehouse of vitupera-
ton in the Reyes report, and himself pre-.
pairing resolutions of utter denunciation
against the war, suddenly came to pause.
The wings were hunting for an available
candidate, and who knew but that killing
Mexicans il this "unjust, criminal and
nefarious war" would be the most available
qualification for a whig candidate for the
presidency
Then came the splendid achievements
at Buena Vista; and Mr.. Boutwell,, g dem
ocyat, eAered in the House, resolutions Of
thanks to General Taylor and the gallant
spirits Re had SO gloriously led to victory.
They were sen: to the committee on the
militia, headed by Col. Schouler; aye, the
very committee that mad refused to give
pair of stockings to the Massachusetts, vol
unteers, and would have rejoiced to have
had them sent to Mexico as ragged and
shirtless as Falstaff's regiment
That committee hung back and refused
to report until Mr.. Hayden's committee
should report on the governors message
denouncing the war.
By accident joint order got through
the House requiring Mr.. Hayden's. com
nitsee to report, but by the Intervention
of the committee itself, that order was laid
on the table in the Senate, and in tina, way
the leaders hoped to smother the matter.
But in the meantime, the conscience wings,
who had put all the talent of their best wri-
tiers into the Reyes report, began to push
up that denunciatory report in Mr.. Hay
denis committee, and the few democrats in
the House pushed the militia committee to
say yes or no on Mr.. Boutwell's vote Of
thanks to Gen. Taylor. The " cotton "
wings were in trouble. If they turned
round now and stopped denouhcing the
war, the conscience" wings would 20
over to the abolitionists. If they brought
in the Reyes report, or refused to thank
General Taylor, they might mar the beau-
tifully moral and consistent plan of getting
presidential candidate out of the popu-
lari'y of the Mexican war, ard the Mas
sachusetts leaders would stand no chance
of favor from such candidate!
And now we have the precious results
Of this charming stats Of harmony in p4in-
ciples, morals and consistency in the whig
ranks. Mr.. Hayden refuses to report at
al from his committee on the governors
message against the war, and pockets his
denuneia.ory resolutions. Mr.. Reyes.
one of The committee, conscience !"
whig, walks into the House with his
Mimei report, and, in spite Of the chair-
man, gets it recognised and ordered to be
printed, and thereupon Mr.. Hayden re-
signs and walks out oftbe committee!
AT the same time, the gallant Colonel
Sthouler, Of the militia committee, driven
into corner, has at last fired off his .Mr-
lean gun. tits marvellous piece Of po-
li,ical artillery, which these wing engi-
neers have manufactured. The breech is
in the middle, With double touch hole,
and when touched of, it fires both ways,
backwards and forward the kick back
wards being designed to do the mo. se-
cution. Three of the cannisters, in he
form Of resolutions, are filled with all
manner of missiles to fire off against the
war, and two are charged with combus-
tibles to lnflame the patriotism of the PEG.
pie fer the war, and in case G General lay
Tor should be the wing candidats) for the
country's brave defenders And Gun.
ningest of all. the piece is so con.ri, ed
that it can be detached in the middle, and
the american half be sent TO General Ts.-
Tor, and the .Nerican half TO Santa Anna;
both of which services our patriotic gov
ernor will doubtless perform with great