Iowa capitol reporter. [volume] (Iowa City, Iowa) 1841-1855, 1847-12-29
Proposed Alliance.--A Hare
Chance.

Otlf readetS oil know how violently we
have ben denounced BY the federal press
d this state.as sHprogressive radical, q
barn burners an agrarian, leveller and .
destructive. Long and loud have they
rung their changes upon our imGuted herr
esies, and illuminated the lh:unders. Of their
wrath against our ar.dacity in daring TO
pluck the monstft hoary headed Error by
the beard. With creed embracing eve
rythlnrs at war with the sanctity of vested
rs,hts, everything most repngnsnt to the
conservative ideas Of our federal oppo.
nents. everything most dangerous TO their
cherished ideas for enriching the few by
impoycrishing the many creed that not
only lops Oft the branches, but strikes at
the very root Of class favoriteism and pros
crip,ive tyranny that menaces those her.
editary abuses, the relics Of ancient feder-
alism, whose perpetua,ion is their chief
so'icituae-.hat asserts the rights Of labor
against the privileges ofcapital. and threat
ems the annihilation ofevery barrier to that
political equality which is the chief terror
Of tyrau,s and public plunderers with
such creed, we have been held up to the
world as a most impious and dangerous
hereto, and for three years, nave withs,ood
an incessant, if not CALLING fire from the
park ftheir whole artillery.
Adapting their forked tongues 20 the
strains Of fulsome flattery, they have APP
pealed TO the mass Of the democracy 10
abjure our detested "locofoco doctrines s. -
as highly detrimental to the public inter
es!s and fransht with danger to our free
institutions. In this work, no one has
been more oficious or busy than the Bur
lington Hawceye. Il has become stere-
otyped declaration with that sheet, that
nine tenths of the democrats Of Iowa are
opposed to the "ruinous hard-money and
free-trade doctrines of the locofoco pro-
gressives." Perhaps hundred times
within the past year, it has asserted that
the Reporter, by advocating those doe
trines, was driving numbers from the
democratic party Into the wing ranks.
But the democracy have uniformly raj
lied in solid column to tie support of their
cherished principles, carrying and spikiug
the batteries of federalism at each success
sive charge. And after all this, what do
we see? Why, this same Hawkeyce comes
round and makes direct proposition to
bury the old fued and form an alliance
with whom? Most likely, says The rea-
der, with those " HON that sheet has hyp-
ocritically bepraised as the s'true demo-
cracy," in con'radis,inction to the "lpco.
focos Its ideal ssconservative demo.
Gratis" whom disordcred Imagination has
arrayed in opposition to the democratic
creed. Oh no; not with these; the ALI.
ance which it proposes is with the objects
Of its most inveterate hatred, those focofoco
pregressives ard barn.burners! Start
not, gentle reader; il is even SO. But, lest
the fact should appear incredible, we sub.
join the proposition, as made officially in
the Hawkeye Of last week. Here i, is:
"Ba,n Burners and Old Hunksrs. This
question, which is agitating The Iocofoeos
all over the country, must receive the de.
liberation Of the democrats in Iowa. The
Wilmot Proyiso has representatives here,
as well as in New York. On this ques-
tion such prominent democrats as Judge
Mason, Gen. Van Ant Herp and Col. Hemp
stead. are in opposition TO Gen. Dodge,
Judge Wilson and others. II the wings
can't do better, it may be thought best TO
unite with those who will commit them
selves against an extension of slave terri
tory - in other words, with the Baruburn-
ers." t
And this to US Barnburners, who have
SO long rested under the ban of,his federal
orcle Ought we not 10 jump at such
liberal proposition? What generosity =
Rising superior to political prejudices,
his eyes to past elimination and
recrimination, swallowing all his gall at
one effort, he msgnanimously takes the
initiatics. offers us full absolution for pas.
offences, and freely makes US an offer OF
This federal organ would consent to re-
gard US as 'respeciable democrats with
out the prerequisite proposed by the Stan
dard, to wit; that we should be "uhig in
everything except the Nance" only requir-
ing conmittal s'sgainst the extension of
slavery" 1t is beyond all doubt the best
offer we shall ever get. a.sa.
But, a truce to bandinsge. With refer
ence to the inces:ons nuplials here pro-
posed, very few words ,:ill suffice. The
character Of the political Baud ei..,ployed
in this business, is so notorious, that We
need not repel the gross insult to the
democrats" named nv the