Iowa capitol reporter. [volume] (Iowa City, Iowa) 1841-1855, 1847-03-03

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conducted in secret, where partiality and
rank injustice might have their fullest
| sway. Failing in his-discovering tina,
it would not do--that public sentimen,
would rsvolt at 1.-THE next movemen,
was, through packed committee, with .
perfectly INSCRIPTIONS chairman, whom
the accused had sworn to be his vind:ctive
personal enemy, 30 to torture and distor
the whole proceedings. as 70 rive. # nos.
slble. to the story q King some appear.
ance Of plsaslbili,y.
Now the undersigned are not going tc
undertake the defence at all of Marshall
in the transaction. Ii he was guilty Of
attempting TO tamper With any one, which
we neither deny no: admit-there is nc
evidence upon the subject to implicate
him except the testimony Of King, and he
contradicts himself so fatty aud so repeat
eddy as to entitle him to no credit what
, ever. why upon bis own head lndivid.
ually the whole odium Of the thing should
rest 1t has not been shown, nor can il
be, that he acted as the agent of another,
or otherwise than for himself alone; and
to attach, therefore, to the democratic par
ty, or to any portion Of it, any stigma for
! such action, is not only impossible, but gan
effort requiring degree OF audaeity which
Nhiggery" only knows how to practice.
As well, nay with infinitely more proprie-
ty and truth, might we charge upon the
whole "Whig'' party the odium which,
justly attaches to King himself for the
d'sgraceful part which he played in the
transaction. Besides directly and repeat
edly contradicting himself in the course
of his examination, as above stated and
tber.,,v renu,r,.ing his assertions of no
value, and his crude and disjointed tale
ridiculous, he went further, nd II he
were to have been believed at ali, showed
quite clearly that it there was any bribing
about it he was not an unwilling party in
the game.
Indeed, if the whole testimony in the
case is ever tru'htully reported by the
packed federal majority of the committee
ofinvestigation, it will show much worse
case made out against King than against
Marshall (though, as before remarked, we
seek not to defend the latter); and with
this convir'ion we are entirely content to
leave you TO decide upon it.
Another subject to which we would
specially call your attention, as evincing
the spirit which actuates the federal party,
mere as elsewhere, Is ti,ui. ----i---s--.:si,
reference to certain resolutions introduced
into the Legislature with regard to THE
WAR NOW EXISTING BETWEEN THE UNI
TED STATES AND Mexico.
Those resolutions, brought forward by
democratic member of the Senate, APP
proved of the conduct Of cur government
in relation TO the war, and expressed the
opinion tina: it should be prosecuted with
vigor.
And how were they met by the federal,
ALIAS "Whig'' members of the Senate?
Were they promptly accedsd TO, and pass
ed as they should have been, by the vote
of every Senator, if they had acted as
patriots, instead Of following the lead Of
others in the East? No! far from it
rery FIR from it! They were met at the
very threshold by the federal members,
with an opposition as vindctive and per-
severng, as it was fortunately ampotet.
Rldicule was attempted to be cast as we'll
upon the resolutions, as upon those who
advocated lhen-and upon the govern
ment Of our country; while language was
used that might well, indeed, be consid-
cred as intended to give "aid and comfort
to the enemy" if he had been within the
reach Of the voices Of the speakers With
equal truth and severity, was the remark
made by one OF the democratic members,
in his defence of the resolutions, that
Santa Anna had better be informed by his
Wing friends, that there was glorious
opening for him here, Judging from the
tone and spirit of the remarks of the
Wings, to drum up for recruits for The
.Ha1ican amy!
Well, after all the storm Of opposition
that was waged against the resolutions,
what was The result? Did the federal
members dare to record their votes against
them without quaking in their shoes? No!
Some of them at least did not for when
i. came to the voting they skulked from
the Senate chamber, aud sought to avoid
the responsibility of recording their votes!
Conduct like this surely needs no COM
ment. 1t speaks for itself!
Passed with the votes of every demo-
cratic member Of the Senate in their fay or,
and sent from thence to the federal House
of Representatives, what was the reeep-
ton given to them in that body? Met, as
in the Senate, with deter mined spirit of
opposition, they were warred upon to the
knife, land the knife to the nit," by the
federal members; followed by an effort to
weary out the patience Of the minority,
and thus 70 kill them of" by refusing
to allow them to be taken from the table,
where il was intended to let them 'ssleep
the sleep of death y
In this, however, liberalism, as it has
often done before, '.reekoned without its
host" Determined that our young State
should not be thus dissraced, morning
after morning melton was made by
democratic member 10 call the resolutions
up from the table; until finally the feder-
alists, instead Of wearing out the patience
Of their opponents, became wearied out
themselves. and suffered the resolutions to !