Iowa capitol reporter. [volume] (Iowa City, Iowa) 1841-1855, 1847-01-06
supnrcssa~n 0f the Message.

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sheet truly observes, tho general perusal
Of such = lucid and mastery State paper
As President Folks last message, super
cedes the necessity Of any argument in
yindicalion ofthe policy d his admins.
traiion. The editor Of the Statesman,
however, is quite out Of his reckoning as
regards the Wing press of this State.
He has little conception Of the ruthless.
ness and virulence Of federalism in Iowa.
! True, it il : universal custom else-
where for the press, irrespective Of par.
ty, to lay the executive messages before
their readers, with editorial comments in
accordance with the political views Of the
respective conductors. But It were vain
to look for any such liberality on the part
Of Wing editors il Iowa--vain 70 expec.
from them The observance Of usage by
which the antidots 10 the venomn Of their
cowardly tory sssanis upon the admins.
tration, might SO forth with The bane.
The Burlington Hawkeye, Blooming
ton Herald, and Dubuque Tribune have
all declined publishing the message. while
their denunciations against The administrs-
ton on account Of tho Mexican war, are
even more unreasonable and virulent than
before, Indeed, we do not recoliect having
seen that document published in more
than one Of orr Wing papers. The Dew
export Gazette, 10 lis honor be il spoken,
gave the message to its readers, entire
and ungarbled. II the editor Of the
Des Moines Valley Wing has had the can
dor and independence to give It place
in his columns, ithas escaped our notice.
The Iowa City Standard, up to the
present time has published no portion, ex-
cept it may be some garbled extracts, Of
the Message. The omission may, how
ever, be attributable to the fact that no pa
per was issued from that office last week.
We hope that this week the message may
appear in the Standard. We trust that
our neighbours Of the Standard, however
violent their political predictions may
be, will rot cvince such disregard for
truth, such an unmanly and cowardly
spirit, as to suppress the Message, while
they bitterly denounce the President and
the whole policy Of his adminisira ion.
The Hawkeye, Herald and Tribune
nave each published few garbled ex-
tracts from the Message, and without
giving their readers an opportunity to
Judge for themselves Of it's merits, have
passed unqualified condemnation upon il.
They dare no, allow their readers to form
their own conclusions with reference to
The vitality important Subjects embraced in
lha: document, but assume 10 themselves
the province Of thinking for the mass Of
the Wing party. They fear to present
the truth as it is 10 the public. "They
love darkness rather than light, because
their deeds are evil" The advocates Of
bad cause always sKun tie light Of .,...h.
The whig press throughout the Union
have taken sides with our enemies, and
have endeavored TO prove that the United
States has no title TO the territory between
the Neuc cs and Rio Grande. They have
exrrted all their ingenuity in order 10
prove that the onus of the war is wholly
on orr side that our government is in
the wrong, and the Mexican government
in the right. And now that the Presi-
dent has given plain historical nara.
tive Of all the circumstances leading TO
the war, faithfully detailing the grievan-
ces mhich we have so long endured at her
hands, her fragrant violation Of solemn
treaty stipulations, and her commence
ment Of hostihties By the murder Of Amer
lean citizens without formal declara-
ton Of war--clearly proving, also, our
right to the territory which she claims
north Of the Rio Grande, and showing
that not this, but her insolcnt pretensions
to the RICH. Of soil aud jurisdiction over a
whole State Of this Union, is the rea, bone
Of contention. these slanderous tory or
CANS dcggedly refuse 10 give place in their
columns 10 the facts and the proof addu-
ced BY the President, in support Of the
position which our government occupies
before The world. This is tacit &C
Acknowledgements on their part, that Mr..
Folks position is invalnerable and hi.
arguments incontrover,ible, andthat their
only defence against the flood Of light
thus thrown upon the subject oithe Mex
lean war;, consists in preventing the
spread d that light by suppressing the
publication Of the message. We commits
crate the condition Of those honest wings
whose sole dependence for political infor-
nation is upon such presses.