Iowa capitol reporter. [volume] (Iowa City, Iowa) 1841-1855, 1847-09-22
A Word upon the Character aud
and Course Of tie Standard and

and Course Of tie Standard and
H:wkeye.
In country where, as in our own, SO
large and free latitude is allowed4 the
Press, and where its potency for good or
i'll is only measured, regulated ant! cir
cumscribed by the talents, character and
energy Of its conductors, it is both neces-
sary and proper that the community should
DO we'll informed in relation to those who
weld this mighty engine. Un!sss this is
The case, i, is NANTES, that evil may result
from it. abuse; but when the general
character for veraci,y, together with the
motives Of writer, il bad, are well I'M
derstood and considered, his influence up
on the public mind mus, be comparative
~ small, and its amount will be circum-
.cribed by the proporlionate immortality of
the material in the public mind which he
seeks to operate upon and still further
10 poison.
In viev-octhe. foregoing considerations,
we propose 70 say few words upoE the
course Of the senior editors Of the Stand
ard and Hawkeye, the two leading oppo-
sition organs Of this State. In doing so,
we have only time incidentally 10 touch
upon their conduct previous TO the last
election, and then 10 pass on and allude to
their present course.
And first, then, we would remark upon
the Jaise issues which they have ever at
tempted TO place before the public, only
one Of which we will notice, both as H.
Illustrating their character Tor veracity and
also their unscrupulousness as to the
means to be employed in the accomplish
ment oil their designs. As far back as the
meeting Of The first Convention for the
formation of Constitution, these journals
called the democrats the "lnfdel party"
and charged them with incorporating inf
del doctrines in the constitution. This
they followed up with similar charges,
pending the adoption Of The second con>ti-
tuition, since which. and within the recol-
lection of all our readers, we have seen
at least one Them loudly denouncing the
democratic candidate Cor one of our highest
state Offices, as the 'iniiGel candidate and
bhh of them Invoked the aid of the
which they accomplished. This lying and
contemplate game they are now playing
at intervals, and 40 longer ago than last
week, the Standard directly and unequiv-
ocally charges, that when the constitution
Of Iowa was framed, ''no Christianity'
was one Of the tests Of democracy. This
the editor adduces as an argument for al
l.Iing that instrument. Thus have .hey
attempted TO raise ties. which, ii fully
carried out and acted upon, as they sought
to carry it out, could have resulted III
nothing short of union of Church and
State.
With this slight notice we pass over the
political history of the three past years.
which, Oh the part OF the above named
journals, is history of gross misrspre-
sention, prevericatinn and SANDER charg-
ed by the one and backed UP and rei;-
Grated by the other. The details, evenh had
we time TO enter into them, are too sick
ening and uninviting as the lacts are too
well impressed upon the minds of our
readers to render it necessary. We will
now notice the last number Of each Of
these journals:
The senior Of the Standard, in the last
number of that sheet, among a number OF
manifest ab>urdities and falsehoods such
as tina, the people Of Iowa are net oppos-
ed to Banks that majority of them are
not democrats, &c.-.asserts that the peo
pie OF this State are opposed to the war
and that ''lhe democrats themselves would
give the millions which the war has cost,
il they could say" out with the damned !
spot" 1t is not for us TO comment upon
the lying and traitorous depravity OF the |
above, and we leave our readers to form
their owR conclusions as to the character
Of the writer and of the proper estimate
which ought 10 attach TO his testimony upl
Oh lher subjects.
The last Hawkeye comes to us with |
nearly two columns Of personal abwse Of
The editor Of the Burlington Gsze,te.-
And here we must be allowed TO remark, I
hat Of all personal newspaper attacks which
we ever saw made, this Of the Hawkeye !
excefs in the understandable means used,
as well as on the account To which this |
and sonlless editor endeay-
prs to apply them. We're this the frs,
instance o! the kind which has come IN