Iowa capitol reporter. [volume] (Iowa City, Iowa) 1841-1855, 1847-01-20
Resolutions Of tile s.ignsl,.

They will appear next week.
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Resolutions of tile Edg;ssla.
After the preamble, the first resolution
calculated 10 excite particular attention, Is
that which passed a JUS enca'ni.tn upon
President Po'k's Message relative to the
war, and concludes as follows .THAr,H
WHO, HAVING READ THAT sxpesIT1oF,
STILL PERSISTS IN rRocLAIMIG his couN.
ray IN THE WRONG, AND ITS ENEMIES
IN THE RIGHT. CAN BE, At HEART, NOME
OTHER THANsA TRAITOR TO THE FORMER
What man whose mind is not soimbued
with the bitterness of party strife as 10
exiingnish the last spark of patriotism,
will controvert this posstions The fede-
ralleaders, while they declare our country
in the wrong, still laud tie brave soldiers
who fight her battles. This is all for
Buncombe--a mere ruse for conceal;ng
their iniquity. They willlesrn, ere long,
that they cannot occupy 81 equivccal po-
sition upon this question--tha: those who
are no, for their country. ale Against it.
and thai. whatever party nay be in pow,
er>.ae people will not toler..s opposition
to their Government, whena. war. The
modern Wings are treading closely in the
Footsteps Of their illustrious predecessors
1.-The tories Of the revolution ard Of the
last war; and the day is rot far distant
when ell tories will be cons dered in the
same odious light, whether OF the revolu-
tioa, ofl8l4, OF of 1861.
The next resolution brands with inamy
the sentiment recently uttered BY Daniel
Wsbe'er-that "a is mol, perhaps, an
.fsserican habit to consider the national jus
tice Of a soar out 1t is al, .1merican hubn
to count TIE COST
The wing rress-ano among others, the I
Hawkeyc and Bloomington Herald--deny
that Webster made use of the above quoted
language, They cay that is false report
Of his speech, But what are the faclss
That speech was G,st reported in the Bos-
ton Atlas, a rsbid Wing journal, containing
the above quoted passage, word for word
When the tide Of popular indignation
rsised against this tory sentiment, then the
editor Of the Atlas introduced an amend
mens TO the speech, and said that it had
been incorrectly reported. But the edit
or o. the Boston Times, who was present
at The delivery OF the speech, asserts
positively that the first report wss correct
that the passage was verbatin, as con
tanned in this resolution. They can not
be permitted TO creep out in this manner.
They cannot shield their "1;od ike from
the brand Of infamy which he merits
Mr.. Webster is among The most psomls
ing wing candidates for The Presidency.
The two next resolutions relate to the
''duplieats retees Of President Polk" and
to appropriations for the Improvement Of
rivers ard harbors. II is needless TO say
that we heartily second the endorsement
Of those vetoes. The people Of the United
States will cordially sustain the President
in his bold stand in defence Of the Consti-
iion BY vetoing that iriquitou log rolling
bill for the Improvement Of rivers and
harbors. BY giving ais sanction 70 items
therein contained, he weuk have pa!pabjy
violated the Constitution.
The position Of the President and Of The
democratic party, is aot agerse 10 appro
priations for improvements Of national
character. An appropriation Tor the i'm
provement of the Rapids in the Mississip-
pi would be clearly within The Cons,itu-
zion, and this the people Of Iowa well I'M
dsrstood when they elected Leffler ard
Hastings to Congress by mora than 800
majority over Hedrick and Mitchell.
We shall continue the review Of these
resolutions in future numbers. In the
nean time. let every man read them again
assentively, bearing in mind the glorious
occasion on which they were adopted
Highly Complementary.
How Hattering TO respectable wings Of the