Bloomington herald. [volume] (Bloomington, I. T. [Iowa]) 1840-1849, 1848-01-29

rested upon The House and the audience like
The spirit Of peace upon the troubled waters
c,,m;no Them dawn TO reason and considerate
thought.
silence ensued for few minutes, when
Mr.. Cochran arose and read paper TO the
House CONFERENCE.-The reasons for the vote he
was about 10 give. Again the House sat qui'
e,,y for a minute or TWO. Mr.. Clifton was
here seen 10 arise from his seat and address
The chair The old man had listened with ab'
sorbing attention to the debate on yesterday
and 10. day, and no one knew positively now
he wonld vote. The excitement was here at
its lntensis, height. What would he say. and
what conclusions would he come to after AL
ha, had been said upon the subject!-was
question that every person presented to MS
| own mind. Every member and every one OF
the audience turned towards the Speaker 10
listening attitude. His position was defined
10 plain and appropriate common sense
speech, and at This moment every one OF the
| Wing CONSTITUTIONAL PARTY, whether mem
hers or auditors brealhed !reer and easler--he
would vote agains, the legality Of the seat ct
the members from the Polk, Dallas, Jasper
and Marion district. This settled the ques-
tun This decided the fate of the constitution
i, was preserved, sustained. protected. me
sworn guardians Of tho House stood by the
fundamental law. All is safe.
At this crisis the contoriions ard agony OF
I.ocofocoism manifested itself in writings
like that Of wounded serpent. The color
Ief, the faces Of the aspifants and their blood
ran back towards he seat Of lis circG !a'lon IN
teG and curdled nils. Locofocols SIN exhibit
cd it's cameIion nature and became green and
bleer eyed monster. Their tricks had failed.
The purpose for which they had met in eau
Gus but two DAYS before, which rasu'ted in the
nomination Of Espy of Lee county, as Chief
Justice, had been foiied by The consclen ious
course of one man. Tha, man was JOSIAH
CLIFTON. They had nomination Espy for
The purpose Of influencing his vote on the con.
tested seat. Now that the result Of the con :
tested righ. is known, they have revoked the
nomination Of Espy, and turned him over TO
Possnmry. Having 70 sincerity themselves
they have been paid n the loss OF self respect
and The abasement of detected deceit has over.
taken them in their career of political ifeach-
cry. Clifton saw through The bate the hook
that was to work his ruin and scorned the IN.
holy and poisoned alliance. Conscience be-
inn the monitor Of an honest man he naturally
needed its warning and respected is require
menis Let me here repeat the constitution
is safe. Locofucoism was permitted to gojns
far enough to show lis hideous form and fall
into the trap it had Sc, for the people Of Iowa
There is little danger that there will ever be
another effort to secure the attendance of ar
linerant Representative in the halls of the
House Of Representatives,, or 10 the Senate o
Iowa. If there is one principle more dea
than another 10 an American, il is a responsible
Representatives government. That !esponst
) bilily was sough, TO be destroyed by the part,
to whom the oaves and fishes were of NOR
y avail than the liberties and interests o: tn
; people. will put case in point. Or. Da
Wis. whose seat was retained in the Senate b,
drilled party majority has settled himself a
Keokuk in Lee county. Having been elects
to represent, the district composed of WapeIl
D and Monroe counties, in the Senate. he, at til
!, las, session, advocated the wishes and int
i ests of the people of those counties. Il,
a having removed and allied himself to the il
l. .eres,s Of another portion Of the State he as
a duly bound-being in fact representative
r. from keokuk- advocated all the measure
II which the people where he now resides des
r ed. They are in favor of changing the De:
1t moine improvement fund into railroad fun
?, stopping the work on the river and built
e inc a railroad. The people Of his old distrl'
re are in favor of, and anxious to have the in
IS provement of the river continued. From III
r latter district his friends claimed that he hel
n his seat. May ask how it is ,ha. he he
l. represented their interests! | answer, by d.
Of ing every thing they wished him NOT to d.
to and doing nothing they wished done. No
d if the Locofoco doctrine is true the people
N his old dis,rc, have no remedy but must sui
At nit to bear with representative who is in I
f wise connected with them in any name
and who is now, and has been Ever since
ef. them, doing all he could against the
!" wishes. Such is Locofocosm. in this our da
r Is this the course Of Democratic COVE.
20 ment! Is this Democracy, or anything Ill