Iowa capitol reporter. [volume] (Iowa City, Iowa) 1841-1855, 1848-01-26
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g 4 M ,E..rm.s, having been called upcr
~ tbe audience, arose and addressed tn !
meeting as follows: aisasg 1a as9ilsssas
Mr. President and Fsllo,u siizens:.asi The
present is Almost important crisis. W. 'er
The whole people are asitsted by national
m,,ters Of Tremendous importance;--wher
the mass Of the people are divided INTO
political parties, and these parties arc
ihreatensd with Subdivision by factions,
Il behoovcs us to reeur TO the otdapottf.-
ec,l landmarks and see where we stand.
Democracy, as | understand it, as biased
nm tho imlnutable principles that were'en.
grated into man BY the great Author yo
.Ris existence, and which can never be
changed The right and capicity of man
for se,f-eoyernmenti -the right to- think
and act Independently Of Others -Athe alb
solute sovereignty Of the people over prop
erty, and the 5soyreignty Of mind over ev-
nv thinp; these, existtin the, very nature
Of man. and must of necessity live with
his existence, Theseaaimmutable princi-
nles form the hasisIof tho great creed aof
Democracy. Whatever ~ opposed To this
is federal. federalism n1eans,i opposition
to the rights and sovereignty of the people.
Our creed can never be changed. but mat.
ters Of policy are continually changing.
What was policy once may not be policy.
now, Circumstances may have 50 chang.
ed tina. matters Of policy which werefad,
yoca,ed thirty and fifty years ago. ~ the
great apostles Of liberty and democracy,
are not now matters Of policy. only ask
myself whether they are, nop right and
whether they now conflict with my unal-
terable creed. Hence ! am progressive.
democrat. While my creed is unchange-
able my matters Of policy progress TO keep
pace with The age. s,a,asyz ss,s.4 siI
A. tariff for neutrality-suspicious. to
the tariff of l8l6-opposition 10 the In
dependant Treasury; opposition tothe war,
and opposition to the present administers.
ton, are the issues which the federalists,
by their resolutions and speeches, in this
Hall on the 9th inst, have made for the
next political campaign. And on the war
VIZ have most Singular anomaly, By
the federal papers Of the east we are told
that the son Of Mr.. Webster is at the head
Of a company of.yolunieers! bound to- the
seat Of war, by his fathers appreciation; and
while the son Of Henry Clay is rushing
on to deeds of yaior and everlasting re-
nown on the battle field, we hear. his fath-
er exclaim 81 have thought thai l would
ask the President fora nook or corner in
the army that might Jayenge the wrongs
Of ny country, for perhaps ! too might
Stay Mexican and while the words are
warm on his lips, these same men are
told by Corwin their sons sre a bandit Of
robbers and pirates, and the echo. Of the
federal press says they have gone TO loaf
and prowl and steel in Mexico. Next Mr..
Webster declares that 1--WE had just
cause for war with Mexico when this war
was commenced" and then says. let NJ. ]
Polk make out a case for continuing the
war tefore any more supplies "re grant
ed, and Mr.. Clay repeats this Webster
thunder, And when the President,
makes out his case by giving the. same
reasons which Mr.. Webster said, existed,
and the very wrongs which Mr.. Clay de-
sired 70 redress by staying a Mexican
when the whole federal party1is confoun-
ded and stands sghast, Just at, this critical
moment new luminary bursts upon them
"a SrAnR Of the frs: magnitude peeps
into their vision and lights up their woful
countenances withthe wonderful discovery
atthese causes for war never existed and
t hat we have no wrongs to redress While
listenedto his powerful harrangue and saw
withwhat zest his federal audience caugh,
the inspir alton and cheered him cn to des-
peration, and when REFLECTED that the A
'nerican flag at the top Of the Capital no
longer aoated over them, I could but ina
CINE that I was in one ofthe halls of Mon
,aznma listening to a most earnest and eff
fectual appeal Of the Mexican Attorney
General e a packed jury Of fu,l blooded
Mexicans. - ~. -. -. =. :.
AS a jgrist, shollar, advocate and gen
tleman Mr., Starr, is second to none. He
is emphaticaly one of the ablest and NEST
ingenious men Of his party il, the State.
But with his political opinion, j, do meta
gree. | believe his. positions are at war
with facts and history: Bat as 1 am 80
miles from home and my, books, i must
speak from recollection. As to the Mex
lean spoila,ions, they were neither com.
mltted before the independence Of Mexico,
nor before our treaty with that nation in
1879 or 1891. Three cases, only, were
before 1922. There are 95 cases of:com-
plant on record at Washington, and from
80 to 40 of which were before 1882; rs
were since Dec, 2, 1885, 10 were in
1886; 6 were in l843, and the last IN I8-
40. The cases do not include the robinc
Of our ministers, Shannon. and Gushing,
nor the cowhiding Of our Consul; either
OF which cases is just cause for war. Nor
We're these outrages blythe people end not
the government, as Mr.. Starr said. Our
citizens have been inprisoped and made
TO dig IN their mines, they have been man