Weekly miners' express. (DuBuque, Iowa) 184?-1849, 1848-02-09
CASE or KINsMAN.

.|yerai Federal papers Of this State, in ref
ference 10 the high handed outrage on
the Constitution, of forcibly ousting Mr..
klnsman, recent member ofthe House,
from the counties Of Polk. Dallas and Jas
per, from his seat, we have been struck
with the remarkable fact, th al. in the con
sideration Of the matter by the House,
, prior to its final action thereon, neither
i Mr.. Hall, the counsel for. Mr.. Kinsnlan,
nor any "locoloco" member Of the House,
could bring forward single substantial
: argument in defence Of the right Of Mr..
Kinsman to his seat, as member. 'Tis
true, parallel cases were cited from the
| Commentaries Of Judge Story, on the
]. Constitution ofthe United States, in which
4 the same principle, in question, was in
I volved. Still, according to Wing logi-
| clans, they were "not to the point" 1t
was only necessary for some such tre-
mendous and gigantic men, intellectually,
i speaking, as Mr.. Sells or Mr.. Morton, to
get up and open their mouths, when es-
tabIlshed preceden,s, together with the
4 futile reasoning Of such minds as Judge
Story's, vanished into nothingness-a
wave otthe hand from a whig was sufi-
Gent to demo!ish any locofoco argument,
if argument in wing charity, il nigh. be
called. The remarks of Mr.. Hall, ac-
cording to Stout of the Herald, who, like
Mr. Clay, we suppose "idolizes truth"
we're "pompous and windy" ofMr
Lefingwell, Glow, vulgar, scurrilous, and
Of the Billingsgate order" This, how
ever is not very surprising, since, be i,
known, the wing party comprise DALI ths
intelligence, alI.he decency.' .a.r4si
But, seriously, with all the brazenness
and effrontery, we know the conceited
and INSCRIPTIONS Stout Of the Herald,
the hypocrilical and unpr'ncipled Ed
wards Of the Hawkeye, to be possessed
Nof, we did not suppose they would lay be-
fore the public such gross misrepresen-
tations Of the Democratic members Of the
House, and gloss over the Ubiquitous con-
duct Of the Wings in the manner they
have. The editor Of the Herald says:
that Mr.. Hall "was. applied to by MIR.
Sells, Of Mnsca,ine, in an efec.ire speech
and more to the point at issue, than that
Of his more pompous Adversary" "Ef-
fective Speech" indeed! "More to the
point" This is the climax Of the redic-t
ulous. Either the arguments of Mr. Hall
we're entirely beyond the capacity Of
Sells, or he had sense enough to know
that i. would DO folly in him to attempt q
reply--for certain it is he did not The
more substantial points Of Mr.. HIS. argu-
ment was not even alluded TO- The po-
sition Of Mr.. Hall with reference TO that
provision Of our Constitution, relative to
the eligibility Of members prior to heir
election, sustained as he was by repeat
edly adjudged cases, was not only unan-
swered but unanswerable. -.
The sum total of Mr.. Sells very "ec-
fective Speech" was, that he had sworn
to support the Cons'IutioD--he had a
regard for his oath conscientious mortal
that he thought the Constitution meant
thus and so. ls--.. w. i
The object, in styling the speech Of Mr.
Lefingwell "a ''nothiny more tn an
stale repetition Of vulgar slang" may be
easily discerned; it is hoped that its ef-
fec. may be thereby weakened, but the
speech, we are informed. is in process Of
publication, and will in due season, speak
for itself. 1t occupied near three hours
in delivery, and was distinguished with
more than Mr.. LIS. usual abili,y--he fear
lessly laid bare the rottenness and cor
rupton-exposed the plottings and mach
nations Of the Wing party, as evinced
in their action upon the case before the
House--he charged home upon them their
wan,on violation ofsacred pledges--their
disregard Of honesty, and their reckless
dete animation TO riie over the Cons.itu-
ton and ~, Tvs; they were truly made
to vince and wrythe bene.... the s''
timed lashings he applied. In comment
ing on the evidence in the case before the
House, Mr.. L. noticed briefly and in
proper manner, that miserable Federal
pimp and eavesdsoper, Warren, who it
seems, is sort Of standing witness for
the Wing party, when il is necessary for
lany thing TO be sworn TO.
But neither arguments nor speeches
were ofavail. From a conclaye Of po-
litical assassins, desperate and determined
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