Weekly miners' express. (DuBuque, Iowa) 184?-1849, 1849-02-27
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M. Editor:-It was not our intention.
when we penned the brief notice which
appeared in last weeks paper, to have
extended much farther our notice Of the
Wing Address. But we have changed
our mind, and are determined to glance
at few moro Of it's ''beauties."
We wish it we'll understood by our
readers, that VIC arc not aggressors. but
the aggressed, war, (or words) open. I'M
provoked war, has been carried into our
political househo|d; our principles have
been attacked, our motives miscons1rued
and our acts ridiculed and condemned.
We belong to the Democratic party; we
love the principles which govern that
party, and stand ready and proud to de-
fend them, when attacked by ruthless
hands without. or insidious enemies with
in. And why should we not love the
principles of that party? Arc they not
glorious and great, adapting themselves
alike to the high and the low. the rich
and the poor, the learned and unlearned?
Guarded and protected by them, we have
seen this mighty nation, this happy peo-
pie, our own Fa.herland, grow, and in
crease, and cXpand-a terror 10 some,
an experiment to other, and to millions
beacon-light of hope. We have seen our
noble armies, animated with, and sustain
ed by, the united voice and action Of the
Democratic party: hasten with lightning
speed across the ocean wave, and track
less wastes Of distant lands, TO vindicate
the nations honor? We have no regrets
to make, no apologies to offer, in behalf
Of our principles; they have stood the test
Of time, have been attacked, and surroud-
ed--covered with the dust and smoke Of
the battlefield, but never vanquished.
To Judge from the hollow-toned wall
ings of this Wing Address, one would al
most imagine that Democracy was a sort
cannibal, a live man-cater, body and bones
Disconso|ate representatives Of Whigge-
ry in Iowa! What a wo-begone time Of
it you must have had! How much you
endure for the "dear people and Whig-
CRY! Sure, a Virgil should sing your
praises, and a Cicero extol your courage
| But, you have weathercd it out,-have
returned "to the plough and the sheaf,"
there to beguile your griefs and assuage
your sorrows, by harping (and publishA
ing) upon imaginary wrongs and studied
(abricalons. But why did you not flee
from that unhoIy alliance, that "unscru.
pulous" ma ority? Could you not, at
least, have resigned your seals, and saved
to the Stale a few hund reds which were
paid to you, and which you say we're
squandered away. Or could you not have
donated to the State portion Of tina:
time, which the Address says was worse
than no legislature at all?
This Address, it would seem, according
to Wing authority, is an erpose Of the
proceedings Of the Democratic members
Of the late General Assembly. What in
huence it will exert, or what good it will
effect for Whiggery, remains yes to be
seen. We apprehend no serious damage
to the Democratic party, and ifprorerly
considered, may be Of service to it. One
thing is quite apparent, and that is, that
those Wing members were opposed to
every thing that was done, &C cry act
that was passed by the Democratic me,n-
bers; nothing seems to have pleased or
satisfied them. Opposition. opposition,
was the order Of the day. Whiggery or
opposition! But, we do not much wonder
at this; Whiggery is Of such spacious d.
mansions, SO GLAZED wish It's own great
ness aud omni potrnce, as TO be inca pa bic
Of approaching any good, ema mating from
an opposite thinking party; hence the
disafection Of those Wing members: they
are loud in their denunciations of Demo
Gratis, for being welded to party meas
u:es, but blind as bats when it applys to
themselves. They pretend to have taken
their seats in the Assembly, as the Rep
resentatives Of the peope-taIk loudly
and largely in the address, about the
rights Of the people,-yet we find, after
all, with all their staggering and boast
ing, that their entire Legislation consisted
in opposing the very measures which The
people: (the majority wanted, and did
actually accomplish. But we trust the
people Of Iowa at least have long since
learned the principles and motives that
actuate the Wing party;-discovered the
rottenness and hypocrisy that turks be-
meath ;-po7cer, rule, and dictation is the
end and aim Of that party; give it these,
and it is satisfied; --give it these, and
banks, corporations, and privileged mo-
nopolies will ride rough-shod over the
people, the working masses. What state
is that, in which laborers on the railroad
are now on "strike" for refusing to
work 10 hours day for IS cents? Three
dollars and siaty cents per week, for a la
boring man, who works 10 per day.!
What State is it, ask? 1t is the Wing
State Of Connecticut-aye, the Wing
State Of Connecticut, let it be repeated.
Thank God, the people Of Iowa, so far,
have kept the monster at bay; our hard
listed yeomanry and mechanics have
Frustrated him to the earth, and trodden
him under foot, as reptile that would
destroy their very vitals. Whiggery
will never triumph in Iowa, SO long as
the people are unwilling to be kicked and
cuffed about by mcrciless rulers and die.
tators.
"By what RIGHT Of tenuren nsks this