The miners' express. (Dubuque, Iowa) 1849-1854, 1850-04-24

oR4eCB ON NORTHUMBERLAND SECOND
ega DOOR AIovE THE BANK ,sfttusRi y
& rs B. DIBUQUE: 40 Ials9Is- 81
wEDHEsbAY:s pRII. "A, 1850.
-TDe Members Of tho Democratic Central Commit
,ss u D1bs4us Comfy, will please meet the office Of
~ undsrsssa On Saturday the t inst Aful attend
ancs seqdsssd, business ofiporance will be
aessA5 a9Es Vi aFia d BEN M sAMUELs, Chm
-aa 81 Ss Dsm Central Committee Dubuque County.
ilss bs 81 Whis CoDventionss di sili4s z4Iifs
The agsloinesadve shreds Of all parties who
arc opposed 10 the Republican and Progressive
spirit Of the age, and who are now rallying un-
derthe name Of WHO, have taken the courage
to advance-meet in council, and offer battle to
the Democracy and the people This is Pecu-
liarly the case here in Iowa, where convefi-
ton has been called By the fuglemen Of this
maleamated mass Of old Federalism, blue light
ism, Wilmot provisoism, and all other isms and
ssms which have designated the phases Of Wing
dom.8sigsiiI9 IL ,a3oieES4 esfit Al a4d5faiE7 a5t
The idea ofhoiding . conventional giving
the peoples vote in the choice Of candidates for
offce-has been repudiated by this Wing, party
time and again. Now, that the leaders have
been forced into i compliance with the spirit Of
the age--wiith the spirit Of Democracy, we do
hope that our fellow-citizens among the Wings
will taks some part in the transactions of the
conventions which have been called by the lead
ers,of their party. tf,agaya2 II -En5a9t
va advns them to take this step, because we
are well satisfied that 1 participation in public
proceedings will convince them that the princi-
pies the Democratic purity are the only sure,
safe grounds of political rest, hope and security
for the people, s3pt sto ro,sgaora8
AS democrats, this is all we ask Let the peo.
pie participate in the disciplinatory movements
Of the parties of this State, and let the parties
make an honest avowal of their political princi-
pies, not under the general names of .Whig,"
or Democrat, !" but under the specific measures
and policies by which these parties assume to be
actuated, and we shall abide the result Let
Whigdom be made to avow what it is that con-
stitutesa Wing that has constituted Wing
for the last fifty years; and if, after this avowal,
the people Of Iowa shall say that the principles
ofthis party are thei principles, we shall be COM
PEELED TO believe that this is not progressive,
but a retrogressive age-an age, in which the
people are willing that men, and not principles,
should move the complicated machine of politi-
cal regeneration. ,.c...,&l -,,, u.s. ,y,
I'VE profess to be ofthis progressive age, and
Of this progressive opinion, which believes that
the science Of government has not yet arrived al
perfection, but il progressive in proportion to the
advance of other sciences and true knowledge
As these advance towards perfection, the science
ofgovernment should accompany them, and b.
influenced by their progress. ID , tsA'H@r79.0a
We know that many Of the ancient axioms
the natural sciences are proved by recent de
monstrations to be fallacious-the same nigh
be said Of the political axioms by which the grea
body Of mankind have been governed since thu
patriarchal age. go ~4assgnfab ,.l, .r,-,.
Political science has not kept pace with thu
progress Of civilization during the three centu
ries preceding our times. This is more apparen
in our courts of law, and inthe administration
ofjustce, than in other branches of Political E.
economy. What is called the common law O
England, is the shield and buckler of the lega
absurdities of to-day, as it was when James ruled
BY right divine, or Henry took wives by kingly
prerogative. Every lawyer must learn to be-
ieve that this mass of Inconsistency, absurdity
and injustice is the perfection of legal wisdom,
no matter how inconsistent it may be with Re-
publican theories and institutions. It's text, when
ithas text, and its rules are quoted to iuries Of
freemen to-day as it was delivered by the barons
in their feudal halls to their obedient serfs; and
examples are not wanting even in our own days
when jures have manifested as blind and willing
IN obedience to it's mandates. FL .aav asHr
The spirit Of the age is making clean sweep
Of this last relic of kngly and feudal power, and
We trust that the next General Assembly ofthis
State will manifest to the world that political
science is made a study by the people of this
thriving commonwealth, 7lsy al hyHzirTf a-aH
90 Politics. next to religion, should be studied by
the people, as it is the science by which their
rights as individuals, communities, and nations,
are ascertained and protected, and by the neglect
Of which, they are infringed. By a true appli-
cation Of this science, OF ofthe knowledge which
man learns from this science, his rights are en-
sured: 20, also, BY an ignorance Of this science
he may be wronged without his knowledge, and
injured without redress gti aa4 aah44E
aoi This science was studied by the colonists pre-
syious to the revolutionary war:-the tyranny q
the age compelled them, by sort Of necessity