Des Moines courier. ([Ottumwa] Iowa) 1848-1854, 1850-04-19
Judge NIasOn's Letter to the PcO-
PIE Of POttawatamie County.

HIS oiiSuidT pTOuuCtioH, WHICH we
copy from the last Whig e. Register,
was addressed by the late Chief Justice
to prominent citizen of Pottawatamie
county, and forwarded by the hand Of ].
G. Hall, his associate counsel, for Mr..
Thompson.
The citizens of Pottawatamie county
cannot have forgotten that this same
would-be peace maker has done all 10
his power to prevent them from "re-
ceiving justice" and rob them of those sa-
cred rights, so dear to every American
freeman. He has made long pilgrim
age, compass and staff in hand, and done
all in his power to prove the gratutous
and slanderous charges, made by Mr..
Thompson against this people, in the
most public way to the Congress of the
U. States, true. Upon the person of
this chosen ambassador of the Locofoco
party, too, was found the stolen Kanes-
vile Poll book. And is asserted from
a respectable source. that J. G.. Hall re-
Gently upon oath stated that Mason ad-
vised the rejection of the Kanesville
vote, and the course pursued by the Lo-
cofoco party towards the citizens of Pot
tawatamie county. What must the cti-
lzens of that co. think of such time. SER
wing, cringing sycophancy? And in what
light must all honorable men regard him
and the party for which he acts, in view
of all the foregoing facts.
We doubt not but the Mormon popu-
lation" will fully agree with him in one
thing, to-wit: "That The Locofoco party
have pursued a mistaken policy" Nay,
more; they will go father, aud say that
he and his party have lrampled them in
the dust, and deprived them as far as in
their power lay, of every civil and politi-
cal right guaranteed to them by the Or
ganic law of the State, and the sacred
charter OF American freedom, for the sole
purpose of securing party triumph
and holding on to the spols of Office
But the Judge may rest assured that he
has studied the character of these peo-
pie to but little purpose, if he supposes
they will Subscribe to the charge so bold
ly advanced in his letter, shat they are
equally at FAULT with the Locofocos.-
At fault-for what! What is it Judge!
Is il for acting like freemen, as they had
a right to do, in walking up and voting
as they chose! Is it for choosing to ex-
ercise their blood bought and sacred priv
ileges as freemen. in voting the Wing
ticket, that makes them liable in
your judgement to the charge of being
equally at fault with men who have
for base and selfish purposes disfranchi-
sed whole county, and refused to its
citizens the broad shield of the Consi-
tutlOH anu laws Oh Tie Ianu.
But this ambassador of Iowa Locofo-
cracy is not content with first having lent
all his counsel and energies to rob these
people of all they hold dear. with having
while on the bench (see Frontier Guar
diaa, insulted them by refusing to en-
PANEL two of them on jury on account
of their religious belief; with charging
them with faults and crimes, but he must
add insult to injury, by calling on them
to meet him and hrs lncofoco brethren
halfway on the stool of repentance, anu
there BUNDLED in the dust make atone
ment for their great sin in voting The
Wing ticket, confess all their faults, en-
brace and kiss the hand that smote down
their liberty, their rights; and finally test
the sincerity OF their contrilion and re-
pentsnce by 'sending delegates" to meet
the High of Locofocoism in Con-
ven,ion and pledging undyipg fealty to a
party that has gloried in nothing so much
as insulting and trampling them in the
dust.
Locofocracy is the same everywhere.
While boasiing of equality and freedom
to all classes, it is no where 10 be trusted.
In Rhode Island, under the name of Dorr-
ism it tramples on Constitutional law
In Ohio and Illinois il mauifests itself IN
spirit of mobocracy; and in Iowa, when
promises of place and gold and silver
fails to accomplish its designs and wick
ed plots, it rides rough-shod and tyrant-
like over law and order. trampling down
the elective franchise. and dishonoring
the hallot-box. Failing in its high-han-
ded measures to bring these people to
terms, it now seeks, through the instru-
mentality of one of lis main instruments,
TO face about, and play the amiahIe to