The miners' express. (Dubuque, Iowa) 1849-1854, 1850-06-26
and Democratic integrity Who will be the
Banner County in this campaign? What say
our friends in Jackson?


banner county In this campaign? What say
our friends in Jackson?
FIwingizing the Des Moines Improvement
Ewing's decision, by which the State of low;
loses, tor the present, nearly 100000 acres O.
land, is causing an agony of feeling in the Whia
party, which must end in death. Our neghbo
of the Telegraph in alluding to this subject, G.
vades the point at issue, and following in the
wake of the Wing & Register of Kcokuk, swims
upon the pillows which its fluttcring rudder have
left behind. The subtle equivocations of the
Wing & Register, which have been reiterated
by the Telegraph, in last weeks edition, will
not avail one whit in settling the point at issue
The naked question is, has Mr. Ewing done
right or has he done wrong, by promulgatne
his decision? Is he justified by the act of Con.
gress, comforting the grant? and is he justified
in reversing the decision of his predecessor, by
which that act was literally construedo These
are the points at issue, and not what this Sena.
tor or that Senator should do, or should have
done. We have no fear that our Senators will
neglect their duty, nor has any one else Most
likely they have seen no necessity for an expla.
natory act of Congress inasmuch as the decision
OF former Secretary had been tacitly acquiesc.
ed IN by Congress itself. No objections had been
made in or out of Congress, to that decision, un-
til the Galphin party took hold of the reins of
government; and then change must take place
tor the sake of change. The horses head must
be turned from the direct path, and over fences
and bitches must he leap and plunge, followed
by the whole machine of government, leaping
and plunging, to the great damage of the vchi-
Gle, and at the imminent hazard of the passen-
gers.
The State Of Iowa has lost nearly 900 900
acres OF land by these cnpers, and the public
| Treasury has been scraped out to reward the
drivers for the great exploit which they have
performed in driving the car of State rough shod
over the people.
The Wing press do not dare to justify or pal
late this conduct; neither do they dare, nor have
they the honesty to condemn it, We have call
ed upon them more than once, and they are vet
silent. True, they have stuck flaming head,
such as the following: DES MONIES RIVER
GRANT! upon the top of flmsy, unmcan
ing, unintelligible string of words, and called it
reply to locofoco argument We tell them
again, they have not touched the queston-we
tell them again, as we have told them oft before,
that they dare not touch it, With the locofocos
IN their front, and the cabinet patronage in the
rear, 1t does seem hard to compel them to face
their opponents with a full front-very hard in
deed, to force them to occupy a position in which
their defeat must result in the discontinue of
their good Galphin friends behind at Washnp
ton.
Well, we do acknowledge that this position
is hard but it is the necessary result of the trans
gressor's snfulness. The Wings have chosen
their own ground-havc followed their own in
clinatons; and if to crafty their revenge upon
democratic Iowa, they have despoled her of a
portion of her just inherltance-ifto CRAFTY their
well-known fondness of acquiring riches at the
public expense, they have had the audacitv to
plunge their guilty hands into the public purse
without authority oflaw, and against the express
prohibition ofthe consttution-on them. and not
on us, be the fullest need of condemnation.
Their frightened cry of ssSave us, Dodge
save us, JONES'" will not avail them with the
people. There is no safety for them; they must
be condemned
Our neighbor, the Telegraph, makes another
point. He says that Mr. Ewings opinion was
solicited by Senators Jones and Dodge That
Is not true, in the sense implied by the Tele-
graph. He was appealed to against the adverse
action of the Commissioner of Public Lands, an
officer of Ewing's Department, and not asked
for an orig ginal opinion. Is that what can be in
ferred from the language of the Telegraph? No.
The main facts in the are not given, but the
position which our Senators were forced to as
sumo in defence of their constituents, is constru-
ed into favorable retreat for Ewing to hide his
guilt. Ask his opinion, indeed! aye, ask v off
whether he likes mutton. o.. ..s-... .. ....
Since writing the above remarks, we have
seen that our neighbor Of the Tribune has pluck
ed up courage enough to take up the cudgels in
defence of Ewing's decision and makes the same
point against Senator Dodge as does the Tele-
graph Well, we can hardly blame the Tribune
for making some show of feeling in this matter
IL uoes HotLiHS uoTe, IuueeO IL OOeS less than
what is expected. .s. 90 a.-. A.: .... ..r,.s .,.
The Tribune having made no new point in
the issue, our remarks in reply to the Wing &
Register and Telegraph, will be as applicable to
the Tribune as to the former sa,'a f, .7-v4a
We shall not listen to the sympathetic appeals
of the Wing press in favor of their darling states
man. They must abide by what he and they
have done. ,rr,.lnl 2aagaaoa .Lava ,..d' fas.
ANOTHER MURDER.-Another of those fear
full and fatal rencontres, SO common to ST. Lou
is, took place on the 9TH inst. q, A man, by name
Cornelius Collier,was shot by Jefferson Thomas,
under the following circumstances; On the day
mentioned, Thomas came to a building on which
Collier was at work as brick-layer, and tried
to persuade one of Golfers hands to 20 and
work for him. Collier, on learning the nature
Of the visit, ordered Thomas off the building;