The miners' express. (Dubuque, Iowa) 1849-1854, 1850-05-22

Of Julien Township to the meeting at the Court
House, ON Saturday next. Business Of much
importance to the interests and success Of the
party is there 70 be transacted. We presume no
Democrat who wishes to see a(air play and no
gonging" will fail to be present.
The same remarks will apply to all the Town
ships in the County, who have not already held
their meetings $50
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Iowa WING Platform. r...-
We have received the resolutions adopted at
the Wing State Convention, which assembled
at Iowa City on the 18th inst, and take the ear
lest opportunity to lay them before our readers.
We shall not attempt any Introductory remarks
upon these resolves, but will make such COM
nents as the occasion and sentiments embodied
in them require. The first resolution is, that ev
cry days experience vindicate the sentiments
proclaimed by the Wing State Convention Of
last year, ssthat the welfare and interests of the
people of Iowa imperiously require an amend
ment of the State Constitution, by which the in
cubus imposed in some Of its provisions upon
their resources and prosperity shall be removed.
This is the FIRST plank in the Wing Platform,
and a. Il is little loose, we shall drive nail in
70 il here and there, to make it fast.
So the prosperity Of the people of Iowa re-
quires an amendment in the Constitution; but
the funniest assertion is, that whereas they can't
20 in debt beyond certain amount, therefore,
there is an incubus upon their prosperity! o!
Whiggery, how thou dost bother thy brain in
C %1o IS h.
people. a.. s.
Cd. That the people have right to demand
that this question shall be submitted to them for
their action; and in the Judgment of this Conven-
ton, they will be recreant if they do not so de-
termine by their votes at the approaching cleo
ton. This is plank the second; and, like the
first, it needs little squeezing and mailing
Il says that the people have right to demand
that they have leave to change the Constitution!
What wonderful discovery! Why, that beats
Telegraphing, Daguerreotyping, and the thous-
and-and-one patented and unpatented discoveries
Of this age, SO prolific of grand and startling e.
vents. Wonder if those who passed this reso-
luton, ever read the Constitution? If they did,
they might have known that its amendment is
already well provided for. But the End clause
Of the resolution caps the climax. 1t says that
ifthe people don't do as the Wings want them
to-that is to say, change the Constitution SO
that there shall be no restraint upon the legisla-
tnre to prevent their going in debt, the people
are recreant to themselves; in other words, if
they don't vote as the Wings want them to; they
IRE fools and asses!! .. ts
The Sd resolution says, that the Wing party
has undiminished confidence in the ability, in
tegrity, and patriotism of the Peoples Presi.
dent ('!) Gen. Zachary Taylor, and in the po-
Icy recommended by him to Congress. Well,
the Wings of Iowa must have stronger faith
than their brethren in Connecticut and else
where. As to Gen. Taylor's policy, if he ever
had any, it is more than the Wings of Iowa or
any other set Of Wings can explain. Let US
hear what his policy is; we too, may be ablee to
subscribe to it.
The fourth resolution says that the people
ought to give the President Congress that
would agree with him. Would it not be much
better to give Congress President who would
be something more than nonentity' Suppose
the President had Congress like himself, do the
Wings really think that wholesome legislation,
or any legislation at all, would be facilitated
They don't think any such thing. Why, Gen.
Taylor himself said that he trusted everything
to Congress; he had no mind or say of his own,
and didn't wish to have any; but the incorrigible
Wings Of Iowa are not satisfied at his position,
stufo t1,o;r -
to his person and policy. They would have him
act, but they can't make him move. The laws
Of Nature are against them, for matter cannot
think, neither can it act, without subjective
cause Of action
In the fifth resolution the Wings say they are
ardently attached to the Union Of the States
Well, that is their say so. 1t would be much
better if some one else had said it Of them Self.
commentator is no praise.
The sixth resolution halls with rapture the RI
sing Of another star over the waters of the Pac-
fc. Well, 50 do we. That is bright partcu-
lar star; and more than that, it receives its chief
lustre from the democratic light, which burns
70 brilliantly in its constitution. That is no wing
star California, though it may shed its light upon
wings and democrats alike, as rain falls upon the
just and unjust; yet, under the ag:s Of its con-
stitution, Democracy alone can blooa and -four
ish Il has the same incubus upon its constitu-
ton which the wings of Iowa say that ours has,
and how beautifully inconsistent, nay, how per-
fectly reckless must the wings be to hail the one
and execrate the other.at &. OH whiggcry, again
must we exclaim, at thy folly and perverseness.
% Resolution seventh We will give entire, as it
has in il little ofthe old leaven, it says: sThat
while we hold ii TO be the duty Of all to be ready
and willing 70 stand to and abide by the compro-
mise Of the Constitution Of the U. States, we
arc nevertheless free to re-afirm, as we now do,
The opinion heretofore expressed BY the Wing
party in Iowa, that we are in favor Of free men,
free territory, and free States" There, ifthat
lump Of leaycn don't raise the dough, and make
FOOD bread for the wings, there is no use in try
NJ Il any longer. How cautiously the wings