Des Moines courier. ([Ottumwa] Iowa) 1848-1854, 1852-05-13
- FOR CONGRESS,
PHILIP VEILE, Of Lee Co.
The Democratic State COnven-
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r ton,
Came off at Iowa City on the 2S,h
ult. Friend Ballard, of the Republican
says that the members were good look.
ing-not we presume in the sense OF
Handsome is that handsome does
but that kind OF comliness and sickness
which is observed to resul, from long
feeding at the public crib. However,
we will concede that Bro. Ballard is
right-it would be difficult for his classic
eye to be at fault in matter of personal
appearance some Of our neigh
bors were there whose porlly presence
and fine proportions it has been our es-
pecial pleasure to admire since the COM
lnencement OF the Des Moines River
improvement. .." #.a"
But the sense of the Convention, is a
matter of more interest to US, and proba-
bly, to the public than the mere looks of
The members, and this we shall probably
find, if anywhere in their Resolutions.
We have read them with that curiosity
and care to which the high source from
which they emanate, is entitled, and
should be happy TO publish them as the
latest intelligence from Buncombe. if we
had the room to spare. We shall prob
ably recur 10 them hereafter, aking
them as the tex book of our friends on
the other side until another is published.
As whole we do notapprove Of the spir-
il and tenor of these resolutions. They
exhibit manifest anxiety to get up
something TO meet the present emergen-
cy; to mend and fix up broken places in
former platforms: TO sc. the sails SO as
catch every stray breeze of supposed
popular feeling or prejudice, and to steer
Lear of and evade everything in the past
or the present which wears a threaten
ing aspect TO the prospects of the party,
Of whose principles, they evidently re-
gard themselves as the sole judges and
exclusive expounders. Thus it must
ever be with your platform makers; be-
ing power above the people. they can
not be expected to sympathise much
with ,hem-to enquire into the condi-
ton, or provide or recommend measures
for their relief. We find much in these
resolutions about the Union--State
Rights-Baltimore Platlorms-high tar
ilTs-old and musty resolutions so alb
s,ract and indefinite that nobody in the
last or present century has been able to
determine their meaning-and Ma
,ional Bank. which is no longer an issue.
In regard TO Internal Improvements they
look both ways-asserting their old ad.
verse doctrine in lis very terms, and then
in hot haste qualifying it away TO suit
the present limes-lhey are opposed to
the Galphin system of swallowing up
the public money-but are discreetly 81.
lent in regard to the system Of Swar,.
won't, Price, Wetmore, the Washington
Union and others. or the present vigor-
Gus (?) system of Improving the Des
MONIES River--they regularly and in
due form endorse the Compromises
serl their exceeding love for adopted Cit
izens-oppose availability candidates,
happening to be OH. of the article them
selves--but GO in tooth and toe nail, for
the nominee of the Baltimore Conven-
lion, be he Old Fogy, Barnburner, Hunk
er,Old Federalist, Union, Secession. or
what no, they promise to ''go it blind"
Our State affairs and policy is sum.
marily disposed of in three Resolutions
which we publish below entire, because
we are deeply interested in The subject
as more important 10 US just now than
the Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions
of 1896 and 1899, and because The PEG.
pie wish to know where to find every BIO
dy upon a question so vitality affecting
their interests:
Pesolurd, That we heartily concur
in the great principle of judicial and fl.
nancial reforms which are agitating the
civilized world, and which have to some
extent, been recognized by the adoption
of our revised code; at the same time
reprobate many of its provisions as des-
tructiye to the great ends sought after,