Iowa capitol reporter. [volume] (Iowa City, Iowa) 1841-1855, 1852-02-11
N. RENO,
LEWIS WRITTEN,
PHILIP B. BRADLEY,
JOHN A. PARVIN,
ENOS LOWE,

Dtate UcmOcFAtlC CentraI q
lows CITY. Feb. J. iaa

The prs-occupancy Of our columns rendered
oil comment upon the call for Democrat
State Convention, in the last Reporter, impossi
bic. The call. however, could not fail to at
tract general attention throughout the State
No preceding canvass in the political history o
this young but promising State, has ever ap
pealed so powerfully to the patriotic sympathic
OF this democratic people. as will the doubl,
contest Of 1852, for partisan supremacy in tn,
national and state administrations. Saving
Governor. we have to pass upon the whole pc
litical calender of executive, legislative and ju
dicial functonaries, and in so doing will be
charged with the high obligation Of mprcssing
our political predictions upon the action OF
every department of the government, through
the great renovatlng power of the ballot box
The duty Of active and thorough palation
for the contest-always Observation-Disclosures
imperative, then, upon all the adherents of the
good old democratic cause of political equality
and the hour for the preliminary meetings of
freedoms votaries, is close upon us. The calls
for national, state, and judicial conventions are
already out. and will soon be followed, in the
very nature of things, by similar ones for con.
gressional and legislative nominations. In the
call for the State Convention, ample time and
opportunity is given for every part of the State
to meet. deliberate and decide; and to send up
TO the meeting at the Capitol fair and en-.
phatic expression Of the democratic masses of
Iowa. upon the men and measures of the time
Let the work Of organization and Of prelimina-
ry effort proceed from this time forward. Let
the democracy of Iowa grid themselves for the
contest. Let the old banner which has guided
the democracy Of this great country to so many
political victories over the selfshness of privi-
les6 be again raised upon the ramparts of the
party, and its chosen disciples rallied under it's
inspirinsfolds.
So far as the executive administration at
Washington is'concerned, we are impatient Of
the opportunity ofrequiting the frauds by which
1t was foisted upon the country--to avenge the
treachery-public and private foreign and do.
mcstic-which has rendered it irredeemably
odious, and to punish the shuiflng timidity
and prevarcation which have made it utterly
contemplate. We see our way so clearly to
this consummation, that we await but the pre-
scrbed hour for the change
In the more limited fiela of State politics the
democracy of Iowa have no possible impedi-
ment to overwhelming victory, save in the eff,
forts Of Morgan, Holt d Co., and such as they,
to cngender the bitterness of sectional strife,
by wheedling or brow beating our public ser
wants from the path of representative duty,
through crude inventions of their own; and
whatever appearances may indicate, our faith
abides that the judgment of the masses and the
integrity of our representatives. will soon put
a quietus upon fire brands which are apochry.
phal in their origin, and mischievous in their
design.