The miners' express. (Dubuque, Iowa) 1849-1854, 1852-03-03

: On Mondsy. the Exprsschsrgedthe Tribune
nth attempting ito create a diversity of senti
nent in the Wing party, "derogatory to our
Railroad interests; because forsooth, we had
'entnred the truthful assertion that locotocnism
vas responsible for certain obstructions which
e'ard the Railroad progress of Iowa Our
prompt reply has passed unnoiiced by the author
= the charge. We now say to the Express =
Endeavor :" maintain your accusation or re
ract.-Iribune Of Wednesday.
The above we presume emanates from gen
tleman who has recently become an assistant IN
the editorial management of the Tribune, ana
in tn. absence Of the editor, he seems quite anx-
lou. to try his strength at measuring weapons
with ~.
Perhaps our wsrike neighbor 10 not aware,
that We have long since learned better than to
chase the editor OF that sheet about, merely for
his and our entertainment, Without regard TO
public taste or desire. has been our privilege
often,-yea, very often during the course ofour
editorial career, to differ with him upon various
questions of principle and policy; and while we
underworld fer long time, to meet his asscr-
tions with arguments and to treat him and his
subjects with candor and fairness, we at leng b
discovered that it was only aff"rding wider
field tor the display of his deciamatory and cat
echistical vanity, and that the oftener we at
tempted to bring him to point, the farther
would he stray from the subject. This lsd us
to adopt course of correcting his errors, with.
out giving ourselves any thought, as to the man
ner in which he might receive it.
Such was our course, in reply to an article
viii h appeared in the Tribune of the goth =
That article met with a characteristic denial,
nothing more. This we considered meri,ed no
reply, as it controverled nothing we had stated
and shed no new light upon the subject; but
merely sought to involve US in controversy
upon railroad matters, which we thought could
have no beneficial effect upon the interests OF
our State just at this time.
This course it appears from the above para
graph, is anything but satisfactory TO the gen.
.leman, who, in the absence Of our contemporary
Mr.. Wood, Is endeavoring to illumine the men,
tai darkness of Northern Iowa. He seems to
be remarkably anxious to measure weapons with
some one, if not in manner beneficial and en-
tertaining to the community, it would seem for
the purpose ofgratitying his affecting mania for
notori-ty.
Let us see now upon what he bases the above
paragraph, and claims that we should retract.-
In that paper of the 2Oth appears the following:
sFull half the clatter and fuss that the honest
and well meaning portion Of our citizens are now
4 r. ,Ix,,u 81 u ,lr,.oA
grants, is due to the corruption which Locof"-
COS themselves admit has ruled in The political
affairs of the Slate. A barter and sale system
Of management, pursued since he organization
81 he Territory, up to the present moment, has
resulted in placing the drstnies OF our fair State
in I great degree within the control OF set ut
| tricksters, spectators and ilnbeciles, who are
doing more to damage her in year, than sound
administration could restore in five. Loc"toc"
mismanage n-nt and imbeclity has about fooled
away the Desnoines River Fund, and Loc"fo-
CT ..corrup'ions, jeal"usies and h ireds prom
ise now to deprive Iowa Of realizing that aid for
her railroads which she mas good right to d
mand, and 20 much reason TO expect.
To this soseping and irresponsible denuncia-
ton Of the Democratic party, we objected
And when we looked about US, and found that
uine-,enths of the democratic journals of the
State were battling nobly for this grant; nine
teen twentieths of the people, democrats and
wings, were alive to its great Importance; that
Congress had been memorialized by two demo-
cratic Legislatures; that democratic delega-
ton in Congress, was at the time labor,ng night
and day to secure the grant; and that Crimes,
of the firm Of Grimes 4 Starr of Burlington,
the great focus of whiggery in Iowa, was at
Washington City, using every effort to further
the plans of ss.Norgan, Holt e. Co.." and defeat
our grant, we think we had ample cause for our
objection In this we claim no credit for the
democratic party, which we would not share
gladly with our wing brethren
We would not hold the wing party response
bic for he sayings and doings IF fe.o Of its
members, no more than we would wish to be
held responsible for the extravagances of"Mo
gan, Holt & Co.." W no although once men,
bers Of the party, have sadly fatien from grace
1t is in obedience to this sentiment Of justice,
that we object to, reject and utterly repudiate,
the reckless and groanoless charges of one,
who, if not novice in dispensing matter for
Western mind, is certainly a novice in Iowa pol
itlcs. As this gentleman volunteered so sweep
ing denunciation of the Iowa democracy, and
that too without any proof to sustain his asser-
items, it would have been well, could he have
restrained h,s vanity within the bounds Of pru-
dence, and not chased us through three papers
for the sake Of controversy. He may think
that the people Of the West are green. Well,
in some things they are; but it is not in lnista-
king iittie man for great one, simply because
he halls from the East. They are death on
physiognomy.
PRnc EnlNGs NJ TUE llIarRlcr CaSvEx.