The miners' express. (Dubuque, Iowa) 1849-1854, 1852-06-16
CITY OF DUBUQUE, IOWA, JUNE Is. 1859

D tOnat DEBT was a National blessing. Whe
? the wings cah have bank and be ho2elessl
in debt then will their year Of jubilee come" -
$ With these, they can now and then enjoy tn
sweet consultations of a ''bankrupt hw" Ar
you anxious fellow citizens that Iowa like som
of her sister States should run career of in
, solvency. ruined credit, and practical repuda
$ ton? Are you ANXIOUS 20 have your lakes mad
five fold more burdensome than they are now?-
IT so, vote the whig ticket in A ugnst. Go {
the trouble and expense Of changing the Con
stltution that you may enjoy these preciou
privileges. New York and other States bav
; learned from experience the necessity of such
; constitutional restrictlan upon Legislative DOW
er, and our own experience will be like their.
) it their whiggery can have the powe
to plunge the State into an indebtedness o
millions. Before the cication of a great Stat.
DEBT we think the people ought to be consulted
aud their consent obtained, but or opponent.
treat this idea perfectly ridiculous.
i The Wing address says, that no laurel ,hopld
be PlucAed up from ''the blushng brow of d.
mocracy," to which it is entitled for the Code /.
This address is signed first by j. P. Cook =.
Chairman, and then by the others Of the Com.
mtiee. When, therefore J. P. Cook AZ Chair
man ofthe Wing Executive Committee nro.
ceeds in this address to vlify the democracy f,,
law "that taxes the little that NAV be left
tho orphan, and the small anuity of the widow :.
and he remembers that ne as Sta'e Senate,
voted for such law, self respect would seem Ia
require silence, upon the subject of biushino
brows."-The facts about the paternity of
"the Code" are briefly these. All of it was the
joint production Of Judge Mason a democrat,
and Mr.. Woodward whig with the except.
or Of the criminal part which was chiefly The
work of Gov. Hampstead When before the
Legislature it was voted for by wings in the
Senate, and by wings in the House Of Repre-
sentatives. Upon its final passage out of
fourty nays in The Senate, there was one who
and out Of thirteen nays in the House, three
wings.
Every body knows that il was not then con
sidered party measure, and not until some of
its provisions proved unacceptable tn the people
did whig politicians attempt to wrest it to party
purposes. II to be for the "Code" is to be \
Locofoco as aIledged then is the chairman Of
the Wing Executive Committee a Locofoco-
then is the late Whig candidate for Congress.
in the First District Locofoeo-,hen i. the late
Whig cand date for Superintendent Of Puplic
instruction n Locofoco. All these gentlemen
hnve been friends and helped to make "the
Code. We protest, however, against the reck
less desperation that would make our whole
system Of Legislation the subject Of party war
fare. Shall the legal relations of social and
domestic life, the regulations of trade and the
rules of property be dragged into the arena Of
political strife every election9 Shall their
stability be made dependent upon the success Of
one party or another? When this happens a
blight will fall upon the prospects of Iowa more
dreadful than the Sirocco of the desert In our
opinion Wing part'zans have been guilty Of
great unfalrness in their attempts ~ make polit-
ical capital out Of s'the cnde." They make no
distinction between the good and bad parts, and
instead of discussing its Objectionable features
with candor, and suggesting remedies for its
defects, they appeal to popular prejudice and
party feeling for its total extinction. For t..
stance the Whig Address charges "the code
with partalt? to Locofoco office holders be.
cause it says that 'salares expected for services
to be rendered ar. not taxable" while the old
law, which the Wings prefer, not only exemn'ed
salaries to become due, but certificates Of State
Indebtedness in the hands of officers, which the
new law does not do. This shows with what
honesty Wing politicians treat the people. To
prove that the wholesale abuse Of the code by
the Wings is unjust we submit few facts to the
public Take Lee county as an example
The comparative expense of jurors to that coun-
ty in one year is as follows: