Des Moines courier. ([Ottumwa] Iowa) 1848-1854, 1852-05-13

and earnestly recommend thorough re-
vision of all obnoxious features.
Resolred, That any eflor, to carry
politics into the formation or revision oil
our municipal laws, is the highest stretch
OF party prostitution, and that The present
effort Of the federal wings, 10 mingle
with party, the enactment of laws which
are to govern us i'm all the relations oil
life, is reprehensible and worthy only oil
those who look TO factions for votes, and
expect to rise bv fraud
ReSoired. That when the people shall
manifest desire for an alteration of the
present constitution, we will be with
them but are unwilling to submit TO the
trouble and expense of electors and a
convention TO crafty NOISY spectators
and unprincipled demagogues.
Now we wish TO know il this cold
formal, and indefinite disposition of our
State policy, by the very men who are
responsible for it since the .time whence
the memory of man runneth rot to the
contrary" will be satisfactory TO the
thinking, reasonable and independent
people of this State? Will the men who
have lived under the Code and paid tax
es, and struggled to live here The pas.
year, find in them any consolation or
hope of relief! DO they expect any bo-
dy to believe their balderdash about no.
partyism upon the question of our mu-
nicipal laws, when every man in the State
perfectly wei knows that there has new.
er been an election in the State either
Gubernatorial, for The Legislature, Judi
cial, County or Precinct, in which every
possible question that existed or could
be Invented, has not been made direct
party issue! And in regard 10 the a
mendmeni Of the Constitution, do they
not know that the people are no,c in ia
vor of it; and if so, why not come out
manfully and leave it to the People?--
How do they expect to get the "manifes
talioh of the DESIRE of the People, when
they usurp the Office of speaking for the
people, will no where, either in these
Conventions, or IN the Legislature, sub
nit the question 70 vote of the People?
Why did they vote down resolution in
in the last Legislature to submit. the ques-
ton to the people, for their approval or
rejection! . .... ....... ...
is there man in the State not sold to
party who will believe the sincerity of
the declaration in the second of the a.
bovc resolutions, that either in past or in
present design the authors of it are oppos-
&c 10 carrying politics into the forma-
ton or revision of our municipal laws" or
TO look with anything bat contempt up
Oh the direct charge, that the Wings are
attempting TO mihgle "wi;h party, the
enactment of laws which are TO govern
u.s. when every one knows that at our
last election the Wigs every where fra
lernized with the people; refused to
make party nominations; voted the In
dependent ticket, and have no where
claimed the resul! as Wing triumph;
and also in view of the fact that every
wing who has expressed an opinion
upon the subject; and every Wing paper
in the State has distinctly and earnestly
urged The entire separation of these ques-
tons from party, and the nomination of
candidates for the legislature independ-
emf of party. The readers of our paper
will do US the justice 10 admit that such
has been our course.
Don't these gentlemen intend TO make
party nominations for the Legislature,
and TO urge their election upon party
grounds? Of course they do, and any
such talk as this is gammon--merely a
wool operation-and will be understood
aud appreciated as such by the real and
sincere friends of reform, anG Independ-
ence in our local and State elections.