Des Moines courier. ([Ottumwa] Iowa) 1848-1854, 1852-02-05

Written for the Western American.

Written tor the western American.
Query: "Whst is the difference be-
tween the Wings and Democrats OF the
present day!',
Ans. The Wings want strong gov
eminent to take care of the people; the 7
Democrats want strong people to take
care of the Government New Loco.
fuco Catechism.
Contrast this with tile following Sec
ton of the Code, emanating from the We. =
nv hot bed Of Locofocoism, and see how
apt the illustration is: RI 1n'H
oIf any able bodied man, when duly
summoned for such purpose, fail TO APP
pear and labor diligently by himself or
substitute he is liable to fine of ten dol
lars."- Code OF Iowa, s. $50, p. 96.
A judgment that the defendant pay a
fine may also direct tina, he be imprison-
ed until The fine is satisfied.-[ lib. 3.
3349, p. 467. 1
Now is this is building up strong peo-
pile to take care of The government, or is
i, taking the power from tie peeple and
placing il in the hands of officers! In
deed the committee that framed the new
Code seem to have treated the State anu
the officers as persons possessing rights
paramount to other individuals; the rela-
tor of creditor and debtor and the rights
of both appear to be well guarded from
/ oppression and forced sale on the one
hand and from fraud on The other, by
good and righteous laws; bu. the poor
man, the stranger, and The destitute are
TO be hunted down and compelled 10
obey the summons Of The Lord Super
UisJr even if the dead bury the dead or
the sick die for want of attention, or
pay an unreasonable and enormous fine
under the penalty of imprisonment and
its accompanying disgrace and injury of
reputation.
This is christian country, an enllght-
ened country, a Republican country, and
this is the nineteenth century, acknowl-
edged by all. too, to be an age of Revo-
luton, working the downfall of Despols
in Europe; liber Ting exiles from dun
geoDs abroad and strengthening Republic
can institutions at home, aud yet in the
lace of all This, grave and sapient law
makers tell vs. that men shall DE in,pris-
0ned for failing 10 discharge ciUH liabil-
Iitxl~assWifas moekeryl What sacrilege!
ft5 call this the law of free State, ear
frying with il me wflfSnd sanetie.r-t1ff 4
free people! How insulting to Justice.
how shocking to humanity to alera.e
such things IN christian age!
Freeinen are to be taken from their
homes. from the midst of helpless and
needy families, from all that eniear them
to earth and be incarceraled beneath the
walls OF prison, shut in by an iron CRATE,
driven from the society OF honest men
into The association of villains, or conf
ned down TO reflections upon their own
misery as outcasls from society, very
vagahonds upon The face of HE Garth,
not even permitted To breathe the pure Fl.
air OF heaven, but doomed To take up
their atodes in an Amos phere polluted
and filthy, and accursed by everything
good on earth, and fl, only for the socie-
~ of felons and demons; and all this, ,uo,
not for any crime that they have commit
ted, not even for the violation of any
moral law. bui for falling To discharge a
civil liability. In. .~.,..
How strange it is that party should
profess such principles of freedom and
enact such laws OF oppression; We. such
IS the result of their practice. Dema-
gogues and Old llunkers, from that par.
~, come upon the political arena armed
and protected with the mantle of Dem
ocracy; make loud Professions OF love
for the dear people; talk of high prolec-J
tive tariffs; brand the Wings as Federal
lists and Anti-Republicans; speak i'm
glowing terms of Jefferson, and repre-
sent themselves as beng commissioned
by that illustrious statesman TO preach
Democracy 20 the American people and
practice itin the halls OF Legislation;
eulogize Gen. Jackson as The most de-
voted patriot the world ever beheld, and
denounce Van Buren,, who followed in
his footsteps, as corrupt traitor and ty-
rant; have from time immemorial oppu-
sed banks and internal improvements,
and yet discarded Van Buren, for his
Sub Treasury and his war on appropri-
dHoHs ioT " cotcIu rivers anu roads: q j.
vccaie government by the people, and
encourage the abuse of the veto by their
veteran leaders; are in lavor OF reirench-
meni and reform. and subject their con-
siituents to enormous taxes and grieyous
burdens; believe in government to take
care of the people, imprison the honest,
veomanry of the land for failing to obey
the summons of an officer, clothed with
authority and following on, the require
ments of law unreasonable and oppres-
siye, beyo description. e..'14@.- IA.
Surely the time will come when gov
ernmen,s conducted upon such princi-
pies and supported by a corrup, party
'ciA need a strong people--not to take
care OF the goyernment---but to bury lis
poiificti patrons and usurpers already
| suffering from wounds inflicted by their
own hands, which will terminate their
political career and shroud their memo
ries in ignominious death, and dark dis,
grace. one OF THE SoyERElsNs. q
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