The miners' express. (Dubuque, Iowa) 1849-1854, 1854-02-15

! Mr. EpiroR An article appeared in the Elk.
press Of Feb. 9th, over the signatures Of G.
: Denlingcr, ID. Cort Jr.. and A. r. Foster. con-
Township, some time previous. We wish to
, comment on said article. LIST, let the public
notice that it appears that these individuals
"were worsted in d;sputaion' and The fact was
madt public and it CALLED them to the very
hearts core, and they ungentlemanly re ort up
! en- our character. But to their article they
say it is "utterly false that challenge was
made" We can prove by good unmpeachaue
witnesses that the challenge made and
stood open for some months previous to The 18th
| Cort Jr., notified Of il, and manifested con-
siderable desire and anxiety to take i, up at some
convenient time. La order to carry the idea
| that il WIS not debate in which none but the
| members Of the Buncome Debating Society
took part. They say some Of us have been
members FOR three years past, &c. D. Cort Jr,
| is member, but his visits are few and far be-
tween. They spea. about our article saving,
that the first decision left TO all in the house
We say We were mistaken in saying that it vas
| left to all in The house and we have at every
| opportunity and in all circumstances corrected
| our mistake In conversation with D. Cort, on
| the day our article was published, we told him
OF the mistake, and how it occurred. We were
sorry our mistake occurred and would have cor
rected it in the Tribune, bu, our subsequent sick
NJ nd Nihn c,It; ,,J
how it happened, FIVE days previous TO the de-
bate of Dec 18th the Frecsoil question of grant
ing quarter section Of land to all andIess actu.
al settlers was discussed and that decision was
| left TO all in the house, which decision, was in
| favor Of the Frcesoilers, and when our Article
was written in January, some of the minute par.
ticulars of several debates had passed from our
mind, and as we wrote altogether from memory
and some time having elapsed it was not so
shocking strange that we r.lade the mistake, as it
was true regards the decision which was in
favor of the Freesoilers, blu, not given by the
house. bit by three judges, which judges, these
| individuals say, "two of the Abolition
ary who OF course were men after the own
! heart" The above is incorrect for two of them
were Democrats. We have conversed with one
of the democratic judges since the article appear
ed in the Express, and he says he was perfectly
willing to, and did, decide according to the
weight Of argument, as he understood that, that
was what he was chosen for. They say s'the
decision as nigh, be expected, was given in ia
vor of the negative" Thus it is clear, that the v
expected that the men chosen for Judges were
to act willing tools in the hands of those who
chose them. They further say "it was false
that the decision was unanimous" We never
said that the decision was unanimous insin-
uated any such thing. Speaking of the debate
of Dec. 3lst, they say SIT is false hat the decis-
ion was in favor Of the Freesoilers for two oil
the judges left before the debate was closed, no
doubt sgusted at the brilliant array Of reading
heart rending stories, from Old Mother Bunch
Abolition Amanacs, National Era &C. These
individuals when they penned those lines giving
a reason why those Judges left, must have
known they were not stating facts, for when one
of these Judges was chosen he objected to serv-
ing, as he had the charge of the P. O., and il
| oS"S 1oH-uey ouu w Oue VI dtttHu 10 tie OIL
flee when he was absent, and also he had work
that must be done before night as he intended
to spend the evening alta friends house, there
fore he could not serve properly and so it was;
he was called away. The other one which left
was appointed by the President Of the debate
and he also objected to serving, as he did no.
wish to be out late &c. The individual which
wrote the article that appeared in the Tribune
. was the president which chose the fifth Judge
/ and if lie had been so far sunk down as they as
sert. into Abolitonsu,, it is strange that he
should choose a Wing when there were Free
soleis present
! Since their article came out in the Express
we have seen those two judges which they say
were "decidediy in favor of the negative -
And 10! here they have mis.stated the fact.
again. We asked one of those judges if he had
given bis opinion as decidedly in favor of the
negative, he replied that he had been asked TO-
ed as yet to give any. We asked the other
| Judge if h, had told these individuals tina, he
had given his "opinion decidedly in favor OF
the negative He replied That Of these
individuals asked him for il. and he told him he
heard but part of the arguments and therefore
was not qualifedto decide on the question:
As regards the other judges, they say "they
were men after their own choice who never
were known to forsake them in of great dis
tress." We have also seen one Of these Judges
who says he is and always has been Demo-
crat, he says that he never had any political con
versation With either of these individuals, and
how they could insinuate tina, he was an Adolf
ZIONIST, was more than he was accustomed to;
he says he would have given them he decision
if, in his judgment they had merted it by their
arguments. The other Judge we have not seen
but have been credibly informed that he says lie
has heard the subject discussed many times but
never SO poorly before, and that he decided in
accordance with the preponderance of the ar
gumen,s, regardless of his own private opinion
We have thus very briefly run over their ar
tice and noted SEVEN cases, where they have
failed TO tell the truth They continue their ar
tce some further in re lation 10 our political
| Shd'dotei, anu VIC VIA VI Il lHeW LOT the
proof of the different things they here assert
We want such proof as would be accepted in a
legal Tribunal, we want no Old Mother Bunch,
&c, stories, like their arguments in debate -
But as our space is limited we will close, assyr.
ing the public and these individuals, that if they
are not satisfied we can, and will, further dis
course of the subject, although we hope not to
be under the necessity of referring 10 il again,
as we have no time to spare being engaged in
| opening new farm.
Yours Respectfully,
ONE OF THE PEOPLE.
HIcH PRicEs FOR CATTLE. STEEP AND
Hoes.-1he Scott County (Ky.) Importing
Company lately held SALE at Georgetown, in