The miners' express. (Dubuque, Iowa) 1849-1854, 1854-08-23
THE REStJLT-lTS CAUSES

All wings 0tt CtOH9.
THE RESULT-lTs CAUSES
Now that the smoke and confusion OF the
battle have passed away and the mind is once
more allowed to assume quiet and reflective
mood, we propose to state briefly the causes.
hich have led to the defeat II the democratic
party in this State. We may enumeraie the
causes as three: LIST. An entlre want OF nerve
with large portion Of the leading democ;'ee's
of the State, to meet the issues presented by
Law-and justify their party upon principle as
they could do. 2ndly. The probable expendi
ture of large amount of money to deceive and
defraud the unsuspecting masses out OF their
votes. 3rdly. The worse than Pharisaical du
pIicity of portion Of the Clergy of this State
in swaylng the minds Of the masses and mis-
leading their understandings.
1t is a notorious fact, as familiar to the wings
as the democrats, that a majority of the leading
democrats in The state utterly refused in the
recent canvass to act with their party and resist
the issues presented by our opponents-apti-
Nebraska and Maine Liquor Law-and such as
did not act with the wings, but quietly and silent
ly gave the sanction Of their influence to pro-
mote their purposes and schemes. In one dem
ucra,ic county we find them tied hand and foot
and their mouths sealed up, by having signed
protest against the Nebraska Bill; in another, we
find them acting with the Abol;tonsts in secur
~ el,. L.,
a silent LcquesceEce in what might seem to be
popular sen,iment-,hough sadly depraved-
has marked the course Of men protesting to be
sound in the democratic faith and repeatedly
honored BY the democratic party. True, we can
detect in the ranks of these men, few, whose
backs bear the inscription turn coat and another
class, whose pride and ambition have received
a rebuff from the party In convention or its Re
presen,atives in Congress-, but the majority OF
those who have gone otf upon these issues,
have failed to tx. rcise, it they possessed The
nerve, to resist popular fanaticism promul-
gated by men with false notions Of morality
ard perverted judgments. 1t is serious mis-
fortune 10 the democratic party, that many who
rank themselves as democrats and are allowed
to presume upon both the intelligence and in-
,egrity Of the masses, by arrogatrg |" them
selves the province of leaders, act entirely from
motives Of expedieney ard manifest much
stronger regard for personal popularity and ad
vancement, than for the promotion Of the great
principles ni the democratic party. As all H.
i,,,r ,f fh III IL -
majority of the neutral papers in tae State, CON
trolled by men protesting to be democrats
They have thrown the influence of their Jour-
nais into The scale against the democratic party
tions 10 def.a at the democratic ticket, in the re-
cent canvass. The shallow subterfuge which
they have adopted covering TO their apos'
tasy sy-cpposi,ion to tie Nebraska bil-will no,
relieve them from the odium of having sacri-
fized the principles of their party. to crafty
their personal hatred Of Gen. Dodge. A man
of his lofty principles, rigid integrity and un
compromising love Of country and of the demo.
cratic element and one SO firmly planted in the
affections Of the dems cratic party, must be
occasionally beset with snarling whifeis, the
measure Of whose ambition consists in barking
and swapping at his heels, in hopes the annoy
ance may extract the reward Of some petty
office. Disappointed in their expe Citations, such
have openly betrayed their party and sold them
selves for mess Of pottags. Ii there is any
consolation to such, in the reflecton, that
/ Ia tna:. has
Of the party, it has a, the same time buried ,lls
great principles of the party, beneath the rub
bish Of fanaiicism, and the rags and tatters o.
a mu,ilated constitution and government daily
resisting the POISON aud pestient atmosphere o.
dsunion and treason, they certainly vel
come to the JOYS, which such prostitution Of
faith aud debasement OF self respect, brings ,o
their aid and comfort.
But, to the second proposition, that money
has been used in this election. 1t is grav.
cnarse TO make against party, that it is forced
| to resort to such means to secure an election
but we canddly believe that such has been tn.
case in this instance and shall proceed I,
give the reasons for this opinion. In whatever
part of the State a stranger might travel, priol
to the election, he would be struck with the al
most universal circulation of the New Yorl
| Tribune, the leading exponent of Aboli ionl lsn
and all the other isms which prevail IN ant
once happy land. Every Hotel, store, sho
and DIVE ling, that the traveller might drop into
the first thing that would greet the eye, woul,
be from one, to a half dozen copies Of this in
cendiary sheet. The question very naturall
arises how has this extraordinary circula,io
been OBJ aimed. To the P"st Office in this cit
have been sent some forty thousand copies, wit
no direction upon them except to local Po.
, Offices, and unquestionably designed for grat.
itous distribution. The very fact that ther
was no direction upon them, shows that the
were not sent To bonafide subscribers. Th
same facts we understand have existed in oh,
: parts Of the State. The question arises. wh
pays for this extraordinary, sudden and tenn,
rary inundation of news papers into Iowa: n
Greeley regard for the wings AID Alb .litionis
of Iowa, is certainly not sufficient, T., iust,
such gra'uity, if his pecuriary ability wa
adj quate to the undertaking. We again repea
who pays for these papers? Either the corfu,
: ton fund at Washington city, which was und,
The supervision of the Hon. Truman S..ith
Connect;cu, and Fitz Henry Warren, Of low
in lc52, or the fund OF Iowa, which is p-obab]
Under the hog driving proclivi,es of the la
! named gentleman, who is now located at Bu,
lingion lews. This FItz Henry Warron, wi
], was kicked out OF the Post Office Departing,
: : at Washington by Mr.. Fillmore, is notorio,
character, as we'll known in Washington CT,
i for his political intrigues on large scale,
in Iowa for his political intrigues on small,
scale. Wherever his track can be found-ar
we readily admit his sk Ill in conuarr,.. .Is