The miners' express. (Dubuque, Iowa) 1849-1854, 1854-10-11
From the Capt. al Reporter.
"a FOUR-SlDED GOVERNOR"


The Bay State staunch Democratic sheet
published in the world renowned shoe makIrg
city Of Lynn, in the Puritanical old Common
wealth OF Massachusetts, presents the following
agreeable picture of the Governor elect OF
Maine. Morrill, is not "alone in his glory
there are many others Of the same sort,-but
Gn"d Hravens, can it be must it be-thai the
executive departments Of the nation; the con-
troll bits dc shines, in fact the glory and pride
and efficiency of its rcpublicanism are 10 be
consigned to the tender mercies Of mongrel
statesmen like this new Governor Of Maine p
We opne .lot-we predict al awakening Of the
party TO a sense OF the wretched combination
which has ridden into pos er and won the spOils
OF power, upon hobbies, short lived and absurd
We trust in the undylng nature Of the spirit
OF Repablicansm which has vivifed the DEM
"craic party which has breathed, as il were by
magic, a magnificent nation into pride and
sp'end"r, and which is incapable of ex,inguish-
ment beneath the shadow of anu monster,
however horrIhc lis aspect or serpentke its
grasp
But hear the old Bay State
Morrill has been elected Governor of Maine
he was democrat, free soil, temperance and
know nothing. lie had spice Of everything
known or not known in political parties, except
! rhig; and VIC may suppose tina, if there had
been another party, it would have been repre-
| sented in hin. Ii is from this very curious
| circumstance in his composition, probably, that
the Boston and Portland whig papers un-
usually averioyed at his election, This four
sided gentleman is unquestionatly an improve
men, on the old god Janus He has face for
each point Of the compassionate, south, east
and west. As a democrat l il against the
idea # giving to Congress any power not coz
ferred by the Constitution. As a free soer he
! in IA nf viv colt tba
matter of slavery though the Constitution with
holds it. Ks a democrat he is in favor of max
ing slavery sectional by leaving it to the deci.
SION of the people Of each State and Territory.
As free so.ler he will make it secto lal by Civ.
ing it to Congress to legsIate for it. As a
democrat he thinks it essential TO republican
freedom that the people should have voice in
the laws by which they are governed. As a
free soiler he is Tor g. restoring freedom to the
people of Kansas and Nebraska" by repeating
the law which gives them a voice in making
their own laws, and by placing them under the
guardianship of Congress. As democrat, he
is opposed to prescription of any man for lis
religious belief. AS a know nothing he is in
favor Of excluding all Catholics from Office
As democrat, he is in favor of admitting the
oppressed of other lands to the privilege Of A.
merican citizenship. As know nothing, he
will deny all civil rights TO any but na,iv. born
citizens. AS democrat, he is opposed to the
alien law Of s9S. As know nothing, he is in
favor Of that law, 'seren times heated." But in
the cal pet bag of incoherent and inconsisten,
varieties which the governor carries, we do no,
find that be has any place for wing conserva
lism, or any Of the other precious nick nacks
o. notions Of whiggery. Every party but this
has its representatives in one side OF the gov
ernor Henceforth, let Janus, who had two
faces, and Orator Puff who had two voices, be
no more heard Of, and let our songs be for the
four sided Governor, Morrill,. Lorg live con
fasion.
OH Oh! Orator Puff,
|, One voice from one orators surely enough!
1t is said that majority of the Legislature
will be Of the same stamp. A very ingeniou
thing must be stamp that fashions such men
} Morrill,, quadrateral, 40,O13; Paris, dem, 25,
347: Read, wing IL ,438; Carey 2,57I. This il
the return from 800 towns. The wing vote i
|, 43o in about $4,000 votes cast. 1t is no
certainly known whether this great whig vot
OF the not being represented on one side Of tn
governor, has caused the extraordinary exulta
. lion of the wings. Goa {,