Daily Iowa State Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1856-1859, 1857-04-01

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t. impose ap"n ~ r-!uliv " the
scores a. Intelligent uai -..t.- .alc nci.
wiv ,ni br,. n, j.; s.cn' ani DR..
Cha't"r:"'i, i l..n.;ion, AMI 4, 4 lar
for publishing, What Is positively -,a-
ted 70 IT, lal," Is the >ely authority.
which Is i'>ohe.I T. ,n~tain il. l.s re-
terence t. the ,ar,i IN another column.
II will he seen that DR.. Chaticrtpn otrr
~ own Signature. MOI only admits. tia,
tie conversation ~ st,t {, III ii
u ,j,aJ dei Lax place." bit h. SAY ;
farther "ani thr assertion al The
.u,ryof tina. deLicd the stat, nett.
male IL the convention hf ''.Iule- ~
il,uLwell is not correct. II i not at
all strange, 10 people III this c"mlnuni-
", that such u I,r' ttc"l +, should b.
detected III the columns OF the Mirror.
for il j. well known that ca!I.mnv i Il,
alnnent. and that it can exist in no 9th
er element than talsehuod. that ot this
there Is always a surplus on haua. and
should one gruuhlc, at the measured he
receives, il Is filled as some Doctors
I'LL theirs who ,elI pills b, the bushe.
they throw on IA shovel uIii 10 heap
the measure Such animals are be-
yond the reach OF human Justice. And,
having no souls, even the Devil will be
cheated, unless he adopts the plan up
on which the Mirror is edited, and
d.,0tns hem hy prorg.
The conversation alluded 10, was r..
teirc'l 10, iof this reason, and III tli,
way The Republican members of the
bar, refused L. ael with us, for the rea-
son that they feared it was po'itical
trick OF the Democrats. as they said
AID also that they had participated in
( the convention al Dewitt. and j: might
lie construed. TO be an act OF bad faith
TO their party 10 desert its nominee
They were assured. tina, it Was no 20
itica move, on our part, that We were
only prompted IL act III this matte. bv
a desire /" select suitable Judge. one
whom w knew. not only as Il man. bat
rs a LAWYER, III whom We had conf
dence, that We cared not what his pol
ties even named R,paLitcan iarmrs,
whom. We pledged ourselves t. sup.
! port. ii they would act with u. and
present them: still, they refused.
then told them. that il They would pre-.
sent to Us the evidence OF Mr.. Mills,
learning and experience. to satisfy us
that he was a suitable person to be plar
ced on the bench, that We would rati-
iy his nomination. and support him..
This they could not do, for no one pre-
tended to know him AS lawye., ex-
cept from his certificate of admission
in New York, and his own story
They then declared that their duty as
Republicans, required them to supper,
him. | then told them, that he wa.
no more Republican, than WAS, fol
they knew as we'll us | did, that he was
a Know Nothing. that he was one OF
the principle orators Of the American
organization in the last Presidential
Campaign. and that in the house
where We then stood, they had heard
HIM ienounee the Republican and
Democratic parties alike. Theythen said
that in the Dewitt Convention he had
declared himself Republican. then
snid, that they had been .'sold;"-that
he was no more OF n Republican now
than he was last October. That day
or two before the ewitt Convention
he had told DR.. Chatterton, that 'he
wanted to be Judge, would like TO re.
ceive the nomination. from the bar, OF
in sa,ae Other way, that he hated 10
take I, nom the Wse!sys." Ns Re-