The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1857-1858, 1857-07-29
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Il y not necessary % repeat what has bee
,aid 70 often, that the removal Of the prohibi
ton Of banking, contained in the present Con
.t;tut;on vas the chief cause Of calling the late
Constitutions: Convention.
The necessity Of this was admitted by oil par.
,ie, democrats a. well - others. From stray
leaf or the debates" Of the recent convention,
there appears to have been but little difierens
Of opinion among the democratic members on
that question, and when Mr.. Sglrcsser Of the
Reporter" now Crescent, in his zeal for the
Nebraska shinplas.er, attempted to animadvert
On the conduct OF members, he was vehemently
resuked, and wholly "repudated" BY Mr.. Gin
tasry, the delegate from Wapello.
We give Nm. GtLLAsrr's remarks. We do %
becauss they show how almost unanimously the
democratic members differed from Sylvester,
.Sheedrd, and the hard money. metallic Ne6ras-
Ia editors ON this question; because in the
opinion Of the speaker-a well informed gentle
nan-foar:ffths Of the people of Wapello Co.,
and Tosr-6ftAs Of the people Of the State, IA
vored system Of banking, and because a deli
cate sllusion is made to Mr.. sylvester's 'lats"
.nov .nothing convictions, . singular charge,
- admit, against an individual who 10 now one
~ the ,ery few immaculate democrats Of the
State.
a Nh. GILLAsPr took such explicit grounds
IN favor Of banks, pledged fosr-ftfhs Of his |
county to the same opinion, ''repudiated" the |
,,..,d money! Nebraska editor of the "Report. |
~ voted for nearly all the articles assailed by |
.be Democratic press, and finally for the new
constitution itself, We expect . most decided |
vote in its favor in Wspsllo county, on the LIST
Monday Of August.
But 10 the remarks
an GlILASPY. rise here sir, at this late
hour Of the night to make personal explana-
,on hold in my hand the newspaper known
!. the "Daily Evening Reporter, published in
III. city. dated February %, in which find that
tour members Of the Democratic party upon this
floor. are held up to the public gaze as the only
democrats in this convention SO far as those
.s,,lemen are concerned | have not word to
e. hn, that is followed by an article reading
avs,v other democrat upon this floor out of the
nar,y. The article is as follows:
.Axr1HAsk MEuBERs.-AYERS, EMERSON, |
PETERS. SOLOMON. The above gentlemen
are announced to us as the regular, genuine
Hard-saonev A nil Bank Members Of the COnst !
tu,ional Conveution-a very respectable and
worthy "Quarte;te" of Independent Democrats:
but. OF course, not leaven enough to leaven the
lamp consequently, il is to be hoped the latter
will originate a very nnpdtatdbe as well as sndt-
oessi5ie loaf for the dear Shnplaster-loving
People" H.
desire 10 say, as democratic member of !
this convektion, that came here to represent,
not only the democratic party Of my county, or
district, or the democratic party OF the State,
but, so far as in me lies, to represent the great
interests and wishes Of the entire people OF the
State l am certain that by my vote here Tor
che adoption of the article on corporations,
shall represent touy.ftihs OF the entire popuia-
ton Of my county. l repudate the idea that
the editor OF this paper shall assume to himself !
the province of reading out Of the democratic J
party any of the members of that party-and | y
speak more particularly for mysef-who were 0
democrats before he was born, and who have "
been democrats good deal longer than he has 8
been of late wears. undertake to say that | b
haze always been, as l am now, in favor of c
banks upon sound and safe basis. am salts t.
fed that toar.ftfhs of the people of this State
are in favor Of such banks. This article is not e.
Just what we desire; but I shall vote for it, be- p
leving it to be the best thing we can do. am p
willing that the people should have the right to o
determine this question for themselves have u
no doubt that these four gentlemen all voted o
honestly; but have no idea that the gentle.
man from Nils, Mr.. Solomon, or any other a
,ne OF t.e... &. ou.d nave been willing to assume a
be entire responsibility Of defeating this article
wish merely to say that repndiate this whole a
rticle, and the authority of the gentleman that v
'rote it." il