The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1858-07-29

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will please notice.
Our neighbor of the Statesman,
thinks that we do not read the Demo-
cratic papers, because we stated week
before last that we had s'not yet seen
IN full the proceedings OF body pro-
Tossing to be State Convention of a.
party calling itself the Democratic par
ty of Iowa." and because we said in
the same connection that we did not
think those proceedings had been
generally published by the papers of
said party. He thinks SO because he
afiirms that said proceedings had been
published by himself and by all of his
exchanges.
# our neighbor had observed the
presence and the force of the two
words which we italicise above, per-
haps he would have been spared the
trouble Of calling our attention to the
subject, although we are glad he did
so, and especially in the very gentle
manly terms which he employs, which
latter he win always, we trust, find us
disposed to emulate.
Now we don't wish our neighbor to
entertain for a moment longer the i'm
preston that we do not read the Dem
ocratic papers. We beg to assure him
that it is our constant habit to read the
papers Of all shades of Democratic
politics, commencing with his own
very well conducted and interesting
sheet devoted to the school of Buchan-
an, down or up these words, accord
ing to Mr.. Douglas, are synonimous,)
to those of the Douglas, Lecompton,
Anti-Lecompton, AMI English Bill
stripe, that we can lay our hands on.
The number Of all sorts to which we
have access is not very large, but con-
siderable for country Office. The
Statesman, especially, we read always,
and when we have read them we file
thera away, and now have all of the
numbers except 2, 8, IA, and a few later
ones, which, if our neighbor has any
spare numbers we should like to get to
complete our file. II, ~
What We meant to say in the article
quoted was, that we had read no ftsll
account of the proceedings of the Con-
vention, and not that we had read no
account of it. We had read in the
Statesman an account of the proceed
ings, and we have since referred to it,
and do not find it to be full report.
It's doubtless accurate so far as it goes,
but it does not give all the proceedings
as they have been made public through
sources of information other than the
papers Of the party. 4 y, y
1--we may be permitted to discrim-
mate We should say that the accounts
Oft the meeting at Iowa City on the 5th
ult, give results rather than proceed
ings. We presume that our neighbor
will not pretend that the report which
he published in his paper, contained
all the sayings and doings Of that in
tcresting body SO .fuN that a person
who was not present could understand
anything more, than what the Conven-
ton did. 1t is frequently of as much
importance to know what political
meeting refuses to do or approve, as
what they actually resolve to do and
approve Of Hence full report is i'm
portant in order to hold the party to a
due responsibility. For instance, if we
sre correctly informed by outsiders, the
late convention had a warm discussion
ofvarious important questions, such a,
the question submitted by our fellow
citizen, Col. Gillaspy, touching the
right Of people to vote on their con
stitution, and also another question
whether itwould be expedient for tlla'
Democratic Convention to endorse TIN
scourse Of Mr.. Buchanan, the Presidenl
Of the United States, and the head O
the party. These and other importan
questions we learned were considered
but we had not seen their action OF
them reported, and we 20 stated.
Further than this, we are informed