St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1858-03-11
st. Charles City, Iowa, March IL. 1858.

st. Charles City, Iowa, March IL. 1858.
Gen. Jones and the Kansas Resolutions.
We have received, under the frank
Of Senator Jones, copy of the Ere-
ming Star, printed at Washington and
in it we find for its editorial leader
an account of the presentation OF the
resolutions of the Legislature Of Iowa,
touching the admission of Kansas,
and Gen. Jones' remarks theron, in
the United States Senate These res
olutions, as is we'll known, protest
against the admission of Kansas I'M
der the Lecompton Constitution, and
request our Senators in Congress to
resign unless they can support the re-
solves and vote as therein indicated"
In Offering the resolutions Gen. Jones
said:
al present these resolutions as a
matter of respect to the State Legis-
lature Of Iowa, which has sent them
to me but not because | intend, or
have the most remote idea that shall
hereafter obey these instructions. l
know that the people of Iowa, when
they elected the present Legislature,
; had not the question of the admission
of Kansas under the Lecompton Con.
stitution before them. * Ny
own opinions are made up, I think, If
revocably, to vote for the admission
of Kansas under the Lecompton Con
stitution and unless some stronger
arguments are made against it than
any l have heard heretofore, l shall
continue of this opinion
The Washington Star introduces
these proceedings in the Senate by
some editorial comments, dictated nc
doubt by Gen. Jones, if indeed they
were not written by him, in which il
is stated that
He Senator jones' is gentleman
of far too great independence of char
acter to bow to the assumption of a
right to dictate his votes on the part
of an accidental abolition majority of
the Legislature of Iowa, on question
not in issue in their own election, and
upon which there is not the slightest
| reason to believe that majority o.
their constituents differ from his views
of the fitness of things, on full informa
ton in the premises"
Now, of what avail is it for til,
). Washington Star, or Senator Jones, t.
denouncc the people of Iowa and thei
> Legislature as set of knaves o.
y fools? Is it to be presumed that thu
: little scven-by-nine sheet called Eve
; ming Star, which from appearances W,
judge is about to set, knows NOR,
, about the wishes and interests of tn,
t people of Iowa than they know them
selves? Gen. Jones, we are told, is ;
j gentleman of too great independents,
J. of character to obey his constituents
e and then, as if to heap insult upon in
jury, the dominant party in our Legis
: lature is denounced as an "accidental
abolition majority" This term "abo-
lition" is intended to be used in it's
offensive sense, but we can tell the
Evening Star, and with it Senator
Jones, that this majority was created
to abolish douGhfaces and the betrayers
of their interests from the national
councils, so far as Iowa was concern
ed, and it seems that this has been
done pretty eflectually. One would
suppose that Gen. Jones would be a
little more modest in his assumptions
when he reflects that his own politi.
cal friends did not support his rc-elec.
ton, but set him aside and took up a
gentleman Of opposite views on the
Kansas question, well knowing that
the Lccompton swindlc would swamp
them if they undertook to carry it even
with SO stanch craft as Gen. Jones.
If the General wishes to know one
of the main reasons why Iowa to-day
has Republican Legislature, Repub-
lican State Officers, and Republican
Congressman, let him review his own
past course. Especially, let him con-
slider how wofully he has neglected or
thwarted the interests of his constitll-
ents in the Northern portion of the
State. Where is the land grant to
which the McGregor Railroad is enti-
tied? Where are the postoffice and
mail facilities, including a Northern
distributing office, which our rapidly
increasing business imperatively de-
mands? How has Senator Jones tyr
annized over all the postoifice and other
Government appointments for North
crn Iowa, thwarting the known wishes
of the people, and making every thing
subservicnt to party interests or par
: ty prejudices
1t is this course on the part Of, not
our master but our servant, as we
/ have shown him, that has made North.
ern Iowa Republican aud it is this
! strong Republican phalanx, (call it
abolition" if you please in the
North, which has given Republican
r preponderance to the Legislature, and
. is infusing Republicanism throughout
: the whole State.
II And now Senator Jones tells us tina,