Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1858-04-10
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"e cut from Pennsylvania paper the
following account of Lee omptori mee,;,o :,
"aynesburgh, Green county, wherein it will
DC seen that Rev: II. 9. Dean, of this state
hgures conspicaously, aud gives Lecow 4
lick back, with bis accustome., -."pnas's
and hearty good will
On Tuesday evening die 10Th 'nst.' the
Lecomptonites of Cru county aao, as 'hey
thought, all things.n readiness Tor whole
sale endorsement that stupendous fraud
The hangers,,n had been given the cue, the
cheering" party well drilled and properly
distributed, the resolves cut and dry; the
meeting. organized, and matters generally
bidding fair to ''go merry as marriage bells"
Resolution LIST. Was eul"gis'io of psmOo:
ID. That the President means well. These
passed quietly-without muck s'noise or
confusion"
Sd. Let us pass Lecompton and all will be
peace again.
Against this resolution and the entire
Kansas policy of the administration, Mr.,
Gordon made a short, pointed and telling
argument. In favor Of it, A. j. Buchanan
spoke an hour, and did all that can be done.
He was followed by Mr.. Porter in good and
well-lnkeu argument. just then it became
known that Henry Clay Dean, of Mount
Pleasant, Iowa, was in the house, and after
repeated and stormy shoutings tor ''Dean,'
''Dean," ''Ilenry Clay DEAN" &C., lie came
forward Mr. Dean is a man Of medium
height, of powerful frame-large chest and
head of the largest class. Except the unlnis-
takable fire of his eye, and the seit>possessed
movements of the man, a stranger would not
be apt to think there was much intellect
about him. But this would ndeed'be most
egregous mistake--as his audience soon
learned. l cannot report his speech, and
will not attempt a sketch of his mastery
expose of the Lecompton swiadle. lie took
the "bull by the horns" and called things by
their right names, and was wildly cheered by
the gallant people aroundhim. The doc trine
of the erpediency of doing evil that good
may come was laid bare to the bone. This
was done SO plainly, by illustrations so apt
and telling, that the humble>t intellect could
understand it fully. When he began to
speak, the meeting was rather slim in num-
bers, for Lecompton is slightly afraid of the
people. and don't encourage great crowds.
but us the speaker warmed up, and now and
then dealt hone~thrust at fraud and perjury
and travelling ballot boxes and the cheers
burst torth--the passers on the street below
telt that something unusual was going for
vard-ran in stayed, and laughed, and
vept, aud cheered. like their fellows.
have read most of the great speeche' and
reports upon this great question-but good
heaven you should have heard this man.
lie was ,rn to STAY Lecompton. 1t died 0ut
under his blows. Its friends grew quiet
then ashamsd-and then alarmed, and abso-
lutely moved an adjournment without taking
a vote upon the resolutions, and did ST. adj
ion"n! Very suggestive, this But they
did not do it without some viii ling about Il
stranger interfering, (and yet he was called
out by the sovereigns,) anG about the great
excitement which the speaker had caused.
Lecompton does so much dislike this hateful
popular excitement. 1t worries one 50.
The meeting adjourned till another time,
when doubles, sufficient Lecompton appli-
ances will have been put forth as to have
enough persons cry faye" on the resolution
to give The presiding officer decent pretext
| for pronouncing it scarried" without count
ing the vote. Poor Lecompton
had forgotten to mention that Mr.. Dean
closed by calling for three cheers for the
Hon. William Montgomery, which We're
given with will and .eartneSs which
showed clearly that "the big Pennsylvania"
retains, as he nobly deserves, his hold upon
the popu ar heart of the district.
He is now manfully redeeming his pledges.
The doctrine of popular Sovereignty" just
as he now expounds it, glowed through his
campaign speeches like live coal, and mark
nv words. the people, the honest masses,
will sustain him.