, 1859-06-30

doubt intended By the plauorm committee.
The Free soiler cau translate it thus: Without
a Court respected by the people, Us, since the
Of the Dred Scott decision, the
present Supreme Court is mot, anarchy, etc.
will cnsae. On the other l1and, the proslavery
man, taught by oil the leaders and platforms
Of his party heretofore, to believe that the
Dred Scott decision is the very gospel Of DEM
ocracy, will construe it in tlis wise: Unless
the people discard tleir prejudices and sustain
the Supreme Court, anarchy, and the derl
knows what, will he to pay. The former
would seem the moro obvious interpretation,
but the Convention seem to have favored tic
latter. Tor we find further resolution append
cd, declaring that the action Of certain States,
where tho Supreme Court is not respected, in
attempting TO act its decisions at defiance, is
the very essence Of Modification.
Altogether the action uf the Iowa Democrats
il Il novelty Indeed it c:.,lnot fl to elicit
angry discussion in the councils Of the party
elsewhere. Hitherto tic Republicans lsayc
enjoyed monopoly in the privilege Of 4ues-
ioning tho prerogati,cs and powers Of :he
Supreme Court, No Democratic Convention
in the length and breadth Of tic land I,as dare.
to bring the Drcd Scott decision under review.
except to give il an unqualified endorsement.
While nothing IN our political system is clearer
than the right Of the people to overthrow both
decisions aud Courts when they become maui
fest public nuisanccs; willie hardly anything
in our history is more frequent tlau the exer-
else Of tho right; willie nothing ;u tho moral
universe is more certain tlsan the decay and
extinction Of doctrines ut variance with public
sentimcnt--the Pro-Sla,ofy parry Of all tue
States of the Union have slouldcred the bred
Scott decision. and denied the right Of any
power, except tie Court ITSELF to traverse it.
But now come tho starved and battered Dem
acracy Of Iowa convinced hy successive de-
Geats that the people will have nothing to do
with Drcd Scott OF any ef lis apostles, and
gesticulatc at Judge Taney. Without yensur-
ing to say hard words OF call NAMES in return
f1r the ungrncious blow dealt s4uarely in their
faces by his lland, they 81 make mouths" at
hun from distance Aud even this childish
exhibition Of spite is 50 yelled with duplicity
and SO hampcrcd with proyisos, TINT tue SUI
preme Court itself might he puzzled to deter
mine whether it were leve1cd at themselves,
or at those treasonatle disorganizers, tllc Re-
publicans,
II the people Of Iowa wisl, to unrayel the
meaning from these knutty resolutions, let
them bcat Drieadier General Dodge and lis
ticket by five or ten Thousand majority. Then
sllall they set tic next Democratic State Ton
vcntiou rcpudiatins bred Scott and delying
Judge Taucy with The best cxplctyes in the
English tongue, Lei this attack of locAjaw
bc treated viii, n little more Of tic same sort
Of starvation wllcl, Las elected the doctrines
just nov promulgated. Mr.. Ben Sanuels, late
debated ca1naila.e lf,r Governor, was chairman
Of tic committee Which incubated the new
plattuEm. The progress Of ideas i'll this gen.
uenln and his party is in direct ratio with
WI 'Na"e 4teS''o'' s''''eAs'o " '''e "''o'e ~
taee7"s u t'e ssase'
URBANA NURkKBy.-rI4K CROPS.
On Tuesday ,uorui,,; about five o'clock, one
Of the editors Of the pnkss AMI Tu1nrSe landed
from, tue cars of tho Illinois Central Nuil-
road in front Of the residence Of our cores
pouttcut "Rural." Tlr cars stnp there, when
desired, to .caye passengers. Vie had plmos1
hoped to find him mapping" that ne nliel.,
rail-, him upon the virtues Of early rising
vide Thou,psou's ~Fa1sc]s 1uxur;ous." 6c.,-
but he had bccu out suuc time engaged in ths
poetical uccupatiun Of suwipv turn;p ,tt,i
Good for %.Eural," unl the good breakfast It
which lie treated US nut us in the best of hu1poi
t, wander through lis nursery und surrounding
fields to see whut tive wears Of Intelligent cal
ture can accomplish, on 1lc prairics Of Illinois.
Mr.. Duulup has two hundred and fortv acre.
lyiuc on botE sides OF the Illinois Central Kuil
road, ts,rc" ana l.utf miles south Of Crbana
He comn,cncei preparing ,hc grounds Tor lii
nursery ,i,rcc years uxo, but the planting Of th
krccs WIS not Lcruu till the epr;nr OF Isl,
Forty acres ar. ii present devoted to the uur
xerr, in which le has ubout twcntv.Gye thou
sand arple trees, und a thousand Of other fruits
of good sjze and sla,c. for distribution this fal
xnd next spring. lie bus in oil. probably balf
million Of PLANTS growing far future onerations
Mauv ar hi. dwarf ncar aud unn]c .recs arr I,
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