Daily Democrat and news. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1859-1864, 1862-01-16
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OFFICIAL PAPER OF TIE CITY.
THE GOVERNORS MESSAGE

w r,0r'S |"' o'"'''''" Of T. a State
and the Governor has ,br, ,e o'a,e'
whole of his long mee 'ughont 'ne
strictly to Chi, 'sase' oon""0N
is 10 it no interfer 'purPose' "e''
nee with the Federal
best aa suggestions as to the
none Of !, of conducting the war; ana
d;sdpu, &c bombast which has so often
no,a ed the messages of our Cover
We regret, and so does every good
citizen, we doubt net, the unfavorabic
picture which the Governor gives OF our
financial condition. Although not Who'll
lv unprepared for the admission made
by His Excellency, We are still surprised
to find that our anticipations have been
exceeded by the reality. With our taxes
delinquent to the amount Of 100000,
with unpaid warrants on the Treasury
70 the amount Of SlO3,C45, drawing in
tcrest at the rate Of per cent, with
100000, to be raised TIE present year,
with the admission by the Executive OF
the State, that cur States credit is SO
entirely destroyed by wanton and unjust
attacks upon it by New York city
papers, we may well be apprehcnslve of
the future, and hope that the present
Legislature will have wisdom enough tc
cx,ricatc the State from its difficulties.
Aud we trust that no factious opposition
will D prevent any measure which is Tor
the reli ef of the State, from being adopt.
ed. 1t is true, that for the past four
years, during which, this large deIln-
quency of tax has malnly occurred, the
admins, ration Of State affairs has been
almost e xclusively under the control OF
Republi can officials, and that the Dem
ocrAtic party, as u party, are not IN the
least to blame for the present condition
OF affairs, Tut it bchooves every man
who has the good Of tbs State at heart,
to lend all his influence to speedily rem
edying the evil. Let us do what We
Can to place our State upon her proper
footing The credit Of Iowa should be
as GOO as that of any State in the
Union, and it is want of confidence alone
which has destroyed it.
In c, ,nnecuon with the revenue, the
Govern or recommends that our law be
change i SO as to allow Treasury Notes
of the United States and notes of the
Bank of the State Of Iowa to be received
for the payment ef State taxes. This IS
but fair. if in the meantime they arc to
constitu te our circulation as seems likely
to be tn 6 case.
In con sequence of the pecuniary con-
tltion of the State the Governor has ex-
perienced much d fficulty in providing
for the tro ops which we have furnished
to the genera Government. "After pro
vding cloth in g tor the lst,2d and Sd reg
imcnts," he sa VS., :" found it utterly i'm
possible to pro wide for those subsequent,
ly raised, and " as compelled to rely up
on the general Government for that pur-
pose, and although it was matter OF
much modification to me to bo compel.
led to allow our troops to leave the
State ununiformed and unarmed, yet
l am induced to bell eve the result has
been as we'll for the troops and the gen.
cral Government" ard the people OF
Iowa sympathize with the Governor in
his modification though they may not
perhaps agree with him in tho consola-
tory clause above quoted. Farther on he
tells us " our troops have suffered great
" from sickness" and attributes it to
some extent to swami of care among the
men themselves, to change in their
mode Of l,fe,to their eating badly cooked
food, and to the greater extent to the
want OF proper hospitals, proper comforts
for the sick, proper nurses and sufficient
meulcai alu. IL llc uONeIHoI Hdu az
ded to these causes that the sickness
was in many cases incurred by exposure
without proper clothing, that even our
brave Iowa lst, which he professed to
have clothed and equipped before send
ing them to Missouri, fought the bat
tie Of Wilson's Creek almost in rags, he
would have probably have stated nearer
the entire truth. We do not blame the
Governor for not accomplishing impos-
sibiities. Perhaps he used the means
at his disposal to the best advantage,
and as he has not been very full on this
point We will not condemn him unheard.
These two important topics occupy more
than half the space which the Governor
has devoted to his message The re-
mainder is taken up with the State af.
fairs, and no mere summary can do jus.
tice to the information contained. Up.
on the whole the message is plain, ,un.
pretending statement OF the condition of
our own State. Federal matters and par
ty politics are omitted entirely, and it
seems to have been his Excellency's in
tention merely to direct the attention of