Sioux City register. [volume] (Sioux City, Iowa) 1858-1871, 1864-01-02
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l had intended 70 have reviewed the
Governors Messaee at length, but / have
already extended this letter 80 far beyond
my expectations, that can only glance
at it briefly. It reads we'll and viii sonnd
we'll outside the Territory, and il it will
do US any good anywhere in it's circulation,
/ bid it Gods speed. But we who are &C.
quainted with the history Of the man
since his sojourn here, can easily detect
the. sophistry prevailing the whole compo.
sition. His prayer is, although not in his
own language, that those who affiliate and
have associated themselves with him un-
der the naue before referred to, be renewed
to greater exertions until every official in
the Territory is Of his particular strip PEI
This is the iniersace. If not so, what
does he mean. Is is that some Of our
officials are not truly loyal? If SO we
deny the charge empha,icaIly. 1t is true,
however, that there are maj jority of the
officials who do not believe in his admins
trative policy, aud a majority of the people
| believe the same; but never were there a
more loyal class Of citizens in any Terri
tory than in this. Many could be named
in his ranks that come as far from being
loyal as any in tie Territory, but do
them justice by saying that l believe,
there is not single disloyal member Of
our Territorial community.
| There is an organization in this Terri
tory for speculative purposes entirely.
without principal or merit: They are
striving under the name Of - Union, to
give themselves influence abroad, with no
other motive than to strengthen themselves
here, that they may carry out the more
perfectly their corrupt speculative schemes
to the sacrifice of the best interests Of our
Territory.
The comments of the Message on Gen.
Suily are cautiously written, while every
"harpy' i" the rsnks Of this notorious
"click " are doing and saying every thing
in their power to dscredit him and his
Expedition. While Col. Pattee and Gen.
Cook would be the very men Of their
choice above all Others to command this
District. All this is for no other reason
than because Gen. Sully says to The man
who wants him to cross his terr7, trst sat
isiy me that YOU have the best and safes.
boat, and that the crossing is in the most
direct line on my route, instead for the
reason that ho is the iavoli,e of some par
ucular man or organization. And when
a man wants some favor shown him on
contract, he says, if you can do it cheaper
and better than any other man you can
have it, and not without, or in other words
he can not be FUSED" or influenced by
any set OF men for speculative purposes
whatever.
The Message recommends the amend
ment of the " Elective Law" very right
eous recommendation l will admit, as it
| is the instrument Of more trouble in this
Territory than all things else put together,
not excepting the programme laid to put
Doctor Jayne in nomination as Delegate,
aud the parceling out hay contracts, &C..
to influence votes for the same But the
! question occurs to all, why did the Gov
ernor not see these great iuperlee,ons at
the time this dctes,iblc instrument was
drawn. 1t was drafted to elect Doctor
Jayne to Congress, and it is believed il he
is hot the author Of it himself, be had as
much to do with it as any other man. 1t
came from the Surveyor Generals Office,
in the hand writing of young Sanders, at
the time when Gov. Edmunds was the
chief moving spirit there, Doctor Jayne
may have been the author, but he ate,
slept and roomed with chief clerk Ed.
munds at that time, aud the Bill was
manufactured there. The Bill wen. to
the Legislature, but some Of its impertee.
tions were looped off, before it became
law. understand In its original shape
il was the intention Of the ge,ters up, to
| ptOstAV sh"s SvGay 0otuleI III tAu lGtIIsOIy
should vote, but rs the Bill came from the
Legislature, such construction was no.
clear, Notwithstanding that the programme
was 50 perfectly laid that about one hun
dred Iowa soldiers did vote for Doctor
Jayne as Delegate. o.. !.
After eu!ogizing DR.. Jayne At some
length, In manner sickening-when it
il 70 we'll known that you would not hear
man speak we'll Of him in going the
whole length and breadth of the Territory
the Message goes on to say that with
great unanimity Gov. Jayne was elected
to represent this Territory in tho National
Capitol As much as to say, Doctor |
made you Delegate and you made me
! Governor. I vii! tickle you, aud wan.