Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 2, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 July 1858 — Lecompton Division in Iowa—“We are all Democrats.” [ARTICLE]

Lecompton Division in Iowa—“We are all Democrats.”

At the late State Democratic Convention in lowa, there was a split and a row on the Lecompton question. A resolution expressing confidence in President Buchanan and approving his Lecompton policy, was defeated by a vote of 105 for, to 163 against. A series of resolutions in which the President and Lecompton are not mentioned, were then adopted. A motion to admit General George Washington Jones, the Doughface United States Senator, to a seat in the Convention, was defeated by a vote of 2 to 8. After the adjournment of the Convention, the defeated Lecomptonites organized a convention of their own, and a resolution endorsing General Jones, the President and Lecompton Constitution, waa adopted. This done, they sadly and sullenly dispersed. The feel ing of the two factions was anything but brotherly. The papers say that about one-half of the candidates on the State Ticket nominated at this Convention are thorough Lecoimptonites. CO~Every vote in the United Str, tes Sen ate to increase the rates of postage came from pro-slavery members. Every Republican present voted in the negative.