| Chapter |
Contents |
Pages
|
| XVIII
|
Congress Changes the State Boundaries—A. C. Dodge Issues an Address on the Subject—A Bitter Controversy Arises—Protest of Three Young Democrats—The Constitution Rejected by the People—The Seventh Legislative Assembly—The Rejected Constitution Again Submitted—Again Rejected—Governor Chambers Removed by President Polk—James Clarke Appointed Governor—The Eight Legislative Assembly—Another Constitutional Convention Called—Newhall’s Sketches of Iowa in 1846—Iowa in the War with Mexico
|
215-226
|
| XIX
|
The Second Constitutional Convention—The Principal Provisions of the Constitution Framed by it—Accepted by the People—Nominations for State Officers—Democrats and Whigs Hold Their First State Conventions—All of the Officers Chosen Were Democrats—Iowa Becomes a State on the 28th of December, 1846—The Mormons Driven from Missouri and Illinois—Exodus Through Iowa—Sufferings on the March—Settlements at Garden Grove and Grand River—The Mount Pisgah Refuge—Hundreds Perish on the Prairies—Settlements Along the Missouri Valley—The Des Moines River Land Grant—First State Legislature—Failure to Elect United States Senators—Many Important Acts Passed
|
227-241
|
| XX
|
The Election of 1847—Contest over the Election of Superintendent of Public Instruction—Governor Briggs Calls an Extra Session of the Legislature—Another Attempt to Elect United States Senators Fails—Attempt to Locate the Capital on a Wild Prairie—Rise and Fall of Monroe City—Land Grants and Railroad Projects—Census of 1847—Election of 1848—The Mormon Vote and Congressional Contest—The Legislature of 1848—Financial Condition of the State—Attempt to Make the Des Moines River Navigable
|
243-255
|
| XXI
|
Plat of Monroe City Vacated—Affairs in 1848—The First Homestead Law—A. C. Dodge Reëlected to the
|
