The Hawk-eye and Iowa patriot. (Burlington, Iowa) 1839-1843, 1839-09-19
IMPORTANT DISCOVERY.

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IMPORTANT DISCOVERY.
The sapient editor Of the Iopa Terri
torial Gazette and Burlington Advertiser
has made an important and most int.
resting discovery. His faculty Of inren-
|tiveness must lately have been called into
active exercise. There is no question but
that his name is destined to be as immer-
tai as that of Rittenhouse, Franklin, a
Fulton or Watt! What a pity that such
vast powers of intellect-such discrimi-
nation of mind-such decision of charac-
ter and. frmness of purpose, should be
obliged to waste s its Sweetness on the de-
sert ar Oh! how long will intellect,
and virtue, and merit 60 unrewarded. We
shall certainly give the a0orlhy editor jog
whenever it is in our power, for the valu-
able information he has furnished us. He
has discovered that the persons who drew
THE carriage Of Mr.. Clay through the vii.
lage of Saratoga, 'were creatures rather
than men, claiming to be men, and that
that act was the grossest man worship.
Indeed! what surprising discovery. Was
it man worship when the citizens of Phi
ladelphia drew Decatur after his capture
of the Macedonian, through their streets,
and erected triumphal arches over his
head? Was it man. worship when the
Bostonians drew the carriage of the Father
of his Country through their streets, with
reclamation on every lip, and afectionate
applause in every heart! Was it man.
worship when Hull was borne in the same
way after the conflict of the Constitution
with the Gurrier? Was it man. worship
in thousand instances which we could
mention, where the same act was done by
the patent democracy party, now in power?
Oh! no. 1t was then all propriety-all
democracy--all right. TWAS right, too
that the citizens of every little town
through which Mr.. Van Buren, passed
during the present summer should be
enormously taxed to defray his travelling
expenses and pay his wine bills! 1t was
right that every burough corporation who
were economical and prudent enough to
refuse to pay such expenses, should be
branded with the titles of ignorant, ser.
vile, base born,' and other epithets as
gentlemanly and polite! 1t was right that
an aged and venerable woman, the consort
of the lamented and virtuous Dewitt Gin
ton should be called svixen, a prude,
and mad woman for refusing to give
her hand to her husbands most bitter and
relentless enemy? O consistency where
is thy virtue! o shame where is thy blush!
When the enthusiastic gratitude of Mr..
Clays friends, Tor his devotion to his
country-for his herculian labours in her
behalf since 1901 to the present moment,
for his disinterestedness in throwing
himself across the path of reckless am.
bition, prompted them to attach them.
selves to his carriage, it is criminal af-
fair!-a dangerous precedent! q most
servile example! Let US tell the Gazette
man that there were men attached to the
carriage of Mr.. Clay, before the splendor
of whose genius he could no more stand,
then the faintest taper before the radiance
of the meridian sun-Mer who have done
their country service, and who would be
an honour to any nation-men whose
brows are adorned with laurels nobly won,
and whose names will be remembered
till time shall be no longer
The puerile attempt of the Janus-faced
editor of the Gazette, to convict us of false
hood in relation to our statement concern
ing the money received at the Land Office,
lis likely to prove as abortive, as his en-
deavour to free himself from the odious
charge of duplicity and falsehood, proved
against him by Cornelius. Misery likes
company is an old adage, and we see it
verified in the course Of the editor of the
Gazette. A charge Of the grossest men,
dacity--of the most dastardly and cringing.
servileness to certain spoaOers that be-,
was preferred against him. When arraign-
ed, he stood mute as to the charge; he
tacitly admitted its truth, but attempted to
divert public attention from the magnitude
OF his offence, by launching into the mos,
bitter inrectives and billingsgate agains,
his accuser. His vocabulary of black.
|guardism did not abide han in the hour
OF need. The public noted him. He was
conricted out Of his ovn mouth.' The
columns of his own paper sustained the
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