The Hawk-eye and Iowa patriot. (Burlington, Iowa) 1839-1843, 1840-10-22

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!, I'D v.,rr or '76.-The Newburg N.
"a r..s,,e contains the following elo-
rs s,.u,r from BENJAMIN EATON, one
neigh M Life Guards OF General "asA'0g.
1st I'd
nAe defendants Of Revolutionary
.x !. al soldier Of the Continental Ar
M for The last time TO speak TO his
~ M,rrmeu. During the suffering ser.
& Fl The Revolution was III s'r'een
", s,,.m,nf,, and was one Of the little
!. S who volunteered under Sullivan to
] i - . -, ..,he Six Nations Of Indians" l
a.as n. Of the small company selected as
IN If Guard Of George Washiagton
In, Two Of us are now living. was
\. Il 4. iouph seige Of Yorktown. at Val.
~. Foree, Monmouth, and thirteen other
,ah,tiles, and saw CORVALLIS surren.
1 II MI i our old General. My service ceas-
4 NV with the war. After all this hard
bu' M and suffering, in the street when |
mt in my old age to see the happiness
At,vs helped 10 give you. am pointed
~ "a BRITsH ToRy-yes BRIrtsH
v. Srmv-I have said nothing when have
!. y, I'm ,old 50, but have silently thought
s IN, nv old General would never have
ana asked out Tory TO form one of his Life
Hard, mr. would Tory have suffered
I, HAL have suffered for you. This abuse
s s.a. sns been shamefully heaped upon one Of
Mus. :svar old soldiers because he is what he was
'crri. SIden,h war broke ont, and what Wash
at.on told us we must always be when he
HI :'on Eook hands with US all as we were going
Sme. Twas a Wing in the Revolution, have
n. sn one ever since and am one now. AS
s4e Whig | enlisted for the srhole ,ydr, was
hiavor with the other Wings Of Thorn.
~ II Jefferson, went with the party for
- Ines Madison, was in, favor of the last
81 In, and to be consistent in my last vote,
20 Hot give i. for Gen. Harrison. He is a
III. liz. man, and was never known where
s mhe has been to take a penny from
!; }smighbor or the Government that was
h fairly his. We have trod over the
!. Rground fighting FOR liberty. His ia
e. ASthe was one Of the Revolution. sign
rths nf independence roll. and then we all
lis, Isa! out together to fight for it, and we
2 e.. oe- lsved it was true.
lseally appears to me that this cannot
o 90, M he same government that our old SOL
ifsa m helped Washington TO put up here.
q. N. fought to have Government as diff
Fns from any in Europe as we could.
As ii.-Weil. we done it, and until
Wy things have all gone on smoothly
vi, Europe was beginning to get asham-
ny lie way she made slaves Of her sub
!! y e aby making them work and toll for
! m ren poor cents day with a Standing
my over them to force them to it. But
FPssident now tells the people that
ng have gone wrong since the Old
' aH, and that there aretwentyth mis-
s9s AeI governments in Europe where the
/ 81 auxear crowns, and rich purple, and
Ds Re pcspeople rags, that we must FASH
400 5s III them if we want to be happy and
PM nNsous. We had English laws here
mind they were the best in Europe,
g7fa awe couldn't stand them and we put
n IN under our feet. We used to work
ps saere nothing then and we cannot do
ssin. Working for few cents day
[y- Hydo for slaves, but not for freemen
y ese liberty cost more blood than liber-
gss ever cost before; why, the very first
III as that started the old war was the
ding Army that the King kept quar-
= on ~: we told him that we wanted
~ Hldisrs over us in time Of peace. abut
,,sTsfa rased 10 mind us and saw Lord
d corvallis surrender up part of them to
ssfs 81 George Washington. Our Presi-
6. y now proposes to have standing
.s-wha. for? Beware!
auerson never asked for armed men to
aa sect him or elevate his successor.
l al lion asked for them only in the time
Ne late war, aud warned the people
s ne left his Office to be careful about
= qms soldiers in time Of peace. Our
ae 80 are filled with idle men who were
V aborers once when employment
i!5f 80 De had. The men Of enterprise
y once employed them have been ruin
me government. And now these
4 oot unemployed laborers are told
III ~ government that when they go to
,a gam they must doit for q few cents
4, that labor must be as cheap here
= among the slaves Of Cuba or the
al N. q Europe. Ambition and ignor-
rs on she part Of our Government have
our shops and stores. scnt,led our
a.etI our streets with idleness aud
az fp'cy. and given no encouragement
ISL n & amer as he looks al his grain. Are
.aN NJ = things sol You know they are,
~ shsve no motive IN saying what may
I 'sm too far advanced for office
sl Asng else but death--it will soon
1 l|N n ~ Ny little pension, and | thank