The Hawk-eye and Iowa patriot. (Burlington, Iowa) 1839-1843, 1840-12-24

competition he thought the question
should be who can do it to the best adj
vantage. He was in favor as far as prac-
ticable to distribute it TO the different Of
fees in the Territory. He considered
that the fair course, and he believed that
had been the practice in this Territory
until the present session. He asked gen
tlemen to point out the necessity of de-
parting from that course. He said the
members came there as the representa-
tives of the whole people, and it was
for their benefit we should legislate.
The course insisted on by him he
thought would add to the support and
the circulation of the various papers in
the Territory. He believed that know
ledge of the principles of liberty would
be promoted by sustaining the papers
already in existence. He presumed some
gentlemen would not like this doctrine,
but as parties stood, he believed all their
constituents were equally divided. For
his part he did not see why any should
be afraid to sustain such a principle.
Democratic principles, said he, will bear
examination. and he was not afraid to
have those principles discussed. He
then closed his remarks of which the a.
bove is bare sketch by declaring him.
self opposed TO striking out the name of
]. G. Edwards.
Mr. Box said something about consis-
tency and against voting on party grounds.
He then attacked the principle Of .my
colleague from Du Buque," as in his ig-
norance he called DR. Mason, in regard to
the usefulness ofnewspapers. He thought
that newspaper information was calcu-
lated to do more injury than any thing
else, and seemed to think all the people
who read newspapers were as weak
minded and as easily swayed from their
purpose as himself. The people Of Iowa
will hardly recognize Mr. B. as being a
correct impersona,ion if their characters
in this matter.
Mr. Hendershott expressed considera-
BILE surprise at the gentleman from Du
Buque (Mr Masonry He seemed to ill.,
sist that the hostility that had been mani
tested towards us had grown out of the
disrespectful manner in which we treated
the committee on Expenditures. He
thought the member from Du Buque was
inconsistent because he voted to adopt
the report of that committee, and now
opposed the motion to strike out the
name of the editor of the Hawkeye.
He argued that all those who voted for
the adoption of that report were bound to
vote for striking out our name; because
by adopting that report the fifteen men,
bers who voted for it had sustained the
committee and by so doing they had also
shown that they considered we had treat
ed the committee disrespcctfully as if
no other motive could possibly have ac-
tuated those fifteen members than the one
he assigned p! He said moreover that we
had denounced the committee and in so
doing we had denounced the fifteen
members also! The fact was lie ex.
hibited holy horror at the independence
of DR. NJ. and seemed astonished when
he found that the Doctor could not be
forced to wear the lofoco collar on this
occasion. He endeavored to bring him
back by his peculiarly forcible mode Of
reasoning before the vote was taken, but
the Doctor was not the machine he took
him to be-.
He made the usual 6 clean handed and
pure hearted" asseverations, declaring
it 10 be the "truth before God" that no.
thing like partyism had been displayed
in the Legislature !! He said he loved
the Whigs as brothers, and acknowledge
ed that he had been patronized by wings.
He was not ashamed Of his course-he
believed in voting against us he would
be sustained by many wings, and stated
that he was 8. sanctioned by some Of
them to go against US. We can hardly
credit this. He hoped, he said, as he
saw US taking notes, that we would be
careful to state his speech as he delivered
it, and with the same emphasis. From
this task we beg to be excused. We
choose to report his speech in our own
way; giving only the subject matter,
and leaving out the ''naought and naought
nots'' and other characteristic and elegant
language of the learned gentleman for
some other occasion. While snnak;nr