The Hawk-eye and Iowa patriot. (Burlington, Iowa) 1839-1843, 1840-07-30
LOUISIANA ELECTION,

LOUISIANA ELECTION. b,
Returns Of the election, from all the
parishes in the State, had been received,
Except SIX, in the Third Congressional
District;) and the result shows HARRI-
son MAJORITY of AT LEASTTWO
THOUSAND IN THE STATE "a
majority greater, we believe, than has
lever been given to any political party in
that State.
The 6 Bill to provide for the express
sion of the opinion of the People of the
Territory of Iowa as to taking preparatory
steps for their admission into the Union,"
was finally passed on Tuesday, and has
doubtless by this time received the sigma
inre of The Governor. 1t provides that
the People, at the general election in
October, shall vote for I" Convention
or :. no Convention" and that the returns
1 be made In November.
1 The votes ofthe people, we are inclm-
led TO think, will turn on the question as
Ito the time when the whole matter will
[ be consummated. If they find that by
voting for Convention it will bring them
into a State form Of government in less
than two years, we believe large ma
Ijority will vote the s.No Convention"
ticket. They have SO many privileges
already, without having any thing to pay
for them, that they do not feel inclined to
rush precipitately into a situation which
will in all probability entail a heavy tax
upon them.
The Apportionment Bill was still under
discussion when our paper went to press.
, The only difficulty is between this -coun-
ty and Du Buque. Each wants two
ICouncilmen.
''Gross Deception! Fraud upon the
. GermanS!'' was the flaming caption Of
$ an article that appeared in the Gazette OF
a last Saturday. The following commune
! cation sets that matter right. No one bu,
the most reckless will question such tes-
timony as is appended. The fact thai
+ these foreigners did not understand the
= difference between .3ati- Van Buren, and
e Van Buren,, needs no comments from us.
If this is the kind of stock from which
;, the Gazette expects to make political
) capital, they are welcome to it.
I For the Hawk-Eyc and Patriot.
Mr. Editor-In the Gazette OF Saturday
Il last, | perceive charge of /" fraud ant
e gross deception, is attempted to be fxee
e upon the wing who obtained the name.
# of Messrs Bermford, Vahling, BuEermes
it ter, Naue and Forling, Germans, to tn.
St Democratic Harrison cali. These Ger
J. mans, in note addressed 70. the editor
state that they. refused to sign the Cal
n until they were told by the wing that i
/ was for Van Buren, meeting, and thei
l. they readily complied. To prevent, i'm
is position, / have thought it became my
!. duty, as the individual who obtained thos'
.. names, to give a candid statement of TIL
% matter 10 the public. And in doing 50
i. I shall only give such evidence as fell be
. fore respectable witnesses. Immediately
Il upon receiving the Gazette containing tn
Is mote p,irporting to come from these Ger
i mans to the editor of the Gazette. calle'
]. upon them, and they admitted to me tina
: j told them it was an anti-Van Buren, call
- and further that it was opposed to Val
Buren, and his measures throughout, ant
twas for the purpose of nominating ant
- securing the election of Democrat
: Harsisonian Delegate TO Congress iron
: this Territory. They admitted all this
. vet said g they were deceived into be
i lief it was for Van Buren, from their owl
,e imperfect knowledge of the English Ian
= guage.' When questioned, how the.
IT could infer such meaning from what the,
Sc were told, they stated s'one man came t
as them with the printed call, and asked then
Y if they were Of the Federal Wing party
al they said no, they were democrats, an
es upon his request consented to have thei
h names stricken from the list of wings
or this they stated led them to believe the
til were deceived. then read the note to tn
n editor of the Gazette, with their name
or affixed, and asked them if they wrote {
J. authorized it to be written; they state
that they not only did not write or authe
lis risei to be written, but that they neithe
U lsigned it nor knew it was written, and TIL
ne they did not want it written.
d These questions were put through NJ
On Rotharmel, in presence OF The gentleme
he named below, and from them leave Y
al public I'd make such deductions as the
re may consider correct, without attemphr