The Hawk-eye and Iowa patriot. (Burlington, Iowa) 1839-1843, 1840-07-02
For the Hawk Eye and Patriot.

For the Hawk Eye and Patriot.
Mr. Editor-As the friends Of Harrison
and Reform in this city and county are,
| believe, universally in favour of a Con-
vention to carry out their great principles,
and as the fifth Wednesday in July is sug-
gested 10 meet our friends in Convention,
at Bloomington, for that purpose, would
recommend that we hold a County Meet
ing in this city, on Saturday, the 18th Of
July, to appoint Delegates to attend that
Convention.
/ have ever conceded with my po1iti-
cal associates, on the Improperly of draw
ing party lines in the coming contest,
either for county officers or a Congress
sional Delegate. Believing it to be the
better policy for citizens Of Territory,
not to embark in the political strife of the
States, or agitate the principles of party
in her borders. The reasons that govern.
ed such policy can no longer exist, for
our opponents are already in the field,
battling for the ascendancy, and their
political phrenzy, base SANDER and no.
torious hypocricy demand that we should
arm for the contest, and defend our rights,
the constitution, and the laws. Our po-
litical position as party is an elevated
and enyiable one. Among the Conser-
vatives of the Union we stand between
her discordant extremes, and frown down
the fanatacism Of the one, and check the
intolerable abuse of power in the other.
To the friends then Tin this Territory
of Retrenchment and Reform, universal
suffrage and purity of the elective fran
chise. To those who wish :, sound pa
per CURRENCY convertible at pleasure into
gold and silver, who wish to see our
country resume her onward march
ssO'er the mountain wave"
To unexampled prosperity and the ma
tional debt created by Martin Van Buren,
extinguished: I would urge unity and
concert of action unAinching firmness
and vigorous energy. 1t is the noble
stand taken by our associates throughout
our Union, they have hoisted our flag,
and it triumphantly waves over every city
and village, and with the names of Har-
rison and Tyler emblazoned on its ample
folds. it will ever wave triumphantly.
The people have every where rallied
aroundit, and in loud and repeated cheers
proclaimed the business of their cause,
and the pre- eminent worth of the names
enameled there. Their huzzas have pier
ced the walls of the palace, and liberty's
artillery has made the Heaven-born Amos
shake with fear, and his coward sons leap
from their beds. Let us initiate their ex-
ample here, and rally to the contest, and in
solid phalanx march to the polls. Far
mers, merchants, labourers, mechanics
and all. Farmers, that the policy that
would leave you without market for
your grain and render it worthless, may
be crushed /; Merchants, that the currency
that deranges your trade, may be perfect
ed; Laborers, that the wages you now re-
ceive and the enjoyments and blessings
they bring may not be reduced. Foreign
ers, that the land Of liberty you have
sought as an asylum. and set your hearts
upon as the future homes of your kindred
and friends may not be reduced to the
unhappy situation of your native homes.
Mechanics, as one Of your profession and
identified with your interests, let me pro-
claim to you, the day has come when you
should not only speak but act. The gradu-
al reduction of the tariff is lessening your
advantages. And the hard money and
sub-treasury schemes are converting your
workshops into noisome tombs, and re-
ducing you to embarrassment and want.
Let your Indignation at the disregard of
your interests be heard and felt.
Come then, one and all, let us rally to
the Court House on that day, and teach
the myrmidons Of power in this Territory,
for their unwarranted presumption, a
wholesome rebuke. Let us teach them
that they cannot by power, threats, or
numbers, fasten those whitening doctrines
upon us. And tell them the fearful truth
that NOVEMBER, here and everywhere
throughout this broad Union, will be the
bursting Of Hope into certain reality and
deliverance. That victory then will not
be poised upon doubt or contingency, but
that the day will be ours.
A MECHANIC.
For the Hawkeye and Patriot.
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