The Hawk-eye and Iowa patriot. (Burlington, Iowa) 1839-1843, 1840-07-16


eral }; Z. Wool, Inspector General, is
PRESIDENT, and which convened at Balti-
more, Maryland, the 25th of May, 1910,
"ior the purpose of investigating certain
allegations made against Major #. w.
LENDRuM, Commissarv of Subsistence.
and Captain S. B. DusENBERY, Assistant
Quartermaster. in relation to the manner
IN which they have performed their duties
in the Subsistence and Quartermaster's
Departments has reported the following
opinions: :
LIST. Opinion IN the case of Major r.
NJ. Lendrun 1.-THE board having pa
tiently heard all the testimony which the
parties interested have to offer, and after
having carefully examined the proceed
lngs, and mass of documentary evidence
is OF opinion, that there is not the slight
est foundation for the accusations made
against Major Lendrum; on the contrary,
the board is of opinion that he has, free
from all party feeling or political consid-
erations, discharged his duties in the
Quartermas,er's and Commissarys De-
partments conscientiously, and with sin.
gle eye to the public good. In this opin-
ion the board is cordially united.''
I'd. Opinion IN the case of Captain
$. b. Dusenbery.---"The board has
heard the testimony which the parties
interested have to offer, and after care
tul revision of the proceedings, is mani
-mously of opinion, that Captain Dusen-
berry, as discussing officer of the Quar-
termaster's Department, has been govern
ed by no other considerations than those
of the, public interest, and that he has
honestly and faithfully discharged his
duties::''
IL. The proceedings and opinions in
the foregoing cases have been submitted
to the President, and are approved.
III. the board Of officers, of which
Brevet Brigadier General J. E. Wool,
Inspector General, is President. is hereby
dissolved. By order of
ALEXANDER MACOMB.
Major Genera, COMMANDING in Chief
L. THOMAS, Resistant .Adjuant Gen
erdl.
We ask the reader to 90 back and read
the letter of the Committee over again,
and then ask himself whether it is lot
time to PAUSE and REFLECT before he goes
farther In the support of the present adj
ministration, ifperadventure he be of that
number. Let not your American feel
ings be turned aside by the argument of
the hypocrite, claiming to be DEMOCRAT
that if the other party were in power they
would do the same! The very argument
is confession Of guilt: The offence
charged is one of which no party was
ever before proved guilty in this land of
EQUAL RIGHTS and EQUAL LAws--and if it
is so to become the rule of action, then
did the Fathers Of the Revolution pour
out their blood in vain!---in vain was it
that BRowN, ScoTT, GAINES. RIPLEY,
and your own beloved HARRISON, mar
shalled your troops to battle and to victo-
ry during the last War, ifnow, under the
direction of a"Confdential'' Secret Com
maattee, all that men hold dear, is to stand
Or fall on their subserviency to slavish die
tation! We hear the answer which every
man will give who has one drop of Amer
lean blood remaining in his veins
DOWN WITH THE SPOILERS
NO tNQUISlTIONS--REFORM! RE-
FORM Ohio State Journal.
REAL DEMOCRACY-AIN'T 1T!
The following Development of the de-
sign Of our Van Buren, democrats has just
been related to US by a gentleman Of We
racity and high responsibility:
A Mr. Gephart, one of the Commission
ers, we believe, of Montgomery county,
and warm supporter of Mr. Van Buren,
and his destructive measures, fell in com
pany with a gentleman named Taylor; AN
old acquaintance of Mr. Gephart's and
who was, until recently, also supporter
of the present administration. but had
changed his mind, unknown to Mr. Gcph-
art, and now goes for Harrison and Ty-
ler;) the conversation between them turn
ed on the subject of the ensuing elections.
Mr. G. enquired of Mr. t. how he thought
Shannon and Sawyer would run, Zone for
Governor and the other for Congress. y
Mr. t. replied that he thought neither of
them could be elected. Mr. G. expressed
some surprise at this, Mr. Us opinion,
and observed. "Do you know what ar
rangement we have made in order 10 carry
the election?' The answer was, ..No-I
do not;" at which answer Mr. G. mani
tested much surprlse,- and informed him
of the arrangement, which is. this: "You
know" said Mr. g., ''that there is an APP
preparation of four hundred thousand dol
lars for the Public Works in this State?
Well, our plan is, TO prevent every one
who will not support our ticket from re-
ceiving cent of it. Every Contractor
must be Van Buren, man. and obligate
himself TO employ no sub-contractors or
laborers who viii not pledge themselves
to vote for Van Buren,, Shannon, &C.
And in this way we can carry the cleo
ton in this State.''
Mr. Taylor, we are informed, was, as
every honest man would be, quite dis
gusted at such 'democratic,' but anti-re-
publican maneuvre, and exposed the un-
righteous plot; for which exposure, it