The Hawk-eye and Iowa patriot. (Burlington, Iowa) 1839-1843, 1840-04-30

The editor Of the Gazette declines
publishing the correspondence between
Messrs. Fox and Forsyth, on he;ground
that it would occupy more room than he
can spare. We are inclined to think that
his readers could well spare some Of his
acordy editorials for the sake Of having
this importai.. matter placed before them.
But that is none of our business, he might
say. We took up our pen for the single
purpose Of noticing a gratuitous thrust at
US, in his apologize paragraph, which is
as follows:
Eve may hereafter give synopsis Of
it, with comments, as the Hawkeye has
taken the cue from Mr.. Webster's speech
and gone on the other tack---in favor of
''magnanimous'' Great Britain" -Ga-
zette.
We notice the above not because the
Hawk Eye is implicated, simply, but be-
cause it seems the editor Of the Gazette
has been for the last few weeks making
strong effort to get up a war excitement
in connexion with an endeavor to identi.
fly all who are attached to the cause of
Harrison with being friendly to Great
Britain and opposed to war, whatever
might be the provocation. The asser-
ton that we took our cas from Mr.. Web.
ster, is false, as we have never seen his
speech on the subject, and when we do,
we shall not expect to find in it any SEN
timent opposed to the honor of our coun-
try. 1t is very evident that the editor
has taken his cue in misrepresentation
from the Globe. His puny efforts to in
jure Mr.. Webster, the National Intelli-
gencer, and the whole Harrison party,
generally, are almost too ridiculous to be
noticed. If he will keep truth On his
side we will try and compete with him,
but if he is determined to accomplish his
objects by gross misrepresentation and
pervasion of facts, we cannot do other
wise than hold him up to the scorn and
ridicule of the public.
1t seems that the only hope of his par
ty is to create an excitement about war
with Great Britain. 1t Hooks as if this
policy was fully settled and agreed upon.
But even this policy will kill them. Dc
they not know that Gen. Harrison and
the bulk of his supporters are the frs,
who will stand in their .country's breach
and battle for her rights in the event of a
war? Do they not know, in such an
event, that there would be more terror to
to the British in Gen. Harrison's sslittle
finger than in Martin Van Buren's
''loins?" Does not the editor of the Ga
zette know that while General Harrison
was fighting and achieving great victories
for his country during the last war, Mar
tin Van Buren, was making speeches
against that war and opposing Mr.. Madi-
son! And who is the editor Of the Ga
zette! Was he in the last war? Were
he to ask the editor Of the Hawk-Eye, that
question, we would answer, yes. Young
as we were, we were engaged in con.
structing Notifications in defence of our
country, and if ever that country should
again need our services we shall be as
ready to stand up in her defence as we
were then, although we may not make so
much buster about it as the warlike edi-
tor of the Gazette.
We call upon the editor of the Gazette
to prove his charge aud show wherein we
have gone sin favor of Great Britain. -
All we did was to publish the cores
pondence as it appeared in the public
prints. If his promised synopsis of it
should be different, we shall only have to
expose his Interpolation, that's all.
We perhaps owe our readers an apollo.
gy for passing SO many compliments with
the Gazette; the people in town who are
personally acquainted with the parties and
with the circumstances, take some interest
in these little pleasantries, and as long as
good nature is kept up on both sides they
will be harmless. If any thing can be
done to infuse a spirit Of we'll timed and
innocent mirlh into the community amid
the prevalence of these hard and dull
times some good may come out of it,
though it may be at the expense of the
'tHawk-Eye'' and Little Red.'' NE
like the fun amazingly.
Our readers will Of course make the
distinction between mere personal bag
atelle and discussion for the sake Of
principle. While we care very little for