The Hawk-eye and Iowa patriot. (Burlington, Iowa) 1839-1843, 1840-02-27
For the HaWk Eye. /
BURLINGTON, Feb. 22d, 1910.

at an article in to-day's Gazette, signed
sPlain Truth" This writer perhaps
two weeks ago made apompons display
in the Gazette in reply to "One of the
People" in the Patriot. Judge of my
then, in reading this second COM
munica,ion of '.Plan Truth" TO find this
valiant, reported, "official champion
turned from the feroci;y of the bengal
tiger" to the CLEANLINESS of the sheep
His communication of to-day is a '",wishy-
washy affair." indeed. In his first COM
munication,. ''Plain Truth lays the
groundwork for an ocean Of argument,
and from his sagacious remarks, led many
to suppose he would ,aever stop short Of
a triumphant relutation of every circum-
stance related by "One of the People,
But notwithstanding the thunderings, and
low firing, andlhreatening clouds, of Plain
Truth, it has rather humorously turned
ont with him after the fashion ofthe story
related in the Arabian Nights: '"'tile groan-
ing and tremulous mountain, after three
days agony, brought forth a mouse. =
Plain Truth, alas Plain( un)Truih, in to-
days Gazette evidently referring to the
statements of One of the People says, II
consider those charges as generally erro-
neous, or at least calculated to produce
wrong impressions. Some Of these have
already been answered, and some are so
frivolous as to need no reply are oil. .
4 Now. l should like to know what charg-
esi Plain{ un)Tru,h has answered. His
first communication said something re-
specting the Florida war and the nation
al expenditures, but as | understand, his
remarks, even then, were too general to
satisfy his own friends; One Of the Peo-
aple, relying on the goodness of his cause,
challenged Plain ra)Truth to 60 into a
full history of the facts, and not merely
equivocate, and glance at them as Il mouse
nibbles at cheese. .',' ~. .......
I l should like to know however, which
are the charges made by One of the PEG.
pie which Plant un) Truth thinks so 'friv-
iolous as to need no reply is it the
multitude of official defaults, and the mill
ions stolen from the public treasury
The old blue-light federalists, named as
(, being SO conspicuous in the Van Buren,
party! That Van Buren, opposed James
Madison, the democratic and aoar candid
ate, and supported De Witt Clinton, the
federal candidate for the Presidency in
:llsI2! One of the People produces, per.
haps forty Of the most grave and serious
charges of official delinquencies, &c, on
the part of the federalists, either of which
}, if true, and known, should utterly con.
found the character Of any party, and ye'
' a' w ''it.1.s..,.S saSs;,,.,
j ' ,'a 'o'n op,n, !, 81, - - ~, ~
d., VIII i not ven,nr;n 80, 70 dive
,' sss = .nol;,;c,l matters and ,binos
has acted on the whole wisely, atleast sc
r,r 80 reo.rds himself for ,bouoh.-f3gl
II .sVessels large may venture more, =.
!. 1i,tls, craft Should keen near shore" =
j In conclusion, would remark, that tn,
t. people are not lot So morbid to moral AMI
!, political rectitude as Plain un)Trut will
! his reported insolence of Office may i'm
agine. .e,f ID IN LEMuEL. !,
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