The Hawk-eye and Iowa patriot. (Burlington, Iowa) 1839-1843, 1840-02-20
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What baseness of sentiment! what
party intolerance and prescription!
~ g. .lhis paperD'i. g. the Gazette,
''d'd not ase the cords .profigate and
tdouble-minded villain IN reference to
ONE, or his article.'' So you said:
and 50 you noU say Of another black
guard epithet you used, but who Gre
dts your denial! But you say fur
Their that the words senses steeped in
sinebriate sops'' were not used il re-
ference to 'sme and my article..'-
How can you with conscience saw
TINS? We're you not at the time writ
ing l1g OF s'n,e and my article" and con-
sequenly you must, of necessity, if
you had sense enough to know what
you was writing about at all,, have
used it in reference to my article by
way OF illustration, or argument; else
OF me personality suppose when
you penned these last words, you had
suspicioned some regular topper, you
knew, to be the author of the cad
dress to the people Of Iowa." but per-
'haPs learning afterwards that you
had misjudged, and the author Of the
address was not regular built TOPPER
but a friend of temperance, you lho't
it the more prudent to make back
track track. Really, sir, you put me very
much in mind of a man I once heard
boast, ''that though he did now and
then lie 9 little, yet he never was
caught at it, for as soon as one false
hood was near being discovered, he
replaced it with another.''
Sd. ssN.as notorious that a large
number at the most meritorious men
IN this Territory &C., are in this
partly" lie. the Van Buren, party.--
"Even the brazen front of 'ONE'
would blush to deny it, Yes, here
you have told the truth; should in
deed "blush" to even intimate that
the great bulk Of the friends Of Van
Buren,, though | believe mistaken, are
not honest in their sentiments. Ev-
cry principle OF manliness forbids me
to say the contrary. l wish ! could
say as much Of sscerta;n political
gamesters'' in the Van Buren, party.
who are doing all they can to raise
the party question in this Territory
by intrigues, and underhand manou-
.vres. Yes, Irejoice to believe that
however tearfuliy cor,'upt the men at
the head Of our National administra-
ton may be, and l honestly think
are, there is still a redeeming virtue
in the PEOPLE which will ere long
manifest itself with volcanic energy
to resuscitate the fading liberties Of
our country. But will you Mr. Edit
or Of the Gazette, and your compeers,
admit as. much in regard to the
friends Of General Harrison, as have
Of the friends of MI. Van Buren,. /
doubt it much. 1t is not like your
past language, nor is lit in keeping
with the ':federal press" The Globe
called the constituents of Mr. Bond,
of Ohio, ''reprieved debtors,' thus
slandering a whole district composed
principally Of farmers, for voting as
their consciences approved, and the
Manufacturer denounces Pittsburg in
the bitterest terms as shank rid
den and bankrupt city," barely for
refusing, in the late municipal cleo
ton, to elect a federal mayor. Be-
sides it is difficult to pick up a, Van
Buren, newspaper, which contains
not one or more of such epithets as
these applied to the wings, bank
saunders, torys, traitors, political
scoundrels, not emitting the chaste
words of the Gazette, talsehood, po-
'litical hypocrite, senses stepped, &c.
81 l. will now draw to aconclusion.
The editor, and his compeers Of the
Gazette, having been detected and
exposed in their underhand partisan
movements now ,ohine that one of tie
people has done more than any person
else to raise the party question here.
What are. the facts? Has not the
Gazette been all along in a sly under
hand way trying to do it? Who
doubts, let him examine the Gazette
from its commencement up. Did not
a cabal ,ofaVan Buren, partisans hold
a pretended county meeting in Mus
catine county last summer, formed
their ''corporals guard,'' and excited
the partyquestion all they could? And
was not a strong partisan movement
made by a majority Of the federal
members in the last Legislature in a
manner any thing else than credita-
BE. Resolutions were offered and
passed il both the House and Coun-
Gil praising the Presidents Message,
before, as it is commonly reported,
many Of the members had had time
to read it.. Shameful bowling Of, the
knee to the dark spirit of party adu-
lation! And when the reading of the