The Hawk-eye and Iowa patriot. (Burlington, Iowa) 1839-1843, 1840-08-27

ne country mas heard or ELIHU BUR-
RITZ, the learned Blacksmith, Of, Massa-
chuset,s, anu our readers cannot have for
gotten Gov. Everet,'s eloquent account
of his wonderful attainments in one of his
orations at New England College ami
versary. During the intervals of daily
toll he has become learned in some fifty
languages. He still labors at his trade
as blacksmith. The exigencies of the
country. however, have called him from
his anvil, and we learn by the Worcester
Spy that he took part in the Log Cabin
raising in that city ON the 18th and made
d highly eloquent appeal to the industri-
Gus classes of the country. We annex
an extract or two: %
working MEN OF New ENaLANpl-
am glad to see and meet YOU at this in
teresling time and place. l am this day
prouder than ever Of these marks IN the
PAINS Of my hands, which l have borne
from my youth, and which l shall carry
down with me to the grave-.,he incon-
| tesllble proofs that have been and an,
what am proud to be, working man,
| esteem it the highest honor and privi-
lege that has yet been conferred on me
during my short career, to be permitted
to speak to you on this glorious occasion.
% Saving my hopes of Heaven, have
never, in all my busy days and nights,
in all the reveries of my Imagination, in
all my ''longings for fame" never have
had an aspiration that reached above or
beyond the hope of seeing you reinstated
into all the honors and privileges of NOR
al, intellectual and civil beings, and priv.
leges of freemen! Brethren of the. hard
and horny hand, as opposed as it may be
to my natural tastes and habits to speak
in public, yet if, eyerI see such bastard
and dwelling drones as Bentonsand Buch-
anan plotting to sell for mere mess of
pottage, these your high destinies, these
your indefeasible palrimony and birth
right; if | stand by and .'care not for the
afiliction of Joseph" or forget to open
my mouth to plead your cause, then lie,
this b!is,ered right hand s'forget its cum
ning," and my tongue be sIlled in ever
lasting silence" r...,... - .s5s ~
We annex the concluding PASSAGE Of
his speech, and regret that we have M.
room for the whole of it: ,...g..# s,.l
''When Bunker Hill sent forth its thun-
ders, 1t Is said that the echo was heard
among the rocks and dells of the Green
Mountains, and upon the tops of the Allie
ghanles. remember an anecdote, some-
what Illustrative of this. I once heard
two veterans, in old Berkshire, speaking
OF the glorious ,seyenteenth-nott this 9Th,
but on the other 18th. Said they; "We
were hoeing corn out here in the lot; and
we tried and tried to work but we could
not do it. We then stopped and leaned
on our hoe handles, and began to talk
about our country. And while we spoke
OF Its rights. of American liberty, oar.
hearts burned aOitbi,a as. And then we
listened, for we thought we heard some
thing. By and by, low, heavy, boom
ing sound came rolling and rolling ON
over the mountains, and it came over our
corn field, and the earth shook and trem-
bled, aud the ground began TO move under
out feet, and before we were aware we.
found ourselves away out on the other
rou. And then we stuck UP our hoes in
the furrow, and went over 10 old Zac
Bigelow's and zoe told him to lend as
has gan." II New England should speak
as she ought, another such sound would
go out over all this land, and thousands
OF our cheated fellow countrymen, WHO
have so long followedthe rninous plouah-
share of this administrator. would find
themselves, ere they were aware ON an
other roW. And when, at the expiration
of four years. they should have hoed out
that ro,0, they would come round again
lnfallibly and instinctiyely, on the
BEND.
The Feliciana Journal says, IN relation
TO the election of Gen. gDawson---ss20
Wings in thislparish, veted' for General
dawson, the Democrats candidate for
Congress. Take that 10 from Daw sons
majority, and the district is Wing. We
mention this that The public mind may