The Hawk-eye and Iowa patriot. (Burlington, Iowa) 1839-1843, 1840-08-06
|. HENDERsHOTT.

yOu Will iui ulSu W yOuI lcduCISi SUIlIC uio-
plays Of your character, according TO the
latest sitting, and though far from being
amiable or attractive, yet itmust stand no
less justified to your conscience, than i,
is wounding TO your insolence and pride.
II. III.
For the Hawkeye and Patriot.
Mr.. EDIToR-Fhad hoped when / gave
to the public an impartial statement of
my conversation with The Germans, and
from the respectable testimony | intro
duced to prove no fraud or deception had
been praclised, that there could no one be
found in this community that would
doubt for a moment, the fairness by which
their names were obtained, much less did
| expect to be assaulted with increased
srancor from a quarter unknown. Ye,
such is the fact. ga Citizen" with zeal
only equalIed by his total disregard for
truth, has endeavored to bolster up the
fraud. practised upon the community, and
establish the commences of the forged
note to the editor of the Gazette by max.
ing these poor Germans perure them
selves, and by the Introduction of the GER
tiicate of Messrs Menching & Kriecl,-
baum, testifying that they actually took
the oath upon their questions. 1t may
be as well to inform the public who they
are. Doctor Menching (as by the Gazette
he is called for ehecD is drunken vaga-
bond, aswould-be dentist, without princi-
pie aud without character. He, has, by
his beastly department, reflected as much
disgrace upon our village, and probably
more, than any loafer we are cursed with.
He is a fit tool to execute. the dirty work
his more discreet yet not the less dishon-
orable confederates have babe him do
His immediate chum, Dick Kreichbaum,
is,a young man know but little of. am
creditably informed, however, that he is
OF that simple easy nature thatan employ
er or an artfnI man could persuade to dis
grace himself, without placing honor or
riches in the scale, which | fully believe,
as the boy has went off into extacies seve-
raj times when 1 have met him, since the
appearance Of his name in print, owing to
that cause, no doubt. Here, then. is a
drunken, unprincipled sot. and simple
easy Dutchman, brought forward to i'm
peach, to fix the lie upon Messrs Rothar-
mel, LETTERS, Ladd, and Holingsworth,
men whose characters are equal to any in
this city, and whose veracily cannot be
questioned. And this is the authority.
These the '.Toadies" from whose state
ments the editor of the Gazette ius,ifies
his illiberal remarks towards me. Iii was
not enough for him to publisha commu.
nication which he knewlto be false, but
he must throw in a goodlv portion of the
chaste language he is so proverbial in
his 6rstremarks, and '.d-n me- by faint
praise in8the dark, that my assertedIerror
might be more conspicuous. Now, it
may be sport for him to get up ques-
ton of veracity between respectable aud
credi,able men on the one side, and pair
of simple tools Ito say the least of them J
on the other. But as gratifying as il may
be, he has issued his last libel. and he
must expect not only to hold himself re-
sponsible for what he says, but answera-
able both for himself and correspondent
also. / beg leave to state for myself, that
| have courted no controversy; but / am
not to be silenced by the dirty inuendo
C".of the more you stir it, &c.'''') by the
Gazette editor. He cannot commence an
abuse OF me. and be permitted to carry i,
on just so long as it suits his purposes.
Nor will for the future permit him to
speak OF me in relation to those Germans
AZ all. As for his propounders, they have
gone quite far enough, and to prevent the
use OF other means being resorted to, they
had better silence at once. And as to the
poor Germans, they are to be pitied, as
they know moi wha. they do; being igno.
rant Of the high responsibility of an oath
tn they should have been left alone to theil
own action. now put this question to
every candid mind: could you give pub
licatlon to acharge SO serious as that o
practising fraud without either knowing
1t to be true,i or having a respectful,
voucher, much less indulge in all name
Of Of abuse from such palpable forgery q.
was the note to the editor Of the Gazette
Every candid man must. deprecate such al
illiberal proceeding. / hold the principle
that no editor who desires to give circula
ton to truth alone, will publish any arti
Gle or attack, without being first satisfe,
Of its business. have now done with thi
matter through the prints, and have left
solely TO disinterested individuals Il
prove the fairness ofmy proceeding witt
the Germans;) men who, to doubt tllei
yeracity, we're to doubt truth itself, an,
whc.w probe this matter to the bottom
come up who will.
But to my fellow ci.izens Of the coup
! try, for whose deception this unparallele,
and most disgraceful proceeding has, BEEF
got up, lmust. before close, lift a warn
ing voice. call upon you to come ,ou
from party whose press has used, all ii
power and influence 10 heap obloquy' uu