The Hawk-eye and Iowa patriot. (Burlington, Iowa) 1839-1843, 1841-02-11

rate hotels, a fourishing Tippecanoe Club,
and are on the whole pretty orderly
set of folks.
POLITICAL GAMESTERS.
The Loco Foco political gamblers who
have taken upon themselves TO depreci-
ate the character Of the American people
by taunting them with having been
bought up at the late Presidential cleo
ton, are determined to play most des-
perate game to secure their ascendancy
at the next presidential canvass. Having
lost all their honors in playing the "last
card" having been ,hwarted in every
trick, they now seem determined TO
change the issue and make the "British"
party in the next election. No matter
how much it may reproach their common
country, no matter how much disgrace
they may heap upon the nation, the ef-
fort has already been made by those reck-
less gamblers and political blacklegs to
identify large portion of the American
people, with the gallant Harrison at their
head, with the British, and the charge is
to be made that the Harrison party are
conniving with the British for some wick.
ed purpose or other which has not vet
been revealed. The way they have at
tempted to create this impression is by
employing writers in England to publish
statements in the English prints that will
suit their purposes and then trumpet them
forth in the Globe and its thousand sat-
elites throughout the country. The
opinions of every newspaper scribbler
in England is quoted, if he but pens any
thing of which they can make any use,
as if he were inspired and knew all the
purposes of the new Administration.
The loco foco party should be the last TO
charge Gen. Harrison or his party with
being swayed by a foreign influence. 1t
is matter of history that their leader Mar
tin Van Buren,, consulted twenty three of
the Princes of Europe to know how he
should manage the fiscal concerns of the
country, and we are not certain that he
did not ask them, confdentially, at the
same time, questions concerning the gen
eral government Of his subjects, as he
considered the American people, which
resulted in his recommending the 2OO,-
600 standing army project-at any rate,
it smells as though it came from such a
quarter. That party is the only one that
has courted the foreign influence to help
them on in their desperate work Of de.
throning patriotism --lowering public
Notwithstanding private character and
destroying all nationality Of feeling. 1t
was that party, through their loco foco
state Legislatures, that encouraged the
borrowing such immense sums from Brit
ish capitalists and then turned round and
accused the Wings of permitting them
selves to be bought by British gold. 1t
was that party, who after contracting
these debts, refused to pay the interest
thereon, thus dishonoring and jeoparding
the credit of state institutions. In short,
it was that party which has been foremost
in bringing disgrace and almost ruin on
rs as nation. And now the leaders of
that same party are doing all they can to
create an idea that Gen. Harrison is con.
niving at species of foreign interference
than which no man more heartily despis-
es. What! Gen. Harrison, the success
full defender of his country from British
aggression, to be accused of looking to
England for an example in governing a
free people! The idea is not only pre-
pos,erous, but it is false, and his tradu-
GERS know it to be so. In starting this
new hobby, the loco foco leaders are
like the thief, who to screen himself
was loudest in the cry Of stop thief, stop
thief, while he knew that he was the only
guilty one.
Since the commencement Of the Tenn
perance Reformation in Ireland less than
two years-upwards of three millions of
he people ofthat interesting country have
aiken the pledge Of total abstinence. This
magnificent moral reformation is truly