The Hawk-eye and Iowa patriot. (Burlington, Iowa) 1839-1843, 1841-02-18

e. a.ay Of 200, 900 men, who if in ey.
efclsirs the light Of freemen were IN
guafdeais 20 speak in "disrespectdd
OF consea'puous'' manner of his maiss,s s
were 70 9e punished as court msr,;.1
sho 1,le .dlrect-7;es, fellow citizens 6.
thefonest expression Of your onin;a -
you would have subjected yourself F. ~ ~
penalty of being tied to,a tree and Saa'
ged, and for striking .peshaps q suns yss.
cilious upstart who. was placed oysr p ra..
as an officer, your, punishment would ~
DEATH-had this law passed, how u'I las 70
think you would it have been befa,e Z.
laws would have been written loo b Sus
above our heads for us to read, and T., f.
hat of his majesty placed in the ma,t ~
for US 10 worship. :"
They "sufer'' to sustain an adm;n;;,
tration that .'spurns'' the broad seal ~
sovereign state, and admitto seats n r..
gress the friends of the crown wbO..
claims to such seats are not sunerior ~, !.
their claims to a seat in The British p,r
Lament.
To sustain in power men who with tho
Tory members of the New York I,ecis
lature hold that the men of the reyolui;o,
whom we have been accustomed to REGARD
as Patriots and Heroes were selfish and
mercenary rebels, who s.fought for IsDv.
PENDENcE rather than LIBERTY, and re.
belled against monarch abroad FOR rHy
PURPOSE OF SETTING uP.A MONARCH At
HoME.' - al - t.t't.tt
To sustain president who orders a
faithful officer of the army to be court
martialed for the heinous crimes Of pur.
chasing supplies of opponents of the ad.
mlnistratlon to the "great wrong of the
DEMOCRATIC PARRY" A. A..
TO sustain the cause Of men who--f
their once bitter enemy but now well be.
loved friend Mr. Pickens. is worthy ofbe.
lief--are the 'svilest and most proAigats
wretches that ever crawled into power;'
a cause which has brought 10 its aid the
services of venal and pensioned press,
in slandering aud abusing every republ.
can who refused to worship the image
that Observation-Disclosures the King had set
up" men who for twelve long years
never wavered or quailed, who when The
sun of our prosperity seemed about 10
set in darkness, had hearts
"O'er all this wreck, high buoyant stilln
They knew that 's,he sober second
thought of the people is ,euer wrong and
always e6fcient," and they quietly waited
for the remedy which our glorious consli-
tuition provides, which should enabeth them
to put on record verdict which through
succeeding ages will stand as warning
to Charlafans and KnaUes.
The TRADES Of Loco Focoism, which
daily meet my eve, show conclusively
that they are but the Galvanic spasns Of
cause whose ''errasd on earth is DONE
| cannot close this hasty and rather
discursive communication, without de.
precating the wrath of "our ilustricus'
General augustus Caesar on account Of
any seeming harshness there may be in
my remarks about the party ofwhich heis
a distinguished "ornament;" | have been
particularly cautious not TO call him
Doctor or Larger, having his solemn
and often repeated assurance that he was
neither, but that the chivalry which char.
acterized his ''maideu speech" in con.
nection with his (k)nightly expeditions
the carrier Of a certain letter in Lee
County, fairly entitle him to be hereafter
considered as distinguished followerof
the knight of La Mancha, l think no one
will for moment question, and the mo-
tives that can influence him in honoring
our Territory with his presence for The
small sum Of nine dollars per day is past
human comprehension. fss
.-,e ITHURIEL.