The Hawk-eye and Iowa patriot. (Burlington, Iowa) 1839-1843, 1841-01-14
OUR REyILERS.
MEssRs BAILEY, HASTINGS & GREEN

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The speeches of these three individ
ais, which they delivered in the Council
on the subject Of Printing, were publish
lin the last Gazette. A more hypocriiica
display Of electioneering vitupera,ive per
sonal abuse we have hardly seen. l
their hearts were as ..BLAcK with deprav
lity as the cinders of the bottomless pit,
they would not display greater amount
Of concentrated malice than they belched
forth while delivering these speeches
Bailey reiterated the refuted SANDER about
our having once failed in printing the laws
of Wisconsin. and in self defence. we are
obliged again to say that it is not true.
Hastings not only repeats this charge,
but, as if Greene had actually charged us
with an attempt a. br.bery-which we a
gain say he dare not do--brings before
the Council the statute in relation to that
subject. and predica.es an argument there
from, in which he seems to take for grant
ed that Greene had actually made the
charge and all the duty he had to per-
form was to point ont the enormily of the
crime and award the punishment! We
might with a great deal more propriety--
fnr r,r ~ faropro -, ~ ,,.,t,ar If f,, ,rb;l n
his refers only to al imaginary case--re-
fer people TO the Captain and Clerk oil
the Indian Queen 10 prove the story that
has been told about Hasiings-how he
came very nigh being put on shore and
what for-wllat became of his chairs-
and how lie treated an English gentleman
on his trip from Bloomington--a!I this,
and more we might allude to, to show
that he was a disgrace to his constituents
and inf, 10 have a seat in the legislature
bnt we shall no, DO it, for the same reason
he did not positively and definitely charge
as with having made an attempt to bribe
his friend Greene.
The last speech seems to have been
published out of the regular order in
which it was delivered. 1t is by Greene
but il is black all over. We pass over
his political slang and come to his state
ment Of what he and Hastings insinuuft
is an attempt at Bribery! We quote
from his printed speech as fol lows
"He one day in the lobby of this hall,
when there was some action relative to
the resolution providing for the printing
of the journal, accoslcd me in substance
as follows:-'I fear Mr. G. that nv friends
will not succeed in voting 10 me a share
of the public patronage; have been to
the expense of about $1,000 in procuring
materials with the expectation of receiving
a share-and it shall be for your interest
to go for me-
Mr. Greene knows that we never used
the language he attributes TO us. He
k'aoecs that we never made an ATTEMPT to
brlbe him. He must remember the cir.
cumstances that induced us to speak to
him on the occasion alluded to. We
shall now state these circumstances and
the conversation, and leave it to the YER
dict of the candid of both parties to say
whether any but the blacklist malice
could have tortured any thing we did or
said at that time, into all attempt at bri-
hery! We were sitting in the lobby of
the Council while the question of taking
up the resolutions concerning the Laws
and Journals were under discussion
One of our friends had voted against taxi
ing them from the table, out of courtesy
TO Hastings, who was still absent, not.
withstanding that was the day on which
they were legi,imately to come up. No.
thing bit his reluctance to break ouer
the rules Of courtesy at that time, pre-
ue,atet ass from getting The Journals.
At this jnncture, Greene came to the
place where we sat, and we loosely re
marked to him that we did not know but
we should be used up by our own friends.
lie then made some remark in reply,
which induced Us to say 81 wish you
could make it consistent to go for me: if
you could, | don't think you would ever
have any reason to say am nngrateful.
The friends Of Clarke and McKenny
urged their having simply bought press
last season, as an argument why they
should have the printing, and as | have
spent about one thousand dollars in pur
chasing a new press and type, to be pre-
pared for the printing, | don, see why
you can as well take that into consider
alton, with the same propriety.' Some.
thing else was said about our supposing
that Mr. McKenny would be satisfied with
what he had, without asking for the laws.
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