Hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1843-1845, 1844-11-14
General Hamilion,s Letter to MT
webster in reply to his speech on
the Boston Comm on. Sept. 10.

oI0cIo Vi oSnuteo eusCecosNhs OS" 'o"oS
Bend in fast becoming u rival Dodona.-
The former is he Magazine from which is
distributed tho "vllanous salt petre" ofihe
Texan warfare and tho latter Tie laboratory
where the thunder and lightning oil MULTI
cation is manufactured to order.
Gen. Hamilton is reputcd. TO be OF the
:,hole priesthood Of disunion the one "ho
approaches the most nearly to political san-
ty, but like his fellow craftsmen in nnnexa-
ton be seems to pass with them on this
subject within the misty veil.
With All estimation Of northern char
acteristics as wide from the Aruth as his
false PORTIONS in pol,1cal economy, and his
perverted facts, he max bis sppsal to the
cupidi,y Of ship oype ST manufacturers
alone, to addsaAslnea az 81 this muster
roll Of nggr-ssjaa xiro. as if large
margin of prot promising vista OF
gain, could serpent of the Hebrew
lawgivcr sY up patriotism and con
stitutional r. tey and then crush in its con,
'outioHs tn0 SeAuSSH"S iosiS'ohSo VI AAo1'o'
and conscience.
II Gen. Hamilton supposes that by a
species Of moral patent right the people
south Of Mason and Dixson have the cxclu
sive poss cssion and the sole right of vending
the higher sentiments, he commits as great
an error of judgment as he did when he be-
1,l xy.f 1, hot
pean capitalists would embark in this new
South Sea stock bubble Of Texan bonds.
But it is wi tn his erroneous reasoning
that we have to do. and not with his i'm.
piled insult TO Northern character.
Does he suppose it will make one Earth
ing's difference with the moneyed invest
dependent State or an integral portion Of
our own Republic?
The immutable laws Of trade will not be
suspended in their action by the state and
condition Of treaties Of annexation. With
a proximity to the Texan ports of entry.
nearer by three thousand miles, we can Sc.
cure to our carrying trade an over proper
ton above Great Brita in. Every month of
the continual ion Of our Tariff act adds to
our capacity to push competition with any
other nation no less in Galveston and Cor.
pus Christi than in every other market from
polar ice to the equinoxial.
With the addition OF Texas and the weight
l..l,; bor ,lat
throw into the influences hostile to protec.
ton, Free Trade will give unrestrained in
tercourse and an unembarrassed rivalry not
only on the Atlantic coast, but in every
HI rho~ .r.~ ~ c-tr-
The whole bearing and result Of the at
tempt toannex, would if successful, be 10
give perlnanence TO the peculiar institu
tions" Of tho South. This il its purpose
and its aim, and we may rejoice, as jewellers
within free limits, that this last spasmodc
grasp Of slave ownership for wider limits to
perpetuate system accused Of Heaven and
abhofed by man, is sustained by no strong
er efforts to reason than the apocryphal
statements of Ex.President jackson Of the
Hermitage and the thread bare sophisms Of
Gen. James Hamilton of Oswichee Bend
NullificatiOm.
The whole tone of the press and the spir.
it of their assem5lages in South Carolina
indicate with almost absolute certainty that
the dead carcass Of Notification is to be ex-
humed and by the addition of the gums
and spices of loco focoism made endulable
to the nostrls.
The fortunate termination Of the intrigue
against Mr. Van Buren, in the Baltimore
Convention. has given the great shekina of
Disunion, Mr. Calhoun, an undue estimate
of his materials for eleyating slave labor
above the free service Of the north.
The election Of Mr. Clay can only avert
the disasters to our policy which would
spring up in the full flush Of victory which
should clothe Mr. Polk with the Executive
purple. With the success OF our ticket :he
budding beauties Of this rare household
plant in the Palmetto conservatory will
wither in the blight Of frost stroke which
we trust even while we write may have ex-
ecuted lis Office. Ere this, as we hope for
our true glory, the cabinet Of the Minister
Of State is clothed in the mourning weeds |
Of disaster and defeat-a loss great as it NAV |
be to him, rich TO our wide population with |
the promise of pe!petuity and prosperity.
Thanksgiving.
We give a cordial greeting to this veneer.
able heir loom Of our pilgrim ancestors
which travelling westward with the hardy
has now for the first, local
habitation and name" given to i, on the
opposite bank of the Mississippi.
Welcome-alike in tie dwelling Of afia-
,nce and the rude cabin Of the squatter-
DO the happy reunions Of friends, the ugh,
hearts and smiling faces as they gather a.
,ound the fcstal cheer, sanctiied by the
memory of those to whose pious gratitude
We owe the institution and it's observance.
ind thanks many and heartfelt to our wor
hy Governor who has given the stamp Of
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