Hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1843-1845, 1844-07-11
BURLINGTON, IOWA, JULY IL, 1914.
HON, r. d. DAVIS DENOUNC.

/ HON. R. D. DAVIS DENOUNC.
ED.-Mr Levi D. Slamm. Editor Of
The Plebian. having succeeded in un-
dermining and crushing Van Buren,,
now takes on airs. and undertakes to
apply the lash to all who do not readily
kiss the rod and jump into the Polk
and Texas traces. In letter from
Washington, after referring to the Let
ter from of the XIX Members from this
State. he adds
THAT card was not signed by R. D.
DAVIS. of Poughkeepsie. and one or
two others, and it may not be amiss to
say that in almost every instance dur
ing the present session, may say ev-
cry one involving an important meas
ure of the democratic party, Mr. Davis
has uoted Nth the Whigs. His whole
course seems to have been directed TO
the embarrassment. Of the party and its
consequent defeat. AS a professed
friend of Mr. Van Buren,, his conduct
was such as lead Mr. Van Buren's real
friends to believe him, early in the ses.
sion, to be his secret enemy. Upon
the Abolition question he was an imi,a-
tor of John Quincy Adams; upon the
Tariff question, his votes told the hol-
lowness of his Free Trade pretensions
Of 1910; upon that great American
question, the Annexation Of Texas, he
stands by the side Of Giddings and
Packenham; and upon the glorious
nomination of Polk and DALLAS, soil.
,ary and alone, among those who rep
resent the Empire States he pro"ls
among our opponents with words of
encouragement, which they themselves
de not believe. and which every mail
stamps with the brand of .falsehood.-
The entire Democratic party in Con-
gress haze lost all confidence IN hi0a,
and regard him not so much as rene
gade. bnt as one who has returned to
his first love. The reader will bear in
mind that Mr. Davis, until few years
past, was dyed-in. thc-wool Federal
is., and that he was originally one Of
the most violent opponents of General
Jackson's Administration. 1t was an
unpleasant duty to say what have in
relation to Mr. Davis, bu, it lie on innpor
alive one, and one which | will never
hesitate to perform. when | deem it
necessary to the success of the Dems &C.
racy. We like an open enemy. but
we despise enc who deals his blows in
the dark"
So it seems tina, Mr. Davis has vio-
lated the principles of the party by sus-
tanning the Tariff and opposing Annex
alton, and does not cordially submit to
the fraud by which Mr. Van Buren, was
crushed and Polk and Texas placed in
the OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES he is thrown
over. The plan is to Brighten others
from mutiny by this summary excom-
munication, but it won't do.
The Plebian can never oppose man
even of its own party, without person
ally defaming him. Mr. Davis was
not lederalist-he was not an anti
Jackson man-but he did at one or two
elections oppose the Albany and Pough-
keepsie Regencies Of his own party,
ljus, as the genuine Radicals of this city
have often been compelled TO do, or fall.
lsifv all their pre,ensions 10 Democracy.
l. hardly becomes Levi D. Slamm to
lreproach him for this Clay Irib-
uRe.
The BUFFALO COURIER says that
Gen Jackson in 1882 triumphed over
the II. s. Bank. aided by the Brokers
and Stock Jobbers of England, and tina.
said Banks
"Corruptions and brberies: It's pur-
chases of Presses, and Of Senator'S and
Representative in Congress, &c. &C.,
must be fresh in the recollection of ev-
cry one," &c.
| We insist that these savage attacks
on GEO. NJ. DALLAS shall be stopped.
II the party believe he was brbed to
introduce and carry through the U. s.
Bank Charter in 80, what did they put
him up for! They should either
withdraw the nomination or treat their
cAOuICat6 Will
Clay Tribune.
We have seen nothing better than
the following for long time. 1t is
from the Albany Evening Journal:
Certainly John TYLER, in his
message, in recommending the imme'
dia,e annexation of Texas to the Uni
led States, says, that tina, territory, !:
settled mostly by emigrants from the
United States, who ,UM bring bach
with them, in the act of reciprocaton
] an unconquerable lous Of freedom,
e &c. That many Of the emigranss te
! Texas carried with them an "uncon
, querable love Of freedom and an in
J stinctive hatred Of the confinement Of
a peniten,iary, has long been the opln'
ion of many sufferers a, the north! Bu'
!, we believe this is the first official en-
I~c.ont oc ~ ~ ,,tnrostinO fact