Hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1843-1845, 1844-11-14

RUS and Sylla: Farewell. venal city. TO
perish when the purchaser at hand shall!
appear" What was its contamination
The poet -uvenal, smarting under the
military despotism Of the Caesars, shall
tell. Conquest has brought in luxury,
and avenged the vanquished world What
was its end1 Ask the Goth and the Vandal
-Alaric, the pest Of nations, and Attia
the scourge Of God.
We close cur imperfect synopsis by quot
ing the concluding sentence Of the personal
portion of this noble performances
Il have now done with the letters Of Mr.
| Aaron v Brown and Of Andrew Jackson
published by Mr. Brown, with his own note
and Mr. Jacksons postscript in the Globe
newspaper, of the 40th of March, 1874.
! The object OF that publication was two fold:
| first to trump up shadow of argument for
a pretended remuneration of Texas to the
/ United States by a fabulous pretenson that
! it had been treacherously surrendered to
Spain, in the Florida treaty of 1917, by
our Government, meaning thereby the Sec
rotary Of State OF that day; and secondly, to
| g.ut the long treasured malice and hatred
! Of the Hero Of the Hermitage against
| John Quincy Adams, in return for greater
| obligations than any one public servant oil
! this nation was ever indebted for to anoth-
or, Tha: the argument for the annexation
or remuneration Of Texas is as gross an
mposture as ever was palmed npon the Gre
dulity Of an honest people, | have deemed
| it my duty to prove beyond the possibility
to reply. The vindication of my own char
j actcr from the ISLANDERS Of knot of con-
1 spirators, venomous as the head Of Medusa
upon the shield OF Perseus, was, perhaps,
due to yself-perhaps to my children, to
whom the reputation of their fathers intcg-
I rity is the choicest Inheritance can leave
10 them-yerhaps to my country, that the
confidence which her people have. through
| Il long life Of public service, generously ex-
| tended to ms, may not appear to have been
entirely misplaced
We give ia conclusion the pcroration of
this great yindicaton, it breaks upon tho
ear Ike the long drawn diapasons of an or
gan swelling back in echos from tho vault.
Cd arches OF the old religion.
Young men OF Boston, The generation
Of men to whom, nov ifty-one years by
aa;nee. . / .gAYc this solemn pledge, have pass
ravc it are, like him who adlr esses you,
dropping into the grave. But they have
I redeemed their and my pledge. They were
your fathers, and they have maintained the
freedom transmitted TO them by their sres
Of the war Of Independence. They have
Transmitted that freedom to you, and upon
YOU now dcvolvcs the duty OF transmitting
it unimplircd to your posterIty. Your trial
Is approaching. The spirit OF freedom and
the spirit Of slavery are drawing tog ether
for the deadly conflict ofarms The annex
I alton Of Texas to this Union is the blast of
the trumpet for i foreign, civil, servile and
/ Indian war, OF which the government 81
! your country, flllen into laithless hands,
! haze alrca " twlce given the signal-hrst
! by Shameless treaty, rejected by1l vtrtu-
/ Gus Senate: aud again by the glove Of DEN
/ auce, hurled by the apps tie OF notification,
! at the uvowed policy Oh the British Empire
peacefully 10 promote the extinction OF sla.
/ very throughout the world. Young men OF
! Boston; bainisl your armor, prepare Tor the
conflict, and say to yoa, III the Language
/ of Gagucus 10 the ancIent Dtitons, lhiik
OF your ioro.athers! Think Q. your poster
ity!
i We rejoice that this work has been done
1t was due to the veracIty oil history tha'
the covering should be stripped from thu
much abused transaction in our diplomatic
annals II is but common Justice that the
odium cas-: upon faithful public sersan
should be thus trilmphantly removed ant
the actors and abettors of this incendiar.
scheme OF national 2ishonor should b
tracked through the devious windlngs
falschood to the terminal point of Ties
frustrated plots and be gibbeted IN the chrof
;c!es of our generation as an example an
warning to posterity.
George Bancrof's late .Adaress a
The New York DIass Meeting w
, must do Justice to this speech and CIV
+, i high rank as a literary production