Burlington hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1845-185?, 1845-07-10


office holder who has pocketel the
large em,lnmen,s Of his eigh. years in
office, after investing enough Of it
among us to buy him town 10. with
small dwelling on il! The friends OF
Gen. Dodge cry out that Mr. Love is a
new mamie is unknown to fame-he
is un,ried-he Is inexperienced in legis'
la.ion--he will be useless in Con.
gress where the majority is democratic
that Gen Dodge is tried veteran
sha, he is acquainted with the routine
of Congressional business-.has ne
knows The wants Of the people-'hat
his influence will 60 a grea. way ~
eiiec.ing that which no one else could
and wha, would be otherwise unaccom
Pushed. Now if this is not the great
est mockery Of common sense that we
ever heard or read of! 1t cannot be
uttered by any candid and sensible
man of his party. without laughing in
his sleeve, at what he considers h'st
rate Joke. To be sure it may seem
little presump.uous in us at all TO calm
question the prodigious business capa-
city aud qualifications of Caesar, who
boasts of accomplishing the labors OF
nine common men. We feel some
queer misgivings a. the very idea OF
speaking lightly Of the merits of a Gel.
ega,e who publishes to his constituents
iha, he is a match for nine common
members OF Congress from N. Carroll
ma. But the truth will out. and lie. It
shame The devil. Gen. Dodge so far
from being the grea, man he tells his
constituents h. $50 far from his being
"nine single gentlemen rolled into one"
is no, 1--WE will no, say ".he ninth
par, Of a man. the ninth part OF what
he says he is. |. is not necessary for
us more than to ailude to the important
queslions-impor,an, to the Territory
and its ci,izeas-w which have been be-
fore Congress during the Ave sessions
he has held a seat there. Sales OF the
public lands-pre.emplion rights-im.
provement Of the Mississippi Rapids
improvement, of the public rivers and
roads-our Constitution aud State boun.
daries-the diversion of the appropria-
lion to pay the expenses of our Con-
ven,ion. These are but few Of the
questions virtually interesting TO his
constituents, that have been before
Congress in the last four years; and
what par, has our late Delegate taken
in the action of Congress upon them!
Would not man Of capacity. Fl! for
the station he occupied, haze made
himself felt on that great theatre of IN
telleclual strife! Would he no, have
been able TO make some sensible I'M
preston upon that body. When ques-
tons were before it virtually interest.
ing to those he went there to represent.
and who looked to hlm to be their
mouth, piece before the naslon's assem-.
bled wisdom! And where was Gen.
Dodge where was the Delegate from
Iowa on such occasions! II may well
be questioned whether half the mem
bers knew there was any such Delegate
there. Ii seems indeed that all the
| great questions before named, in which
the Territory was interested. were act.
ed upon by Congress without, the views
or wishes of our people being repre-
scented at all. Our Delegate, even when
in Congress in which TWO to one were
Democrats, could no, make himself
heard. much less fel,-and even when
the most important and interesting
question Of all came up-our State
Notwithstanding is known of what
he did or said, bu, that he "RosE SOL.
EMILY" If ever there was time or
an occasion in which he should have
displayed the stuff he was made Of
if there was any in hint was then
and there. And YET, where was he!-
VIVA, course did he pursued If we
take his own accoun. of his conduct, as
given in his letter to his constituents,
or his subsequent explanation as given
in his Address published in the Gazette
or the concurrent testimony of the
newspapers of the day, we shall be at a
loss TO account for the blindness, folly
and INSURGENCY ofour Delegate. Our
Constitution had been before Congress
all The >e>slon-our Delegate had am.
pie time to learn how far it was accept
able to ,ha, body, and more than all. TO
learn whether our boundaries as fixed
in The Constitution were likely to be
approved. Yel he acknowledges it was
MOI till near The adjournment. and but a
few DAYS before the taking of the vote
tina, he had any idea of the opposition
that existed to our Constitutional boun-
i taries. In the name Of wonder! wha.
was his business a. Washington but to
find this matter out! Had he been
| writing business letters all the timer
Attending to- that pro-G gi-ous cores
nondence .,f his. and suffered more i'm.
por,an, matters to take care IF them.
selves! A fait',fcl sentinel is never
caugh, asleep at h,s post. A Delegate,
fl, for the pos. he hell. would have long
before kno wn all the secrets OF The ene-
my's camp; and have been prepared TO
NEE, ,hem--to overcome .hen--to tri.
umph over such opposition. To place
this matter in light tina, Gen. DoGgs's
inefficiency and incapaci,y may be
more plainly seen: it is well known
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