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

has been acted upon favorably by Con-
gress, while Gen. Dodge was lis advo-
cate! With every thing in our favor.
and with every disposition on The part
of Congress to deal literally and boun.
tifuIly with us, we are s,ln,ed in our
most reasonable and ordinary demands.
Some men have the faculty of provok-
ing opposition and drawing off friends
by the very means they take to concll-
late favor. Ii we had had no repre-.
sentative at all before Congress could
we possibly have Jared worse! Could
our respectful petitions. and our rea.
sonable requests have been treated with
greater Indifference and contemp,!-
Our Legislative appropriations have
been greatly reduced without any suf.
fcienl excuse. No Legislative assem-.
bly, convened last winter, in the hope
tina, Congress would diver. the appro.
pria,ion made for the Legislature, to
pay the expenses of the Convention
called to frame CONSTITUTIONS; now it
must be admitted that this request came
before Congress with every circum.
stance, with every reason in its favor
why it should be granted. And yet it
was contemporary refused to our
Delegate. No one believes tina. any
member of Congress cared whether the
money went to pay the Legislature or
the Convention was to be spent
among us in any event; and ye. our
liable Delegate" could no, call off his
attention from his Cuisines correspon.
dence" long enough to explain this
matter to Congress and Sc. it in its
proper ligh. before them. VIVA. a
pity i, is that he had so many ''busi.
ness" letters to write! We earnestly
hope. If i, should ever be his good for
tune to get back to Congress again,
that some plan will be set on foot, and
tina. eight men will be employed TO
write letters for h,m; so tina, in the
mater Of ''business espondence,
at least, not more than the labors Of
one man may rest upon his shoulders.
But our boundaries State boun.
daries-where was the Delegate from
Iowa, ,ha, he did not know long befnre
hand tina, opposition would be made to
the boundary lines laid down in our
Constitution Where was he and
what was he doing tina. he was not
prepared TO encounter that opposition
and overcome ill To what Territory
had i, ever been refused before to define
within the limits of moderation, her
boundaries as State on being admitted
into the Union! Were our demands
SO unreasonable tina, no Roadway could
be made in support of them! How
did they differ, IN this respect, from
those of Arkansas, Michigan. Missouri.
Illinois Others! What right. in
deed. under the treaty with France,
had Congress to coop us up in a litile
hands breadth of Territory on the
Mississippi river? We can come to
no other conclusion, on this subject,
but that we have been most unfortunate
in the choice Of the person who has
been our Delegate to Congress. and TO
whom was committed the important
interests requiring his attention there.
He was not the person to whom these
delicate matters should have been con-
6ded. Gen. Dodge may do very well
a. writing let,ers-he may, according
to his own account, be "whole team"
of nine men al that; but with due de.
ference we say it, he has showed him.
self entirely unfi, for The ardunus and
responsible duties otherwise devolving
on member of Congress. he has
neither the sagacisy, the diligence. nor
the efficiency to fit him for the post
The result, of his labors at the last ses.
sion would be sufficient TO convince
any one Of ,his-but look at the sum
total during the whole term of his SER
vice. Barren-barren-all is barren,
and unfrnlful Of good.
Now MIR Lowe may be young
man; he may never have been in Con.
gress; he may be farmer and law
| yer too; he may have none of the royal
blood of Cas- ar in his veins. and may
no, belong to the imperial dynasty
but the same arguments will apply
agains, ever sending any one to Con.
gress from Iowa but Gen. Dodge
We had better make over to him and
his dynasty. the fee simple Of the Del
egacy forever. Let the people look to
1t.
Mr. Lowe is plain mamie is one
of the people, he is allied to no arisWc.
racy but tina. which makes up the bone
and sinew of the land-he is identified
with the laboring and productive elias.
SEES. The floor Of Congress will, for a
time, be new theatre to him-bu. we
confidently predict, i. will be one where
he will soon feel himself at home, and
where he will make conspicuous fig.
ure The interests Of the people and
The Territory will be safe in his hands;
he will guard them as faithful sen,i.
mel. Try him fellow citizens try
him people Of Iowa and our word for
it, in the hour Of trial he will no, be
found wanting and fai.hless.
New Crop Wheat.
Mr. Shackford, on Tuesday bought