Burlington hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1845-185?, 1845-07-31


your interests at time when those in
.eres,s were in jeopardy. and through
whose pusilanimily those Interests
were compromised and your rights
were taken from you!
Will YOU vote for man whose am.
binon TO retain office for life has led
him to use the extraordinary power
granted him by the President, in turn
ing out good men from office and plac-
ing his creatures IN their stead!
Judge Letter has been faithful in the
discharge of his duties, and had assn
RANGES from the friends of Gen. Dodge
that he would be reiaiued in office, but
Doctor Bailey would not engage to ex
ert himself for Dodge in Van buren,
county unless he received the appoint
menl. Notwithstanding the strong as
surances he had received Col Letter
was removed and DR. Bailey is in his
place. If this IS no. political perfdy
we do not know what is. DR. Bailey
is one Of Abner Kueeland's followers,
and was mainly instrumental we be-
lleve in securing the Introduction of that
clause in the Constitution which per.
mis- the mockery of making valid the
oath of an Atheist in a court of Justice.
Wha, has Gen. Dodge ever done 10
deserve perpeluation Of your favor!
Every important question that was left
unsettled when he was frs, elected
Delegate remains precisely where it
was and is yet undecided. The OBJ.
struc,ions in the Mississippi. which are
now taxing our people most enormous.
ly for every thing they buy, in the
shape of extra charges put on their
pay extra freight, might have been re.
moved if we had had an energetic,
persevering, talented Delegate in Con-
gress, such as Gen. Lowe will be-
But Gen. Dodge has had 81 much per-
sonal correspondence" TO attend TO
that he could not urge upon Congress
our grievances in this matter, and this
lmportan, work Of clearing out the
Rapids has been permitted to sumber
ever since Van Buren, sold the boats
and implements that were employed in
this business. The work was allowed
to 60 on US. far enough to show that it
could easily be done, and then i, stop
ped, and il has stopped ever since with
out any effort TO sci II agoing again by
"our Delegate" Shame on such neg
ligence, by one TO whom the interests
of the Territory had been conhdlngly
committed.
Look, too, al the settlement of your
Southern Boundary. What has he
ever done for the furiherance of that!
Many of the citizens of Van Buren, and
Davis counties do MOI know whether
they will eventually be the citizens of
Iowa or OF Missouri. That question.
too. is Just where he found il when he
was first elected. II we had had pro-
per man i'll Congress hs would have
given his fellow members no rest until
he had accomplished something in these
important matters.
What has lie done for the people of
Lee county in the settlement of the
much vexed question Of the Half Bleed
Tract! We believe if Peter Viee or
Joseph Webster had been in Dodge's
situation, they would have had that
question disposed of 10 The satisfaction
Of all parties long ago. AS i. is, few
men lay claim to that which righ,fuly
belongs TO the many worthy settlers
who have in good faith improved the
land by the sweat of their brow. This
question might have been settled long
ago-good titles nigh, have been civ.
en-and the rishtful owners might feel
tha, they were in The peaceable pos
session of their property wiihou, be.
ing bored 10 death by official Dema.
gogues.
Why has not Gen. Dodge obtained
an appropriation to pay off The militia
employed in the great Missouri War!
Why has lie not obtained an adequate
appropriation TO improve the Bottom
opposite this place! Why has he no.
done something tina: would be effectual
in making the Des Mo.nes -,hal lovely
river,on whose banks the densest pnpu-
lation in the Territory is 10 be found
navigabe? He may have obtained The
establishment of few Pos, Routes; but
he might have done this from purely
selfish motives, TO facilitate his own
correspondence. He may have OBJ.
tanned small appropriations for improv.
ing the harbor at Du Buqne, and for
improving the Bottoms across the river
n.