Burlington hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1845-185?, 1845-07-24
Gen. Morgan rs. Gen. Dodge.

Gen. Morgan IS. GEN. Dodge.
That we may no! be led into any
MISREPRESENTATION of Gen. Morgan's
attack upon the Circular OF Gen. Douge
and upon his management of the qnes-
ton of our boundaries in the last Con.
gress; we give below two extracts from
the published speech Of the former IN
the Iowa Legislature:
"That Circular, then, sir, do CONSIDER
the most iN adrised piper that eref come -
Iio6t. II has been from Tie start, and 1t con.
finmes to be a source of the most profound re-
gret to the friends Of the Constitution ana me
political friends Of the Delegate.
"On the other hand, sir, the circular con
tains, | am sorry to sly, an assurance tonne
people, and per consequence an admission
To Congress, that we can never obtain lone
more square mile Of Territory ti'an rs pre-
scr,bcd to MS by the Congressional bounda-
rics" Now, sir, VIC, who are so deeply So
lotions on tee >uhiec Of the original bonn
darics, ure compelled to regret deeply this
unt;rneiy and uniortu n,te declaration
Fortunate. sir, be, ause, coming from the
source it does, it is calculated to weaken
our pretsnsiohs before Congrcss.-it IS I'M
fortundte, too, because il bfings the opinions
of the Delegate into public conflict ,cith the
opinions of his friends, and into conflict ,rith
the proposed action of The Legislature. The
misfortune to all, is, that we present TO the
world the singular spectacle of general
conflict among ourselves-and the danger is,
that this conflict may make an unfavorablc
impression upon the public mind, both ut
home and abroad, and leopard the question
when it shall be again laid before Congress.
We ask, when these extracts are
read, will any intelligent person cay
that Morgan has not made as direct an
attack upon Dodge, as has been made
by any Wing in the Territory! What
wing press has more pointedly con-
demned the Circular of our late Dele.
gate. or spoken of il in less respectful
terms. than has Gen. Morgan! Who
has Sc, forth more plainly the evil ef-
fects tina, are to result from it, both here
at home and in Washington!
We want no better authority ,hen
for the condemnation which we have
placed upon Gen. Dodse's circular than
Gen. Morgan himself. The latter, up
on the capital he supposed he had made
on, Of this speech of his, from which
we take the extracts above, seconded
by the influence of Mr. Lefller, who
had fed him with the idea sha, il he Of
fered himself as candidate to the loco
foco Convention lie would supplan,
Dodge and secure the nomination be-
You'd a doubt, gets up, as the Editor OF
the Gazette says, "a very foul a,mos.
phere" a, Iowa city during the sitting
of the Legislature. Gen. Dodge is held
in very bad odor. and before the arriva
of the delegates from the different conn
ties, Morgan has persuaded them all al
the City, ,ha, he is really "the big gul
of Iowa. and he ough, TO GO to Con
gress by all means. He bears hi:
blushing honors well during his day o
brief authority. until he finds that Left
Ter has been fooling him ''to the top o
his benl,' riding him booted and spur
red in his own race against Gen
Dodge. heavy frost has come an,
~nipped his honors in the bud. Nor
gan's name for delegate is not whisper
ed CIR thought Of in the Convention, an,
Mr. Leffler enjoys his triumph, by We
ry magnanimously declining to hay
his name brought before the Conven
ton. He consents TO lie low and keel
dark until after Iowa becomes state
A seat in the Senate Of The T.. S. is i.
prospectu.
Gen. Morgan and Mr. Letter yer,
naturally concluded some time ago, tia
Dodge had held Office at the hands q
the people of Iowa long enough.
was time for him 10 stand aside and lie
some others, as needy and as hungr
as himself, have chance at the publ
fodder. They were both, during the las
Spring, after the adjournment of Cor
gress, actively bu, secretly engaged j
efforts to supplant Gen. Dodge in tn
affections of the party. Dodge on tn
other hand was rather afraid of Leflle
he might be in his ,cay. Morga
was bat fly upon his rE;--"Sil
you are citizen Of M;ssouri--I car
not recommend you to the President f.
an office in Iowa"
This, then, was the secret cause {
Gen. Morgan's attack upon Gener;
Dodge's circular; his pride would nc
permit him TO bear withou, resen,mel
the contemp. heaped upon him by Ger
Dodge. He determined that he wnuI
run Tor the legislature and show hin
his p prlari,y in Des Moines, if he ,co
citizen of Missouri; and when he %
into the Legislature he determined il
would make speech abou. his circr
lar in order to show him his indepent
ence. lie snapped his fingers in Ca
,sar's face, and very plainly told hin
Il don, care that for you"
But tie opposition Of Morgan
Dodge was very shor..lived LefIl,
out played him in the three hande
game. Dodge, too, proved the able
AMI hall Ill H.