Burlington hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1845-185?, 1845-12-11

Last Saturday nights mail brought us
communication fron. the Clerk Of the
House Of Representatives calling upon
US to furnish papers to several members.
under the foll"wing resolution:
"kesOlved, That the members Of this
House be furnished with Is copies Of
such newspapers published in this Terri.
tory az they may direct. proUided such
papers shall be furnished a, the rate Of
% per annum"
We ito not know what other publishers
will do, but as for ourselves we should
consider that we were doing grea, injns-
'ice to the Graf, by complying with such
terms. !. is a species of "raifing" tina,
we mos, heartily despise. and which
should no. be tolerated by single press
in the Territory. Legislators must Ger.
tainly consider themselves clothed with
great potency if they expect to dictate
terms To the whole Territorial press
terms which exhibi, the niggar,iliness of
those who proposed them and which a,
the same time would rob class of their
fellow ciHzens, by wh,m many Of these
very Legislators are brough, into political
existence, Of rights which ate TOO sacred
to be tempered with. We have looked
upon The log rolling encroachmen's made
upon the pecuniary arrangements Of the
press for the last few sessions and have
witnessed the destructive influence such
ef"r" have had upon its independence
an! prosperity with con.emp, and silence.
This robbing The laborer Of his hire-,his
regulating the prices of printing which
really makes him a loser who gets it
can be and should be pu, stop to-
We know, as parties now stand, our
opponents are far the creates, losers; bu,
we are coD,ending Cor principle, and in
such a contest the gain or loss of either
party is of no consequence. We call
upon the press generally and universally
throug bout the Territory TO repudiale all
participation IN the unwarrantahle action
Of those Legislative demagogues who
have shown disposition u infringe upon
their rights. an! especially to refuse
furnishing the lie legislature with single
newspaper on the terms proposed. If
wings have lent their aid in the adoption
Of the above resolution they have doubt
less done i. with a mistaken notion that
good might grow out of it. They may
depend upon il, however, thai straight.
forward course in this and all other mat.
ters without ever resOrting TO the log
rolling order Of the day, will gain for them
more friends and more votes. If they
should hereafter need them. than any
other course.
The terms proposed by the Legislature
are much lower than those allowed 10 in
dividuals. No press could be sustained
by such patronage. In our published
terms we receive no subscriptions short
of six months and all such. even, have to
pay $l,25 in advance. Single papers
five cents per copy. Every one will see
that j, would be wronglng our subscribers
as well as ourselves to accep, Of The terms
laid down By the Legislature. We care
for Legislators no more than we do f,r
other men, nor go much, even, when they
at,emp, to make use Of their brief au,ho-
ri,y in crippling the independence and
bringing into disrepu,e the only safeguard
and palladium Of the peoples rights.
Gov. James Clarke.
We are naturally gratiied whenever by
actual foresight or by accident we have
uttered predictions and those predictions
become verified. When we insisted more
than six months ago tina. JAMES CLARKE,
then our editorial contemporary, would be
the next Governor Of Iowa, the statement
was treated with derision and was consid-
cred SO apocryphal that none seemed in.
C neG to believe that il would ever come |
10 pass. Aud when we adhered TO and |
our conviction subsequently,.
even Mr. Clarke himself. not seeming to
realize the honors that awaited him. made
some very queer and equivocal promises
in our behalf. in case the affair should
take the turn we had predicted Well
time rolled on. Gen. Dodge had obtained
all he asked for, an! there was but one of |
the Dodge family TO he provided for in
this Territory. Tha. one was his
brother in law, Mr. Clarke. He. too,
vas provided for in precisely the way we
had predicted, by being commissioned
Governor Of Iowa. We are not among |
those who FIRE, and feel enviou., on our |
own account. at such family interference
in behalf Of friends. The highest auiho-
rity declares that he who does not provide |
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