Burlington hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1845-185?, 1845-07-03

'Ao""' ou' We ueIy any one OF his mOSt
ardent admirers to poin, to anything
interesting to the people Of the Terrific.
~, in which he has shown the least
degree Of capacity for the Office he has
filled. or diligence in the discharge Of
its duties. There is great parade in
this address about the Labor and res.
possibility Of the post of Delega,e''-
and if there is word of truth in Gen.
Dodge's statement, there is not can.
did mar Of his party. who will no. ad
mi. his utter Disqualification for the sta.
ton he occupied. "During the whole
period which haze been laboring in
your sercice. my business correspond
ence has exceeded that Of the entire
Delegation Of the State Of North
Carolina. represented by nine mem.
bers"!!! Gen. Dodge seriously tells
this to the people as il he expected
them to believe il. and as If he believed
il himself!! Now, we tell them il is all
arrant humbug. intended to deceive the
people. to magnify his own importance
and to glorify himself for the pretend
ed services he has rendered the Terri
tory. We venture to asser. there is no,
single member Of Congress from N.
Carolina, whose business correspond.
ence has not been as grea, as our Ca.
sar's. And yet he has the unblushing
assurance to publish TO the people tina,
has Cuisines correspondence" has
been as great as tina. of the whole nine
members from that State. But if il
were true, will any one say General
Dodge is The man to whom all this cor.
respondence should be entrusted! Is
he suitable person to transact an
amount of business sufficient to bear
heavy on the shoulders Of nine men!
Is he equal to the whole delegation
from State. one Of the ''orginal thir.
,een." and containing population Of
seven hundred thousand souls!
Nov, in the name Of all the gods at once.
Upon what meat doth this our Cesar feed,
That he hath grown so great p
A li,,le farther on the General SAYS:
81 have made 10 noisy professions
Of wha, mean, to do, nor have | a.
al any time paraded auy boas, Of wha.
l was doing. l have quietly and with.
out obtrusion. performed my duty to
the best Of my ability"
We have the best reasons for beIiev.
ing that Gen. Dodge is sincere when
he says that all he has done was with
the best ofhis ability, bu, if i, had been
will vi best ability of any one who
was FtTor the station he occupied, the
duties would have been performed in
rather different manner. Nor has
there been during his official existence,
much need on his part, of noisy profes.
sions OF what he intended to do, nor
parade and boast of what he was doing.
A very faithful mouth piece for the
General was always ready to trumpet
his fame; and his Bro,her.in. law of the
Gazette, has shown himself most vii.
ling chronicler of all his heroic achieve.
ments on the field OF fame. During the
sessions Of Congress the Gazette was
little else than regular weekly bullet.
in, noising forth to the world the move.
men's Of "our able Delegate"-how
many appropriations he has carried
how many post routes he has establish.
ed-how many Indian treaties he has
provided for--what he has persuaded
Congress to DO and wha. he has per.
suaded them not TO do-how he has
wheedIed the President, and how he
has ouswi..ed the Departments. Veri-
~ person mighs we'll have said, on
peTusing The columns Of tina. shee, du.
ring the si.'ings Of Congress. that our
liable Delegate" mus. have been pos
sessed Of accomplishments more varied
than any one living. VIVA. need was
there, then, .ha, Gen. Dodge should,
with boas.ful parade, publish his own
deeds to the world! He found his pur-
pose far better answered by having
them bazoned forth through the col.
umns Of the Gazette.
The late Delegate comes mex. to
speak Of the appropriations he obtained
during his last term Of service. He
speaks Of flee thousand dollars appro-
pria,ed in his motion TO defray the ex.
penses Of treating with the Winneba.
goes, sand the expenses of their re.
moval t, their future abode"!! Eth.
er the memory Of our Delegate is more
,reacherous. or his imagination is more
lively than usual Certainly the draft
he has here made upon the credulity