Iowa territorial gazette and advertiser. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa Territory [Iowa]) 1840-1846, 1846-04-11

ley and Juab Henson, Trustees, A E.
Harker ives chosen Township Clerk. The
votes We do not give rs the parties voted
promiscucusH for township officers.
scassiR md Peal Office Printing"
Under this head The Hawkeye Of Thurs
day renewed his TRADE Of personalities,
while treating Of matter Of business. Our,
readers viii bear witness that, At no tim 9,
have We commenced series Of personals
dies upon the Hawkeye, and that we have
anifermly spoken against It. a. being un-
pleasant, useless, and foreign to the da,ie.
sfany newspaper, whe.ber political liter.
sry o. religious; but ii we are forced to
retod. - in this cs.e, we solicit the excu.e
e the reader, because We are -~areIit is
taking away from our .psscribers SO nuch
space vsaich -;snt Be devoted 10 useful
reading. This said, we will come to the
point.
Some lime last summer the Hawkeyc
received the post Office printing for this
place, the affidavit Of Mr.. Edwards. the
editor, showing that he published more pa
pers weekly than appeared to be publish
ed at the Gazette Office. We came into
the Office last November. Since that time
our list has increased very rapidly; 81, that
last week, previous to the time of printing
the quarterly list, we made an affidavit and
presented il to the Post Master, showing
hove many papers we were then printing.
We intendedto rest the matter there, know
ing if the Hawkeye Office issued larger
number, the Editor would say so in due
form, and that the printing would 20 ac-
cording TO the fact. II
Upon the affidavit, alluded to above,
being presentedto Mr.. Edwards BY Squire
Hager, r. NJ. the editor examined has list;
and mot finding il large enough to cortpete
with ours. he addressed Mr.. Hager !, let
ter severely rejecting on our truth and We
racity, intimating that We had not only
pIsSered ourselves. but that we had print
ed = aeedless ouuplss that week, on Ipar-
pcss &c. :he occasion; saying to Mr.. Ha-
gesahal he believed the law required him
(Hager) to examine the whole posse Of
onr oflce under OATH. This letter, Mr..
H. shex us; and upon our replying
that ~ Ne5s willing and ready for any
course, be replied that the law did net re-
quire him to do 90, that he had no such
power, and that he should do no more, but
be governed BY alidavits in the case. | We
should not have noticed this letter to; Mr..
Hager, il it had stopped there; but il the
next Hawkeye. this letter to the Post Mas
ter was published. oil except the wise ed
tiers opinions Of the law in such cases. pre-
faced with still more personal matter, and
insinuaiing, that he might feel called upon
4 70 disclose iacts which would place vi "in
rather IN unenviable position"
These facts having thus transpirea, we
telt called upon, in our last numbfr, 10
state, that we were unwilling to deal in
such personalities. and further, thass such
an unprovoked attack upon US in perssman.,
and 50 foreign to the matter Of business
which the editor made his provocatlyn for
the ungentlemanly onslaught, was '',nean,
low and cowardly, and that no high minded
man, 81 . gentleman would be guilty Of
them" reqesting the editor if he h;d any
Thing 10 say Of US. to speak plainly, SO
that We could be prepared properly /, NEE,
q, and not further to deal in such s.low-
bred twits and inn1cndos." We think
we bad just provocation to be somewhat
offended BY such an attack, but whether
We had, we submit to the reader.
This week, The Editor renews both bis
JatseAoods, and his accustomed insinuat,ons.
He says che (us) will not deny sending
one q his apprentices as spy info the
Hawkeye Office, on the Saturday previous
to his statement, 10 ascertain the number
Ne lhe) printed" Now. if the Editor
means this to be statement of fact, that
we did do %, we answer that it is an un-
qualified Jaisehood, and that lie never had
any Foundation, except his own suspicion
chat We were guilty Of such thing But
If be worded the charge in that Why, in
order = dny that he had charged Us with
such ar oct, then we say, such course is
~ Hsrksye, and TINT will be sufficiently
well understood. We take it, and 50 will
The readers Of the Hawkeye, that the Ed
tor Of that paper charged US with sending
: spy into his Office. We say the charge
i skazIy JaRse, challenge Aim to proof and
6vasj xia with the he before this commu-
niay dill b proves i true. II the editor #
hat paper sees ct to ask our apprentices
qcesflons 10 worm out Of them the secrets
e our affairs, hs may do %. He may Be
assured that they are not % great fasls a.
not to Be able to discover the obiect Of :