Burlington hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1845-185?, 1849-10-18
Repeal Or the Spells!

the loco loco leaders, UKepe2 or the SpOlS, ~ IS luS
ily shouted from one end Of the land to the other by
these disappointed office expectants. In this they
but exempy the great principle which has ever
characterized them, viz: "Rule or Ruin.' It ap.
pears as though they wished every department Of
government sacritsed to appease for their disap-
pointment. That the Home Department is q ne
cessary to our government none will pretend to de-
equally undeniable. why did not the loco foco
press raise the shout OF srepeap' then? Simply be-
cause Mr. Polk had not retired, when this measure
was first broached, and they supposed that Lewis
Cass would he President-that il would be fine
den from which to sooth the rapacious appetite Of
many furnishing Office hunters. But;alas for them,
those beautiful words ~Presdent Lewis Cass, ''were
never realized except in their distorted imagina-
tons. Hence the shout Of srepeal,' is trumpe,ed
forth and caught up by every loco foco paper from
the Washington Union down 10 the Keokuk De.
spach. Well, well Captain, you may just blow your
trumpet as long and loud as you please. We pre-
sumo you would like to have it understood that
sou are actuated by pure patriotism. You are
brave fellow. You have no office now! but here
is aresolntion which you have thought proper to
publish. lust brush those spectacles of yours and
read il again, and tell US if it would not in your o.
pinion have been treason to have published it if
Lewis Cass were now president. Here it is, as it
came from meeting of loco focos in Broom coun-
~, New York: u tu.s.-,
ssResolred, That we regard the erection of an adj
ditional department OF the Federal Government
called the :sHome Department., or "Depa ltment of
the Interior"-with pointed disapprobaton. That
sc tsnn~ "a a
enee and tendency, both in theory and practice ,mis-
chievous and subycrsive of the true principles of
checks and balances, upon which the executive De-
partments of the Government were founded. That
its operation in any hands, and especially under the
control Of the present administration, with vim
dctve and INSCRIPTIONS federaliSt at its must
be to draw within its centralizing influence the po-
er and patronage of she gopernmenf-to serve as
hot house for growing up and fostering treasury
leeches-cherishing schemes Of privilege and mo-
nopoly, and serving political judgment seat for
the distribution of rewards and punishments. We
hold il to be utterly impotent for good, and preg-
nant with much evil, and we invoke the democracy
Of the State and nation to unite with u.s. from this
day forwarIin demanding its unconditional repeal"
ssAy" says the testy editor of the Nashville IN
ion Grid the country Of Butcher Ewing by repeating
his DEPARTMENT.
We presume the EDITORS spite against Mr. Ewing
arises from the fact that Mr. F. had pr obaby driven
him or some of his friends from the treasury, who
had in former years been leech-like extracting
its funds.
why this howl, this blood thirsty feeling on the
part Of the loco focos, against the "Home Depart
ments' Does it at all interfere with them? No.
Was it not thought advisable during the admnstra-
tion Of Mr. Polk, that this Department Of Govern
ment should be instituted, to relieve the constant
and accommodating business of some Of the other
Departments Every man who possesses the least
political information knows this to have been the
case. A"seat for the distribution Of rewards and
punishments. We hold it to be utterly impotcnt
for good, and pregnant with much evil, and we in
woke the democracy of the State and Nation to u
mite with u.s. from this day forward, in demanding
its unconditional REPEAL'' says the resolution.
Is 1t to be supposed for moment that these self
same fellows who were engaged in the passing this
resolution and raising uproar aboutsthe distrbu-
tioa Of rewards and punishments,'' and ssinvo
the aid Of the democracy'' for its downfall, etc.,
would have thus been engaged if Mr. Cass had been
elected Far from it. Such course would have
been considered high treason. Then why this up-
roar among the loco foco leaders? Does il not pro-
coed from pure selfshness and extreme appetite for
the spoils7 Cannot some Of you answer We nun
cry Kites and Cormorants who have beseged and
rlundered the public treasury for the last twenty
years, with but one small intermission, can you not
answer? We suppose modesty forhids But, we
would like to inquire Of you after the welfare of
your com-patriots, the swartwouts the Prices and
Denhys, are they not your noble compeers2
But why this doleful whine, is il not because the
honest people have driven you from the public crib
and sou are obliged to subsst upon short comings'
and vet FODDER or gain your living by the sweat OF
your brow? Are you not prowling around the coun
try, an organized band, for the purpose of espion-
age against the administration, and have you sue.
succeed? Late Developments prove that your
plans have been totally thwarted.