Burlington hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1845-185?, 1849-08-02
John Van BureM,s Hits.

The True Democrat contains a report
OF the speech of John Van Buren,, in Gle
veland ,on the. 18th, from which we extract
Two clever hits, which are good in them
selves, and fair illustrations of his charac-
teristic style:
COL; BENToN's GOATS WOOL FIGURE
I'VE, therefore, looked to the views of
Col. Benton with grea, respect. But he
says the Proviso is mere abstraction.
tie compares it 10 goats woodland as
goats have no wool-he means TO say, j:
amounts TO nothing.
I'll this Is mere abstraction, il is re-
narkable, that this should have first been
discovered at Jeff1Sn City. 1t was in
troduced three years ago, and received a
unanimous support in eleven free State,
also three slave States instructed their
Senators to vote for it-and stranger than
tins, that he should deem TINT an abstrac-
ton: which sent Root, Giddings, WiImot,
King, Charles Allen, Tuck, Sc. with in
creased majoriles, 10 Congress, and which
lett at home Hannegan, defeated Cass, for
the Presidency, and nearly lost him his
election as Senator-which rejected AL
len, Breese, Hudson, Rockwell, &c.
Would these gentlemen be willing to have
engraven upon their tombs-':rrappe4 in
goats wool and died Of an abstraction"
Loud cheers.
THOMAS RICHIE EDITOR OF THE WASHING.
TON UNION.
But, Mr. President, we want National
party. We have none. We have no Ma
tional Editors. lspeak Of the Democrat
ic party. Richie is not an organ Of the
Democratic party. True, he might be-
come so. / can very well imagine that he
might become radically anti-slavery.--
Nothing in the past history Of that man
goes to preclude the possibility of such an
event. He denounced General Jackson,
in terms ofthe most abandoned bitterness,
''The election of Andrew Jackson" said
be, to the Presidency Of these United
States, would be greater calamity than
war, pes:ience, or famine" And vet,
afterwards he turned in, and helped to
elect him fUice to the presidency +! He !
denounced the Independent Treasury bill,
as measure fraught with danger 10 the
liberties Of the people; as an internal in
vention Of the President and his Secretary
by which one kind Of currency was to be
provided for government, and another for
the people and now he floods the air with
appeals to stand 5y it, as basis upon
which the disbanded Democracy may be
rallied! whilst his ink turns pale a, the
irightiul vigor, WIKI which he deals out
fr'shtiul encomiums upon it, as the perfect
production Of human wisdom. am re-
minded Of a remark of the lamentcd. and
revered Silas Wright. He said .that Rt-
chic experienced no difficulty, at all, in
changing his position; bu, that that very
facility ex.insuished every particle of his
influence lie may come ri gh, !; bu, he
Will present spectacle which will chal-
lenge the contempt Of every one who shall
have fair claim to be ranked as human
being. Look at him, sitting at the seat of
Government. a Convention of slaveho|-
ders is assembled to hold lamentations
over the advance OF the free spirit of the
land, and consummate their plans for the
dissolution of the Union. A STAKEHOLDER
occupies the chair of State, knitting his
Drows to indignantly frown down the eli
'orts OF freemen for freedom and the
CaIon is threatened by Southern men on
every hand. Does he speak? No. But
here ne sits, lamenting over the removal
'f Collector Of Customs, or pregnant
with holy horror, when the head of a de-
,apitated inspector rolls from the block
Yes, there he SITS like a supcranualed mar
'et ro"'an, by the road side, crying over her
'roker eggs!
In my opinion, the only tune which he
AN play upon his cracked organ, 10 which
he Democracy can unive. sally respond,
S this:
soh carry me back to Old Virginia. !!
lGreat laugh'er.]