Burlington hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1845-185?, 1849-01-18

neau Vi q HlOO ana QTlNe tneIO from the
State by the hand Of violence. 1t would
be amusing if not instructive 10 be per-
mi,ted TO stand upon some eminence in
the honorable gentleman's district, and
witness the attempted execution Of this act
of tragedy or comedy "as the case might
be-" The persons represented | suppose
would be the honorable President with
fire brand in one hand, sword in the
other, and perhaps trumpet at his mouth,
and his constituents. The honorable
President is seen in great agitation on
the stage hourishing his sword and fire
brand, and rallying his constituents "a
bout him with his pointing 10
the west, and exclaiming fanatics, and
outlaws, they must be expelled the State
fire, sword, burn, Destroy" His con-
stituents answer, certainly, we are ready
to cooperate with you in almost any
emergency, but before we proceed TO this
extremity, may we be permitted to en-
quire what they have done to merit this
act of violence from the hands of a meb.
The reply Of the honorable President is,
they are fanatics, outlaws, and vaga-
bonds. His constituents request he would
condescend to be little more specific
The honorable President would doubtless
reply eve know our rights and knowing
dare maintain Them" But be so good as
to explain what crime they have COM
mitted. What crime? Why they are
apostates from their political faith! But
is not this country where every citizen
has the right Of voting as he pleases?-
They are apostates, fanatics, outlaws and
cut throats--iire, sword, expulsion, death!
His constituents would say are the peo-
pie of Louisiana, Georgia, Florida, Penn
sylvania, and New York, fanatics, outlaws
and cut-throats, and having expelled our
neighbors, must we then turn our crusa-
| ding column against certain citizens of
those. States, who have if reports be true,
been guilty of similar offence? The hon
orable President would doubtless find this
"poser''--he would find himself in d.
lemma from which he could only extrica:e
himself, in imitation OF an illustrious ex-
ample, By breaking his sUord.
But as much as | abhor mob violence
as much as l detest it in all its forms and
features, would prefer thousands times
over that the inhabitants of this county
natives and foreigners, Mormons, Metho.
dists, and Baptists, wings, and democrats
(for it seems there were forty-two who
voted that ticket at the November cleo.
tion) should be driven from the State by
mob violence, than that Iowa should be
disgraced by the infamy Of this act.
Mr.. Chairman, do not profess to be a
prophet, or the son of prophet, but
will undertake TO hazard prediction, and
TO say that if i: has been decreed that this
measure is 10 pass, the future historian oil
the State, in writing the history of its par
ties, will trace not the decline and fall
merely of the dominant party, but its utter
overthrow to this act-this browning out
rage upon the great principles which lie
at the foundation of our political institu-
tons. The deliberate disfranchisement OF
whole county containing, 1000 or 5000
inhabitants, to condemn tito anarchy, exile
and Punishment, for no other assignable
reason than because they voted as they
pleased, TO deprive them of the protection
Of our constitution and laws, of all NUM-
cipal and political rights, will be land
mark in your history. 1t is an act that
will shock the moral sense Of the coun-
try. 1t casts into the shade the vilest
deeds of the Spanish inquisition or the
British Star chamber. Tie consequences
of this act you cannot shake off. They
will stick to you like the shirt Of Nessus
your ascendency in the State does not
require this sacrifice. Judging from the
last election you are strong enough (if
power be your object) in spite Of the FIVE
or six hundred votes in Pottawattomie
county, but pass this bin and your paltry
majority of 1900 will melt before an indig-
nant public opinion like the nists Of the
morning before the effulgence Of the sun.
In the language Of a Senator Of the United
States, it will sink your party 'to an in
fanny so deep-a damnation so profound,
that the hand of resurrection can never
reach it,"
Sir, had hoped the day of excessive
party violence was past-that that spirit
which iii its zeal and recklessness rushes
headlong over the stern barriers of the
constitution, trampling under foot the great
principles Of justice, TO the accomplish
ment of its ends upon the fagitious prin-
ciple that might makes right, had been
sufficiently rebuked. But it seemsI was
mistaken, and to its many acts which have
stained our history, Iowa seems likely to
claim the honor OF adding one which in its
overshadowing enormity exceeds them all
- one which defies all history for a paral-
lei, and defes in vain; but against its
consummation in the name of those have
the honor TO represent on this floor, in the
name of the declaration OF independence,
in the name Of the constitution of the Uni
ted States, and Of this State, in the name
of the great principles which form the la
sis of them all, and in the name of the eter-
nal principles of justice. / enter my SOL
emu and indignant protest.
SINGULAR AFFAIR.-Some two weeks
since merchant in Bangor, Me-, in emp
tying a tea chest, found in the bottom a
snuff box containing FIVE dollar bill on
the Dover On. H. Bank, and attached TO
it the following epistle written on piece
of paper Of the quality generally used by
the Chinese in putting up tea in pound
packages: -