Burlington hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1845-185?, 1850-03-28
For the Burlington Ha~k-Eys.
THE EtECTfON.

MOCK-HEROlC POEM,
Respectfully Unsettled 70 oil homes, Democrats.
By TIMOTHY rwIrcHEa, JUN.
What Muse will deign to sit upon my pen
While I rehearse the wrongs OF honest men,
Who nor, for actions done in other days,
Instead Of censure well deserving praise,
Conspicuous stand, upon a height sublime
Devoted victims, although void Of crime)
OF slanderous tongues, and all the venal brood
Who hate, detest, and loathe the wise aud sooda
No Muse. responsive to my earnest prayer,
Her inspiration lends-yet let me dare,
Unaided, the adventurous fight essay
The theme alone shall animate my lsys
While honor, virtue, warm tie patriot breast,
The power Of numbers from their foes shall wress
Admitting worship, end the world shall see
TRUTH crushing al Who live BY pe.6dy'
How slight the causes OF the rise and fall
or men and ns,ionsl From ruined wall
Cities may spring, or deserts spread around,
lmmersing all in solitude ptofcund,--
Trifies-,he Enthusiastically Of halury afr
May Mast the hopesof him, who, forced to wear
This human form, has leaned upon the reed
or hollow praise, ana all its deadly breed,
Tainted his fame, and, presto, of it goes!
Such is your fate, oh, thou most aoncst Hall,
And you most honorable Thompson,--all
Who, for the good Of this unhappy state,
Could anxiously. yet unperplexed, debate
The sncays and MEANS by which you might secure,
And ever keep the Right Of Suffrage pure,
From all the unhalowed schemes Of Demagogues,
hair 70 n,sfe Sfp md
And safely to posterity transmit
The rights our fathers won by arms or VIZ.
What nobler aim could any desire
Than that which you have felt with oil its Arc
The earnest wish, the finn resolve to keep
Untarnished, undiminished, all the deep,
Strong roots, which OFFICE, with its golden spap,"
Has nourished long for those who know the sstar;'
And, with the good, o.d ssden,ocratic" net,
Loaded and baiteI, and for gudgeons set,
Ready to catch and hold the unwary race,
Too blind to see, too indolent to trace,
The meshes which their masters have contrived
To keep from straying those who have survived
That first sad shock of those who fall so far,
TO find their freedom but a ssbolt and barr!
Is it not noble, s.iI to guide the throng,
To speed the tardy, and TO curb the strong9
To think and plan for those who love the right,
And ,ciH pursue it when they're blessed with light,
And so to mould their ardent, healthy zeal,
That every step but tends to make them feel
The want of kind protectors, who will deign
To watch the outposts, or, to watch will feign,
And as s'ight reward for so much skill,
Roap oil the honors, and their purses fill?
And il, purchance, in some ungnsrded hour
The herd should wander, or deny your power,
Is il not right that you resume your sway,
And, with strong arm, compel them to obey2
You are their guardians, and if they Iebcl
Against Authorit,'s most potent spell,
It is but proper they should feel the rod,
And bend submissive, as unto their God.
Tis true that me have sometimes deemed them free,
Ani scorned to mortal man to bow the knee;
But, when the delegated Powers unite
To guard their honors and to keep them right,
What insoence in those who scarce can walk,
70 doubt their wisdom who have learned to taik,
And talk so wea thas aone presume to say
If truth be truth, or all be false Heyl
Why should they think, that souliess herd Of men,
When you hape thought, and viseiy proved that ten
Is just the same, and nothing more or less,
AS twice ten thousand, and that no is yes;
Or that, when they for Miller cast their votes,
They're oil for Thompson, sure as oats are oats!
They vote for NEier-but twas mistake.
And not for Thompson, who was in the wake;
But what OF tsat, you have the Poll-book safe,
And so poor Miller can do naught but chafe.
True he had uofrs, but then he had not yours,
Whose opposition defeat Insures;
And so poor fellow, he must take the WALL.
While Thompson revels in the capitol,
And rares out his tangled web Of yarn,
Though he can't read, yet swearing he can siorn -
The prisoner Oft must be content to bear
The SCOTS and scorn of those who placed him there
Within those cold, damp walls, that gloomy cell,
OF crime and misery the citadel;
But freemen proudly spurn the insolent
Who deem them capable Of being bent
70 the vile purposes Of scheming n1en,
o. chained, like jackals, to the lions den,
Yet you, who lately sdrove 4 thriving trade"
Upon the spells your own good ,oors had made
When all your dreams were ofte .loaves and fishes,
Which, being eaten, leaves you empty dishes
Yet you, must deeply feel the traitor art
which from yu'Ir rufe, your subjects now wo,d parts
You must have deemed some slight exertion due,
To your own honor, and your subjects too
To that, at least to prove you were not dead,
10 this, If but TO show you wear head,
AND that IS long as you can say you I've
ioo ne q 'oFs'' your motto, s.9re. sirc, GIvE,'