Burlington hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1845-185?, 1851-01-23

| '~S 6~"~s"s'y SSAosV OuT al
,ention, viz: that the improvement in
teaching, in travelling, in newspaper
making, and population getting, is nothing
in comparison to that which is taking
place in witchcraft. This is a faet.-In
1864, there could only be found, through
out the whole of New England, one mis-
cradle witch by maine Ann Gibbons ; and
she was old, ugly and cross, and therefore
naturally enough burnt, on the plea that
she had guessed daughter applause)-
your folks are rather given. to shrewd
guessing-a little too correctly; that her
i'll deeds. words and looks, were the sub
ject of the maledictory comment Of two of
her neighbors. Now, in 1850. gentlemen
there are in New England thousands of
females notorious for their witchery, and
who, instead of being loathsome and repul-
sive are young lovely and attractive Iaugh-
ter and cheers )-witches who instead of
being committed to the flames, go about
infaming others, daughter aud this with
the most perfect impuni,y. daughter and
: cheers) though they are perfectly aware
that they themselves and their charms are
the daily, hourly, constant subject of con-
versa'ion to all who may have the painful
; pleasure of being acquainted with them
: (laugh'er.) But it is rot only for the
lriumphs of beauty tha, New England is
now famous. If the ivied chaplet is still
the classic need of letters may not Long
fellow and Ticknor place it on their
brow? Ii the laurel belongs to those who
wor,hily narratc, as well as to those who
perform great deeds, has it not been nobly
gained by Sparks, Bancroft and Prescott?
(cheer<.)
If high honorable reputation is the
natural reward of varied requirements and
brilliant eloquence- it not been as
Justly won as it is mode>tly worn by the
accomplished Everett? Cloud cheering. J
1.-THE golden days OF republican commerce
: are again to revive, and the Medici of
America TO vie in enterprise with those
Of Florence, may not inscrile upon the
lis, of your Iordly merchants, the names
Of Griswold, Grinnell and Perkins, of
Appleton and Lawrence And if YOU,
gentlemen, are all anxious 10 possess the
portrait Of the finished gentleman, the per-
feet Senator, is there any one more fit TO
Sc, for the picture than The descendant Of
that distinguished Governor who enjoy ed
the double honor of having con,ribnled TO
the first school, and furnished at his own
expense, the first bark ,ha, belonged TO the
State Of which your Win,hrop-o our VIM
throp--is the present representative?
And it | extend my inquiry still further
If wish to discover man whose young
imagination was ripened amongst the
solitary scenes OF border life. and whose
manly judgment was formed amidst the
daily and active business Of gseat commu-
mites, can you not point out 10 me such q
man one whose eloquenes .roe.ry held
in check by reason? whose staiesmanship
is philosophy reduced TO practice? who
stands second 10 none of Americas chill
dren-I should say superior 10 al, If the
tall figure Of venerable and absent friend
did not rise up before me-whose star
shines from the west, as yours, sir, (bow.
ing to Mr. Webster, fills the eastern hem
isphere, radian, on all sides with intel
lectual light. (Three cheers.)
Gentlemen, love your country it is
amongst the earliest and most favored Of
| Enyland's children; and methinks can
still trace the characteristic features octhe
parent, in the lineaments Of the offspring.
! do not, indeed, believe that the magnet
ic influence of common origin is yet ex-
tinct and when stood with you, but
recently. mourning by the grave Of the
| gallant Taylor, did you not she'd with me
"A sympath>ing tear over the fate Of the
| ill,ls,rious Peel? Aye, and il the star
spansled banner should be again unfurled
on the ocean, or on the field, on the one
| scene of action will not your sons remem-
Der the glorious words of Nelson ? on the
other, will not the name Of the great war
rior veteran, who has borne the old BAN
ner of W olfe and Marlborough aloft and
victorious through hundred fights rush
to Your recollection, and inspire your
ranks?
/ Gentlemen, love your land; and let me
add, revere the sect by which it was
originally, and still is l believe, mainly
/ peopled. do not follow its ritual, bnt |
venera,e its history, which stands forth as
the lofie>t among the many monuments
that attest that grca. Christian moral -"the
| pIouu SildIl Oe aOa>eu, ana 'ho hdHhotc
shall be exalted" Who at the period to
which this scene recalls us, were the
mighty of the earth? On the throne of
England then SET prince, justly proud
if pride could ever rest upon sound loun-
ta,ions of the triple crown which had re-
Gently become his family Inheritance. In
France, the scep,re was held in the hands
Of still laughter race, which ruled with
supreme authority over the most gallan,
and chivalrous people in the world. What
| has become of the illustrious lines fthese
two royal houses-o of that Of the sovereign
who gloried in the non conformity bill
of those sovereigns, amongst whose deeds
are recorded the massacre Of St Bartholo-
new and the revocation OF the edict of
Nantes? The crown Of the S,uarts has
melted into air in the one kingdom the
scep,re of the Bourbops has been shatter-
ed to atoms in the other. Bu, here, on
this spot where am speaking, still stands
erect and firm, the pilgrims staff.
From the bruised seed Of the poor and
prosecuted Puritan has arisen one of the
mos. powerful and prosperous empire. in
| the world. Let that which il r,rn