Burlington hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1845-185?, 1851-01-30
BURLINGTON HAWK-EYE.
Times chunge and Men change with them.

Times chunSe and Men change with them.
| Tohear dilapidaed loco foco politician, whose
occupation for years has only been to seek office
and to acknowledge fealty to his party only long
as it would give him office, declare that party is
, humbug, and that there is no difference between
wings and loco focos, is very funny, to our notion.
| When the loco focos cease to encourage British
| Workshops and shut up our own, in consequence
when they will adopt the liberal and nation pros
pering views Of the wing party in relation to Inter-
nal Improvements-when they will seek to pro-
mote the welfare of the people, instead of monoro-
hsrg Executive patronage for their own exclusive
Observation-Disclosures they will cease to employ
c,ap-trars and the tools of demagogues to work up
! the honest masses against the whig party-when
they will spurn to the cloak Of hypocrisy OF,
which is the same thing, neutrality, as we'll when
their party is destitute of power when they pos
sess tin short, when they are anxious to ad-
! vance the Industrial, Fiscal and Commercial pros
perity of the country, for the Country's sake and
not for the sake Of party, in as honest, straight
| forward and patriotic manner as the whig party,
then will we begin to think that the loco foco has
merged itself into the wing party.
The fact is, the loco foco party is in chrysalis
state, and the moth, in embryo, is now seeking
warmth and vitality from the genial influences and
! fostering care of the wing party, that it may
forth in its time full grown insect, prepared
| to eat up the substance of the very men who are
nursing it.
| The wings are jealous of the rights of the people.
| Though not expressed in every particular, their
| life blood healthily flows only they aim to
cure these rights. They the same when in
! mt of Il. Crau,Dp1 w
| both Houses of Congress against them, many of
! their measures are applauded and adopted by the
Opposition. Even in our State, the odious To-
CO foco principle of making one mar liable for
another mans debts, is already stencil in the nos
trils OF thinking men OF the opposition, bu, the
leaders ofthat party are dishonest as to be
gagged in attempting to prove to the people that in
adopting the opposite principle. which the wings
have always advocated, they are not insisting upon
wing, but on one Of their own party principles
If there were no other, -Protection to American
Labor is such iie-rrinciple Of the whig party, as
to separate The two parties ocean-wide from each
other The bare hint that the loco focos are about
10 press their free trade and directtaxaon princ-
pic more pntently than ever, admouishes the wing
party that their old political foe, is still alive and
active. Several papers have responded TO the pro-
posed British scheme of putting free trade and d.
rect-taxation WALKER on the Presidential traCk,
in such commendatory terms, as to show that the
scheme is not without its advocates.
The crouching, time-serving conduct OF the loco
foco party, when the country on the eve ofbe-
ing prospered BY the passage of the Internal In
provement Bill, but which was vetoed by President
Polk, should not be forgotten. The clustering
"ffty four forty threats Of that Administration,
brought down by the terrific roar of the British
Lion and the breach of treaty with Mexico because
II was unable to cope with cur government, are
pages in loco focoism, which can never be erased
from American history. Loco focoism is a twist
ing, saeaking, hypocritica puroner of the name Of
Democracy, and with the spoils it has secured
der the of that name would stop the progress
OF American Industry and let the Produce of our
Farmers rot in their granaries for want of suita-
bic egress to a profitable market. Such a party
needs to be exposed from time to time, and if the
whis party had nothing else to 60, and pGinci-
pies to contend for, the detection and exposure of
loco focoism, would well repay the country for its
continued existence.