Burlington hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1845-185?, 1851-08-21
OUR NEW YORK CORRESPONDENTS.
NEW York. Aug. 7. 1851.

.>''", w" A'oH eeiHanv, 0io from france, S4s
from Belgium, 255 from Ireland, and 10 from
Wales, making total Of SSH.
Ii we were to do business at the above rate
every day, we should be receiving 1,7a5, 600 en-
bryo citizens year, which would soon run our
population up to 50,000,OO0.
The last Eng|ish.steamers have brought us the
usual number of newspapers and letters but thev
contain nothing of interest TO the general reader
but what has been already sent by lightning to
the four quarters of the Union, and which YOU
have, of course, received.
We are completely inundated with telegraphir
dispatches, from Charleston, New Orleans, and
other seaboard cities, containing various versions
OF the Cuban Insurrection The Cuban Declar-
alton OF independence has been published in near
y all OF our city papers, some of which praise il
highly. The Evening Post calls it "a firm and
able documents If this nsurrecton were a
mere outbreak of popular indignation, caused by
a simple arbitrary and unpopular act of the Span
lsh Government, should be inclined to treat the
matter lightly; but there is no Disgusting the fact
that the Cubans wish to be emancipltea from
Spanish control; and that thousands and hun
dreds of thousands of persons in the United States
are ready to assist them, in any way and every
way, in their efforts TO secure independence.
Under these circumstances, Cuba must soon
be independent of Spain; and however much you
or or others, may attempt to frown down inter-
venton in her behalf, by American citizens, am
willing to stake my reputation for foresight upon
the opinion now express, which is that Cuba
will soon have two Senators in Washington. She
may be beaten in this attempt; but that matters
not. Natural causes will force her into the Un-
ion, before many years.
Beside, those Americans who are opposed to
| the Annexation of Cuba are merely negative in
| their opposition; while those in favor Of il are
| positive and active, in their efforts to bring it
about. | endcavor TO be non-committai. YOU see.
and think generally succeed pretty well, al
though in looking what have written.
see that my statement, OF what consider to be
the facts of the case. would be thought by poll
ticians, indicative of my favoring the Cuban
movement. The pleasure Of an intimate associa-
ton, for some months, with Martin Van Buren,
may have had the effect of making me somewhat
guarded in my expressions.
During the commencement at Hamilton Col
! lege, few days since, on the conclusion of an
| address by Mr. G.. p. r. James, the eminent HIS
torian and novelist, an individual. I believe it
was lIoa. J. \. Spencer,) called on the Band 10
! strike up ''Rule Brittania,'' as compliment.
presume to Mr. James. Whcrcupon, one w. f.
| Robinson, gaseous Hibernian genius who is oc-
cas;onally permitted TO perpetrate bombastic eff
| fuslons in the Tribune. under The signature of
"Richellcu.' for some reason or other that can
not conceive, except it be that he is its bora-
no newspaper establishment is complete, you
| know, without its tolerated contributor or bore
mounts the high horse, expresses his hatred of
''Brittania,' and fumes and frets in the Tribune
| at such .'Trcason to the State" Now, although
| can well understand, that Mr. Richeleu Robin
son must have experienced unpleasant sensations.
on finding that his Grafton, to prove America not
to be Anglo Saxon but Celtic, did not take, and
that Mr. James discourse was received with in
conparably more favor; still, do protest against
the injustice of arraigning Mr. James as a perIurer
because. forsooth i. is stated that he has. in Mi
lesian dialect, declared his ''intintons' and that
therefore, for him 10 feel any qualification at the
| sound OF an English national air is nothing short
of the rankest treason and the basest perjury.
New converts are always the most fanatical
and superlatively sickenng. in their protestations
of devotion; and, as Mr. Richelieu is only half
| fledged citizen of our country, it must be to his
| newborn zeal for our honor, that we must at
tribute his lack of charity and justice; for can
not imagine by what rule Of equity. or common
| (Anglo Saxon) sense, Mr. James can be held res
| ponsible for the acts Of others, whose only crime
| it appears to me, was rather ardent admiration
of Mr. James genius, and perhaps indiscreet
mode Of evincing it.
Now, our wsest statesmen do not imagine.
like Mr. RichelieC Robinson, that any being wor-
! thy of the dignity of American citizenship. can
be, by any possibility, so void of love of country,
as to be able to excoriate, in moment, its every
trace from his breast: neither are they inclined
10 place any reliance on the loyalty of such men,
if, indeed, another beside Mr. Rchelieu Robinson
can be found; so that they have wisely prescrib-
ed five years as the probationary term which an
alien shall pass before entering the rights and
duties Of citizenship; in order that his sympathes
and attachments may be gradually weaned not
Immediately and violently wrenched, from'' Home
and Fatherland.' If, then, Mr. James really d,d
| Icc' = IL Noh Dc iO
as he is only in the first year of his pupilage.
But the attack on Mr. James, savage, coarse,
ungentlemanly and ridiculous, it is, affords
food for serious reflection. For, if it once goes
forth, that an alien, on becoming citizen of our
country, is bound to extirpate, as noxious weeds
in the garden Of his soul, all pride in the heroic
deeds of his forefathers, and in the glories which
are revealed in the pages of the history of the land
of his birth, together with all sympathy in its fu-
ture destiny, OF else be branded as perjurer and
traitor, we shall deter many an honest, noble
hearted man from joining our ranks, and shall
have to depend for recruits, upon the mere serfs
Of Europe, faction-rven race, whose country
is CALLED by foreign yoke, riveted on its neck BY
the arts and treachery of native demagogues--a
race whose history is so stained by the crimson
flood of intestine violence that it does not furnish
one instance Of united effort to raise their distract
ed country to the dignity of nation.
Yours, truly, Iowa.
| EXECUTION OF COUNT BocARME. The exc
cution of Count Hippolyte de Bocarme, con-
demned for poisoning the brother of his wife,
with Nicotine, or essential oil Of tobacco, and
whose trial excited so much interest both in Eu-
rnp o,l tooly ~ - :,