Burlington tri-weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1852-1855, 1855-01-11
MONSIEUR roNsoN COME AGAIN

in Tuesdays Gazette. The following ex-
tract embraces all of any consequence and
it is Of very little:
He charges me with 'sin-
tentionaly misstating fact, and says that he has
never refused to publish any article offered to him
one bat himself could have put this construc ion
upon my statement, that 81 compelled to insert
my article in Dsrocratic paper, which meant as he
well knew, that as in my opinion there was no WHIG
paper here, preferred Democratic to Greeley or
gan.
He says he has abused no citizen Of Burlington
PERsoNALLY-that he has not spoken Of their pri-
vate chaIacters-herc he begs the question: for did
not charge him with having done sos but do charge
him with having abused citizens of Burlington and of
the State in manner he had no right to do-because
their conscience dictated to them POLITICAL
different from that which be chooses to pursue; and
cut Of his own mouth will condcm him.
In his paper IF 10Th ult. he sp axis Of the "be
slobberment Of the National Wings, coming cbaste
words express his chaste ideas. In his paper Of I'd
inst, in his article Prof Harlan, he charges Brown
ing and others who refused go into Caucus and who
were in way bound by that caucus with being
TRAITORS" because ey stapi On the old whg
platform and refused to eudorse ANY man who is MT
| avowedy in favor Of the compromi.e measures Of
$780, Does he not in tie Issue by INslNUArIoN
charge AR. Cock with being party to sale Of HIM
self and the wings TO the democracy?
Has ne not IN several late numbers Of his raper at
tempted to read out Of the party all who stand uIon
and upheld the old whg platform of Clay and Web
ster, and Nho do not like himself and Horace Gree
ley spit upon that platform?
Docs he not in his last paper in reply to the Chea-
| 60 Journal deny that the Haws-Eye is "siiver
trey wing paper? Docs he not in hatdeEial, avow
4 his abolitionsm-or Is he ignorant of what every
enc else knows, that the "Sver Greys' are the old
conservative wings, who advocate the principles of
the genuine wing leaders, who maintained to the last
the administration Of Willard Fillmore, and who
have listened to the syren song of those false
wings who declared the wing party DEAD, when they
could !oager fattcn upon the offices of the land
The entire paragraph in his article which
says we have attempted 10 read any body out
of any party on account Of their standing
upon the old Wing platform is just as false
as about all the rest of National Wings
balderdash. We never done anything Of the
sort. With Mr.. Greeley we never spit upon
any platform, and do not at this time agree
with that gentleman on the slavery question.
All of which National Wing, if he had had
a thimble full Of brains, would have learned
from our paper long ago.
/ In his first communication he charged that
the Hawk-Eye had been converted into an
Abolition sheet by its present propriesors.-
We pointed.y denied the accusation and
Tiled for proof. Where is it? Does he in
tend to be branded as falsifer, if not, let
him quote the article, paragraph or line,
wherein we advocated Abolition?
In that communication he asserted that the
editors OF this paper had poured s'whole col
umns OF abuse upon men who were their bet
ters." Upon sober second thought he don't
exactly mean abuse, but only that we re-
marked with severity upon the political
course of Browning, Cook & Co!
liz charged US with taking sides in an old
quarrel without knowing any thing about the
merits of the same. According to his last
expose, it would seem that he simply meant
to accuse us of not being Silver Grey Wings
and opposed to the selling out to the Loco
foco party.
When he said a National Wing wa. COM
PEELED to go to q Locofoco paper to get his
articles published, he only meant preferred
to.
tie then accused us of attempting to trans
fer the Wing party to the Abolitionsts. It
seems that he then only meant to accuse us
or urging the election OF Mr.. Harlan, the
caucus nominee, who is accused IF being an
Abolitionist BY National Wings and of being
pro-slavery by Atoltionists.
1t may be well to remark here, that we
never at any time expressed preference for
any Of the candidates who we're before the
Legislature for the Senatorship. Whom, at
one time, in referring to the subject, we re-
marked that the most prominent men were
Messrs. Cook and Warren, sseither of whom
stood equally fair with us.o AS we were but
short time residents of the State, we did not
feel at liberty to champion any mans claims.
And never did We feel called upon to refer
to the matter until the attempt was made.
by q bargain and sale, which is not denied,
to defeat Mr.. Harlan.
After this flourish of trumpets National
Wing has only been able to arrive at one GER
tain undisputed fact, and that is that We are
not Silver Grey Whigs! 1t does look as
hough he had fzzled! He went out on
Thursday with great display of bags
Does he not come in shorn? He reminds us
'ery forcibly of the boy that saw the thou
and rats in tie stable, [perhaps National
Wig would understand better if we said
barn." as that is the. Yankee name.] Upon
eing questioned he fell to nine hundred,
hen 70 eight, seven, five, two, one hundred,
fifty, to ten, and finally took decided
land upon the assertion that he saw ones /,
Ill in the straw!