Burlington tri-weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1852-1855, 1855-01-27

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IMPORTANCE OF A GOOD MEMORY.
From the Tr Weekly Gazette Of January 18th, 1855.
eve are positively informed on very good
authority that Mr.. Browning, from the first Of
the session, eyinced determination to guard
himself against any charge of selishncss that
might be brought against him for the part he
should be compelled to take on the Senatorial,
and other questions, by the anticipated reck-
lessness and tyranny Of the majority; and
that he most emphatically refused to allow
his name to be used as candidate under any
circumstances whatever. We are told, like
wise on good authority, that if he had acqui-
esced in the solicitations of his friends, he
could have been elected at once; but he pos
itively said ssNo." Now either our sources
Of information on the subject are very wide
Of the truth, or the Hawk Eye is; and we
think tho friends Of Mr.. Browning among
whom we have not the honor of a place
have right to demand how the editor Of the
Hawk Eve knOUs that Mr.. Browning has been
figuring for the Office from tho beginning Of
OF the session."
One source of our information was the fol-
lowing, copied into the Gazette on the 18th
day Of December, 1854. 1t is not very good
authority to be sure, but such as it is the
friends of Mr.. B. are welcome to it.:
s'Among these candidates for Senator,
are Browning Of the Senate, who is repre-
sentative or rather relic Of the chivalrous,
patriotic, national party, which expired at
the death of the gallant Clay, its great cham
pion and leader. The time has gone by for
one Of National principles to be a candidate
Of the party which is now called Wing. He
consequently stands no chance at ALL"
owe think the friends Of Mr.. Browning
among whom we have not the honor of a
place-have right to demand'' how the Ed-
tor of the Gazette came to know and publish
the fact 50 long ago as the 18th of December
last, that d. ,cas candidate for the Sena-
torship and how he came, at that time, to
state that he stood s'no chance at dU!'
Now which of these statements is true and
which false. From one of them we learn
that Mr.. Browning ,cds a candidate and stood
no chance at all! And from the other that
he could have been elected at any time he
pleased, but emphatically" said "Sor'
Which are we to believe?
The abusive BLACKBOARD Report Of the
Committee on Federal Relations has found
its way into but three papers that we have
thus far noticed-the Burlington Gazette,
Fairfield Sentinel aud Davenport Banner
And the latter paper is tho only one we have
noticed which has not striker out tho sean
dalous inuendo contained on the third page.
Sorry are we to believe there is single edi-
for in the State of Iowa so lost to sense Of
his own dignity as to think himself in the
service Of any party, by giving publicity to
petty scandals only fit for the atmosphere Of
a brothel. There is no.respectabe portion in
number We near. Of thu late Loo ,foco party,
which will justify, much less require, of their
party press, any such degradation. And
those presses, ia the pay of that party, CIV
Ing publicity to this precious morsel of
scandal and malignity, will have soiled their
hands without any reward, save in the con-
tempt of four 6fths of their readers.
NO MAILS YEr.-Up to this time, Friday
p. n, sc have had no mails since the storm
last Sunday. Our cars have not been able to
get through the snow drifts up to this time,
only having made some eighteen miles up to
Thursday evening, and up to that time bring
ing back their passengers each night to stay
in Burlington. 1t is presumed those who
have been riding since Tuesday will get the
worth of their money.
As franklin Plercc's administration has
its hands full without being responsible for
snow-drifts, we do not see but we must put
up with the inc convenience and delay Of the
mails without grumbling.
HrxANITY IN THE Cry. By Req. E. II.
Chaplin. New York, De Witt & Davenport.
This is an elegan. volume-pr:nt, paper,
portrait, style and sentiment. The author
writes with diamond-pointed pen. The
discourses, eight in number, were all deliv-
cred to his own congregation in New York
city, on Sabbath Evenings, and are on such
topics rs Lessons Of the Street, Machinery,
Strife for Precedence, Symbols of the Repuh-
lie, Springs Of Social Life. Allies Of the
Tempter, Children Of the Poor, The Help of
Religion. They discuss some of the most