Weekly hawk-eye and telegraph. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1855-1857, 1855-11-07
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tty AohoAOaIy-Vu1el8A Anfolenoe,
Our neisbor over the way has really
about as u.uch antipathy to speaking the
truth as rabid animal to water We have
had good deal Of experience of political
warfare ascarricd on by partizan presses
have seen q great many men whose prin-
ciple ayocaticn was bespattering one anoth.
er, and opponents generally, but we have
never before seen . press that could not
be trusted to speak on anything having
any political bearing, or capable Of being
perverted to subservc partizan purposes.
So in the habit has the principal writer
for that paper become, Of drawing on his
imagination for all his facts, that we some
times thrk he has SO far perverted the
faculties Of his mind, as really to believe
and reverence the unnatural and distorted
scintillations Of a distempered fancy as the
creations of truth!
We have on several occasions. as is the
perfect right Of every citizen, taken occa-
sion to refer to the manner in which the
duties Of the Post Office at Burlington
are performed. It's matter in which
thssivhole community, as well as great
many people in Southern and Western
Iowa are deeply interested. Federal office
holders may have been so long in place
as to believe themselves beyond the reach
Of public censure. They may consider
themselves the owners, in fee simple, of
all the rights, privileges, profits and immu-
niles of Office, and perfectly above and
beyond any accountability to any body
save the powers that be-, at Washington.
Covered with panoply impervious to the
shafts Of public opinion, it may be, and no
doubt is really considered abusive for us
to canvass OF in any way refer to the off,
cial acts Of a Post Master or any other
Government functionary. But we doubt
very much if this view of the subject ever
becomes genera! among the people. Our
readers will all bear testimony to our uni
formly moderate remarks, confined solely
to the official acts of the Post Master. No
thing derogatory to Mr.. Tizzard personal
ly ever appeared in our columns. And
yet there is half a column of twaddle lev
elled at us in yesterdays Gazette, of
which paper the Post Master is one of the
proprietors, in which any amount of stilt-
ed nonsense and galvanized black guard
ism appears. We are accused of "abus-
ing" "villifying," "slanderiug" and Stra-
ducing" the Post Master, because we have
said his official duties should be better per-
formed, and there should be more CELEBRITY
in opening and shifting mails.
Although Mr.. Tizzard himself has said
that he is receiving $500 year for extra
night service, and we know he has ad-
yanced the price Of boxes twice within
year, we have not and do not now complain
Of it, but simply complain that the lubli"
are not served. We know nothing and
say nothing about the adequacy of the pay,
but of the service. If he is not adequate
ly paid, let him have all the compensation
necessary to secure prompt and efficient
service. We could show, we think, that
individuals have suffered through the
most vexatious and annoying delays, pc
cuniary losses ample to pay the whole sal
ary of the Burlington Post Master
If the Gazette recognizes any obliga-
tion to speak the TRUTH we " ish it to re-
publish the article, paragraph Or line from
the columns of the Hawk Eye, since We
have controlled it, abusive of Mr.. Tizzard,
before it makes any further drafts upon
the sympathies of this community in
favor of that, according toit, much abused
functionary. -r,-s... ... e.. ..al- j.