Weekly hawk-eye and telegraph. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1855-1857, 1856-03-19
Mr.. Henry W. starr and the OLD Line
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NIX Aacmhy " St1II an0 VIC Va ASsAS
We find in Thursday mornings Gazette, over
the signature Of Mr.. Starr, communication, in
answer to letter published by US from Mr.. Nil
Ter of Fl. Madison. So far as Mr.. Stars answer
to Mr.. Milleris concerned We have nothing to
say, not considering the thing of sufficient con-
consequence to demand attention from u.s. But
At the end of his communication We find the fol-
lowing note:
Mr. Editor, lam sorry that no where in Iowa
Is there paper to be found which truly repre-
sents the principles and sentiments Of the old line
Whig party
The tHawkeye & Telegraph Of this city, after
promising to publish the recent ''old line Wing
call' for meeting on the 18th of April next,
(the birth day of Henry Clay,) has refused to do
so, and therefore resort to your columns with
the hope you will publish this letter.
We are sorry the Old Liners have no organ
wish they had fifty. But that's nofault of ours.
But the Hawk-Eye has promised to publish the
call and then refused to do it. What are the
factss The Old Liners circulated their call and
then sent it to the Gazette. After it had been
published in that paper for nearly week, MIR.
Starr called at our Office, in the absence OF the
Editor and desired to have it published, and re-
ceived promise, but not from the editor, to that
effect.
The editor of this paper claims to have been
just as good whig and to have labored as faith
fully and efficiently for that political party as
Mr.. Starr or any of his associates whose names
appear upon this call and believes, had the gem
tlemen intended to act in good faith, common
courtesy and common dccency would have led
them to send us the call for publication. If they
were really in search Of the lost sheep Of the
House Of Whiggery, and expected to find them
among the Nebraska party, they did perfectly
right in making the Gazette their organ. But if
we did not choose to play second fiddle to that
paper and receive rhig communications from
Locofoco hands, they certainly have no cause of
complaint, If they have not the good sense to
know what constitutes courtesy. or if knowing it,
as they most assuredly do,wish to show their ha-
tired by giving preference to a locofoco paper
over ours, they will have to take the consequen
ces Favors bestowed upon gentlemen, in such
frame of mind, would be thrown away.
But the double-entendre of the last paragraph
is rich. The Hawk-Eye having refused to publish
the call, (for the reason above stated, and which
had been fully stated to a gentleman sent to en-
quire and ought to be satisfactory therefore he,
Mr.. Starr is obliged to resort to the Gazette to
get his letter before the public!
Mr. Starr, nor any other old line Wing has
ever been refused hearing in our columns.
And had he desired his letter to appear in an
swcr to Mr.. Miller, he could hardly expect it un-
less he favored Us with manuscript copy. 1t is,
to us, new place to look for orthodox Whigge-
ry in a locofoco Nebraska paper. 1t is new
feature certainly. The leaders of the old party,
in the days of its strength, did not plot and tra-t
fic with the locofosos-did not send their calls
and addresses to those papers for publication
And any pretense, on the part of Mr.. Starr, or
any other gentleman, that he is compelled to
such course is utterly false. 49, ..-