Weekly hawk-eye and telegraph. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1855-1857, 1856-10-22
Rotts on virginia Treason.

| Mr. Bolts came down upon Gov. Wise anG
the Nnllifiers in the following crushing style ii
| his recent speech at Richmond: sa.a.gp 81
! First, then, is he (Wise) a natural born fool
| / do not think he is Is he lunatic I believe
| before God he is partially deranged, and have
| believed so for the last six years but occupy
| ing his position as Governor of the Common
| wealth, it does not make him the less dangerous
! to the country if he acts from lunacy than from
| natural weakness. Is he consErator Is he
7 engaged in a conspiracy to levy war? Read
| this speech accompany il with the general or
| ders for differing the militia, and for holding
| themselves in readiness for seryice-coupled
| with them his daily conversations as reported
| in the public streets, of his intention, in the
case of Fremont's election, to take possession
7 Of Old Point Comfort, (Which think there is
no difficulty in establishing read the law on
conspiracy, and then tell whether he is. not a
lunatc or conspirator, and whether it has not
become the duty of the proper authorities to
have him Immediately arrested.
Where is Judge fancy Where is Judge
Halliburton? Where is the District Attorney
Where is the Grand Jury of this Eastern Dis
trict of Virginia, whose attention, when they
meet, call to this speech and general order.
Finally, where is the President of the United
States
From private citizen such production
would be laughed at and passed over as The idle
declarations Of a besotted fool; but when it
comes from Governor OF a great Common
wealth, it assumes form and substance that
may lead at least to the dshonor of the State,
if not to mischief. 80. .I.-. --
Here is what is laid down in Burr's trial as con-
stituting conspiracy to levy war. ~
"Any combination to subvert, by force, the
Government of the United States, violently to
dismembcr the Union, to compel change in
the Administration, to compel the repeal or adop-
ton of general law, IS a conspiracy to legv
par ]: and if the conspiracy be carried into eff
feet by the actual embodying and assembling of
men for the purpose of executing the treaaona-
Bile design, which was previously conceived, it
amounts to the levying OF war" and of course
the levying of war against the United States is
treason. = 81 +-. -. ... -. s.-.s.
Here then is the law, and here the evidence
of conspiracy to levy war, which only lacks
the means andcourage to carry out the treason
able design of the Governor of the Common
wealth of Virginia. ....... .-
VIII the proper authorities wait for.the overt
act oftrcason, or will they crush the conspiracy
in the bud, and visit the conspirators with the
Judgment of the law ..asys.. 5ss4 .g,,.s,as
wv a gentleman ilUIOruleu us, last NE Nv,
that there was u report in Mt. Pleasant to the
effect that two of the sons Of Prof Howe of
that city, were prisoners in Kansas, charged
with the crime Of murder. We sympathse with
the Professor, but what other fate could he rea
sonably expect for his sons, whom he had
taught to war against the Constitution Of the
country and the laws of the land.-[ Burlington
Gaz 9s Sis s.efs. sfait al 81 4&Es syeis
If, Satan ever feels ashamed of his cubs, his
devilship must suffer severe chagrin at such in
etfible meanness as the above, perpetrated by
one of his maiesty's most supremacy conscience
less imps We are led to the belief that there
is to be no resurrection for some mentor the
simple reason they have no souls. We doubt
the Gazette's amenability to moral law, on the
above hypothesis For how can any being with
soufas large as the enthusiastically small end
OF nothing Whitfield to point, utter such a
cold, coarse insult to agentleman OF Mr.. Howe's
antecedents before the public, running back
through series of fifteen years? No man in
the ration has ever been truer, to the 'Constitu
ton, the laws and the Union, than he; and it
was acting under the strong, steady, intelligent
impulses of his patriotism, if need be, to the
cause of constitutional liberty in this nation;
nobility in sacrifice which all should reverence,
and which, together with other deeds ike II,
Will become the property of history, and shine
in future annals to his praise, long after even
the infdn,y of the Gaeyttc shall have been cover
ed with the contempt of forgetfulness.-[Mt Mt.
Pleasant Observer.