Weekly hawk-eye and telegraph. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1855-1857, 1856-04-09

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4 s.ssz ~ 49, Nl0agHRns 4ss 81
II ii vor4hy ~ senasis shst beggars Of ~
riasses asrs-e III ons hAbit-thAt Of showing their
lnissries 10 the best advantage. Those Who
haunt The streets make the most OF ! stif knee
81 swelied ankle take great pains 10 dispaly
vhrunkeu arm, and parade their rags osteniAtioas
ii. Berrars of . higher order, those who soiic-
il oaIices and seek nominations ~ candidates IN
the elections, are sure TO make like appeals 10
the public sympathy, II there be plausible pre-
texs for doing 50. They hare made great sac
rifices for the good of their country their par
,y-they have been the objects Of measurelcss
SANDER and contuuiely, and they display their
wounded regulations and ragged fortunes, as |
deliberately as the humber brethren Of their
vocation exhibit their diseased limbs We have I
an example of this kind before us The Wash |
ington Union Of yesterday morning, deyotes
nearly two columnsto the task Of setting forth the
claims which Mr.. Pierce has on the nation on ac-
count of what he has endured from the hatred
of the abolitionists. It says:
ssThe whole faction OF fanatical abolitionists
entertain towards President Pierce malignsnt
hatred, which makes them eager to believe the
grossest calumnies upon him without any other
pretext than rumor Our object in recurring to
this subject is to bring before the minds of all
lust and fair men the real Gauge Of the hostility
which abolitionism cherishes towards President
Pierce. It isno new feeling Of antagonism that
has Just sprung up between them. 1t is as old
as the political life of Franklin Pierce is long.
Then follows an enumeration of the exploits
performed by Mr.. Pierce in his war upon the
aboltionists, and the violent unappeasable enmi-
ty with which they have pursued him in conse-
auence Mr.. Pierce is the most injured of men;
he is the flower of modern martyrs indeed, it is
considered among his paticular friends as an es-
t,h Ca hat t,ac Srffor
for the good Of mankind since st. Andrew was
crucified with his head downwards.
The point of Mr.. Perce's sufferings having
thus been made clear the question arises, what is
to be done for him! The martyr must have his
reward : the beggar who shows his maladies and
his rags must receive his aims. According
ly the Union sums up the whole matter in, the
following words: .4 &
ut is not to be expected that national men,
| who feel and know that the Union can be pre-
served only by faithful adherance to the con-
stitntional rights Of every section will look with
| indifference upon the warfare waged SO unrelent-
lessly by abolitionists against President whose
crime in their estimation, is that he has been true
to the constitution. Wheni is northern Pres
ident thus assailed, as in the present case the
true men of the North have right to look to the
South in support of whose constitutional right he
is assaed for prompt and united .vindication
of his character. We have abundant evidence
| that the South understands and acknowledges
her obligations to sustain all such national men
| as have the courage and the patriotism to defy
| abolitonisln." { e
| After all however, the Union overlooks the
| greatest danger to which Mr.. Pierce's hopes of
| a nomination at Cincinnati are exposed. That
| is matter over which the abolitiOnsts have no
| control. At this very moment plan is matur-
| ing, in which some of those who should be Mr..
Pierces friends are engaged, to overlook all that
he has suffered in the cause of slavery and give
| the nomination to Mr. Buchanan. Such is party
| gratitude! 1t is even said that behind this plot
| lies another to put aside both Pierce and Buc-
! chanan: with all their merits, and services and
sufferings and bestow the nomination upon some
| new man who has no scars to show, and who
will be supported for the very reason that his
! opinions are not fully known, except to those
who managed his nomination. This is the rock
upon which Mr.. Pierces hopes are likely to split.
| He and his friends must watch, by night and by
| day, their agents sent in the capacity Of dele
| gates to the Cincinnati Convention. There
snot man ofthem all who will not need at least
| two other men to look after him, and keep him
| faithful to the trust ireposed in him.
| ABOLITION OF SHiLLINGs AND PENcE.-A bill
was brought before the United States Senate,
on Monday last, which, fit become law, will
have the effect to relieve trade of one of its
most embarrassing annoyances, and to place
| our currency upon its intended basis of deci,
mails. The bill provides for reducing the legal
value of Spanish and Mexican quarters, Fights
and sxteenths ola dollar, to twenty, ten and
five cents, and also iutrocud,sa new cent, small
/ err than the present coin of that valuc.-The
silver coins mentioned are to be re-coined as
they fall into the hands of the government We
sincerely trust that this bill may yet be come law
and that the petty, yet in the aggregate, excess,
| siye annoyance Of pence and half pence may be
removed forever. In a year after the passage
| of the law, all the Spanish sixpences, shillings
and quarters will have gone to the mint or been
| disposed of to silvcrsmths, and we shall hear no
more of the half cent profits which now are
made by SO many Dealers and which amount to
avery considerable gain with traffickers in ar
ticles of a low price Chicago Democrat.
| MARTIN KozrA.-The San Antonio Reporter
learns that Martin Kozta has purchased farm
on the Medina, for which he paid $4,000. On
| this the American Celt says: Gas this notorious
| individual was two years ago, represented in a
starving condition., we must suppose that his
patriotism has found rather profitable market"
| That market, Mr. Celt, was a rich widow Of this
| city, who captured him, and there was no Ingra-
| ham to rush to the rescue Chicago Democrat.
4 INTERESTING Picture FOR CONGRESS- The
| Philadelphia papers state that Mr. BUCHANAN, the
American Minister has sent home from London
an original portrait of JOHN HAMPDEN, the cele-
brated English patriot who was one of the first
| to resist the encroachments of the Stuarts, and
to assail the prerogatives of the Grown in the
great struggle for popular rights which led to
the establishment of the English Commonwealth.
| This portrait belonged to Mr.. JOHN MAcGREGoR
| mhar Of rlia Fp,.E o,,I SO
ented by him, through Mr.. BUCHANAN, to the
i Congress of the United States 1t is said to be
one of the only two original portraits of Hamp-
den now in existence. ~
PuNcn's NEW VERSION OF YANKEE DOODLE
4 Punch concludes his report Off the Golden and
Palmerston debate in the House of Commons,
on the American question, with the following
version of the American anthem, as now sung
i by Mr.. John Bull 1905 $3.50 D
yankee Doodle, do not frown,
1 Though you're brisk and bory;
/ The jewels in Victoria's crown
Ain paste or maccaroni.
/ London is a pretty town,
/ And SO is Philadelfy;
/ You shall have sugar plum,
And I'll have one myselfy."
EFFEcrs OF WRONG SpELLING-Not long since
1 gentleman, then chorister OF certain choir
in Vermont, wrote to certain publisher in
Boston, for a copy of that popular singing book,
| entitled, The ancient Lyre'
In the communication he used the following
lang'age:-'Pease send me the Ancient Liar,
| well bound
The publisher in answer to lis request re-
4 plied:-My dear Sir-I do not doubt hut that
! the deeH has been, and is still in Boston; but il
4 will be difficult to comply with your request, for
thn