Weekly hawk-eye and telegraph. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1855-1857, 1856-07-30
FOR the Hawk-Ey
SALEM. July 10th, lass.

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of tho 18th. notice a communication from NJ.
Pleasant, in which the writer says, whers ny
pub,icanism fancies itself =. the minority, y r.
lee.s ;ts candidates froII, the weak aud sah~ortas
AMONG the Democracy for the parfose OF etlt'e-
mo others int Is folds but when i Il conseip'is
1 of its strength it commits no sssh lo'''se'
Henry County where it is strong u co'ii'''ise
suei, ahsuraity.n No such absurdisy as s'.N'
sirs Why of choosing the weak ana at'Woss'''
| from among the Democracy. 'insteaa ., y
leotiug Grantham who, unit. iatelys aas oee'' T
| oooa and thorough democrat, but who has turn .
ed Republican for some purpose Nhiela may y
OWNED by the people, theyh have seieeteda me's
boy. Verify men should not turn hepaoi'Sah
| for the sake of Office only Caring asiittle inr
their principles as to barter them for i'ess OF
, pottage-a nibble at little Court House o'l''8
Now, sir. would you not think Mr. 9ran''iai'
would feel under lasting obligation 10 tins cor
respondent Of the Gazette, for this sympalhf
and compliment. Mr.. Grantham. who shii
lately was u good and thoronyh democrat, anu
a better and sounder man than whom cannot ne
found, who has too much manly Independence
and patriotic love OF liberty to be made a tool
for the propagation of slavery, by the leaders OF
his party, and who sees in the Republican party
the only hope of checking, the audaeity OF the
slave power and Of maintaining unmpaired our
citizen freedom, is accused by n sneaiSing, soul
less writer, of being 50 heartess he and base as 20
have forsakeu his principles and turned Repub-
lican for the sake of Office Why sir, a writer
casting such foul imputation upon the motives
and character Of so good a citizen, II he wonlu
venture out with his colors would be footed out
Of Mt. Pleasant No---not that; for the good
citizens of High Henry don't practice or believe
in Rufanism in any torn. Bat he. would be
treated with that silent contempt merited by vii
lifers Nor should have thought the commp-
nicaton worthy Of notice, If i1circulation had
been confined to this county where Mr.. Gran
tham's high worth as citizen and an officer has
been appreciated by the community by the be-
| stowal OF offices for many years, and where all
the facts touching the subject are known, to
give the lie to the whole statement, but as 1t has
| gone elsewhere and met the eye of those, who
might fancy they saw in it a principle and feel
ing SO perfectly in keeping with what the Ga
zette now exhibits, as to do that paper the great
injustice OF changing the venue, and giving the
article more weight than belongs to an anony-
nous communication, ! thought it proper to
| repel the foul aspersions east upon this Rep"b-
lican County and men who are above reproach
The communication shows the writer's estna--
ton of what material the democracy are COM
| posed aud what he thinks a good democrdt IS
likely to do; and since the party have SOLD thenl
selves as suppliant tools into the hands of the
| slave oligarchy, | wont say that he misjudgcs
his party. Mr.. G. sir, has been sustained III oif-
ccs here most of the time for Is years, though
his great attachment to the name, Democracy,
was held, like many who still adhere to it, but
who too, will leave the party when they like hlm
get ther eyes open to see, that under that fair
cloak nothing remains but a corrupt carcass, the
soul is gone, and slavery y-propag ,ndism nsuFping
its place and becoming a cardinal principle of
the Bogus Democracy, he, abjuring this pseudo
democracy, and finding the true democracy 10
be with the Republicans, has birtere'l t.is prlI-
bait" The writer says ''the County selects its
treason breeders" What would he! have us
select slave-breeders and their confederates--
tritors against High Heaven, humanity, Christi.
Snity, conscience, lberty-every thing but slave
ry propagandism and Pierce pseudo-dcmocracy.
Thank God we are yet free, and don't intend that
the tyranny of Border Ruhlan code, shall go
yern this county, though, should God, in his
dspleasure, permit our country to intiict its own
punishment, for oppression, by the election OF
James Buchanan, who endorses the Pierce
trcachery and bribery and Border Ruifian tyran
ny, to the Presidency, we expect to have to
contend maufuly for the right of free speech
and free press, not for Kansas and Congress
merely, but for ourselves throughout the States.
This writer says ''it is well known fact that
this county has had large Quaker population
} that has kept it in opposition to the democracy.
In opposition to what democracy sir: VIII!
, that spurious democracy, ever trucking to the
support Of the slave power, which refuses 10 thu
, free citizens of the U. S. the right of petition
that Furnishes them with rigor and denounce:
tIicli lOF W a'is
} send into degrading, soul-destroying bondage
fellow man,-a democracy that watching an op
: portunc moment breaks and repudiates solemn
, compacts, and to carry out villainous schem
o regardless of and in defiance of the will of th
e people, through its administration openly offer
J brbes to induce the peoples agents in Congress
- to betray the interests and violate the viii Q
: the people-that democracy which encourage
l. and sustains suppression Of the right of fre
: speech and free press; Of trial by impartial j,
% ry; OF the writ of habcas corpus-those indi;
1t pensable safeguards Of liberty;-a democrae!
], which, though protesting to believe i'll squatte
:, sovereignty, refuses grant the citizens of Te
e ritories the right to choose their important of
: GERS, reserving the appointment of them to
ID minion of the Slave oligarchy, and refused
grant those citizens the right to prohibit slave
10 while under Territorial government-these d
&c malls of right being necessary to ensure tie su
lie cess of determined scheme to establish slave
'. '. in Kansas.-A democracy that with the bloc
I'd thirstiness of savage hunts down, imprso
H.. and denounces as traitors, those who refuse
w SOuc lOFCeu upon lfceNl
to by people of another State, submission to viii
ell none but despot would require, and none b
lis a slave, in spirit, would yieid--a democrat
lis which failing to bribe and deceive the people
,c- to compliance with its measures, in Visions
H. uses every artifice TO thwart the popular "
N refuses to yield the gubernaoriaT chair to I
ng peoples elect, and defcs the Judicial authority
y! In Iowa, steals pollbooks and disorganizes
Try gslatures preferrng to let tie State suffer fr
he Misrepresentation and misrepresentation ratl
lis, than allow the popular will to be carried O
oly Such sir, is the democracy opposed by the in
HI ligent, peaceable, unoffending, NONRESIDENT,
ty. nevolent-in short Chrst-like, Quakers of I
ION County. A people, sir, in whose principles
E is polity, true democracy, if many church in Ch
eh, tendon, may be found. And sir, because til
We christian people, having learned from the W
fol- of God that all mankind are OF one blood, b,