Weekly hawk-eye and telegraph. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1855-1857, 1856-09-24
na.e.li,y Of ,he Post Ma.,er..

On the 10th Of August last, the weekly Hawk
Eve, sent to Mr.. P, L. Eckly, at Lancaster, Ke
ossk Co., Iowa, was returned to US, endorsed
q from him, 'D-m such paper" Being as.
tonished and considerably provoked al the pro.
fame and insulting language written upon the
paper we erased the name from our books and
wrole to Mr.. Eckly the same day.
We received an answer from Mr.. Eckley on
the first Of September, saying that he never had
returned number of our paper to the Office OF
publication nor desired any other person to do
90, that he was we'll pleased with it and desired
to have tsent to him still, and expressed much
modification that such an insulting interection
had been palmed upon us in his name.
On the 10th We wrote to the post master at
lancaster and received his answer Saturday
last, denying all knowledge Of the affair, but
excalpating Mr.. Eckley from having sent back
thepsper or written upon it.
As the writing upon the paper must have been
done in the post Office at Lancaster, there is
very strong prima facie case against the post
master at that place. AS poorly as we think of
hevenal crew, we did not suppose there was one
dirty trick as this to injure a republican paper.
We have traced the matter to the post Office
at Lancaster and shall hold the post master re-
sponsible.
New BRiTlsn MINISTER steamer Allan
dc brought the intelligence that the Hon. G. P.
yillers had been appointed to succeed Mr..
Champion as British minister at Washington.
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Henry Ward Bcecher ON the Catholic
story.
On Tuesday evening last, Rev. HENRY WARD
BrrcnEn, made rousing speech before the
Young Mems Fremont Central Union, in the
Tabernacle, New York, from which we cut, the
following
Mr. Beecher spoke concerning his alleged
Catholicism. Now, said he, he has just as
much right to be a Catholic us you have to be
aProtestant; as a clergyman insist upon it,
that this country toleratcs all religious princ-
plies. Woe is the day when man is to be
prescribed for his religious belief. Ifmy can
didate were priest or Jesuit, should object
to him because of the official bonds he lies un-
the beginning, and Heaven help to keep it SO
to the end, that man is responsible to no
Government or party for his religious belief,
but simply to his God. Mr. Fremont, however,
was not Catholic. He was reared an Episco-
palian, was confirmed an Episcopalian, and is as
tray member now as his mother was or as
any bishop OF the Church is. Lies breed fast,
especially during political campaigns, but in
the history of lying there was scarcely paral
lei TO tn is one affirming that Fremont is Cath
olc. Yesterday, said he, Rev. DR.. Dewitt Of
the Dutch Reformed Church, Rev. DR.. Robinson,
world.renowncd, Rev. DIR. Adams, Presbyterian,
Professor Hitchcock and II. B. Smith of the
Union Seminary, and Rev. Mr.. Field of the
Evangelist, waited upon Mr.. Fremont and in
quired of him, whether he was Catholic or
ever had been. His answers were distinct, full,
and to the effect above stated This statement,
said he, will appear in the Epangeiist for to-
morrow morning. But tomorrow evening
there will be paragraph in the Erpress- the
remainder of the sentence was lost in Kisses and
groans for the Express. He would not charge
the men who reiterated these falsehoods with
being no gentlemen, but if he had permitted
himself to weave as much, three-p ly-ten-ply
hundred fold falsehoods, so utterly without foun-
dation concerning followed OF whom the
absolute sand ncontrovertible truth might be
learned in Ave minutes walk before breakfast
any day, he would run in loathing from his
shadow and his self till he had found annihila-
ton. He wondered how such men dared to
sleep alone. He did not say that the Editors
the Express were mot gentlemen; but the Er-
press in its iasehoods, was like the Mississippi
for length, like the Missouri for dir, and from
bottom to top it was lie.