Weekly hawk-eye and telegraph. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1855-1857, 1856-07-09


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tsnI eraps,ic his opinion of President |
Pierce sud ne spesnbcrs Of his Cabinet We
sent below, further extracts upon Executive
appointments and ether masters, which vii besi
found worthy perisal. The attention Of Dem
ocrass IN particular Is asked.
rHx FUNERAL ArrofsrxEx1s.
81 Appointments were wholly made with view
6 TO sfers the eiecficns-Stxte and federal -and |
TO operate for or against particular men and for
this purpose the most unfit characters would be
taken in preference to the best. You know how
it was IN this State and as it was here SO Il ras
everywhere. NulIffers and free-soilers, apos-
| tates and renegades all were Ash in their net.
One single qualification was requisite-that of
working in the elections; and the only prefer
ence seemed 70 be shown was in favor of those
who had been most violent against this Union.
On that principle II was that an editor was taken
and sent into Egypt, not into bondage, as better
men have been sent there-bnt as consul-geEer-
al of the United States; which editor had pub
lshed daily paper in Washington city for three
years, wholly devoted to the separation OF the
| slave from the free States. Never were such
], men sens abroad to represent the country -
men without particle of the knowledge which
| diplomacy requires, and even without manners
without knowing how to behave in company
mere political demagogues, to reward them for
services past and services to come, at the fede-
| raj and State elections They send such abroad
| in order to give them indemnity for past servi-
ces at the polls, and to enable them to come back
and recommence their partisan labors. Former
| ly, the United States ministers were the pride
of our country, and the admiration of the courts
to which they were sent. Talented, educated,
| replete with knowledge, polished in manners,
| modest and virtuous; such were formerly our
| ministers abroad What acontrast to those we
now send abroad. What contrast to the Ru-
| fus Kings, the John Marshalls, the Albert Gal
| latins, the John Quincy Adams, the Pinckneys
of South Carolina, and the Pnckney of Mary
land the Henry Clays, and the long list of SPLEEN
| did names which grace our diplomatic annals.
Such appointments as this administration makes
~ speak of the mass, for there are a few excep-
| tions--are not only disgrace but an injury to
our country. They njure our national reputa-
ton. They degrade us in the eyes Of foreign
| nations. They injure the whole character of
| republican government. Many of them not only
of bad manners, but bad morals. Only think of
that Dale Owen, who published newspaper,
and wrote book, to abolish the institution of
| marriage, and to persuade men aud women to
live together like the beasts of the field. He is
| sent to foreign court for his election services,
and must convey the idea wherever he goes, that
| the United States is a whole nation of 1normons.
returning to the state of forest animals. But If
| he must go, he has certainly gone to the right
| place. They sent him to Naples, where his doc
| trine may meet with less adherence than in any
other part of the civilized world. And all these
missions are multiplied to the greatest possible
| extent-sending those unfit men to places where
| they have nothing to do, even ifthey could do
| anythng-merely to give them pay--and where
! many ofthem by their vulgarity and misconduct
are excluded from social intercourse, and confin-
ed to the privileges which the treaties secure
| them; and left to the low company which their
! manners and tastes require.
| WASTE OF PEOPLES MONEY
Extravagant expenditure is the characteristic
of this administration. Never was such profit
! gate waste of public money seen Seventy to
| eighty millions squandered per annum, and not
| symptom of any Abatement When Mr. Polk
went out of Office which was after the acquisition
of all our new territories he computed the annual
| expenses Of the government at twenty FIVE to
| twenty-six millions; now it is three times that
amount, and getting worse. Increase Of Offices
and salaries-increase Of army and navy-mul- !
tiplicaton of useless agents to attend to the cleo
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waste ofmoney in building ships to rot, while re-
fusing dollar for the improvement of our great
rivers; such are the devices to get rid of the
| public money.
VIOLATED PLEDGES.
| Violated pledges rise up in judgment against
this administration. Idol not allude to the inau-
gural address; these addresses are now made
| like pie crusts-to be broken. l speak of pub
lie specific pledges, openly and solemnly made,
and openly and scandalously violated. There
was the pledge to reduce unnecessary duties,
and get rid of corrupting surplus revenue
That pledge is violated-has been for four years
and thisis The enormous revenue iskeptup,
to increase patronage, to purchase worthless
land from Mexico, to corrupt presses, to reward
partizans, to strengthen the government, to build
| up armies and navfes; and to fight foreign ma
tons if they can succeed in picking quarrels
with them. Equally public was the pledge, and
equally scandaous its violation, to make Ma
| tional highway to the Pacific Ocean. Four years
ago the pledge was made; the time is out, and
| the pledge not redeemed.
NEGLECT OF THE TERRITORIES.
Neglect of the Territorial Governments, is an.
other of the offences ofthis Administration Po-
litical partizans aid pot house demagogues are
sent out to fill all their offces-men unfit if they
were disposed, but merely electioneers, engaged
protection of the Federal Government is utterly
unknown; and violence, bloodshed and disorder
overspread the land. Beale whose asccndence
over the savage mind charmed the Indians into
infantile submission, was dismissed, because he
would not electioneer, to make room for a pot
house demagogue, who could do nothing else
California, Oregon, New Mexico are all the
scenes of bloody outrage. Indian wars rage
private murders preyails-law is impotcnt--the
En, ul1{3a ,C AZ. -.
zens are driven to the necessity ofproviding for
themselves. I need not mention Kansas the
condition of that blood-stained ground is suf.
ficiently known to all Of you.
BRIGHAM YOUNG AND THE PRESIDENT.
will speak of Utah, where the federal gov
eminent is ignored and repudiated-its laws and
authority set at defiance. The term of the Nor
mon governor, Brigham Young expired three
years ago. AS he had thrown off the authority |
of the United States, it was determined to send
him SUCCESSOR military graduate of West |
Point--and Captain Steptoe called from his
pleasant quarters to go upon the enterprise
When Brigham heard ofit he made speech to
his people, in which he told them what President |
Pierce intended, what he himself intended-one
sending new governor, and the other intending |
to repnse the compliment. It was in this speech /
that he said to his people that he intended to re-
main in his place until the Lord should say to |
him" brigham don't cant you to be goreraor
Of Utah any longer"
ATTEMPT TO sMuGGLE In sTEPToE
The administration was afraid of him and un-
dertook to out-maneuvre him, and that in the
highest style of West Point tactics; they deter
mined to smuggle Steptoe in. For that purpose
the military governor was furnished with bat
talon of soldiers and directed to proceed to the
Mormon Kingdom, as if he was going to Califor-
nia-stop there to hyberate-and watching the
chance, slip into the governorship some day
when Brigham was out-something like wea-
zle that gets into another's hole when he finds
the occupant gone.
A PREDICTION VERIFIED.
WhenI heard of this scheme, / said to my &C
quaintences,, and can prove that said it flor
do not indulge in er post tacto predictions, that
the first time we should hear of this Gov. Steptoe
again he would be on his tip toes, marching to
the tune Of. leigh Betty Martin, tip toe ,fne,a
and so it was. For before the Information was
over, he was on his march in good truth to Cali
fornia, to return thence to the United States.