Weekly hawk-eye and telegraph. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1855-1857, 1856-03-05

The Eaxeese and the Republican Stat
COnventi0n.
We have the best authority for sometimes an
swcrins the fool according to his folly. Ant
were We to take up the glove that has beef
thrown down, and meet the Blackguard OF TN
Gazette, with his own weapons, We should prob
ably be justified before this community.
Without re publishing one line of its proceed
lings or even giving the platform adopted, IN or
der that the readers Of the Gazette can judge fo'
themselves, the Editor employs all the opprobri
Gus epithets of the English language in abuse o.
the men and doings of the State Republican Con
vention, and resorts to the most shameless and
barefaced falsehoods TO prejudice and misiead
A more unfair and ungentlemanly course we
never saw pursued by any editor.
We started out with determination, when we
commenced the publication Of paper in Bur-
lingson, never to lessen our self-rcspect or de-
grade our paper in the eyes Of an intelligent
community, by making it mere mud machine,
a vehicle of abuse and blackguardism, Of detrac-
ton and obscenity. And although our cotem-
porary has degraded his paper to this pitiabie
position and its editor to that Of hired political
scavenger, we see no reason to change our de-
termination or alter our course All political
advantages arising from such means and such
labors, must be of very short duration. and in
the end react upon the party and the men using
| them.
| What will be the astonishment of the readers
of the Gazette, who have waded throguh the
| loaded columns of falsehood, blackguardism and
/ ribaldry, with which it daily oyerfows, should
they, by any fortutous accident, get hold OF the
platform of the Republican party, and find it to
contain nothing more offensive than simple
declaration against slavery extenson-Nothing
smelling stronger of "woo" than the avowal of
preference for free white labor over black or
mahogany colored slave labor.
Who is the man raising all this pother? The
present editor of the Gazette is GENERAL JAMES
NJ MORGAN, late editor of the Telegraph: fu-
sion, know-nothing, abolition sheet, according
to his present showing. He was one of the sup
porters of Mr.. Grimes for Governor of Iowa,
who has always supported and avowed the iden-
tical doctrines OF this terrible Black Republican
party, and gone, even farther in opposition to
slavery This same gentleman was one of the
supporters of Col. Fitz Henry Warren for the
Senate of the United States, and was lobby
member of the last legislature, with expenses
paid, for the purpose of securing the Senator
ship to one of the strongest anti-slavery men in
Iowa He was one of the committee, on resolu-
1: ~, Of fbo Nf
moines county in the summer of 1854, which
committee put forth an nti-Nebraska and Anti
slavery platform full as pointed and explicit as
the one he is now trying to prejudice the pnblic
against, and bcspatter with his insane revilings.
From all this our readers must come to the
conclusion that the present editor of the Gazette
is a merchantabe commodity, bought and sold,
That the honest support of any cause is what
cannot be expected of him. That he will be
true to the last purchaser until he finds new
master; who shall give him new impetus and
bid him eat his own words and stultify his former
acts They will therefore know just what
weight his diatribes are entitledto
Had he contented himself with fair and hon
orable course-had he observed the courtesy
usual among editors, we should have been con-
and discharge his paper shafts under cover
Had he resorted to none but the usual weapons,
we should have spared him the modification OF
this expose, as we have done for some months,
and left him to enjoy the wages OF his palitical
prostitution, undisturbcd, save by a guilty con-
science. But as he has gone beyond the bounds
oftruth,-as every political editorial is false in
every assertion, in every insinuation, in every
paragraph and sentence, and in the teeth OF his
honest convictions, if he has any-a libel npon
the good sense and discernment Of the People of
Iowa, it is right and proper that every body
should know the real author Therefore we say
to the unterrifed Democracy of Iowa, the man
who Eliminates your sheet iron thunder, who
manufactures the current blackguardsm for
general circulation and home consumption, is
one of the founders of the order of Know
Nothings, and one of its shining lights, has been
one of the loudest and bitterest opposers Of the
Kansas-Nebraska bill and decidedly opposed to
the extension of slavery. He has been conspic-
uous in his denunciation of Pierce, Douglas and
Dodge, and never lost an opportunity of con-
demning their repeal of the compromise; He
has ridiculed Popular so.veraisuty@ as the fool
ighegt huuhug Of the age, and occupied exactly
the same ground taken by the Republican State
Convention, to characterize which he now ex-
hausts the vocabulary of the fish market. Don't
you think you will be highly edited by his polit-
ical preaching?