Weekly hawk-eye and telegraph. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1855-1857, 1856-03-26
VA. WEDNESDAY, MARCH rs, 1856.

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/ graph of the l7th, letter Of Dan1 F. Miller, .,
serting himself 70 be an Old Line Clay Wing an
addressing interogatories 70 me.
Ihave no desire for newspaper controvers
with D. r. Miller and especially concerning hi
antecedents, conceiving a. do that neither hi
or mine are of the least possible consequence =
the people Of this State; who coald probably &c
along u wen, if not better without either Of Us
and who do not like to be bored by small mel
trying to foist themselves into notice.
But Iafirm, as in my former article, tha
Dan1 +. Miller is an unfit man to give advice ts
Wings, andn be had the least sensibility HI
would decline so to do. He is unfit for two rea
Sons. lst, his antecedents-
80. wad some power the gitie gie u
| Te zee ourseis as ithers u.s.
and cd, from his present position as one Of the
standard bearers of the black flag of disunior
and abolitionism. If l were to reply fully to
the interrogatorics in Mr.. MilIers letter, should
assume the task of educating him politically,
which certainly ought to be done; but for which
should want to be paid Hberally. But am
willing without fee to make general replies
To the first interrogatory, have no knowl-
edge that Mr.. Webster ever said on his DEATH
bed 'that the Wing party had ceased to exist. y
He had good reason to fear such an event;
when he saw the great whig party, relying upon
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ciple: and after a sound whig platform had been
forced, as it were, by the sound wing friends of
Webster and Fillmore, upon the Convention of
I 1s52-to see Horace Greedy the great leader of
the forces who secured the nomination of Scott,
declare in hispernicious paper, ''that he accepted
the candidate but spit upon the platform"
Mr.. Webster may well have despaired when
he saw the abolition propensities of the pets of
Gen. Scott. The event will prove that the fears
! of Mr.. W. were not well grounded. Fanaticism
Maine Liquor Law-ism and all the other ''isms"
before the good sense of the people.
The second interrogatory is 6tly answered by
saying that the Webster and Fillmore sections Of
the whig party did not rcpudiate Scott. They
were willing he should be nominated on Wing
platform. His friends desired there should be
no platform-that he should be left free to be-
come a tool of any successful cabal, who might
gain his confidence. The wings insisted on plat
forln-it was passed and Scott nominated. The
Scott men at once announced that they had got
their man; but. damn the platform. Thus we
entered the canvass-both wings-the wings
and abolitionists in disgust
To the third interrogatory of Miller, viz 'sWas
detection of Webster and Fillmore and their i'm
mediate partizan followers ?" Certainly not
His defeat was secured by the abolitionists "who
spit upon the platform" and who still do it; and
all of whom are to be found under the black
banner of Dan. Miller & Co. The same interro-
gatory also refers to me and enquiries if II did
not write number of letters from the East to
the Burlington Telegraph in opposition to Gen.
Scott" and also makes the assertion in italicks-
"He certainly did that thing"
I pronounce this statement of Dan. Miller
matured lie. never wrote such letters; never
desired the defeat of Sco.t-hoped for his elec-
ton, even though his friends chose to spit upon
the platform. electioneered for Scott, l spoke
at clubs, and in public with Gov. Bibb
of Wisconsin, at Burlington. spent much mo-
ney in the canvass, butt was apparent that there
was no hope to elect man to the Presidency
who presented himself as sectional candidate,
or in other words, whose friends 'spit upon the
platform" .- ..e-.. d.. .- a. a
Fourth interrogatory.- nquisitive gen.
tleman, to protect himself from disgrace, and
with hope that the train of events would bring
him into respectable company, enquiries "did not
Fillmore, soon after the defeat of Gen. Scott turn
his back the whig party and give in his adhe-
sion, and take upon himself the obligations of
the new party-known as the American Or
der'"? s.ts ...t as.--E.
Messrs. Fillmore and Webster and the friends
of both, were true to Gen. Scott to the last
There is no evidence, but the reckless assertion
of Dan Miller that Fillmore ever belonged to the
"Know Nothing" order; but If he did was it
not more praise-worthy than to be an abolition
ist-a nullifer-an advocate of the personal lib
erty bill of fMassachuse tts-an enemy of law and
order generally-denouncing the fugitive slave
law, and setting at defiance the decisions of the
Supreme Court of the q. S-asserting the squat
ter sovereignty of the Stree state" men of Kan
sas, who are clearly rebels against established
law? Mr.. Fillmore may be member Of the or
der of Know Nothings. If so, what will the
acmagogue, Dan Miller, do about it )?
The fifth interrogatory of this Miller is, ''What
do you expect to accomplish with the Wing
meeting at Burlington ?"
We expect sir, to assert the Whig platform of
the National Convention of 1852 at Baltimore.
and the Wing platform of this State before it was
corrupted by base coalitions. We expect to
summon every county in the State to a general
cooperation in the same, to enquire how we can
stand upon patriotic basis. We accept your
acknowledgment Mr. Miller, that you would as
soon vote for John Tyler as for Millard Fillmore
We expected this and remember you for it.
shall address you again in reference to the
Missouri Compromise; but have not enough re-
spect for Dan. Miller, to have acontroversy with
him. HENRY w. STARR.
u The following are the only Massachusetts,
papers that sustain the nominations Of Fillmore
and Donelson: Boston Bee, Gloucester Telegraph,
Lawrence True American, Springfield American,
Boston Traveller, Boston Journal (quasil and
Boston Courier (ditto). Out of Massachusetts,,
| with single exception in Vermont, we believe
there is not a single journal in New England,