Weekly hawk-eye and telegraph. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1855-1857, 1856-04-30
WAsniIofos, March 20, 1855.
Dvsines, en Hands.

The name Of Cookery, and our illustsious Senator
In Congress, Gen. George Warrington Jones,
propose 70 regulate the domestic affairs Of the
people Of Iowa, and TO determine what newspa-
pers they shall and what they shall not take.
Most Of the legal voters Of the State have 90
long been in the habit Of doing pretty much as
they pleased, that they win, At this late day,
be slow 70 acknowledge the authority Of this re-
doubtAble Quixots, Jones and his faithful San
cho PAnSa, Cookery. They propose to effec,
their object In The following manner
PosY-orrIcE, DUBUQUE, Iowa,
April Is, 1856.
The following slip is cut from the Cleveland
Plain Dealer, and the Editor Of the Express
Herald viii please publish II in his weekly ed.
ton for the Information Of Postmasters, publish.
err and Others.
II the number of packages of the New York
Tribune which comes to this Office for distribu.
ton, addressed TO Postmasters who act as agents.
be any criterion by which to Judge the politics
Of such postnasters, there are three Abolition
postmaster in Iowa and the Northwest generally,
to one Democrat.
Believing the New York Tribune to be an in.
cendiary newspapers, aiming at the destruction
Of Society by intoxicating Free-Love Levelling
and Fourierite doctrines, and especially treason
able In In designs against the Constitution of the
United States, which have sworn to support
and defend, voluntarily give this public notice,
that II any respectable number Of law-sbiding
citizens will send me petition for the removal
Of any Postmaster who acts as Agent for this
mischievous print, and recommend reliable
friend Of the Constitution and Union to fill his
place, will use all my efforts with the Postofice
Department through Hon. Senator JONES, to
have the change effected speedily and without
Gail.
Itis hoped that Democrats viii give this mat
Ter their early and special attention, and that
HcRACE GREELY will bo forced to find some 9th
Or agency than the Post-ofice Department un.
der Democratic Administration through which
TO make twenty thousand dollars year. There
are plenty of Democratic newspapers, such as
the Warrington Union the Philadelphia Penasyl-
vania,, the New York Day Book, the Cleveland
Plain Dealer, the Chicago Times, &C., &C., which
can be had At one dollar . year, and the pro-
prietors of.which do not ask or expect "fen thou
oAnd Democratic Postmasters to write the names
Of one hundred thousand subscribers free gratis
for nothing" The practice operates TO the star
wing prejudice Of western newspapers, and should
- &scoantenanccd in every locality were it ex.
ists. 81
CHAS CORKERY, Postmaster.
10 II not pity, shame, . disgrace to the
people Of Iowa, that they have not intelligence
snd good sense enough 70 determine what news
papsrs they ought to take-to know what pub
locations arc reasonable and impropers They
certainly cannot be capable Of selfgovernment
When the Republicans and Democrats Of Iowa
viii take 5000 copies Of the N. Y. Tribune, a
''Esasonable" sheet and allow such orthodox
papers ~ the Washington Union and Chicago
Times 70 starve or exc out . precarious existence
upon executive pap, it is time censor was ap.
pointed. high time. Gen. Jones should be made
Bashaw, with nine tails, and authorized to
visit every cabin in the State and burn every
thing reasonable. This Cookery and all other
Post Masters who can be relied on, should be
invested With plenary powers and authorized &c
iaspect al mail matter. and exercise sound dis
erection In determining what should DO allowed
10 circulate among the people.
u this free country
a. The Editor Of the Keokuk Times, in his
whole career ~ newspaper writer, never stretch
ed the truth farther than in tho following
Mark he hypocrisy Of the FIRST paragraph:
A for the principles and patriotism Of the
Wing party-as far ~ they related to the issue
nnvr v,en6ins, haSsN,,a tho rcnntrc 10 alvava "A,