Weekly hawk-eye and telegraph. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1855-1857, 1856-07-30
ArTER THEM.

S56.
AFTER THEM.
Cux's. BsS DaRwIS is following up the pro
slavery party in Dies sMoincs county IN wa.
that is aay thing but pleasant and 'sS
,,ossns their ialsehoods, tearing Oh thc INNS,
veil which is placed oser the real live issues o
the present contest, and exposing the ptaeA'es'
Of the conspiracy, which Is s'isefea over @''h
the taking name of "sNaiionality-
With the issne now pending fairly iaHiefsseou
by the people there can be but one party. Z nv
masses cannot, like the corrapt leaders and par
ty hacks, be bought over to schemes OF negro
speculation and slavery extension. They never
can be made to approve the sangainary hea'
sures which have shaken the very foundations Oh
our Government and disgraecd rs as !, Christian
and civilized people, in order ertoestahish another
black republic upoa territory soieinniy dedicat-
ed to freedom.
The Cormorant crew of party hacks, who m
fest this city with their juggling tricks, are per,
the county, preaching all thiass W
all men. But they will be taken in their cais'
ness Cunning and artfnl as they are, they nave
undertaken TOO big job. They VIII hha @f.
Darwin a thorn in their side, sand IN their ereaa
and butter, and distnrber OF their hne iaiu
schemes.
Mr.. Darwin met the speakers of the Pro slave
nv party Wednesday evening at Middiet"oa.
He will be present a: all their appointments, and
meet them in debate.
sH Particular attention is called TO the re-
port which appears in our columns from The Le-
sislative Committee appointed to inquire INTO
the official conduct of DIR. Eais, Superintendent
of Public instruction, touching the management
of the School revenues of our State. There Is
evidently something ''rotten in Denmark
eg- George K. Perkins has been elected
Professor of Mathematics in the Iowa State Uni
yersity. Prof Perkins is widely known as one
of the ablest mathematic;ans in the country.
Ne was formerly connected with the New York
State Normal School, and was at one time its
Principal. The Educational interests OF Iowa
are fortunate in having the aid OF SO accom-
pshed Il scholar.
DIP ScoUNDRELs." Col. Benton said, the
other day at Bolivar, Polk county, Missouri, that
the delegates from the thirty-one States OF the
Union, composing the National Democratic Con-
yention, we're 'hc-harlots, male strumpets, sir;
not fit to 90 to hell, for none were received IN
hell but those who had souls; aud those o----a
seouudrcls had nothing but gizzards-nothing
but gizzards, sir" So says the Bolivar Courier
The Gazette and YER. EsarIa1s.
The Gazette OF yesterday, in an abusive aftl'
Gle upon Senator Harlan, has the following
in reference to his temporary absence from his
seat:
Eight dollars day for making political speech
les is pretty we'll for Reverend Gcntlcman-and
that too out Of the treasury Of the United States
upon the pretext of legislating for the dear
people
( The editor of the Gazette has not probably al
ways been thus scrupulous about public moneys,
and their removal from the treasury to the
pockets of individuals. He himself, by a daring
fraud upon the elective franchise, held a seat to
which he had not been elected some eight
months III Congress, drawing pay and mileage
and was finally sent home by a locofoco Con
gress. This was Que of the most bare-iaced ant
scandalous frauds ever perpetrated upon IL free
people. The whole matter was summed up IL
the minority report Of the Committee as follows
Nor do the committee see that either the con
testant or any of his friends can be charged with
any untairness in this matter. The entire boart
of commissioners of the county OF Monroe wcrt
the political friends of the sitting member. \
majority of the election officers at kancsvillt
we're also his political friends. A number o
other influential friends of his went long dis
lance to kanesville prior to the election on al
elcctioneering campaign in his behalf; while TIN
actual sheriff Of Monroe county, political trien'
| Of his, did the same thing, and WAS at kancs
vile and voted there Oh the day of election
The contestant, it seems, had political friends Il
| Kanesvilie; but it does not appear that eithe
he or any Of his friends from distance eve
visited Kanesylle at or before the election fo
political purposes. No question was raised a
any time by any one against the correctness Q
! the proceedings until after the election. TIL
| balloting seems to have been conducted, and tn
poll book kept with more than usual care an
regularity.
The poll-book i'll this case was duly made Ii
and delivered by the proper officer to the cler
| Of the board of commissioners of the county {
Monroe, as the law requires, whose duty it Wa
to receive it, and at the proper time, with the a
sistance of two justices of the peace, to open i
and make an abstract OF the votes of that an
other precints, and transmit them to the Seer
| tary OF State, to be counted and canvasscd
| the board OF canvassers. But the clerk OF th
| board of commissioners of Monroe county, witt
| out calling to his aid the two justices Of Il
peace, as the law requires, but under the advice
j. G. Hall Esq, one of the attorneys ofthe sittr
member, (and who travelled hundred miles
give such advice refused to receive or take ca
of the Kanesve poll-book; and it was actual
carried away by some one, but no one kno,
who or how, except that through some unknaH
agency it was in the carpct-bag Oh j. c. Hall
fore he got home as he now tells us in his e,
denee. Mr.. j. c. Hall gaoe the pot!-Jook
the sitting member IN tie sprimg o5 1919, mh
in the wiater of that gear, disputed tie cristen
of such a poli-Look, betore tie committee; b
on the 10th day OF. January last, Judge Maso
another Of the attorneys Of the sitting mcnlbs
IN attemptlngstO serve, at his own once, q HOtl
on the contestant, to take testimony in the ca:
accidentally, as is supposed, served him the or
5 inal poll-book of the kanesville precnct!-whi
the contestant, after duly examining it in t
fpresence of several other persons, returned.
This pu4l-book was, Of course, never before t
Congressional Canyassers; but the commit,
? think that, under all the circumstances of t
j cas- ), the vote of this precinct should be rece
= ed ard counted, which will increase the numt
of votes given to the contestant to 6,59l, a
the number OF votes given to the sitting me
ber to 6,507.
4 A very nice man truly, is this Thompson
4 pratc over Senator Harlan's addressing his
y low citizens, while necessarily detained from
seat a man who cheated the people OF I
State by comprising monstrous fraud, disgr
ing them by the pretence of his election ant
belling them hy pretending to be their rcpres
.r tatiye, Gaping the climax OF infaH,y by draw
e pay for eight months seroicesfron the Treasu
It Besides, if the yirtuous e:iitor feels SO Y
e much concern about this matter why does
" not pay his attentions to Richardson, OF Hin
X who, holding a scat in Congress, and proba
n drawing pay.-is now stumping the State of
e. nois as the nominee of the Pro-Slayery pa