The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1857-1858, 1857-07-15

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The men who oppose the adoption 81 The ~
| Constitution. The opp6sition comes from ths
Jones and HYMN clique Of the speils party 81
| Iowa, who have already grown rich, iabulously
I rioh. upon government favors commanded b.
shelf Pesitiaa and 1sed 70 enrich themsslvss and
fFiends. They have had the control Of ~ -
land Offices IN the State for ysarA moving shela
wherever they could thus best subservs thelp
! "~n private ends. They purchased n. Dodge
aud Sioux City, and then had the Land ofaces
located there. Not content with this they made
these places points in the Railroads to which
Government grants Of lands we're made and thus
added very largely to their before great wealth.
These are but single items. We might name
other instances Of practices more reprehen.
sible whereby they have enriched themselves
through their influence with the General Gov
eminent. We might 60 on and mention the
blacklist Of oil their black transactions, the effort
to ewindle the settlers in western Iowa and
drive them OF the farms they had improved,
which occurred last year. They attempted to
seize, under law which these blood suckers
had struggled through Congress, through their
tools and creatures, some forty thousand acres
of swamp land, already taken possession of and
sold by Iowa to the men who occupied it. But
they were foiled in this.
These men are commemorative are the moe4
interruptions and heartless set of plundersrs
that ever cursed any State or country. And
they are among Us with their great wealth.
which is power, and are determined to control
the destinies Of our State. During the last two
years their money has procured Bank Charters
for them from the Territorial Legislature Of Ne.
braska; an exercise of sovereignty, BY the by,
on the part of the ''Squatters" OF that Terri
tory, not only of questionable propriety, but of
doubtful power. Having thus secured Bank
Charters and set their rag mills" at work over
amorg the Buffalo haunts and gopher holes,"
they are prepared to supply Iowa with cur.
rency. But they must prevent the adoption of |
the new Constitution, which allows the people |
Of this State to charter Banks OF their own. or |
they will totally fail in their plan of making
still other fortunes by furnishing deprecated
If they can preyentAhe people from
voting aye on this Consultation, what will be the
results Should it be defeated sir years must
intervene before another can be adopted
What then? The Nebraska Banks will in that
lime have an abundant opportunity to expand
heir circulation-to get millions of their trash
INTO the pockets of the people, and then espode
blow up, involving the State in calamity
which must blight it for years! We do not
now that this will be SO aud do not assert it.
nut we do know that they have obtained char
ere and set banks in operation, and their Dl.
sEcr INTEREST is TO fall
On the other hand we have system of Bank.
~ to be legalized by the New Constitution,
'hich makes it the interest of the Banker not
Q fail. This is the true plan and the only one
hat ever will give US good Banks. Let the Con
tituton be adopted, and under it will spring
p sound and safe banks that will not only re-
eenl their bills with specie but put down the
rice of exchange and reduce the rate of inter
st. IA