The weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1858-1860, 1858-09-07

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tPrxsa1u Wouu1Gp.-On Ssnday evening last
| betwesn snd 3 osc.ock. 1 row occurred q
the Rock Ia.and Fsyry Boat, just after |. mad
| liz i1ndine ~ thls side, shich has resulted 4
| severe jninriea 10 Policemen Delaney and Young
the .kull. by whioh BIZ life IL jeopardised, ant
! the latter hci one 81. his ribs broken and an
| other severely hurt. whils several other partis
met With cuss anA bruises in the dreadful me-
| lee, which for time was carried on with f.
rocisy and DESPERATION seldom eGnalled IN thu
annals Of orr city. The following Ia the state
| ment Of the boat banda, aud authenticated 81
other parties:
Four Irishmen got on board the boat at Rock
Island for this city, and in order TO get rid o.
paying the ferriage, they remained or the lower
deck When they ncared the landing here
Collins, the man collecting fares, went 70 THU
party and asked them for their ferrage. One
said he bad paid it; Collins denied it; the Irish
man retorted, and called the former an oppro-
bious name, when Collins knocked the man
down with blow; be got up and paid his fare,
and this rather quelled the row for moment
but on tho boats arrival at the wharf boat on
this side, the four Irishmen pitched into Col
lins. On beholding the latter's plight, the two
boat hands came to his rescue, and they drove
off the four Irishmen. But being reinforced BY
two friends of theirs on the wharf-boat, the
Irishmen commenced throwing paving stones nj
the boat and boat hands. The latter, inccnsed,
rushed off the boat and were fighting the four
Irshmen, when the policemen camc up and took
the part Of the Irishmen, and not having their
stars on, were badly handled by the boatmen.
Gazette, Aug. 81.
DOUGLAS EXPLANATION OF HIS VorE ON THE
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the Kansas Nebraska bill in the U. s. Senate,
Mr.. Chase, Of Ohio, offered an amendment, in
which it vas expressly declared that the people
Of the Territory have the right to exclude slave
ry. This amendment was voted down, Judge
Douglas assisting. Called to account for 50 do
ing by Mr.. Lincoln, he stated both at Ottawa
and at Freeport, that the season why he voted
against il was, because Chase would not in
sert in his amendment clause asserting the
right OF the people OF the Territory also to es-
tablish slavery. In both cases Mr.. Douglas left
the impression upon the minds of his hearers
that had the latter proposition been included
in Chase's amendment, be would have voted
for it.
II happens that during the struggle over the
Kansas question proposition was brought be-
fore the Senate precisely similar to what he says
Mr.. Chase's amendment ought to have been
Did Mr.. Douglas vote for it? Those who heard
his speech at Freeport will doubtless suppose he
did. But that would be mistake. He spoke
against it, and uotea against u. While the
Douglas Toomos bill was pending-from which
Mr.. Douglas had stricken the clause requiring
the submission OF the Kansas Constitution to
vote of the people, and 10 which he had added
another clause by which the Convention was
debarred from submitting it--while this bill was
pending, Mr.. mrumball offered the .3llowiar
amendment
lind be IL further enacted, That the proyi-
sion IN the act to organize the Territories OF
Nebraska and Kansas which declares it to be
the true intent and meaning of said act mot
to iegislate slavery into any territory or State,
nor to exclude it therefrom, but TO leave the
people thereof perfectly free to form aad regu-
ate their domestic institutions in their own
way, subject only to the Constitution of the
United States, waS INTENDED to, and does, eo1ter
.pon, or teaee to, tie people tic Territory Of
4 anSas, .fnH poWer at any time. hrouqh its
Territorial Legislature, TO ENCLUDE SLAVE.
RI FROM SAID TERRITORY OR TO RE-
AND REGULATE 1T THEREIN
The yeas and nays wero called for on this
amendment, and the name of Mr.. Douglas
tands recorded among the latter. What nov
becomes of the reason which he assigned at OF
ava and Freeport for voting against the amend
nent of Mr.. Chase?