The weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1858-1860, 1858-09-28
or the Daily HaWk.I

A., - Ror the DAILY haWk-kye.
Ah ADiroa-Sir: will take ii as favor
you will allow me, through your columns,
20 reply to communicate ton which made ita
appearance short time since in the Keokuk
Journal, over the signature Of veritas, which
communication purports to be . reply to i.
communication published in "Lifs 10 the Wes, "
and dated Mt Pleasant, Aug. 2sth, 1858.
Without again referring to the article nub-
lshed in 'Lifs in the West" will simply d..,
With the article Of "Vsritas." First. tho,
serita' Is gentleman, and he proves it bv
| shs very chaste language which he uses in do.
scriolng "one S. E. Start" IS "vretehea .o...
head and blackguard," with the variation. =.
dirty dog. scurrilous BLACKBOARD" &c.. (tb.t
soous the dirty dog he borrowed from the IL
lus'rous dead, for there is no man living Who
eoalo utter anything half 90 sublime)
In the next place "Veritas" must be- a man NJ
unimpeachable veracity, and to confirm him in
MS own opinion Of his veraci,y, / refer him to
ths records of the District Court OF Des Moine.
county, where he will find that it is not claimed
shas >. T. Star; is, or ever was, . partner Of tho
nrm OF John Start l. Co., by Clark L Seely or
"
oy any other person-wil also find that there
not' and never was, an action pending in
uss Moines County against s. E. Start nor
against any firm Of which he was member
otner than the bill praying an order for the de-
livery of the keys Of certain safe, which wa.
MS own property, and which he refused to de- |
liver TO. the simple reason that they were hin |
own. Further that Clark & Ssely never filed .
OH in chancery to obtain goods Of John Start
9 Co., or to obtain books and papers belonging
to them, Of s. E. Start. Further, Veritas. bv
referring to the Attorneys of Clark L Seely. will
lind that there is not dozen words of truth in
his whole article which relates to John Start
Co., or his brother. He will further find that
g B. Darwin never intimated TO the Court that
!. E. Start uished to be sent to JAIL but told
The court, in defiant tone, to send him to iail:
he Court was further informed that Da, wins
Silent aeked no lenity of the Court on account
Of his sickness The fact is, alter the Court
had made the order to deliver the keys, Judge
csgget came to me and advised me to deliver I
The keys, under protest, and offered 40 reason I
Why / should do SO that the court had made r
order, and that the court Ito use his own Q
eautiful and eS pressive language,) cant back a
own" Disni6ed that, is it not, for a court
0 make an oppressive and contemplate ruling b
nd then gosto his victim and persuade him Il
D obey the rule in order to keep up the Is
isnity Of pitiful old ignoramus who has q
cen un;hous shtsdly clothed with the powers II
{ court. t.
But Veritas was never told by an eye witness p
hat he claims to have been told, unless that K
ye-witness was Judge Clagget himself, for
,ere is not another man in the State SO lost to 81
i sense of truth and honor as to have made "
lose statements, and unless Veritas is the In
ldge himself, (which s most likely" then the 81
ldge was the eyewitness if not, will Veritas 81
ease be manly enough to give US his name u
I'd the name Of his informant. The whole
'ticie of Veritss is tissue of falsehood, in NJ
nded to injure innocent parties, and unless he of
corard as we'll as a liar, he will make him as
III known F. START vi