The weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1858-1860, 1859-08-06
raR VEEKLF Hawk Eye

THR WEEKLF HAWK EYE
--..r.a Deags and rueissvs ssaves.
!, ! ,hs beass and glory Of Gensral Doags
~, NJ and his colleague General Jones. and q
= n.a .amsd Surgeon, lef Penasylvaala, WI
-. 80 vent int bat obocafisy 70 which BIZ
- ere haassaing. were ne only thrss
800 slssss Senators fron ~ ensiss hortA
q eould Be forced under the Whip and spu,
! ,A.ir Southern ridsrs % support tAa Fugitive
-. Act Of 1850. In speech delivered BY
3, 4 the Senate On the 25,h Of Feb, 1854,
!. nd the following jabilans language -
.Yova i the only free State which never fos
-.nmens gave way 70 the Wilnos Pfoviso. -
=. Colleague, g. w. Jones,) who never dodgsa
,sponsibility. Or fails to perform . duty,
s...d for every one Of the compromise mea-
w. - IA ali their phases, stages and conditions,
:s.'aaiue ,he Fugitive Slave law-the late Sem
y. surgeon, Of Pennsylvania, and osrselves
w. ~. he only three Senators .JroM tie easiys
M:.lsrtAoldiHg section Of this Union Uho voted
Use page IA Of Dodges speech ON tie
t,n,ss Nebraska Bill.
s.ueral Dodge 10 not content with thus pro-
,..,us 10 the world what be believes to be his
L., and what many better men believe to be
:. .h,me, but be is now sraversing the State
"A .yerywhere declaring to the people ON the
-, that il called on, he will turn out and
-, 10 run down fugitive slaves for their
s claimants. He processes to look with
- and horror upon Mr.. Kirkwood's reply to
=. oo.s6ca whether or not hs [Kirkwood)
"a a ~ same thing. When the insssroga-
=. pss to Mr.. Krkwood by Gen. Dodge
.ouId you obey the fugitive slave Law 2" the
- ,s0, uas, - would not resist the en-
$500, Of that Law, 5u. before would as
y, Il capturing fugitive slave / would suffer
=. ,.o.lty Of the law" The alternatives are,
ah.o catch the slave, or pay the penal,y."-
v,t,ood says, 81 viii not be guilty of the in
,,u ,D;tv Of assisting 70 return human being
"a homeless bondage, who 10 accused Of mo
slime excep. that Of desiring his freedom.
~, "a, the penalty first Gen. Dodge prefers
% crawl On his belly and eat dirt: he says he
asil help to run down and catch the negroes
N, Kirkwood wss born and educated in the,
South. where the business Of catching slaves
is not prscsiced BY those who aspire to respect
able positions in society, and perhaps he retains
some Of bis Southern prejudices on this subject.
Charles Sumner declares that shortly after
taking bis seat in the Senate he asked every
Southern Senator If be would assist in catching
fugitive slaves If required to do 50 under the
fugitive law, and the uniform and Undertaking
aply was, II would not" We have many
nd many q time put the same question to
scthern gentlemen and we have invariably re-
aved the same reply. Slave catching, either
With or without law, is odious in the most
ppulous slave districts, and those who engage
b il are . class Of white men whose social rank
. below that of respectable colored house.
srvants, and who command about - much
inspect in the communities where they live ~
their own hounds. Il 10 only in Iowa that this
tss;ness is sought to be made popular.
General Dodge expects to make great deal
d political capital by voluntarily and oficiously
declaring that he will help to catch runaway
negroes, and that Mr.. Kirkwood will not. If
this be not his expectation why does he intro
duce the subject! If the people of Iowa
should be SO smitsen with moral and political
blindness as to elect him their Governor, he
can have nothing whatever, officially, to do with
t.; Tha nF hat
law 10 xbolly entrusted to United States officers.
NJ Krkwood says he would nos resist that law
or those officers. Why is not the Gen. satisfied
With that answer! Why does he re .introduce
lhe subjec, at every debate, At Eddy vile, aud
Olsumwa after hearing Kirkwood's reply 1t Os-
kaloosa unless it be to show that he is Z willing
instrument Of the slave propagan disss and
therefore deserving Of the votes Of pro-slavery
men.
Yes, Gen. Dodge, the Democratic candidate
for Governor Of the State of Iowa, and ex-
United States Senator, and an ex-Representa
tive Of the United States Government at the
Court Of Spain, is travelling over the State and
'yiHs w 1eSuS PoHliSoi SuPPo's VIA "~SS~As W
his willingness to aid in the capture of runaway
negroes. Well, If any man is entitled to sup
port in lord on account of his subserviency to
the Slave Power, Gen. Dodge is the man. Let
i therefore be every where known that Gen.
Dodge ayows that he stands ready at any time
10 leave whatever occupation he may have, and
assist in catching poor, fleeing, furnishing, iu-
ssives, who are striving to get the control of
the thews and snews and soul that God has en-:
lowed them with and that Mr.. Kirkwood, on
the other hand, declares that while he will not
resist the law Of the land, he will suffer the
penalty which that law imposes before he will
assist in doing any such thing.
az Who stole the Pottawattalnie Poll Books.
This question has been about AS often asked as
VhO siruck Mr. Patterson lint never aAtisfAC-