The weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1858-1860, 1859-10-01

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Clay Dean WAS u Du6uqus the other day q
made speech 70 which Ne. vsadevsr reptile
The Times gives The folIovi1s sspsss u his ],
marks ia brief:
FELLew-CIflxRAs The ganslemAn who pr
ceded me Processes great regard for me PEI
sOnally, but deplores what be 10 pleased
consder my political hefesies. can recipeoca
all his kind feelings, bas anless be should con
oyer to my faith. there 10 but little hope Of AZ
farther agreement
1 All men cannOs see alike; there are gre,
diversities Of opinion existing in our day n
spccting the claims of the 90 called Democrat
Party 10 orr confidence and support. The tim
IL coming, however, when but cue opinion vi
prevail; that SiIi be when she impassial hist.
risn shall have recorded events now transpieinl
and posterity shah have made mp iss verdii
from the acts rather than from the profession
OF the party.
HARD TIMES.
Ny distinguished friend commenced his speee
by comparing the condition OF Iowa 10 stat
Of general prosperity. such a. prevailed 70,
years ago, with the present depressed condition
groaniDg, as she 10 in common with the Who'll
country, under the lingering effects Of the grea
| resulsion which has recently swept over th
community with such desolating power. Ac
cording to his theory the Republican party il
! Iowa il accountable for it al. Nothing is re-
quired Of me to refute such . proposition
| The assertion Of 90 absurd . charge ha
served the purpose Of the hour and enable,
my friend to show to some advantage the fer.
tity OF his msgination, at the expense of hi
| candor. He might have continued the line 0
his argument anu proved in the sane way tina
We are accountable for the failure of last year.
crop, or for the early frost which has recent.
biighted the products Of 80 many broad acre.
Of our widespread prairies.
RAILROADS.
We are further charged, in his bill OF indict.
mert. with having caused the issue Of 90 man
bonds by the different counties and cities of thu
State. to aid the construction OF railroads.
wish some one would disclose the hocms pocw,
by which the Republican Party procured Tie
Democratic County of Dubuque to issue tsG
hundred thousand dollars Of bonds to the Du-
buqus and Psci6c Railroad Company, or how i,
was that We enticed the Democratic city Of Du-
buque to issue her six hundred thousand dol
lars Of boads 70 various roads, We are in
fact 40 justly chsrgeable for the issue Of these
bonds in Dubuque Or elssvhsee. - for the
bard times, or an early frost.
MOB LAW.
Again, we are charged in this pretended
indictment with responsibility for oil the mob
law hanginge, lynchings, and summary execu-
tions, which have taken place within the State
during the past few years. Aud this my friend
says il an infringement upon the sacred right
Of trial by Jury. ] can appreciate bis tender
care Tor the members of his own party, and
have not the hardihood to stand up here and
say that it was right to hang any of them
without the Intervention Of jury. I doubt not
the Democratic Party has suffered in the person
of some OF its members by these summary
proceedings.
''No rogue e'sr fsl. the hslter draw
With good opinion OF the law"
TEMPERANCE.
We are charged alec with having abandoned
the cause OF temperance. My friend says he
was once great friend and advocate of the
temperance cause, that hs has expended not
less than one thousand dol,a,s for the promo
ton OF temperance. For such display Of
disinterested benevolence be is certainly entitled
to our admiration; seeing that SO little good
has resulted, the loss of the money must now
cost him many bitter regrets But what con-
sisteney ia there in now finding fault with the
Republican party for abandoning the cause of
temperance, when, year Or Two ago, one of
the greatest electionceriDg hobbies used against
Us, was that We procured the passage of the
Maine Lawy 1t is very much like the man
who went home late ut night, drunk, swearing
that he would thrash his wife ii she had gone
TO bed, because she did not sit up and wait for
him, and if she was NOT in bed, he would
thrash her anyhow, because she did wait for
him.
DIR. KADs.
q oh vvif of
oiity tor the acts Of this officer. The defaica-
lion is not denied, but there is an attempt to
saddle the sin OF this good Democrat upon Re-
publican shoulders. James w. Grimes is Sc
ected to bear the burden. We are told that
Grimes aud his friends allowed Eads TO "lifi his
'btigdtioms." The only obligation which the
State held against this man was his official bond,
70 the custody of George w. McLeary,
! Democratic Secretary of State; and J. W.
Beck, the agent Of the State, to inquire into
lie matter, tells Us in his report tina. Mr.. Me-
Aeary gave up this bond 10 DR.. Esds and his
securities, without authority of law, and that he
accepted new bond in lieu of the old, sin
ending, doubtless, to discharge the securities
10th as to past and future acts" There is about
IS much propricty in holding Gov. Grimes or
be Republican party responsible for this act, as
here is in charging US with causing hard times,
arly frosts aud failure OF crops. The cause
) certainly rcketty which requires such shifts
nd subterfngrs to aid it. One would think that
gentleman Of TIE shrewdness, ingenuity aud
earning of Our friend here, could invent some
e;,er excuses for the Democratic party than
iiese.
POLITICAL PAN CAKES.
Politicians, says my friend, are never well
one until they are baked ON both sides. MIR. |
>irkwood, he tells us, is one of this kind; he
sed 10 be a Democrat, now he is Republican,;
G is baked on both sides aud well done at that, |
Veil, Mr.. President, our friend Dean has been |
aked on bO.h sides. He used to be Wing,
ow he is a Democrat; but there 10 this differ
nee between him and Kirk wood-one is we'll |
one, the other is not.
He tells US that the Democratic party left |
rkwood where the eleven apostles left Judas.
7 here, let me ask, did the old Wbig party |
ave brother Deans He must DO hardened |
decd If the growing Of the cock does not |
'metimes ring in his ears.
GENERAL DODGE.
We are told that some years ago an old pi0- |
ear, tall and straight as an Indian, living |
own 10 the State Of Missouri, not lar from New |
adrid, soon after the great earthquake, which |
earabout shook the wits out of that country, |
altered together his sons, his daughters, his
mites, and removed with them all to Wscon.
II. Thus the patriarch Dodge with the youth.
Il Augustus found their way to the Northwest
he latter soon after removed to Iowa, where
'r the past twenty years aud upward he has
,ccessively filled various Offices, first =
egister of the Land Office, then Delegate in
ongress, from the Territory, then Senator,
I'd n ter the great political earthquake of 1854,
hich caused him to walk Spanish out of the
snate, q Minister to Madrid. And now the
indicate Of the Democratic party for Cover
Or. Soon, however, he ia to experience
iother shock, the premouitions Of which are
ready felt, and then perhaps in imitation Of
e example of his worthy sire, he may seek
,me mere propitious theatre Of action, or per-
sps in the goodness OF his heart, Mr.. Buch-
ian may administer the healing balm Of an
lecutive appointment where honor aud profit
e combined.
CONCLUSION.
The counts in the indictment read in your
.arins to dag against the Republican party may
Q summed up as follows: hard times generally,
iroad debts, no lunatic asylums, no temper
ICE law, the hanging Of good Democrats with
1t the Intervention of . jury, and failure
recover back from defaulting Democrat the
oney belonging to the School Fund. From all
lie, il is quite certain that the Republican party