The weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1858-1860, 1859-02-08

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Ths following cenmunication was handed q
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tsrsst. bsyona that Of spectator. IN The quar-
rel. The Gassste sssms 70 have gone over 10
Jesss and he Admiaissnson -
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Dssr Sir.-YesterdAyS Gaxss.s contaiaed /
long publication agaiase Senator Douglas, siea-
- By certain Jsck-," Who ssylss himself
modessly !" the giant killer" which induces me
70 beg you for the insertion Of the following
| 6ew remarks. |
The quarrel between g. A. Douglas and g.. w.
Jones arose from the efforts Of the latter TO
prevent the former from being reelected to the
United States Senass. NJ. Jones did % to
please Hr. Buchanan, and not for the cake Of
principles. the violation Of which involving shs
welfare Of the Democratic party. For, il he
should have opposed Douglar on account Of the
Leconpton bill, hs would have made the very
interesting discovery that, in bis own State, mot
one hundred honest Democrats could be found
to back him, and assist in his epdeavers to de-
feat the Democratic party in Illinois. That he
was active to effect that result has not been de
MED BY him nor his friends. Neither has be 10
bic letters, nor otherwise, taken the trouble to
inform the Democrats of Iowa that Mr.. Douglas
vas misin!ormed, when be stated in his Galena
letter that . rumor was aAoat that Senator
Jones had tried to incite the Democrats Of Ga
lena to vote against the regular Democratic
ticket, because Ar. Douglas had permitted the |
railroad to be extended to Dubuque. Regard |
ing this railroad squabble, which is altogether |
an obsolete and ineficacious affair hardly worth |
speaking Of, think that am right in condemn |
isg all those who want to make ii basis Of Q |
feud bet~ cen the people Of Iowa and Illinois.
That Senator Douglas was not so wrong after
all in the letter which exasperated Gen. Jones
80 much, appears from . passage in letter
written by him (Doaglas) in 1852 to Hon. T.
Campbell, and which was published, in connec
ton with the affair, the 6rst time in the above
mentioned publication:
"For these reasons appealed to Sen
ator Jones not to offer his amendment, but he
insisted that his duty to his constituents required
him to do SO, and that he would not dare to re-
urn home, il he roted for the bill az it Oas.
Without making an effort to extend the roadGto
Dubuque.
But enough Of that railroad matter. II SEN
ltor Jones would have confined his !abors to
lis State, if he would have initiated Douglas in
lis herculean struggle to elevate his party, and
rot mixed himself up with things that could
,ring him no good and did mot concern him,
Douglas would have had no cause to write that
obnoxious letter. Il Senator Jones says
Il can but look with contempt upon any fame
" position you (Douglas) may have acquired BY
union with "white spirits and black, blue spi-
its and grey"
have simply to remind him that those are
be very same "spivits" that voted in 1856 for
ames Buchanan. In short, it is the general
pinion that Senator Jones has gained very lit
le, at home or abroad, by joining the enemies
e Douglas in cause where his own consttu-
nts must take issue with him. 81 tacuisses,
AiIosopAus mansisses!
As to our friend slack the giant Killer" we
ave merely to remark that the ''little Giant"
as NO necessity Of ''grinding" the bones Of
enator Jones, 80 make bread, for they have
lready been ''ground" by the Democracy Of
owa. Thou shalt and must not worship dead
ogs, dear Jack! A DEMocRAT.