The weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1858-1860, 1859-07-05

,rpLrNGToM WREKLYHAWK-EYl
Puea on RUPPE.
:, our colcmns this msrning may b fouat
:. ,l.,:orm Of the Democratic pasu Of Iowa
=. have already published the names Of theil
..ndids.es, and We desire 70 diress gensssl At
,.,,ou to the platform, candidates and iocaI
"a national position Of NE party. A very
-..,,, examination shows clearly wha,
p.,,., has all along asserted, viz: that the
/. totally dsmoralized. Such mass d
r..a,;e., mixed up With truth and falsehosd,
came bsfore oar mind, az ID fo6sd In this
.'.,so,m. Il purposts to be . Douglas plasferm
.,tcb votes, asserts the doctrine Of mon.
,"...,.o,;eu, leaving Buchanan's administration
-.a.,a, even the smallss. hotics. attending that
.....,.,. shall believe that the Democratic
i..ds,. t,eas j, with silent contempt Yet this
,..uhosh. The Administration bad its emis-
- i..hs Characteristics at least two of the
.,m;..es uuon the ticket, and ~as not endorsed
,...us. the party could not afford 70 carry such
A..yr dead weight, and because Buchanan
,..,h. hest nos.be assurance that the Squatter
Sovereignty noa-intervention unfriendly legsla.
=, dodge OF Douglas is a sheer huubug, used
go, nnrnoses--to catch Northern vetes and
hu Douglas a. Charleston. The Burlington
craae which coatrols the Democratic party OF
Io., cares nothing for Douglas or Buchanan or
q, nnucrlvs or platforms. They only desire
"a see, GEN. Dodge and carry the State in order
IN nreseu, him before the Charleston Conven.
tim as 1 candidate for President or Vice-Presi.
dent As be never did anything, good bad or |
Indifferent, save draw his salary and shake |
hands with his constituents, he can, without
any violence to his record, (he has no record)
be placed upon any platform and be made TO
ubserve any end which Southern 6re-eaten
nay desire. A good neighbor and good citizen,
In the main an honest man, with amiable i'm.
pases, bis conduct is Straightforward and cor
rect, except when he is directed and managed
like Gen. Cass) BY men who have less honesty
but more individuality than himself Such
Qualifications for high position ere duly appre-
aated and win be made the most Of by the Bur
| sagton Junla. Shall the people Of Iowa elect
Dodge Governor in order to set up in business
.sqaad of trading politicians, who will 60 to
Charleston and sell them out for the best con-
ideration that can DC obtained?
Could not the Democratic politicians who
made this platform, be indicted under our lawssI
Iuey have certainly set their wits at work to
sa,sin votes under false pretenses. There is
not an honest plank in it. Asserting that the
Homestead law, proposed last winter by the
Republicans but defeated by the Democratic
party should become law, they did then and
will continue to fellowship its enemies and se-
crety rejoice at its defeat.
Resolving that there shall be no distinctions
between native ard adopted citizens, at home
or abroad, and that the mantle Of protection !,
ought TO be every where thrown over every man
who can Justly say be is an American citizen,
they have placed its friend upon their ticxet, !.
admitted to their councils and are in fullfellow.
ship with an A administration which has decided
that it will protect its native citizens, but leave
to the CONSUMPTION such persons as may be r
found visiting the homes OF their youth, their
early friends and the graves of their ancestors
in " fader land" 10 short, with professions of .
they are in full communion and fellowship,
having secret treaties of peace and friendship !,
with an Administration that has stripped the :
.aturaiized citizen Of The dearest aud most i
sacred right acquired under our Government
Hypocrisy marks every line of this monatrous
platform. Resolving in favor of non-interven-
lion, sgainst opening the African slave trade 4 4
md against slave code, the enterprsiug politi D.
a hucksters who pu. together this bundle Of if
Inconsistencies would accept any platform the
0ath might dictate so that Dodge was placed
apon it in 1880, and they will make him sand
hif they succeed. p
Bn; the climax is found in the reference TO IL
the bred Scott decision, which may be called the
latest dodge. The English Of it is that the Su. IL
preme Court decision had no application except hi
TO the case before the Court, Zone niger and p
that Niger (Drsd Scott,l being now dead and 10
buried, therefore the Democratic party OF Iowa o.
. not responsible! nl
We have no time to pursue this subject fur ir
her The reader will please exsmins for him u'
ieN and he will find that We have not touched Ill
half the absurditss, nor exposed the snares and VI
pit falls which have been bungingly thrown to hi
gether. It is q transparent humb,g and cheat, to
gotten up by heart less and souless politiciane G
Who seldom If ever fee! the glow Of IN honest co
impulse or give way to an honest enation.-I clt
Political jucglery aud Wholesale decepti>u and an
fraud are the highest and most exalted saits be
Of character they ever exhibit. They have gcse F.
Into j; (the piatform) in chrysalis state and VIII
aot come out again until 1860 when their ap.' ~
.a's' I. W." '' s' ''ae'e"' ."'' eeu '"e" III
fends will not know them. =;