The weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1858-1860, 1859-03-15
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The Of aeeSaDd. maeh dislsoeaed and TERRI
by dsnosalissd Democracy Of Iowa have in
their desperate ssrai., biz spoa plan Of regain
Ing power.s Bat Il 10 Dot original. Because
they dominated Buchanan in 1855. and be was
elected President becauss he vas able to prove
an alibi 10 regard to the Kansas-Nebraska bill,
they now hope to reproduce the same trick
with the same result. They expect to nominate
A. @. Dodge for Governor, place him before
the people upon non.committal platform, and
prove an abb in his favor in regard to Lecomp
ton, thus expecting to run him in BY laying Tho
negro question. and keeping it entirely out o.
sight.
We hope to zee them try this dodge. Artfu
and INSCRIPTIONS % are the leaders in thu
State, expert as they are and always have been
their craftiness will accomplish nothing-tbeil
carnations be entirely unequal to the task O
laying this negro question, which they them
solves raised and which will not down At their
bidding Long and often may it return to
plague it, inventors.
Mr.. Dodge lie, like Mr.. Buchanan, q party
man, and nothing else. He follows his party
wherever it leads, sinking the man entirely in
the politician. He was used BY that party to
repeal the compromises, pass the Kansas-Ne-
braska bill and precipsats this sccursed negro
question upon the country TO the destruction Of
its peace and danger to the existence Of the
Union ITSELF
Recognizing Mr.. Dodge's excellent qualities
~ neighbor and his integrity Is . man, Qar
above the average of Democratic Office holders
and ofice-seekers,j the people Of Iowa emphat-
ically condemned him for sinking his manhood
and becoming the unthinking tool of party,
acting only for its own aggrandizement.-
When the people cast him off-when they dis
carded the partizan and condemned the politi
cian-those who had used him that they might
be borne into power upon the storm, sent him
to Spain upon fat salary, thus rewardng his
treachery to the people Of Iowa.
Now, the question arises, can the party sink
the negro question with such nominees A man
who has all his life been politician and moth
ing more, obeying all the requirements of his
party, recognizing its voice as omnipotent and
supreme? Never! When .he returns he will
be as he always has been, partizsn, without
an Independent sentiment or opinion, ready to
open the Slave-trade, force a constitution upon
Kansas, or do anything else required at his
hands by his party. His nomination brings the
Locofoco party, and its acts of every sort, before
'the people Of Iowa on its merits, for approval or
condemnation, and not Gen. Dodge as a man.
Because q vote for him will be vote for Blu
chanan's administration, and an approval Of It's
corruption and extravaganza. A vote for him
will be an approval Of past acts and an endorse.
ment in advance Of the future policy Of that dis.
tracted and demoralized party.
Gen. Dodge, who has been all his lifetime
pOlitcian-who has never at any time or on
any occasion exhibited spark of independence,
is the last man who ought now to skulk. He is
the last man who ought to dodge" the negro
question which he helped to raise, or attempt to
escape the odium OF the acts of his party.
With the result before them of the election
Of Buchanan upon similar dodge and its disas.
trous effects upon the country, the attempt to
foist General Dodge upon the people of Iowa
will prove . signal failure. Let his friends try
il.