The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1861-06-08

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Saesss-d0N, Jessss D.
ssvvar anA Defence"
Il 4 astonishing how tender-footed some per
sons ars-how full Of doubts and misgivings, in
particular instances-while in other cases, where
honest men may well hesitate, they 60 in with
out . why or wherefore. In other words they
strain at . gnat and swallow : saw-mill! Our
noble representatives could mot find it in their
hearts 70 vote for loan Of $500, 900 to arm and
defend the State. They were full Of doubts and
qualms-were afraid Of violating the Constitu-
tion, g., and went upon the record against it.
Yet the same gentlemen voted in favor of send.
ing ambassadors to Missouri to form treaty
with sister State in violation Of the provisions
Of the Constitution Of the United States, and
had they succeeded In their scheme, Judge Hall
and four associates (three from the House and
two from the senate) would have spent the
summer hob-nobbing with Claib Jackson and
the Secession State officers at Jefferson City =
Very discriminating gentlemen, truly, were these
Representatives of ours
But We have not done With the subject yet
Falling to get himself appointed Minister to
Missouri, and feeling aggrieved at the Hawk-Eye
for spelling this little arrangement, or aiding in
doing %, Hall undertook to head rs by build
ing telegraph line to Keokuk and to Des
xoines at the expense Of the State, under the
head of preparing for the defencel This appro-
priation for the construction Of telegraph lines
he had not the least trouble in seeing was consti-
tutional and proper, because it would to some
extent circumscribe the circulation Of the
Hawk.Eye. And bis two trusty esquires, the
Honorable Justus Clark and the Honorable NJ.
W. Robinson, We presume, equally impressed
with the importance Of telegraphic communica-
tion with Keokuk and Des Moines, had no
trouble in voting money out of the State Treas
ury, being clear upon the constitutional point.
We don't know that these honorable gentlemen,
Clark and Robinson, voted for this telegraphic
appropriation. But We know they were joined
unto Hall-his votes were their votes-his
views were their views When he said willie
says waggle." they waggled. When the bill was
on its final passage in the House Gt didn't pass,)
Hall made the following eloquent appeal, which
we risk very little in saying carried Justus and
Noses:
Mr.. Hall said If members would keep cool
they would see other motions actuating the ad.
vocates of the bill For one he should be
ashamed to 60 home to his constituents and say
he had refused even q pittance to place our
State in near and sacred [telegraphicJ commu-
MON with the other loyal States of the Union
He hoped there was patriotism enough in the
House to give the necessary aid to the Govern
ment. As matter of policy, it was q necessity
of the age.
After such q speech as we presume thisJwas,
from the above brief notes Of the Reporter, the
only wonder is that the House failed to pass the
bill by SO to 40.
IMPORTANT DEcIsIoN.-In the Circuit Court
b. Louis verdict has just been given, by
which the owner Of ferry from Missouri to IL
linois has been burdened with damages to the
amount of $500. It appears that slave run
ming away, was transported to free soil by means
of defendants boat. In the charge it was al
legged that the negro was worth 81 900, that he
had no pass from his master, and that the de.
PENDANT was responsible for his loss. In reply
the defendant denied his knowledge Of the es-
cape of the negro, indeed denied that any such
negro had passed on his boat. The jury, how
ever, found for the plaintiff in the above sum.
The PoLITIGAL SKUNEs.-There is class
sprinkled over the North entitled to be regarded
Is political sKUNKs. Their birth, their fortunes,
their regulations they owe to the North, but
they are deaf as adders to the imperative claims
of simple gratitude. They are fostered by the
communities in which they dwell, in return they
hate and de6le them. They are tender, very
tender over the rights of the South, but would
not risk broken skin to save the whole from
perdition. They mourn over invasion, decry the
act as piece of high handed injustice, and for
get the States seduced, the forts cannonaded,
and the various achievements of rebellion in
that line. They would not have slave melted
to instruction, but they glory In the onslaught
Of roughs, toast assassins, and smile upon char
tered pirates. They cannot look with favor
upon a single act of the Standardization most
God like forbearance won no approval from
their black hearts, but nothing is wrong where
politicians make a nations destinies
the final stake. They treat every report of
Northern success as lie, of disaster as joke.
Such beings are among the most humblng spec
tacles of human nature. They must belong to
the race that inundated parents. Their must
have been foul play in their begetting, Or the
natural instincts of the Saxon race would never
be so destroyed as to give to the meanest and
foulest of crimes the countenance deserved only
by virtue. Give us the open, impudent, lying
rebels rather than these sk,aks.-
The one can be convinced or killed, the other is
secured by his sinking littleness.
WHAT MAINE SOLDIERS ARE.-The Bangor
Wing says that during drill of Capt. Burton's
at Oldtown, few days since, while
upon platform towards the river,
where the platform ended, no order to halt be-
ing given, they kept on until ten had jumped
into the river and commenced swimming. Had
not the order been given, the whole company
would have followed them.
OrY1cKRs OF THE SECOND Iowa REGIxKsr.-l
The following officers have been elected by the
Second Regiment:
Colonel-Samuel r. Curtis
Lieutenant Colonel-James N. Tuttlc.
Haior-N. II. Croker.
GO The Boston Post felicitously remarks that
the 'loyal Union Men Of Virginia, - this hour,
IRE under the rankest Of despotism; and it is pre-
cisely true to say that Winfield Scott, in the
majestic campaign which he is carrying on, is
acting as Liberator Of his native
State"
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