The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1862-07-12

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his Liking.
The Dubuque Herald, the leading vallandie
ham paper in the State and Jones' home organ
has the following rich manifesto in the last il
sue. In It the ex-senator and Ex. Minister no
only proves himself traitor but an ass. N,
one can read this letter without being convince,
Of both propositions. But should any furthe
evidence be wanted Of jones' secession procli
vities, we rather think we know where to fin,
! it. We rather think we can produce an,
amount of evidence showing that be is steepe,
to the very lips in treason and secession, an,
| that his whole family, male and female are, al
and singular, blind poison, vile secessionists:
From the Dubuque Herald
A LETTER FROM HON. GEORGE W
JONES.
DUBUQUE, Iowa, July 9Th, 1862.
Ny DEAR SlR:-As the Burlington Hawk
Eye and other papers have undertaken, withou,
consulting me, to publish what they term "pur
Joined letters Of mine to JEFF Davis, you will.
trust, do me the favor to publish this explana
ton.
Allow me first to say that the letter which
purports to have been written by myself to JET,
Davis is not q correct copy of what did write
to him, and that certain words and paragraphs
or sentences are italicised or emphasized to give
force or meaning totally different from that which
they would have otherwise conveyed. For ex.
ample, never said or intended to convey The
idea that would fight with the South ooa;us,
the North, my meaning and words being that I
would do 30 against the abolition party alone. for
l was then, as declared to Davis in another
letter, which Mr.. Seward, also, intercepted, Cd.
posed to Secession or any disruption of the
Union, for, as said in that intercepted letter.
''remain in the Union and then and nv sons
and the whole Democracy of the North will fight
with you to sustain you in your rights, Under the
Constitution, to hold slaves and reclaim them
under the Fugitive Slave Law when found in the
North" declared myself to DAVIS sin fayor
OF the Union" and said that it would be IN.
generous and nngrateful in him and his South.
ern friends to separate themselves from the De.
mocracy OF the North who have been political
ly broken down by the Abolitonists, who would
should the separation take place, insult US at
every streets corner and trample ue under foot {"
But declared myself ter peaceable adjust
ment of our difficulties by amendment of the
laws or the Constitution, by compromise or con-
cession; any thing rather than civil war.
As Minister to Bogota charged upon the
Government there and upon Gen. Moeauera. or
ally and in writing, not to resort to civil war
the greatest curse which could befall apy neo.
ple-but to settle their difficulties as the mother
Republic, 1.-THE o. s. from which theirs was
modelled, had ever done and would continue to
do and in no event resort to war-the element
used, and perhaps properly, too, in uonareAical
Governments Ny dispatches to Mr.. Seward
from Bcgots, containing copies of my CORES.
pondence with the two parties in New Grenada.
show that pursued that course there and that
was for "Union, harmony, and concession. !"
anything but Secession or a dissolution of the
Union. 90 declared myself at diplomatic din.
nsrs and in other public places, as have now
before me letters and newspaper articles, from
Bosota, and I will furnish them to you for pub.
ication if you will consent to do 90.
The second letter published, which these "a.
pers would have the public to believe was ad.
dressed to Jefferson Davis, was sent to Hon.
isaac +. Morse, Of Louisiana, once a member of
Congress, and afterwards the Commissioner tn
Bogota, in reference to the Panama riot, The
reason why said in that letter that nv sons
had gone South wac because NJ. Dwight. an
Abolition Custom House officer in New York
City, bad written to his friend General. now
President, hosquera, informing him that was
considered % Secessionist, because had sent
my sons to the South. knew nothing of their
going. said, as Gen. Nosquera we'll knows.
that was not then for Secession, that never
would be, rhat sow rsiterate. But was not
tor var or coercion to prevent it, but for con.
cessions, compromises, and amendments of the
laws or Of the Constitution, 40 my votes on ali
occasions in the o. S, Senate, show. Because
mad the audacity to write to Jefferson Davis.
who had been my college.mate at Transylvanis
University at Lexington, Kentucky, forty-one
years ago, who served with me in the Bl,ck
hawk war Of 1882 and fought bravely for
tais section Of the Northwest, it 10 deemed
treason. He was Afterwards sent here from Fl
Csswford, Prairie Du Chen, in the winter of
1898 BY the then Col. Zachary Taylor, with .
oedy OF q. g. soldiers, With orders to drive off
sne lead miners, &C., from this place, and to de.
etroy, need be, their huts, log and other
evenings, which Davis refused to do, a. be told
me At the time, at my hotse ct Snsinawa
aound, nx miles east Of this place, and 90 re.
ported 70 Col Taylor, a. it wss in opposition,
ne said, to the spirit Of our institutions and re-
voting TO humanity. Davis policy prevailed
and the troops were Withdrawn and the pioneer
sqoatters permitted then and ever since to M.
main here. Whilst I served in Congress with
Uavle, and while be was Secretary Of War, from
1858 to 1859, he, on al occasions, stood By me
in ny personal, pecunisry, political and con.
eressional mattera His letter to me Of the Goth
OF January, 1891, WAS in answer 70 one from
myself to him asking him to procure the resto.
ration Of my con, VIM. A. B. Jones, - SEQ.
ond Lieutenant in the q. y. Cavalry, in which
ne gave bis earnest efforts, though our then and
present Senators and Representatives in Con.
erese, Aessrs. Harlan, Grimes, Curtis and Van.
oe.er' never did anything to my knowledge to
eject that object.
~ great sin consisted in vraino to jeff.
Lows, and because I was for peaeea6k adjust
ment rather than civil war and brute force, and
Decao,e believed then, as shall do whilst
"e' mat the Abolitionists were determined ei.
sn "a 20 force the emancipation of all the slaves
., zoe South, or break up our hitherto great,
F.of'ous, Peacefel, prosperous and happy Union.
. was Wiling to and did emancipate my own
saves out was and am unwilling, in violation
.. me Constitution and Fugitive Slave Law, to
nslool runaway slaves or 10 mob their masters
ana tne Aarshals of the United States and their
posses ?: when they came amongst US, in pursuance
Q. aw, !" apprehepd and deliver them to their
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