The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1862-01-18

Il nave tuu0 e0068vOEeU W Ut800 OcI0t0 you
the condition Of the State, 80 far, - 10 ny judg
nlent, your action 10 needed for its impeeveiuens
Your wisdom will doubtless discover sooes Per.
haps many, particulars in which legllstion
wilfbe necessary, that have been overlooked By
me.
The year which has just closed, has brought
i to our people o new experience. new trials, ne9
responsibilities, and new duties Let us CONT.
nue. to meet them as we have thus far met them,
with neither an overweening con6dence In, and
reliance upon our own strength, nor an unmanly
| and craven fear for ourselves, or Of the hard
ships we may endure before we win by deserving
success, but with patience, calmness, unHinch-
courage, and an abiding faith in God.
| @ SAMUEL J. KIRKW0OD.
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Warrington News and Gossip.
We cut the following free and easy but inte-
resting and readable Washington letter from
the Missouri Republican: e
WASHINGTON, January q, 1852.
| The Metropolis is becoming Yankeeized.-
Hitherto its character of elegant exclusiveness
has been very successfully maintained by those
humane appliances which have 30 long been fash
ionable in Dixie for the preservation intact of
the purity and bloom Of their peculiar civiliza.
ton against the nroads Of alien enlightenment.
The utterance Of free thought has been, though
quietly, as effectually banned in the common
capital of the Nation, as the shady Iecesses OF
Whippy Swamp, or the me1y solitudes Of the
sea islands. 1t is not many months since RrcH-
ARD WALLAcH was defeated for Mayor because
he expressed an opinion that it was consistent
with the inter1at OF the city to mob Republican
meetings. Andthis at time when Rcpubiicsns
were in clear majority In Congress. q
This affords q most striking proof Of the le-
climate results of placing the capital in coun-
try village. Society becomes servile and obse-
quious to the powers that be, and intensely
jealous and timorous of the powers that may be.
The Ieeches and barnacIes that had fattened SO
long upon the worn out bulk Of the Democratic
party, were awokcn from their d0ze at their idle
desks and filled with strange horrors of appre-
hcnsion by the stories that came floating from
the West, concerning the savage virtue and
back woods honesty Of the rail-splitting Presi-
dent that was to be. The devil that had 30 long
permeated the society of Washington made
preparations to 60 out, but could not forbear
rending the body as it went. The pro slavery
fanaticism never ragged more fiercely than dur
the days between the Chicago nomination and
the October elections Republican. meetings
mob. Republican members of Congft were
publicly insulted and privately shot at, BY che
hired bravoes of the departing power Gentle
and high born danes Q make no references 70
nativity in sky-parlors) thronged the galleries
of the Senate and House, aad led by the muscu-
lar maid of New Orleans, the Slidell Slasher,
hissed. snakily, at any luckless Northerner who
showed his face above the level line of the.
benches But the falling leaves and the warn
ing votes of the early autumn changed all this.
The population of Washington have the credit
OF recognizing more clearly than the people of :
any other city the side OF their daily bread on
which the butter is applied. le--t
The result of the 0cteber town NEE tings led
them to think seriously OF politics and incident
ally Of their incomes. Now, however heroic
and chivalrons Southerner may be, his hatred
OF Yankees never extends to their money Al.
though the love of freedom and the nasal twang
OF the Northern hosts was an abomination in the
sight Of Washingtonians, yet they pensively
thought that perhaps the Puritan wretches would ?
come with full purses, and in the resigned spirit
of their prototype, the chivalgous Pistol, they
said, "they would suffers be unto this camp.
and profits should accrue" So those who had
anything to lose staid, and those who had moth.
ing to lose carried their empty p16kets and
bankrupt characters over the river, resolved to
seek more paIatable nutriment from the dry
udders of rebellion.
Ths Wide Awake Club became a most popu-
lar and fashionable institution in Washington
society. They received each night Young AGO.
lytes, whose lips were not cold from the FIRE of
their heroic curses for Lincoln, and whose en-
gers had been trained to steadiness by midnight
target exercise upon Northern Congressmen. -
When Lincoln arrived and the tender sensi-
bilities of these shining exemplars of Southern
virtue were exposed to the base contact OF ple.,
beian Jewellers, they somshow bad grace granted
them according to their day, atd dill not resiyn
Some were turned away, and instantly their
maSnanimous scorn Of the North revived They
picked up little information from the messen-
gers at the Departments, and sneaked cbival-
rously into Fairfax, and thence further In search
OF treason market. But most cringed obse-
qulously to the coming men and kept their
desks.
Thus Washington became Yankeeized. A
few Northern people came down and received
office. Northern ways became the style. Brown
bread was eaten voraciously at Wizards. Cod.
fish supplanted all other .delicacies on Fridays.
Southern maidens began to cram '.Palfrey's
History OF New England" and sallow young
people whose accent BETRAYED the Cracker
blood oozing through many generations swore
their fathers were born at Marbiehead. And to
crown the whole and form the climax of the
Novangelcan revival, COURSE OF LEcruRxs
was gotten up by the Postmaster and some de.
partment clerks, to be given through the winter
at the Smithsonian Institute, and Washington
was irrevocably Yankeeizsd for all time.
The course embraces nsarly every variety of
orators, the only common quality seeming to be
. certain originality ought and utterance
that alone 10 suited t6Ssc4 time BRowNsox
has been here, and DICKINSON, and the good ma
tured and pleasant, common-pla man. BAYARp
TAYLOR; and last night HORACE GRrYLEY came
down to experience the novel sensation of lee
turing to a large and enthusiastic audience. in n
town where he has been beaten over the head
fnRv wrSts snry0 r,NAA knl. s.ul- u
man who thought he was doing God service IN
maltreating an abolitionist, and whom public
opinion justified in the act
His audience was large and in some respects
Q good one. II was, Of course, very largely
composed of eerks, who had come repentapt
neophytes to sit at the feet OF the philosopher
they had ignorantly scorned. There were, be-
sides these. several citizens who had come out
OF their shells TO hear what old White Coat had
to say. On the stage with him were several
noticeable people. The President was out. for
the first time, attended by those inevitable Sec.
retaries, NIcoLAY and Hay. The Secretary OF
the Treasury had also escaped from his work
for an evening, to unbehd the wrinkles on his
Olympian forehead, and give rest to his massive
and over-wfought brain. OWN LovRyor was
there, coming in late, and seeming very much
disguised because nobody made noise And
| Speaker GROW; and the brilliant and malignant
InADDxUs STEVENS; and the jolly corporation
called PREsroN KING, which. In defiance OF the
old.law adage, has soul, and very great one I:
and Others, statesmen and parsons and profes-
sors, who would not have been seen ON Plat.
form with HORACE GsKELEy for dukedom last
| year.
Tho Old Philosophers lecture was very fine.
There is something extremely winning about the
old mans child like and frank face, the thin
white hair, the honest and near sighted eyes,
the vague and slightly awkward gestures, the
plaintive tones Of his voice, the earnestness
and sincerity with which he statss his deep con.
viosions. His style is wonderfully clear and
vigorous. II has gained steadily in these Quail
ties for many years. He is one Of the few edi
tors who have not written themselves into dif
fuseness and carelessness. He read lest nishs, Z
long and elaborate essay upon the National Life
showing that, judged by all the essablished can
mons of history and politics, the Uki,ed State,
had every essential quality Of unity. and onl,
one source OF dissension--slAyery. There wsr,