The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1863-08-01


who is citizen of the county of Clayton,
having recently received the Democratic
nomination for Governor of the State of
Iowa, it is proper that his political creed
and antecedehts should be fully considered
and canvassed, in the most public manner,
that the people may be enabled to deter
mine what political policy would be likely
to result from his election to the RESPONSE
BILE position to which he has been nomi-
mated.
Mr.. Fisher is a farmer, residing IN the
township of Farmersburg, and like the
farmars of that township, isintelligent, and
occupies respectable position in society.
He may be said to be in affluent circum-
stances, acquired by that prudence, econo-
my, and ever cautious in the business re-
lations of life, which has secured for him
at home the reputation of being somewhat
misery, and wanting in that benevolence
and charity which the American citizen al
ways points to with emotions Of pride, as
one of the prominent characteristics of his
people.
This, however. is apologized for by his
friends, who attribute it to rules and habits
of eccentricity, acquired by many years of
of constant intellectual research among the
historical and genealogical records of Roy
atty, as it has existed and ruled in all past
ages of the world.
While it, perhaps, would be an easy mat
| terri for Mr.. Fisher to declare the family
| qualifications of the Royal house of Haps-
burg, or of CASTLE, it would be aside from
| its distastefulness,) perhaps difficult for
him to rehearse the ancestral and genoa
logical record of the Presidents of his ma
tive land. This peculiar Tor, as his friends
term it, eccentric. habit and study of Roy
atty which has so long occupied and con-
troled the mental faculties of Mr.. Fisher,
has contributed, without doubt, very much
to the stability and tixedness OF the polite
al creed that he now adheres to, and which,
| without doubt, would be promulgated
| through his official acts should he be elect
ed Governor of Iowa.
The friends of Mr.. Fisher, in this county,
| will not, l think, attempt to disprove the
fact, that he is an ultra Pro-slavery demo-
crat-sincerely and zealOusly believing that
slavery is a Divine institution, ordained by
the Creator for the mutual benefit of the
master and the slave. 1t is well known
here, at home, that Mr.. F. was not only a
warm, active and Jealous supporter OF the
election of Dennis Mahony, when that per-
son was recently q candidate for Congress,
but is at this time an ardent follower of his
political creed. All who know Mr.. F., per-
sonally, know that his sympathies are with
the slave holder. He would preserve sla-
very, in order that the dignity, nobility,
and regal character of the slave holder
might not perish. If it was the design of
the democratic Convention to secure the
nomination of person who was simply a
copperhead, through the baptismal agency
OF breast-pin, they have widely overshot
the mark, and have nominated a person
who is not only cOpperheaded, but copper
toed, copper and coppered all
over, with opposition to the war, and that
preservation of the Union, which would
leave slavery out in the cold, or even in a
damaged condition. speak of the politi-
cal creed of Mr.. Fisher, as it is well known
here to have existed up to the time of his
nomination; if it has undergone any change
since then, that leans towards his country
and the liberties of its people, none will be
more ready than myself, to credit him, for
whatever amount OF anti Mahonyism may
be discerned in the change.
In the social relations Of life, l have q res
pect for Mr.. Fisher, and have no reason
to believe that this feeling is not reciprocal
on his part; and yet would exceedingly
regret to see him elevated to that position,
where an adherence to his political creed
would lead him to array our loyal State, as
far as it was in his power to do so, against
the measures of the government, for the
suppression of RebeIlion-the first in the
history of the world, that seeks to with
draw from around the affairs Of freedom
that it may establish government based
upon the cornerstone of slavery and op-
pfession. ELIPHALEr PRIOE.
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