The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1863-10-24

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Total cash receipts, s1247 80
Due from the State, ~ 200 90
Total receipts. RI. sl447 80
Total expenditures, Sl1GO 90
'An premiums not called for by the LIST
day of November, 1868, shall remain as
contributions to Society's funds ~
We cordially thank all those who have
aided us and given US support. BY
united efforts, we have held what is pro-
ever held in this portion of the State -
with your help we can better it next year.
sH aag ~ GEO. 81. LANE, Secretary. r
AN AMM1, OR WHO AM ?-Worthy
Deacon Porter. the blacksmith Of our vii
lage, and his equally excellent wife, gave
to their only son the euphonious and scrip
full care he grew up TO be nice young
man, whom his fond parents believed to be
all that their hearts could wish. He was
too Intelligent and too senteel, they tho't,
to be put to his fathers trade, and so, at a
proper age, they procured him a situation
in the metropolis, where they expected he
would rise to honor and worth as city
tllS UlOtuST, ny
her food indulgence to her boy, had nour-
ished in him love for the pleasures Of APP
petite, and, in her anxiety to make him
genteel, had taught him to be vain; and
these qualities are dreadful snare for
young men who come to the city to live.-
So, turning politician. he, as consequence,
fell an easy prey to evil associations; for
getting the honor of his parentage, forsa-
king the law of his mother, disregarding
went rapidly from bad to worse, until
place and character, purse and wardrobe
were lost, and one night he was kicked out
of a low rum-hole, too drunk to stagger
further than the gutter, where he lay in
sensible until the morning.
The first policeman who came by of
course stirred him up to consciousness,
and as he rubbed open his bleared eyes he
exclaimed in slight wonder, whats up?
Who am I? Am I Ammi, or am 1 not
Ammi? If am Ammi, where am 1? And
If l am not Ammi, who then am I?' He
was too tar gone to return to his native vii
lage as he then was, and a few short weeks
Of squallid misery consigned his bloated
and dishonored carcass to the dust of Pot
ter's Field.
The moral of this legend is appropriate
to the present condition Of the so called
Democratic" party. The Democratic
party of Jacksons day, as the successor of
the Republican party of Jefferson's time,
was a political organization formed with a
patriotic purpose to bring the administra-
ton of our Government into more strict
accordance with the democratic principles
which lie at the foundation of our institu-
tions.the principles Of equal rights and
equal justice to all men, demanding legis-
lation for the greatest good to the greatest
number, and not allowing presidents to
be made for emergencies where the public
safety was in peril and the Constitution
was silent or doubtful.
But, unhappily, success intoxicated some
OF the managers into the error of giving to
the party organization the consideration
which belongs to its sacred principles.
They yielded by degrees to the seductions
OF the slave-mongers, who never were real
Democrats, as it was impossible they
should be, and finally they sank to the
condition of mean office-seeking and We
nality, and so, from bad to worse, until
they lost honor, principle, patriotism and
self-respect; and now, after the Pennsyl-
vanla and Ohio elections, we see them
staring at themselves in stupefied amaze
ment, and crying one to another "Am
Ammi, or Am not Ammi? If am not
Ammi, then who am I?' One thing is
clear: the party which has Fernando
Wood and Vallandigham for its leaders,
and George Lunt and James Brooks,
Cyrus Mason and Professor Morse for it's
councillors, will never again be recognized
by the American people as the representa-
tives OF the Democratic principles of our
deeds Of former days be duly honored,
while the now degraded organism goes to
rot among the wicked.-N. Y. Eue. Post.
AN OLD UNION SOLDIER MURDERED BY
WHEELER's CAvALRY.-Some months
since an old citizen of Bedford county,
sixty-fve years Of age, residing six miles
from Shelbyville, being robbed and left
destitute by the rebels, escaped to this city
and enlisted in Col. Gillem's Middle Ten
nessee Regiment, of which two of his sons
were members. The old man was accept
ed by Col. Gillem more from feelings of
humanity, and to furnish him with food
and shelter, than from any other reason.-
Still he was faithful, acting punctual to his
duties, and his universal jovial disposition,
and Jokes, made him a universal favorite
in the regiment. He never faltcred. On
one Of the marches last winter, in the worst
weather, his step was as light and brisk as
that Of the youngest soldier, although his
long, thin locks were almost as white as
the snow-drifts through which he waded.
A few weeks ago Col. Gillmen honora-
bly, discharged the old man that ne might
go to his home. Yesterday he heard the
Ss1u AiS . tAide d PAL y VI w ueeleI cavalry,
about the time of the Pennington fight,
went to the old mans house, took him out
and hung him to a tree! The hellish deed
is done, aud the soul of the veteran soldier
OF the LIST Middle Tennessee is in the bright
land reserved tor the spirits of martyred
patriots. But thousand of his surviving
comrades have sworn vengeance for his
murder.-NashUille Union.
A son OF Fred. Douglass is Sergeant
jor of the 54th Massachusetts (coloredt regi-
ment, which distinguished itself in the as
sault on Fort Wagner. Young Douglass
was soon after taken with typhoid fever
and sent North. Upon leaving the trans
port in this city rowdy, seeing colored
man in uniform who appeared to be too
weak to defend himself, committed most
brutal assault upon him, knocking him
down twice. He was rescued, but the eff
feet ofthe attack upon him was relapse
DIR. J. McCune Smith, the well-known col
ored physician, procured a boarding place
for the young man, and took care of him.
He is now in Rochester, and is regainiDg
his health. IN. Y. Com. Adr.