The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1863-03-14
LETTER FROM DIES MONIES.
Correspond ence Of the Hawk-Eye.

correspondence OF the HAwk-Eye.
DEs MONIES, March I, 1868.
Mr.. Editor:-It is matter Of very little
consequence whether your correspondent 'Des
Noines," is or is not the person singled out by
"Repubhcan;" whose letter, postmarked at this
place, appears IN the Kawk-Eye Of March 3d.
Men who are competent to combat the argu-
ments and counsels of those whom they oppose,
seldom care to give personal turn to the dis
cussion in which they engage. But, as "Re-
publican" is not one of this sort, and enter
tains too good an opinion Of his own wisdom
to imagine that any one who fails to agree
with HIM can be right, it is not surprising that
he whistles down the wind such old fogies as
Gov Seward, Thurlow Weed and Postmaster
General Blair. The only wonder is, that he
same category; as it seems to be pretty we'll
understood that that functionary has, as yet,
been unable to understand why he should give
more weight to the counsels of such men as
Garrison and Wendell Phillips, than to the
teachings of those old Republican fathers,
Seward and Weed. may not say of which Of
these classes Of men Republican" received
his political lessons; for it matters but little,
unless proposed to substitute personal spleen
for argument But ana glad that his hector
ing spirit did not lead him to more direct
condemnation of that cid fog4 George Wash
ington, who, in his weakness, ventured to warn
his coun,rymen against the perils of party
spirit.
As submitted to your own judgment, Mr..
Editor, the letter to which Republican" takes
exceptions, and you saw fit to give it 10 the
public, am content that your readers shall
judge whether the tenor and spirit of my sug.
gestiuns, are as we'll calculated to produce
unity among the friends of the Union, as those
he has presented. l was old enough, Mr.. Ed.
itor, to be at the baptism Of the Republican
party; but as do not presume upon my age as
giving me prescriptive right to discard one
who is younger in the ranks, mag With pro.
priety question the fitness of dogmatism and
arrogance on his part, because he can boast a
more recent conversion.
Those of your readers, who saw fit to read
the letter of "Des Noinss," upon which Gre
publican" animadverts, failed not to see that
insisted upon the loyalty Of the masses of the
North, of all parties; and deprecated the whole-
sale denunciation, that gives to other peoples,
as also to the rebels of our own country, the
comforting assurance that those who carried
the States of New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio,
Indiana, Illinois and New Jersey, are in full
sympathy with the rebellion against our flag
and our government rejoice that John Van
Buren, has since that time given utterauce to
sentiments so strongly corroborative of my
declaration, as to be deemed worthy of place
in the Hawk.Eye and other Republican papers.
He has thus made an issue with such men AZ
Mahony, calculated to open the eyes of hon.
est democrats, and to draw the dividing lin,
between the loyal and disloyal elements in hi,
own party. Senator GRIMES, in the noble and
! unansversble speech which you gave to you,