Burlington Hawk-Eye (Newspaper) - July 27, 1848, Burlington, Iowa JULY m f efferson TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION BS per to be paid will sub aa extra of Thit rule OF ADVERTISING s or lest one each additional tires I 00 60 SO 4 00 7 00 J2 00 per annum 6 00 will be en IB 00 be made for all over of subscription to in the above half one year one 30 oo 60 00 justice for Des Moines 3500 It is the about The Life of Zachary The WU fer the BY PERLEY TAYLORS military exploits are not the they are only the for the display of his sound energy of cha lofty and pure sense of and tible honesty He has as much reputation for what he has as for what he has because even where the composition is not his the sen motives and reelings are and every thins he as every thing ho is marked by the purity and loftiness own Pen for an out and out loco Remonstrances from officers and civil setting forth the great injustice which had been done to had their desired and he was reinstated in his former rank by President in though it is said that nothing but the strong persuasions of those friends who had exerted themselves so strenuously in his could induce him to leave his happy home for After commanding the post at Green Bay for two he joined the Southern force under where he remained till 1824 with the exception of a visit to his when she was dan The erection of Fort he construction of a military and other important were performed in a manner which won for Major Taylor the approbation of his superior while his idolized for although Hgton and Black Hawks marching with a large body of volunteers and a hand ful of in pursuit of the hostile Indian found himself approaching Rock then asserted by many to be the true north western boundary of The as Taylor was would refuse to cross the They were they called out for the defence of the and it was to order them to march beyond its into the Indian halted his and en camped within the acknowledged ries of He would as the relator of the story budge an inch without He had already driven Black Hawk out of the but the question of crossing Rock River seem ed hugely to trouble his ideas of integrity to the on one and milita ry expediency on the During the orders either from General Scott or General for him to follow up Black Hawk to the The quietness of the regular mean had rather encouraged the mutinous militia to bring their proceedings to a A sort of town meeting was called upon the and Taylor invited to After listening some very to and He scrupulously exact in M performance of their them with fatherly kindness faithful he treated One at 1lw F Kimball and Commission Dry Fort a who had been sent to fell a thought that as the weather wat warm he would indulge in a from which he was awakened by the ringing of an wielded in true back woods Springing to his he saw to his amazement that his commanding officer had nearly performed the task which he had and began to stammer forth an Never my said Major Taylor passing I saw you and knowing that the Lieutenant who is on his way here with a party to carry this log to the would report you for neglect of I have saved myself the disagreeable duty of or dering you to be put in do so the it became Rough Readys turn to address the had he with much the views which several speakers ha ex pressed of the independence and dignity of each private American He felt that all gentlemen there present were his he was persuaded that many of them in a few be his perhaps in the ca of members of arbiters of the fortune and reputation of humble ser vants of the like He expected then to obey them as interpreters of the will of the people and the best proof he could give that he would obey was now to observe orders of those whom the people had already put in the places of to which man But mind toM GENERAL AGENT and Commission G Main and Dry JDr John professional services to the citizens the same and Commission Cor f and Retail Dealer Dry and Commission na Copp III citi said is constancy in enduring fatigue and is the se The high expectation which the Gov had of Colonel Taylors success is shown in the fact immediately on his he was placed in command of a separate composed of the 4th and 6th a battery of light ar tillery end the Missouri The latter to use a common come to see the and we extract one from numerous anecdotes of Taylors good matured way of governing these citizen contrasting with the autocratical airs assumed by others dressed in a little brief Among the newly arrived volunteers was a full who heartily sick of rainy and no first went to his captain with his meeting with no particular resolved to have a talk with Colonel Tay lor Arrived at the commanders the Colonel was pointed out to but he was rather That old fellow Colonel Taylor Nonsense that such was even the he marched and rather opened his Colonel I Im devilish glad to see The Colonel returned the youll excuse but since Ive been here Ive been doing all I could for indeed but the fact the accommodations are very indeed sir to lie down in actually and the fact Im agen and not used to it The no strongly impres sed with the fact of having gentlemans son in his expressed his regret that such annoyance should eyer under any a civilized what am I to do I dont unless you take my thats Of course dont mean to turn you but a few hours or a or would be so refreshing is Colonels the savages broke in disorder then they and rolled back on their with a fury that appeared irre Again they were again they till the whole swamp seemed to boil with the rapid On faster and Taylor led his shouting bearing down opposing and sweeping every thing before The ground was mashed into pools beneath their and the foe were lying in heaps on every At length the Indians were driven from their position to their camp on the borders of Lake Here their flank was turned by Lieutenant Colonel and after they de livered a final volley and The pur suit was continued until The loss of the Americans in this bat tle was fourteen officers and one hundred and twentyfour men that of the Indians was not This signal victory confirmed Colonel Taylors high military reputation while admiring his gallant and intrepid conduct on the field of it is more pleasing to by his own the tender solicitude he displayed for the TO nr That is a sweeping catastrophe as the nan said when his wile knocked him down with the From the Louisville lap the The Volunteers are returning home indignant at the manner in which they are to be They expected to be discharged at the first port in this and to be allowed there Your Deservedly popular with his Ma jor Taylor had but to advertise for recruits at anv place in the Western and hundreds flocked to his station but al though he might have remained in the re service for years at near his he was not willing that his name should be thus used to entice men into the who might be ill by the officers of the regiments to which they would be I 1819 he was made Lieutenant and after com manding several of those frontier posts which mark the Western limit of civiliza was ordered to to sit as a member of a Board of Army and Militia convened by the Secretary of to propose a system for organizing the militia of the General Scott was President of this members were Brigadier General Colonel Colonel Cut and of the regular ser vice and Major General Ad jutant General and Adjutant Gen eral of the Some of the older officers wished to keep a portion of the militia or their in con stant but Colonel Taylor opposed this approach to a standing gentlemen around him justly aspired plain gentlemen and lellow the word has been passed on to me from to follow Black Hawk and to take you with as 1 mean to do There are the flat m drawn up on the and here arc Uncle camp will answ up on me TIje gentlemans son just drop about will drawn the you on the s Unlike 6e the Colonel was rather wonder Rough make it a rule to first Be sure youre right go The Black Hawk War Colonel Taylor was ordered to the mand of Fort at Prairie ilu which had been erected under his I For several years he of all but Rough and Ready he gentlemans son returned to take his chance of the Having perfected his Taylor marched into the interior from Tampa Bay in nearly an eastern with orders to attack the enemy or in whatever Pas cr or in held the post Age Of in which capacity he won the respect and b with rank confidence of the under his followed Colonel Taylor perseveringly the savages into one of their DEALERS IS Boots and Medicines p jor the defence of homes and ablebodied man should banishing all sellers water whiskey after destroying their j He came up missionaries in their work o the official report of Gen christian and showing an honesty and J good which has not J one best fought actions characterized all those who had the h a of the funds which should be js described paid tothe red as for the home ol his by i biogi of December they tnc ui ec of Lewis Cass state that when he d d mp enemy were crossed the he had but one dol lar in it is well that in a few years he was in the posses sion of a colossal The fees of a country attorney in the far West are not that each might return home in his own way or go and settle down wherever he Many of them had determined to fix themselves in the and not go home for a year or not being able to get their bounty lands and mileage at New they were compelled to The volunteers aboard the steamer from Baltimore and Ohio on their way from New Orleans to this adopted the following Out of 138 officers and 135 signed the pro On board the steamboat I New July At a meeting of the officers and men at to the volunteer corps and returning from convened on board the steam er Captain Taylor was called to the when the follow iii preamble and resolutions relative to the character of the recent orders for their were unanimously adopted the officers and men of the volunteer corps attached to the com mands hereafter and on board the steamboat on our return from in common with other withhold the expression of our sense of the very signal manner in which we have been Directly con trary to all former when vol were discharged at the next sea port in the or the first landing place in the United and their remainder pay and mileage disbursed to we have been shipped for those points whereat we were mustered into ser without more regard for our health comfort than is usually extended to you for your It is always very pleasant to me to receive communications from my numerous unseen friends in the United and I cannot pretend to be ignorant that my writings have gained for me much love from your cordial people to respond to them with a note of is only a matter of delightful With respect to slavery and its it seems to unless I am deceived by fair that your Society has hit the with the best have utterly blundered the whole busi ness we have ruined our West Indies by unprepared and waste mil lions annually on the absurdity of attempt ing to blockade a continent through our the horrors of the passage are increased and poor Africa groans under the additional burdens laids on her by the dull zeal of her wouldbe The idea of reestablishing the ransom ed slave in his own under a free appears to me to combine all the requirements of probable May our where ler parents effort is a I have written national song for in the spur of the moment you are at lib erty to print with this and the qualifying Note at the foot in your Her May it help to make a poor Africans leart leap for and patriot I am your faithful FARQUHAR A It Being a Freewill to tUe cause of wise Eman of Proverbial Praise ye the for this new born On the blue biasing afar Bless ye the Lord our souls to cheer uThe love of liberty brought us here 1 it Drugt ter Burlington advances made on consignments to sell in this market at auction or other or to sell in St New Orleans or the At Wm ia Hardware 1 Shoes and between Jefferson and Bur BOOKS AND U ry description at the lowest prices for Barret WHOLESALE AND RETAIL Dealer n Uye JOEL mad Betail Dealers in W Mate Corner of Main and Lockard WHOLESALE and Retail Dealers in Foreign and Domestic Dry Ready Made Water between Main and and Retail Dealer ia Dry Jefferson Swan in Produce and assorted oat TUrd BUR W rf reiness to act in the honr of He drew up an abe winch adopted by the anj though the based still slumbers in the room of the Committee on the who seem to forget the maxim of our po In lime of peace prepare tor For the ensuing five years Taylor stationed North West ern occupied the leisure hours which a soldier has in pi pin times of by a course of study which will be of great advantage to him in filling the first civil office in the to which ad miring thousands now invite As Colonel says one who hen new I have often seen him put ing his men through the battalion on he northern banks of the in he depth of This would seem inly characteristic of the who has ince proved himself equally Rough and under the scorching sun of the looking through long to many a pleasant spent in he well selected library of the which Taylor then we recur e A IOWA SADDLER AND HARNESS street Jefferson Dr St between Main and 3d JEWELLER and near the Corner of Jefferson A sad Counsellor at U at his residence AT Burling Office on S SHOE AHD LEATHER Mai two doors Berth of Burling toct BOOT AND SHOE torn North of Jef Bff of and Family Gro Jefferson AND COMMISSION below Luke with singular to the agree able held in the room which was the Colonels favorite amid the of And the same chroni cler of his severe habits of discipline and continues Nor will the Deader think these personal reminiscences imper when we add that our object in re curring to them here is simply to remembering alike the wintry drill and the snug book Taylors hardi idea of which now so attaches to his sobriquet of Rough am certainly not then have struck a stranger as more characterise than his liberal minded In 1832 Taylor was promoted to tin command of the 1st Regiment of Infantry a part of the force under General Atkinson which was ordered against the Sac Indians commanded by Black who had committed many acts of savage After pursuing this redoubtable chie through an almost impassable wilderness he was overtaken on the Bad nea the junction of the Mississippi and Iowa and after a desperate entirely de Black Hawk but was dc livered up in a few weeks by some faith less and entrusted to the charge Colonel conveyed him to Jet ferson The writer whom we have quoted relates the ing characteristic anecdote of wbil in pursuit of the savages Some time after Stillmans b and when once we asked a Western man how Cuss could afford to lavish mon ey as he did when apinc nobility lit he replied with a significant he was an Indian Light light The honest name ot Zachary Taylor has never been stained by breath of the slightest for like the mat rmi he is above In Lewis then Secretary of procured the passage ol a fraudulent reaty with the by which icy were bound to emigrate west of the though it was never signed y Micanopy and other influential who had governed the for Vot having heen parties this plan for hunting they de lared would not leave and Osceola exclaimed at the next s he drove his into a this is the only treaty I will am no he remarked on another my kin is but not am an The white nan shall not make me I will nake the white man red with blood and lien blacken him in the sun and where the wolf shall smell of his ind the buzzard live upon reported to be in Here they hal A few steps might bring them within range of a hidden foe that foe be on every side and about to share the late of led on by Colonel no mun The line of battle was and those brave men pushed To charge an ex posed foe requires coolness anJ intrepid ity to charge a protected is the test of veteran abilities but to wade up to the middle in a where the rank grass is waving over and an unseen enemy on every implies a degree of courage possessed by Yet this duty was Phis threat was curried into and although the Indians could not reach the origin of their decree of they a terrible vengeance on every rendering Florida a scene of devas sorrow and The Jong smothered passions of an oppressed race were let and a war of seven years which will be long remem bered by those who participated in al though their country was little disposed to award them the praise they so well de The ignorance of the country and the treachery of the baffled the skill of the most zealous and intelligent Military science was and General Scott was arraigned before a Court of held at Frede to explain the entire failure o his attended with an immensi expenditure of life and the sitting of this Colonel Faylo assumed the entire command of the North western belonging to Genera who was n and wh spoke of Colonel Taylor in high a the only man who end the cheerfully undertaken by that forgetting all with Having about a quarter of a they entered a wide which seemed to all further Abandoning heir the troops buried themselves o the neck in the wading through a four feet depth of slime and Suddenly the rustling of grass and plash of water were drowned in the re of hundreds of The savages were close before having heir fire until their aim would be There was a a shouting of ind then the men charged fearlessly Then another volley officer atteran other sunk down pale in the agonies All around was one blaze of and yet no intrepid leaders bleeding on every chance of the then rolled back and The Indians poured after yelling the war and hurling one discharge after another on the until they met the regular Undismayed by these heroic men were treading on as coolly as though on Ln flinchingly their bosoms met the blast tin discharges of the and sunk amid the tangled dying the waving blades with their life Havoc ra ced among the 6lh infantry to such a de that the cool water them grew warm and red with their and men of the foremost ranks was shot Their the heroic Thomp while shouting them received a i ijl t slaves and three or four men being crowded into the space which should have been allotted to Nor could this dis tressing arrangement be obviated by any volition of our We had to embark in such vessels as were designated by Government orders received at New Or leans and as the stated pay accorded to officers and men while in where exhorbitant prices are charged for the com necessaries of rendered econ omy the disappointment originating from being defrauded of our and for the pitiful purpose of saving a few thousand dollars to the National has but intensified our Add to this that many of noncommissioned officers and have to journey to our two or three hundred miles from those points where we shall be left by the conveyances without without shoes or and with broken like vagrants and covered with rags and and dependents upon the precarious charity of from which ignominious humiliation a liberal mileage or even a timely disbursal of our legitimate pay would have exempted The author of conduct so whether he be General Butler or President and we consider them both equally the former being in New Orleans at the dale referred to to second the execution of the abominable order received from we must naturally hold in the utmost therefore That we most unconditionally denounce the manner of our transportation from New as antiDemocratic in every because deeply degrading to the That although we have con to the elevating into power the present and expended our sweat and blood in fighting its battles in a we shall earnestly do battle against and all falsely styled Democrats at the coining election That we shall use every legit imate to advance to the Chief Magis tracy of our country General whom we believe to be a sound a true the soldiers Hail to beacon bright Luring us home with its silver Where we may sing without peril or Ion of liberty brought us here Hail new home on the dear old shore Where Hams dark sons dwelt ever of Thou be unto us doubly For love of liberty brought u here ye children of come Bring hither the the and the To heraia this Star on its bright For love of liberty brought us here peace and to an good will Vet ready to combat for insult or ill with the the For love of liberty brought us here Thanks unto God who hath broken the chain That bound us as slaves on the Western main white brothers thanks Whose love of liberty brought us here have rescued us as from the And a freeman made of the desperate That ye may call him both brother and of liberty brought us here Thanks O laise that shout once Thanks let it thrill Thanks while we our standard love of liberty brought us here thine was the hand That set us again on our own dear We will remember thee lar or For love of liberty brought us here Liberia freemen rave Freedom and Thee to the ransomed slave Then out with a shout both loud and of liberty brought us here Colonization Societies of America have purchased a large tract of country on the Western Coast of to which free people of color are gratuit exported their emancipation having been first secured by means of voluntary The country thus liberal ly restored to the ransomed African has been Independent lic of with a national and motto the latter is the line so re and one white star on the square blue ground is the most poetical and appropriate feature of the Without pretending to subscribe to every Correspondence of the Burlington Ha Lee MESSRS being the day appointed by the democratic of Lee county to address the citizens of Charleston it may be interesting to some of your readers to know what About 2 oclock the candidates as at the School house followed by some 20 or 30 Judge Kinney was called to the but in consequence of having to make a speech was then next called who took the Judge Kinney was then re quested to address the which he did eulogising the candidates in the high est He said there was but one feel ing upon the half breed and that was in favor of the He declared that Taylor was a man without prin that Whig principles were hard to that Taylor had never read the constitution of the He denounc ed the Whig National they did not pass resolutions defining their He appeared to be satisfied that New York would not support but that he could be elected without New Is this the Judge Kinney who was spoken of for and who is at present Judge of the Supreme Court If this is the best material the locos can raise they are hard Next followed Mr the candidate for who declared that his father and mother were both born veteran de and so was He declared that Taylor Was a Whig and if elected President would carry out Whig that he knew no difference bet ween Whigs and ultra He said that their prin ciples were the principles that were hand ed down by Hamilton and through his posterity to the present He said the reason the foreigners were democrats were because the principles of the demo crats came nearer the principles they had been He declared to be in favor of free but wished a tariff for Next came who said he was a democrat of the first but was not entitled to any credit for being i but if any body was entitled it was his Next followed Mr who declared that his father had I j derived his notions of politics from having fought with him at the tie of New He spoke in bitter r terms against Baker of He said that Mr Clay had learned him in politics fj but he could not unlearn and says j goes it stiff for Progressive j came Mr who told S his journey through He said the balance of the candidates could beat him but if they had been with him last summer they could not have heat him so And last though not came the immortal who opened saying he wished some Whig would make jj a for he was some when he got at He said he had the documents to that all he said was He any body to deny he was a the Tariff of 42 and the J And said that the Whigs pretending to article in the published Declaration of Rights of this new the writer may venture generally to express his ap probation of so rational and humane an ex and his hope that it may be the dawn of a better day to For the Burlington EDITORS or THE notice in the Iowa Statesman of the date of the 15th a notice of a vote taken on board of the steamer Ken on her late excursion to Rock Is We the undersigned were present at the taking of said and presume we are the persons alluded to in the silly The editors state that they were told by one of that the vote For Tay lor for Cass And that another in formed them that Taylor received and Cass 10 We now state each for our that neither of us ever gave the ed itor or editors of the Statesman any such information as is referred to in their arti We stated that the vote stood Taylor for Cass making a difference of but one vote between our report and that of the The U that another name was add mortal Adjutant Captain Van and Lieutenant found graves beside Of five com panies in the every inferior cer was killed or disabled and of on Still the snd breaking cer was ly four men were battle shout wen the friend of justice and of equal That the through out the country give publicity to the above preamble and AN ODE BY We find in the Colonization the than profound military science was neces The first quality of a of and mangled Court had bosoms sunk among Atkinson resumed his and tho b Colonel received a but had not been at home a fortnight ere lie was order ed to join General Jesup at Tampa Government found that some thing more the sedgy lifeblood oozed blacker and thicker between the Amid the horrors of Tay lor was rushing from rank to ex horting his heroes to the and thril ling every heart with probability ed to the list after we saw The editors of the Statesman have a way of reducing peculiar to We would recommend to that they reserve the little talents they have acquired in this branch of pro Jsm until November when their poor services can be better ap Yours with F SAML FORT July Prudential merchants of apprehensive that our commerce in the European may possibly meet with serious obstructions in the present disturbed state of Continental have got up a petition to headed by asking an immediate augmentation of our naval force in that re Rittic ns well as in the Med JJB a set of Bloodhounds and U Jackson had placed in ffi Bank at and when called for it the Whigs had stolen r had left a bundle of Coon skins in its And this specimen of locofoco orators their candidate for Prosecuting Now it is only for the public to W pare the speeches of these candidates to see how far their honesty Judge Kinney declaring that Taylor has no principles and Mr declaring that he was a whig and if electee J would carry out whig principles to full While one of the others telling the people of that he is a x I suppose he means the ing kind of horses and out against the whigs because as they the whigs have no And what principles do they contend Oh say they the democratic pies And what are they Against Bank against a and against evk ery thing that the whigs are In they are against every thing and for but And these are that the good people of Lee County ar called upon to elevate to to sen to the Legislature to make who know nothing about state nothing about state and through their whole course of canvass of National as though they going to legislate for this They say Taylor knows about Politics nor of the Constitution his poor fellows what a it would be to elect a man President i would not construe the Constitution did Polk and Mr Cass upon the River Harbour Surely these boys think that Taylor has never the well if Taylor has I knows of a certain Santa has taken one at and that from quarters or ele he would not passed into the interior of Mexico so ease and the old rascal 1 this pass would carry him any the Hero of Buena Vista in h mad career and told him that Mr Polk 1 was out of and he j crawfish a like his benefactor hese April To Mr Elliott of time to time I have been fa with copies of the Colonization Her and as the list number had your card 1 take leave to write and thank me name as well Many of the most influential houses in Boston have appended their namest Cure for the patient to take a We never knew it to permit me to tell your that five well read tional set of with judge ney at their head and Mr Holman at their docs nut jetter progress in the other Townships I this county llian Kinney w not be likely to get their votes for j nor will Mr floss put very in the but I he will clear them for their he seems to be ready for any thing any other huss could except and the boys do say that he can do that a More Yours LITTEL BE to Revolutionary A beautiful granite was erected at memory of twelve American citizens were slain by the April and were all buried in one S
