The Hawk-eye and Iowa patriot. (Burlington, Iowa) 1839-1843, 1840-09-10

men-and we believe there are many
such-who are either directly or Indirect
ly lending their support to Mr. Van Buren,,
if they have ever seriously contemplated
the tendency of their action in this mat
ter? We call upon all such to pause. II
by your vote you should become instru.
mental in placing overthe American peo-
pie one who is only even suspected of
holding such odious sentiments as have
been already promulgated by Brownson,
and the result should show that he is ac-
tually in favor of such sentiments and en-
gagged in welding the immense influence
conferred on him by his official station in
carving them out, what regrets, what
tears. what repentance would make atone
men. for the vote you are about to give!
Pause. then, we say again, before you
vote for Martin Van Buren,.
When Fanny Wright and Robert Dale
Owen first exhibited their Agrarian senti-
ments--and when their doctines were first
practically illustrated in the city of New
York by the destruction of Harris Flour
Store, good men of all parties stood aghast,
and wondered where all this would end.
But few thought that these doctrines
would ever receive the sanction of even a
respectable minority, in point of numbers.
They were mistaken. Wright and Owen
have both been busy i'll promulgating their
doctrines in the Great West-,he confd-
ing West. Owen still resides in one of
her greatest States. We have conyersed
with intelligent men who have been un-
der his influence, and know that his tai
ents and his eloquence have secured to
him the conntenance of many who fill high
stations and who profess the same restless
and ambitious spirit that has characterized
all his movements. They are never sa-
tisfied except while in state Of anarchy
and REVOLUTIONARY not then even, unless
they are counted the rallying spirits, the
centre around which the rabble, as they
call them, may revolve.
We would be the last to prohibit the
PRONUNCIATION of any principles that come
within the scope granted by our glorious
Constitution. 1t grants to each individual
certain rights and privileges. While it
guards on the one hand-as it certainly
should-aganst the formation of union
of church and state, on the other it per-
mits every citizen to worship God ac-
cording to the dictates of his own con-
science. But the Agrarian doctrines of
Brownson and his coadutors would, at
one fell swoop, annihilale this truly re-
publican and liberal feature of the Con-
s.itution of these United States. And so
Of other rights and privileges; it would
sweep them all away. and leave nothing
of those social and religious consultations
which cheer aud enliven the pathway of
man as he journeys through this jostling
world. A S remote az the fruition Of such
politically heretical doctrines may appear,
astounding as the PRONUNCIATION may now
seem, still ii will require the utmost vigi-
lance of every patriot to check their pro-
gress, and the greatest stretch Of sagacity
to prevent their dissemination, aud the
results thereof, in every nook and corner
of the land.
Well may Mr. Brownson say, that the
Sub-Treasury scheme and Mr. Van u
ren's army project of raising 100000
men, to be under the control Of the Presi-
dent, are but the beginning of a series of
experiments devised by the genuine Loco
Focos. They are, indeed, as they are
acknowledged to be, The beginning.
God grant that the series may stop there.
And we believe there is yet virtue and
patriotism enough in the land to check
these mad experimentalists in their de-
structive career.
We could pursue this subject. but we
have already occupied much more space
than we intended. We know we have
not done that justice to it which its i'm.
por1ance demands. Our hope is, that
others. more able than ourself, will take
it up, and dwell upon it until the Ameri-
can people shall realize and avert the
danger which threatens them.