Burlington hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1845-185?, 1850-12-12
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BURLINGTON:
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT ~, 1850.
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The WING Parsy.-Taktns sssnainSs.
There seems to be an attempt on the part of some
% frtssr away the distinctive traits in the charac'
or ofthe whig party, and merge them in new is
sue These distinctive traits or principles are liv-
ine realities. The nation is now groaning under
,oossrou. ure,sure because these are not the prev
.,e,. ..A .dopsel principles OF the country. Who
A.. not know that In consequences Of their not
heins majority measures, hundreds Of large manu-
S.ctorie, have been stopped--thousandso Of Ameri-
can workmen have been thrown out Of employment
"a lucrative home market to our farmers has been
Aeetroyed-and multitndes Of honest American
msrchasts driven from their business by dishonest
Dritish and French Agencies, that have been es.
sshaishAd in our cities and principal towns9 So
much Tor the present locofoco ad valorem tariff.
Who does not know that on the same account,
thousands Of lives and millions Of dollars worth Of
prooesty have been lost in our western waters, and
sa enormous tax has to be paid annually By our az
1iculturists above the Rapids, because the wing
aoctrias Of Internal Improvement hiss been repudi-
ssed by subservient ocofoco Congress at the beck
ana bidding Of . locofoco rresidentf These are
noee distinctive measures to which the whig party
Ass always tenaciously chung. Add to these the
hmitstion Of the Executive power upon the indie
psndence Of the legislature, and the great general
principles Of liberty, and republication. and we
have the pillar principles Of the whig party clearly
sisted. These principles are not sectional, but
univesssl. Their universally secured their tri.
unph Il the last presidential election. They have
ever been acknowledged and battled for BY the
vAiss In the north, the south east and the west
While al wings can rally around banner on
which 10 inscribed these principles, there are To-
ell asasurss which may not b included in this
easegory. The most prominent Of these 10 the sla-
very question. On this subject the wings in the
North and the South must, TO their denti-
y and their unity agree to differ. The North has
10 right to say the wings in the South, you must
believe % We do. Neither has the South the right
70 demand OF the North that they should cherish
~ same views on the subject that they do.
An staempt 10 nov being made to engraft this
question on the wing creed. Such an effort will
this and they encourage the scheme, and already
Che course marked out BY some 10 persisted in Of
erecting for the wing party pro-slavery platform,
and every wing 10 required to stand thereon or be
saseAiged, then adeu to the whg party, we say. 1t
he's destroyed itself. What is worse, il will have
done il in = professed attempt to preserve the
Union.
Such course 10 not only impelitic as it regards
the North and the South, but il is emphaticaliy SO
in regard to the relations our own population sus.
tain Ia each other here at home. Here are wings
from the slave states and from the free. Animos.
lilies viii Immediately spring up in our very midst
If such platform Is insisted on-and neighhor
viii 10 arrayed against neighbor, although both
profess to belong to the same party. The common
courtesiss and amenities between man and his fell
low viii be oblterated-jealousy will take the
place ofcon6dence-personal hatred of charity
and whatever may be the result abroad, all efforts
10 establish the pro.slavery principle in Union
aeesngs and elsewhere, for the purpose Of fasten-
Ing them on the whtg party, will produce disunion
and disssnsion at home. Such efioits will stulify
sAs whg party in the Northn view Of its reiterated
PROHIBITIONS OF being so good free soil party as
70 Dsed no other; and wills than anything else,
give eountenanee and strength to the Abolition
party.
We speak TINS plainly because these things are
A1ewn and read Of al men. Their results are dis
eovesahle all around ~. The whig party may, if it
vil, continue to be unit all its general inter-
ests, and in the furtherance Of all its general
urss. Il may stl be that ideal star, beautifully
spostrophised BY Mr. WEBSTER, when he said, 81
r. 49, A. AA~>.. 49, .-hxA
no star above the horizon promising light to guide
~, but the intelligent patriotic united wing party
q the United States" Yes that same party Of
which be said on another occasion: "The wing
party may encounter misfortunes, it may commit
nistskes; but. for one, SHALL FOLLOW ITS foR-
TUNES; because am more willing to trust MYSELF
end trust the country upon whig principles and wing
policy, than upon those of any other political party
or association. Ibeieve that these principles and
that policy have come down to Us from the days of
washington.''
Yes, that same party ,of which Hon. Rufus Choate
slso said two years ago: .on all the great qucs-
dons Of the day, but just siapsry; executive pow.
o., on internal Improvement, on the protection OF
labor, On peace, and the constitution, we mean to
remain the same party Of wings, one and indivisi-
BILE, from Maine TO Louisiana, one vast incorpora-
don Of consentaneous feeling throughout the land;
md upon this question alone, always differ from
Ne wings 1t the south; and that one,we propose
simply TO vote them down.o
Let whiss every where frown down every sug-
sestioa 70 remove the old party land -msrks. Let
then rsiy srcund one common standard. Let
sAsa labor on in the promotion of their reforms.
tory measures, until American labor shall receive
sasQuase encouragement and protection, which is
sew bestowed upon the British and French work
0sa. Let them labor m. until life and property
saaM % safe In consequence of the improy emen, Of
eur inland seas, and our own people shall, NO long
o b heavily taxed BY the obstructions above and
below No. Let them labor on, until the Executive
shan no longer be allowed to encroach upon Or die
sets 70 The Judicial or Legislative DEPARTMENTS of
govsransnt. Lot them labor on, until the crinci-
Pies Of honest and equitable legislation, and the
true standard Of freedom 10 settled and universally
scknowledged-then the whig party will have full
SUED its mission-its work will be done-and then
can weil AFFORD and will be prepared to step down
IRON tts platform, and commit to other hand, the
efession Of supsrstructure, that shall harmonise
snd b IN exact symmetrical proportion with the
foundation thus laid.
The whig party will always lose ground bv ALI.
aAcss with those who have no sympathy with. or
dssire for its prosperity. They may well Que stion
shs sincerity Of those who profess friendship while