Burlington hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1845-185?, 1850-12-19
For the Burlington Hawk Eye.

MEssns EplToRs:-Not to discuss the merits or
dement's Of the Fugitive Slave bill or savery;ques
tions upheaving Society i'll our land; would ask
moments regard. But to congratulate you and the
public. in the darkness prevalent with the shout,
Light. Io! Light cleaning from the invisible world,
dissipating night, profound as Egypt, which all
have felt and mourned.
Light, political, moral. Light civil, religious
Light, when fully risen will place small uminares,
as Henry, Scott, Clarke, Blackstone, stars in the
SUMS full splen6or, invisible. Behold that broad
luminary P. P. as commentary of law, and gos-
pel,-begun. Great lights breaking suddenly across
the horizon often produce other sensations than
JOY. The appearance Of p. p. again on the stage,
brings to mind. Job 4: II, is. s.Fear came upon
me, which made al, my bones to shake, Thena spr-
passed before my face, the hair of my flesh stood
up.'' And who is P. p? You have named two or
tn, ee, all incorrect. Since learning the Apostles
Creed have always associated this letter, dupli-
cate, in capitals, with Pontius PLATE. That it is
Pontius Plate is inferabe also from the business
of his decisions. .He is risen from the dead, and
therefore mighty works DO show forth themselves
in him.''
II is now settled, that Africans in these States
are not foreigners, or men Of another nation. Es-
pecialy that they are mot :'Iown trcdden' and are
therefore not entitled to any Of the sympathies Of
christian benev olence settled; moreover that Great
Britain, and the American Congress will be COM
PEELED TO recede little; nay so clean back. They
have declared the slave trade piracy; whereas it Is
only carrying out Ne high behest Of heaven-thc
humble obedience Of submission to the 'scom-
mands,, of the Most Hgh--,o ssbuy their bond ser
wants of the heathen.. Whether the old Roman
| Governor has returned with increased powers
cannot say,--f not there win be potsherd dashing
against potshcrd, among .s,he powers that be,' as
Plate seems to stand upon the shigher aw the cx-
is,euce of which is denied by some. How he will
| push his way through ana maiatain his standing
| with Cesar, remains to be seen.
There are many mooted points in the civil and re-
ligious world. politics and morals so interminged,
, church aud state so conglomeratea and the angry
winds Of contention blowing gale, like Old Chaos
that the rising Of such luminary is the first in
dicasion Of returning order.
1t is hoped that the experience Of 1900 years
shoula the miss ion to earth pcrmit.) will make all
contended subjects plain as that OF Negro Slave
ry. Were it not too much we would ask for full
commentaries on Jurisprudence and the Bible.
And now ye northern fanatics--rebels against th'
s.higher law'' ye plead, and your name is legion,
look from your dark and frigid realm to the warn
and sunny plains of the south; and read your owl
| condition. These men you have represented as cru
ell and oppressive. are innocent men, Men VIII
conscientious,y regard the binding force Of tn
.shigher iaw'' and laboring, though with ma,
tys zeal, to obey its precepts. You make void tn
s.higher law,'' by your traditionsneithcr cnterin
the road to heaven, nor suffering them that are,
y go in. You have bought no sweet slave for money
Endeavoring to do your own drudgery, you hav
deemed il laulahe. The heather left you by lei
acy you have liberated in open disregard the oil
> legation to hold them Jorercr.
PIP. has his slaves, though the fanaticism pr
vents him from bringing them here he is constraii
ed to rent them elsewhere, the nearest he can CON
, | to literal obedience to the divine s:commana.'
r we presume, because though once known to col
denim the innocent, yet it is not believed that in
public a manner he would condemn himself.
/. FIDENS SUPER LEGEM.