Burlington hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1845-185?, 1851-07-31
Pennsylvania.


papers persist in declaring tina: the wings of Penn
ddates for State officers, assumed ground in OPP
position to the adjustment measures of the last
Congress? Or why it is that they are charged
with ''pursuing course to reach the affections
and secure the votes Of Abolitionists." The Mi
ner's Express Of last week contained the follow
ing:
SIT is well known that Seward and his party
are the warm and devoted friends of Gen. Scott,
and looking to the proceedings Of that Conven-
ton, and the disposition of its members to avoid
all action which would tend to commit them and
the wing party Of the State to the ''fugitvc slave
law" We may safely conclude that the Wing par
ty of Pennsylvania the second State in the Union,
is going into the Presidential canvass Of 1852,
with aboliionism, disorGanlzation, disunion, rev.
olution, anarchy, blood and carnage inscribed up.
on its banncr.o
This is the choicest specimen Of disgusting
twaddlc that we have lately seen. 1t would be
waste of ink and paper to attempt seriously TO
repel charges made in such style.
The Gazette. too, has fallen into similar er-
ror, and asks why the wings of Pennsylvania re-
iectcd a resolution pledsipg them to maintain the
'Fugitive Slave Law on the Statute book.
We think that the Wing State Convention Of
Pennsy lvana laid down platform on which eve
nv man, who is a Union man, and every man who
is an American and desires 10 see the Constitu-
ton and the laws maintained, can stand firm and
erect. What does the Gazette think Of the fol-
lowing resolutions among others adopted by the
Wings of Pennsylvania?
Resolved That the Government and people of
Pennsylvania are loyal to the National Consitu-
ton. and ready at all hazards 10 carry its pro-
visions into cilcct--to assert otherwise is libel
| urou the fair fame of the citizens of this Com
motfweal,h.
Resolved, That the adjustment measures Of The
last Congress shall be faithfully obserred and res
pccied by The Whigs.
Resolved, That an unalcrable determination to
maintain the supremacy of the Constitution and
Laws has been and is of our cardinal doc
| trines; and that while others have fatered. the
history Of the Wing party demonstrates that in
the storms of adversely in the sunshine Of pros
perity, this guiding star of our coun,rys hope has
never been dim,ned by its action or counsel.
Do not the above resolutions cover the whole
ground? Is there any reason TO charge body
of citizens, standing on such platform, with ell
deayorins TO secure the votes of aboitionists and
| slavery .agitators?
1t is true a resolution Of purport somewhat
similar to that suggested by the Gazette was Of
fered to the Convention and rejected. But it was
| offered by member on his own responsibility as
a substitute for the resolutions above given, and
! after debate il was voted down. The resolutions
reported by the committee were thought to COW
er the whole ground, and TO express as fully and
| forcibly as the amendment, the intention of the
wings of the State to support all the adjustment
measures. But the rejection Of this resolution,
offered by way of amendment, has been seized up
on by the opposition press to raise an outcry a
ganst the wings as opposed to the Compromise
measures, and as seeking TO make alliances with
Slavery agtators TO secure their votes, by offer
| ing them increased room for the work of treason
| Bat did the democratic convention of pcnnsyl-
vana that nominated Bigler for Governor, pass
any such resolution? Did il expressly pledge the
| democracy TO maintain the fugitive slave law on
! the statute book? We rather think that no such
resolution passed any democratic Convention of
! which David Wilmot was the master spirit.
Will the Gazette, after what it has said Of the
| wings of Pennsylvania, Vermont and Ohio, please
| tell us what ii thinks of the following:
MoHTErELIER, VT, July -.
The Democratic State Convention nominated
to-day the Honorable /. p. Redtleld for Govern
or, and after adopting strong resolutions against
| the Fugitive Slave Law, adjourned.