Burlington tri-weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1852-1855, 1854-09-21
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The Abolition Press Of our country are
sounding the tstocsin" of prescription to
Wings all over the whole land; from Maine,
on the East, to the Slope of the Missouri, on
the West. Since there have been Wings
who, on account of their staid and conserva-
tive, as well as consistent course, as compro-
mise men, and opposed to denationalzing the
Wing party, during the present canvass, by
fusion with the Liberty party men, every
species Of outrage, is being practiced by this
Press towards those Wings, however respecta-
bic, responsible and worthy citizens they may
have been, and how well qualified to ill high
and important political positions. Wewould
ask, why is it9 Is it because those Wings
loved principle and party more, than they did
bribery, corruption, and the false-heartedness
Of demagogues, and would not consent to
yield up their party faith, to be sacrificed as
frec-wiil Offering to the no-party facti in
the North, whose chief shibboleth was, down
with both the old parties? Isit, we ask, that
these old staunch Clay, and Webster Wings
must now be prescribed, because they would
not sell themselves and their party into the
hands Of fusionists? Shall the transgress-
ions of others, be visited upon the heads of
the innocent, by these factionists? Wings,
g too, that have had no hand in perfecting the
Nebraska bill-Whigs who have been opposed
to slavery propagandism, all their lives-who
have spoken out, both in the camp, the field,
the farm, and upon the floors Of our conven-
tiops, and eVen in the Halls Of our State
Legislatures, and in Congress-? Is this to
be the watch. word, aud "strike and hear"
the cry Of this Northern hydra that has just
struggled, into kind of still-born existence,
towards the old and tried sentinels of he Wing
party? Is it even SOP We have been watch
ing it ever since its origin-have noticed ev-
cry step of its progr IS, from first to last
have seen all its bodyings forth, aud was pre-
pared to hear its pronurac idmento, and are
not surprised that it has put forth its hand,
j to decapitate all those worthy men, who could
not see, or feel impressed with the Importance,
or the policy, of delivering over their birth
right as wings, as members of great, re-
spectacle and honorable party, into the hands
of faction, without principles, without re
spectability, without honor, and whose sole
object is the downfall Of Republicanism in
America. We say we were not surprised,
but we would amend it, by saying that we
were, as we did not suppose that there
we're men, in any community, who could be
induced to perpetrafe such wanton acts of
bru al barbarity; to say the least of it, as to
prescribe trustworthy men, because they
could not see or feel as they did, which is all
their crime. But this is even so. Senator
Phelps, of Vermont, good, loyal, noble
hearted Wing, is to be prescribed because he
would not unite with the fusionists-because
he voted, when in Congress, for the Fugitive
Slave Law, and supported it out of Congr 50,
and all the compromises. This is his crime
for this, too, he must not be returned to the
United States Senate, from Vermont. The
National Intelligencer, speaking of the result
Of the election in Vermont, says Mr.. Phelps
is a sound Statesman, true Wing, and
should be returned to the U. S. Senate But
what does the Pittsburgh Gazette, once Wing,
but now fusion, or Abolition print, say: ssHe
roted for the Fugitive Slave Law, and no nd
gocate Of that law can ever be sent to the /
United States Senate" Why does it say I
hesc ominous words? Has Vermont be- |
come abolitionized, and therefore Abolition t
doctrines must supplant Wing principles, and b
Abolitionists succeed Wings Did the Wings '
{ Vermont believe the words which Senator t.
helps spoke, in his great speech at Middle t,
ury, that the effort Of the fusionists was to Il
bolitionize and sectionalize the Wing party $,
{ the North? No, they could not believe O
inn; they would sooner listen to the fiery full b
'inations of q Phillips or Parker, rank disu- Il
ionists, than to the honest, candid state n;
ents Of EXP erience and age. They see now a,
bat the result is. Old Wings are prescribed Of
cause they loved to be consistent, to be
ndid, to be honorable, as party men, and
citizens of free government. Proscrip-
-, Tor opinions sake, is the cry gone forth ca
,n head quarters, from the New York "a
ibune, and echoed by every penny a liner re- re-
resgbout the whole country. The Tribune 81 81
70 ssMr. Phelps was one of those who betray-
the North in 1850, and Vermont will new II,