Weekly hawk-eye and telegraph. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1855-1857, 1855-10-31
HAwK-EYE AND TELEGRAPH.
OMce Holders in Council.

HAWK-EYE AND TELEGRAPH.
Office Holders In Council.
The Office holders and expectants 0
Iowa, helda convention at Fl. d s Moine,
on the 18th. We have received :
copy OF their proceedings and platform
and find just what We expected--an en-
dorsement of the Kansas iniquity-o
Franklin Pierce and his Administration
of Dodge, Jones and Hall-and what VIC
did not expect disafpreval of the Pro.
h'bltory Law, last summer voted by ma.
jorlty of the people. After admonishine
the people to exercise reason, endorsing
the constitution, putting the fathers who
inadeit, blowing up Alexander Hamilton
and Federalism, they proceed to deprecate
the agitation of slavery and dodge the re-
suits Of their own acts thus:
9th, Resolved, That we deprecate as dan
gerous to the peace and safety of the country,
the agitation Of the slavery question; that re-
garding slavery as local institution and
subject to local law, Congress has no right
ful power over the subject, and should leave
1T as it leaves other local institutions, to be
determined by the people in their sovereign
capacity and according to their best judg-
ant and conscience.
7th, Resolved, That we have no sympathy
with Northern Abolitionists or Southern Dis
umonists; and that while we condemn alike
the policy of Massachusetts, in organizing
emigration societies to assail the institutions
OF the South and Of Missouri in organizing
bodies of armed men to infest the Terrific
ries and interfere with the right of suffrage,
We have been able to discover nothing in the
Act organizing Kansas and Nebraska furn-
ishing a reason for this result, or incompati-
Die with the harmony of our Republican in
stitutions.
In order to keep their courage up the Of
fce-holders must be INDUCED in little
whistling, which is done thus:
9th, Resolved, That while the democratic
party, amid periodical storms and shocks of
party strife, which have threatened the sta
bility of the Union, has preserved unshaken
its organization and principles, the federal
party has been repeatedly broken into frag-
ments and is now the victim of almost as
many isms and sections, as it once had fol-
lowers.
The following terrible thrust is made at
the Bloody Know Nothinss:
9th, Resolved, That among all desperate
shifts for power, which q most despicabie par
ty has been forced to resort to, Know. Moth
ingism is the most reckless and mercenary;
destitute alike of reason, honor and patriot
ism; and while openly protesting a regard
for the country and religion, it is secretly
plotting treason and infdelity.
They have hopes that the people are
coming to their senses.
llth, Resolved, That we hail the triumphs
in Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee, AL
ALBANIA, Georgia, Texas ard Maine, and the
more recent glorious triumphs in Pcnnsylva-
mia, Indiana and Maryland, as an evidence of
returning, sense and patriot sm with the
masses; and that while an intelligent people
may be occasionally seduced from the path
of proprietv, by ingenious and specious ap-
reals from reckless and designing partisans,
they are sure to right themselves when time
has furnished an occasion for sober and ra-
tional reflections.
What WOULD the people do, but for the
kindly dictation of their monitors, who
have volunteered to reprimand and teach
them sense?
The offi:e holders true to virtue and
principle, even in adversity and defeat:
18th, Resolved, That while we lament the
partial defeat which the democratic party Of
Iowa sustained in the election of 1854, op-
posed as it was by combination of all the
unscrupulous and vindictve isms of the
State, we have cause to congratulate ourselv-
cs that there has been no wavering in our at
tachmeut to democratic principles, and tnat
from the signs of the times, 1856 will find
Iowa ranked among the proudest democratic
States of the Union.
But even with their virtue an their
principle they believe prohibition is going
to be unpopular, especially with their for
eign allies:
18th, Resolved, That the Act passed bv the
last Iowa Legislature entitled ssAn Act for
the suppression of Jntemperance," is the le-
gitimate fruit of fusionism-unconstitut
and anti-democratic in many of it's fea: :ures,
and has in the estimation of this convention
a tendency to increase rather than suppress
the evil: and, believing as we do, that that
kind of legislation is at variance with the
true principles Of democracy, VIC here express
our condemnation of its enactment and urge
upon the party to take decisive and energetic
steps to secure its repeal.
In view of the many favors, fat Offices,
and paying jobs of Government printing,
past, present and in expectancy, franklin
the First, who so much resembles the la
mented jackson. is be-praised thus:
14th, Resolved, That we behold in the
present national administration the true con
servator of the nations peace, prosperity and
and that while no administration
of so powerful government, yielding az it
necessarily must an immense patronage. can
be exempt from error, or escape censure, this
administration has been as successful in
avoiding reasonable causes for complaint as
those which have preceded it.
The Hon. Augustus Caesar has whole
resolution devoted to him:
18th, Resolved, That in the appointment of
the Hon. Augustus G. Dodge to the honorable
and difficult post of Minister plenipotentiary
and extraordinary to the court Of Spain,
high compliment has been paid to the man
and the State, and that, possessing an init
mate knowledge of the character and abili-
ties Of this gentleman we have the most en-
tire confidence, that, in the discharge of his
official functions, he will honor alike the po-
sition Of his country.
Last come Senator Jones, and Represen-
tative Hall. although cordially hating one
another they are done for, in one resolu-
ton:
10th, Resolved, That We repose the fullest
confidence in the capacity and integrity of
our present Representative in Congress, the
Hon. Geo. W. Jones and the Hon. Augustus
Hall; and that while Iowa is represented in
the national councils by such men we have
no apprehension that its interests will suffer.
. SHADOWS skies were not eyi-
IDENTIFY as bright to the self-sacrifcine