Weekly hawk-eye and telegraph. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1855-1857, 1855-11-28

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Pierce has no Alternative but qu;etiyts Yield be
has no party anywhere apon which 70 I'll, back.
and must 70 at once into obscurits
Evrn u Mr. Wise should be nominated and
elected. the coantry i not likely 70 be IN rorse
condition under his adnninimrstion than that Of
Nr. Pierrs He IL considerably the abiess man
of the two; be Il man Of decided opinions,
and = conte,nper Of an reserve and disguise In
expressing them. and wouid command that re.
speet which the World readily Yields to courage
and open temper. He would cosnni, Thousand
imprudenccs. but nothing Of which the country
would hare more reason TO be ashamed, than the
follies which Mr.. Pierce aud his keeper, Cushing,
are committing almost every day In cue re-
spect the change you'd be for the better. II We
must be governed by the shareholders, it ii bet
Ter that they should govern us directly in their
own name, than through set Of canting de-
pendants on their favor, recruited from the north
ern politicians. and pretending to imp@nialitr in
the differences which hare arisen between the
slave States and the free. II Is better TO live un.
der rule which il simply unjust, than under ono
which is both unjust and hypocrificai
Mr.. Wise is G9uihcrn man in principle, in
temper and character, who makes no pre,ensions
TO neutrality or moderation The maintenance
Of slavery. and Of what lie calls the rights of
the South meaning the nationality of slavery,
forms almost the whole of his political creed,
and il the protested rule Of his public conduct
In his moral constitution there Il all that inpet-
uosity, that pfcdominance Of the win and abb
scnce Of selfrestraint which are the characterize
les Of men brought up among slares. With Mr..
Wise for President, the question Of the nation
atty OF slavery would advance rapidly to So
luton. We should have no half measures and no
mincing of terms; there would be the advo-
Gates Of that loose construction Of the constitu
ton which establishes slavery in the territories
on the one side and the champions of tina. strict
er Interpretation which denies the existence Of
slavery where II il not directly imposed by the
local law, on the other. Under such a Prcsi-
dent, parties would form and organize them
selves with view TO present questions and If
those views Of constitutional right which are "a
rorablc to freedom, have any real hold on the
mind Of the people, they would then have all
the advantage Of party regularly associated to
support mud enforce thcm both in Congress and
IN the country at large. With such means, the
President might more easily be kept in check du-
ring the term Of his Office, and with sucl, means,
the chances Of putting a successor Of different
opinions in his place at the expiration Of his term
would be greatly increased,
There are other men whose eyes are fixed on
the Presidency, and who will probably see with
as little pleasure as Mr.. Pierce the appearance of
Wise in the field as competitor. Mr.. Hunter
another virginian, whose political atinities have
placed him with the nullificrs of twenty years
since. and whose friends were not without hope
that the extreme southern doctrines now coming
into fashion might float him into the Presiden-
tial office, must be content with such public hon
ors ~ he has already received The influence
and the vote Of Virginia will be given for
nolsier and more popular rival. Mr., Buchan.
ans friends bad hopes of supplanting Mr.. Pierce
at the Cincinnati Convention, but the appear.
ance Of this new competitor will embarrass them
greatly; for they will see that IL they exert them
selves to get rid of Pierce, 1t may easily happen
that they will find themselves to have been only
laboring for the nomination Of Wise.