Weekly hawk-eye and telegraph. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1855-1857, 1855-10-10
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| for filling the space with anIatter of so hit
tie consequence. we beg leave o5exhibit
once morcthe ,.itiful ahal contemplate po-
sition Of the Goyefnmeut organ over the
way. and its shallow attempt to brazen out
| its own inconsistent course and cover up
its .arrant hypocrisy After long and
senseless pierce of il,sipid nonsense abou;
that thrcadbare subject "PopuAR Sow
EREIeSTY,' it cores over the following
| pierce of prey ticatiosi and falsehood. tt
| ,ssThis. according su'fdsion,sn is Old Hun
! kersu; and hecanse the President of the Unit
ed States " ii not arbitrarily and without any
Ton tin ional or legal gilt or authority send
Gen Scott witt an army of men TO Kansas TO
| AID the men whom Massa. huse,fs has sent there
to carry their electIcnsf r. cai,udates kof ,Eeir
own peculiar sentiments and to establish laws
in accordance with their mission there, although
| all the circumstances conSpire to prove them
clearly in the minority ever fusiunt alb It'll n
organ in the United States is grinding out its
| execration OF the administration and very one
who opposes their federal and despotic scheme.
If The abolit,onis!s of Kansas are in the ma
jority lei them enforce their rights. If tie Cit
izens of NJ ssonri have made war up n them
and h We invaded ths- Governments: why don't
they,resori to; thu usual ami we'll established
means of red esSing ,ieir grievances aud not
execrate the Presidentf r not dong that which.
he dare not do? \, Il: 81. ~s7E -
VI no asked that General Scott be sent
to Kansas to aid Massachusetts, settlers to
carry the elections? Why did the Mis-
sourians conquer that territory and send
their ruilians across the linc to deprive set
tiers of the right of suffrage, if slavery was.
already in majority? What is the usual
and well established means of redressing
grievances where citizens have been vio-
lently deprived OF. their rights? Our an.
cestors when they were taxed without re-
presentation, when. rulers were sent to
them from the other side of the water, re-
sorted to revolution, and Bunker Hill and
Lexington were witnesses that they dcserv-,
ed to be their own rulers. The settlers
in Kansas have been tyrannizcd over to a
far greater extent than our forefatEers by
George the LII. Rulers arc foisted upon
tt EN- not of their choice-taxes are being
levied which they had no voice in lcvying
laws have been passed for their govern
ment in the enactment of which they
had no voice, and which are most cruel,
bloody and vexatious, punishin5 minor Of
fcnses with death. And this is the work
of one of the sovereign States Of this Union
toward territory not able to defend her.
self .,...-s IL. .,a .-.s .a..F... ,.r
3, Is there no power in our government
to protect the weak against the strong.
Should New York conquer Connecticut Or
New Jersey is there no power in the Cen
eral Government to right the matter? Did
the trainers of our Constitution make such
blunder as to create great Central gov
ernment and give it no power to preserve
even its own existence? General jackson
did not think so. o.-,.se5-.--.--..-
But the gist of the matter is, the Ga
zette and the party who pays it, believe
that .abolitionists have no rights s-that
even the men who are in favor of making
Kansas free State have no rights. That
it is doing God service to kill thenl-hang
them-tar and feather them Had it the
power, it would alter the declaration Of
Independence, so as to read, call men, ex-
cept abolitionists,, "are created equal" 1t
is now evident that when they repealed the
Compromise act, it was for the purpose of
extending slavery. When they SUI g
peons to popular sovereignty and were so
loud in their declarations that the people of
the territory should have the right to de-
termine upon their domestic affairs in their
own way, they simply meant to give the
slave owners and breeders the privilege of
taking their "niggers' into any of the ter
ritories whethera majority Of the settlers
were, willing or not, provided they had the