Burlington tri-weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1852-1855, 1855-02-01

: We have not forgotten that while tho Bill
for the Organization Of the territories Of
Kansas and Nebraska was on its passage
through the Senate, the repeal of the Slavery
prob biton was advocated on the pretense
-thatit was to establish newly discovered
principe, supposed to be very tattering to
the feelings Of the Pioneer part of our pop
ulation. and called sssquattsr sovereignty"
If we mistake not, Senator Dodge in che of
those able and convincing speeches of his,-
with which he has been accustomed for some
years past to enlighten the Senate, expatiated
with much eloquence on this great principle
Of squatter sovereignty, and told Some Mis-
sissippi gentleman by the namo Of Brown,
with how much zeal he, on the principle Of
seuatter sovereignty, would resist all his,
Browns slavery notions about the disgrace
OF. backing, boots, going to market, saving
wood, &C., in these same territories Of Kan
sas and .Nebraska. Less than year has
passed since such was t universal language
of all the advocates Of squatter sovereignty.
And yet what has transpired since this COM
mittec was constituted. Citizens Of the
slave state of Missouri under the advice and
council of no less conspicuous parsonage
than Senator Atchison have invaded the soil
Of those same squatter sovereigns, prGfaned
the sacredness of the ballot box, and by a
fraud as gigantic and shameless, as ever DIS
graced the annals Of any people, over. ruled
the wishes, and over-riden the rights Of those
who were the real squatters, the actual SET
tiers Of Kansas. ia tlsa 81 g5sse
This is the way squatter sovereignty works
in Kansas. So a'
When those who by repeating the prohibi-
tion of slavery, found themselves about to be
defeated in their object OF making u slave
state on their own newly introduced prnci-
pie, they Immediately resorted to fraud, the
most sham less, backed by tho Bowie Knife
and the Pistol: and these are the weapons
with which the advocates Of the extension Of
that peculiar institution should fight its bat
ties. They are fl weapons for snch cause.
The undersigned believe now as they have
always believed since the repeal was first az
tated in Congress, that the whole controver-
sy was for Political power. How often were
we all told BY the advocates of the compTo-
mise of 1850, that those five measures liken-
ed by Mr.. Clay in one Of his orations to five
bleeding wounds in his country's side, were
taken in their totallty, ssfnallty'' on the
subject of slavery. aA Terra
The repeal Of the Missouri Compromise.
and the events which have recently occurred
in Kansas under the advice and lead Of Atch-
ison and other slavery propagandists of Mis-
souri, prove, that with the advocates of slave
ry extension there is no fnalty, except the
absolute control of the Govera1nent of this
Republic in all its departments.
Already we find in the quarter which was
potential in ehecting tho repeal of the Mis-
souri, Compromise, arguments as grave, a
earnest and as eloquent in behalf Of lega!i-
zing the trade in slaves from Africs. as
were ever heard in favor Of the modern
doctrine of Southern right to carry slavery
into all the territories. Those arguments
only lack one element of strength, and that
W II be added as soon as the time shall have
come for taking IL on--that is the chiualru-
element-always empodied in the form Of
threats to dissolve the Union. The under
signed hope the day has come when this last
argument will cease to have its wonted eff
feet. They should rejoice that Iowa-well
called the only free child of the Missouri
Compromise, by the executive, a sovereign
member of this great family of States. aud
whom your committee take leave to say has
always, on this great and now oyershadowinr
subject of slavery, been misrcpresentel at
Washington, should through her reprcsen-
tives, the present General Assembly, speak
such words of truth and soberness as shall. If
possible, strike the ears of those whose only
conceptions OF the doctrines of this great con-
federaey seem to be limited to making it a
place where the clark of the chains Of the
slave shall never cease to be heard, and VIII q
the highest and most sacred datv of its cit
liens shall be to pursue as blood hounds the
track of It's flying fugtives. These are final
tiles from which they humbly trust every free
citizen Of Iowa will forever turn with ioath.
ing and disgust. The undersigned would
recommend the adoption of the following res
olution: $50 -
RESOLVED, lst, That in the third section of
the fourth article Of the Constitution Of the
United States, comforting upon Congress
the ''power to dispose of and make all need.
full rules and regulations respect ing the ter
ritory or other property belonging to the u
nited States" we recognize full and express
power under which slavery may be prohibited
IN all such territory, and which power it is
the bounden duty of Congress to exercise. 4
RESOLVED, End, That the power to admit
new States into the Union, is one in which
Congress may, without just offence to any
State or class Of States, exercise sound dis
erection, and that it is their right and duty to
fuse to admit any more slave States into
the American Union. e T.. essb tiui .sTs#
RESOLVED, 3rd, That the End section Of the
4th article of the Con>ti tut.en of the Unit d
States, in which it is provided that the citi-
Sens OF each State shall be entitled to all
privileges and immunities Of citizens in the
several States, ais as bind ng and obligatory as
the latter clause Of the same section, provi-
ding for the rendition of fugitives from SER
vice, and it is the duty Of Congress to
provide tho same stringent laws for enforc
ing ths rights Of citizens Of the free States in
the slave States, as for enforcing the ssclaim''