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

ed, and the money expended for wines and
cakes, and oysters, be expended for bread.
To our mind, there is something revolving in
the spectacle Of the gay, and rich assembling
in balls and routes to mock these furnishing
poor with the sound of mirth. What indi-
vidual with heart in the right place, could
enjoy dance, when he knew that within the
compass Of but few short miles, thu. fam
ishing poor upon their pallets were suffering,
and little childred asking in vain for food?
MINORITY EPORT OF THE COMMITTEES
on FEDERAL RELATIONS.
The minority Of the Committee on Federal
Relations not being able to concur either
with the reasoning or rhetoric Of the Report
of the ma jorty, beg leave TO submit the fol-
lowing. We trust it will not be expected Of
US to enter into any detailed reply to the po-
sitions assumed by the authors of that Re-
port. AS friends Of the Governor, as citi-
zens of free State, and in some degree an
swerable for its character abroad, las mem
bers of the Senate and therefore directly re-
sponsible for the character of its proceedings
we conceive We shall have discharged our
full duty in the premises when we acquit our
selves of al participation in the report with
which the majority have favored the Senate.
AS members Of the Committee on Federal
Relations we should be unjust and ungener-
Gus to those who alone arc entitled 10 claim
the honor of that production, if we did not
thus explicitly disavow any part in the jus,
need of fame which doubtless awaits the au-
thor of that dignifed, able and luminous
State paper. The undersigned confess, that
until informed by the better knowledge of
the majority, they were not aware Of the
gross improperly Of which the Governor of
free State had been guilty in c,ling the at
tention of its Legislature to a subject so in
timately connected with all its future inter-
ests as is that Of the repeal of the Missouri
Compromise. Even now that The under
signed have had all the benefit of the logic,
wit, classical learning and satire, which
CLEAN and glisten from the pages of the re-
port, like lightning from the cloud, thy are
still SO dull as not TO perceive ANYTHING par
ticulariy remarkable except covert act upon
n co-ordinate branch of the gov, rnment, and
a commendable diligence in ignoring great
subject, on which it is known that the policy
of the party to which the authors OF that
report belong and the people of Iowa are
directly at variance.
The party to subserve whose interests that
report was written, are in favor of extend
ing the area of slavery; majority of the
people of Iowa are now, and always have
been opposed to such extension : that party
is now diligently engaged all over the land
in talking about the repeal Of the Missouri
Compromise being dead issue; the people
of Iowa believe that repeaI a great outrage
designed 10 insure to the benefit of the ad-
vocates of that peculiar institution American
slavery. IL is natural, p r APPS it is in a Ger
tain sense proper, that where there are such
great and radical differences between the
people of Iowa, and those who have hitherto
pretended to represent their wishes, that the
latter should wish to ,dse any and all dss-
cussions Of subject likely to prove so DANA
& ng to their future plans. We dissent from
the assumption so coolly mad in the minors
ty's report that it is The business of the Gov
ernors of free States, throughout the lenat til
and breadth of this Republic, to keep their
lips Theoretically sealed on the subject OF
Matchmaking slavery, while every message
emanating flom the slave States goes forth
filled with such sentiments as the follow .ng,
delivered by the Governor elect of South
Carolina on the 18Th December, to the Leg
islature Of that great nation:
"Upon the subject Of our national re.a-
tions with the general government, | have
but little to say. Ihave no new opinions to
announce, and no specific remedy TO propose,
to meet the dangers which ire before u.s.
The signs of the times are open to your vi
sions as they are to mine. We may inter
pref them differently, but to my mind they
indicate settled purpose on the part of the
Northern States to assail and degrade or ruin
the Southern States. How or whore the
South shall meet to redress the perils OF her
condition, will not venture to anticipal e.
Time will demonstrate whether our lns.itu-
tons tend TO lift US up us pcop.e, promptly
to protect our rights and pefpetuate our lib
erty, or whether they will sink US down, to
the level Of degraded and ruined proy,nc -
While such is the tone Of discourse uni
formly held by the Governors Of slave states,
in addressing their Legislatures ard people,
on the subject Of that peculiar institution,
American Slavery, we rejoice that the free
state Of Iowa honors herself in Governor
who dares to speak the sentiments on the
same subject contained in his late inaugural
address, the only sentiments worthy the lips
OF Governor or citizen Of free state !; and
which We devoutly pray may be adopted and
held by the Governors and citizens of every
free state throughout the length and breadth
Of this land. The undersigned are neither
afraid nor ashamed to avow, that regardless
now of all that miserable patchwork, the
compromise of 1850, their position now is
exactly what that of Daniel Webster was in
lS4S, as defned by himself in the Senate Of
the United States. aasse rs
ssMy opposition to the increase of slavery
in this country, or Of slave representation in
Congress, is general and immovabie: it has
no reference to the lines of latitude, or the
points Of the compass. shall oppose all
such extension ana all such increase, IN all