Weekly hawk-eye and telegraph. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1855-1857, 1855-09-12


papcs--she peculiar organ, in fact of Mr..
Pierce,s adn,irss.ratiun for the State of
Pennsy isaaia-hi,hesto most decided in it's
iietessasion OF the wings. proposes union,
or. 10 the phraze Of the day. fusion Of the
democrats and National Wigs Of Philadel-
phia. for the sake of carrying the election in
October, suggesting that the candidates
should be taken from each party in proper
sion to its numbers. The other day Mr..
Pierce himself, at the White Sulphur Springs,
gave remarkable example Of the propepsi-
" to fusion which charncterizes the time, by
pronauncipg a public eulogy on the purity
and wisdom of John Tyler's administration,
which the democratic party of that day SO
alphabetically repudiated, but which is now
held up BY democratic President as pat
tern Of craftsmanship. In Massachusetts
many of the mos, distinguished men of the
democratic party have taken the ground that
there are questions now before the people in
regard to which the old distinctions Of party
must no longer be regarded. Governor
Boutwell,, it seems, has taken part in favor
Of The fusion movement in that State
The Springfield Republican Of yesterday
Gays:
Governor Boutwell, made one of the most
earnest and effective and neatest speeches for
union against slavery, at the United States
Hotel meeting last week, that we ever heard,
1t was decided, bold, uncompromising. He
thinks it has got to be war of generation,
that the slave power has such hold upon
the government, and in the fears and inter-
ests Of the people, that it will be a long time
ere it can be conquered and driven into its
local homes. But he argues that if it is ever
to be resisted, we must begin now, while We
have anything left worth battling fer
At the South, the dsintegration Of the old
uarty associations is much more decided than
it is here. The whig party has scarce arem-
nant left in most of the Southern States,
where the sole contest now is between the
Natiysts and the party which supports the
administration. The Charleston Mercury
goes so FIR rs even to maintain that neither
Of the old parties has any longer On existence.
In its issue of Saturday it says:
''The wing and democratic parties are gone.
The name, even, of the former is extinct,
while that of the latter no longer represents
the principles which gave it birth. During
the very last session of Congress, with an
overwhelming democratic majority in both
houses, project to modify the tariff was re-
iected the French spollation bill, the har
Dor Improvement bill and the Dix lunaic bill,
were passed, and, but for the Presidential
veto, would have become the laws Of the
land. to the waste. of the public money an4l
the disgrace of the democratic creed. And
the Collins bill, as fragrant piece Of legal
lied swindling as was ever perpetrated, was
finally passed, over and in spite of Mr..
Pierce's veto. he strange and startling
spectacle was presented of party President
compelled to resist party's violations of its
own pr!nciples--of democratic President
opposing the wild, wasteful and corrupt
measures of the democratic party.
Now, what does all this teach? What,
but that the old party questions are buried
or, rather, that fixed constitutional principles
no longer form the lights of party action,
and that the federal government is the con-
venient instrument of the numerical ma jori-
ty, regardless Of right or OF the constitution.
There is but single question now upon
which parties can be ralied-a question un-
like all others which have arisen in the gov
eminent, not national, but simply and ma
kelly scctional-thc question of slavery. A
thousand fold more intense than in 1847.-
Abolition has shattered every organization,
democratic, whig and Know Nothing, which
dared oppose its progress, and subordinated
every other party principle to the one abso-
lutte test. 1t matters not what position may
be assumed upon other questions-the party
which bids for northern support, must, on
this, bow before fanaticism. Can any ma
tional party, therefore, command success at
the North, upon terms short of a surrender
and hatrayalsof the South ? Can the demo-
cratic party do it. withered and slrivelled up
as it is by the breath of freesoil? Must not
question. purely sectional, Of necessity
,l.l -.
union of the Mort for aggression, compel
union of the South for resista nce?'
We marvel that the Mercury should speak
Of he union of the North against the South
The geographical division of parties began
Mt the South, and the reason why there IS no
longer q wing Or democratic party in that
qu.rter OF the Union is, that the combina-
tion Of politicians for the protection of local
interests was formed there at an early pc
ritd, and has broken up the old parties. The
South has been united against the North for
sune years past. 1t presented common
frnt against the North in the enactment of
tie Fugitive Slave bill. 1t was united
against tie North in forcing the Nebraska
ast-the immediate cause Of the present ag-
ihtion-through the two houses of Congress
At this moment it is united against the North
il encouraging and unfolding as right the
lrohigate and brutal proceedings of the Mis-
Surians in Kansas. Nota syllable in repro
iallon of these outragrs has been uttered at
my public meeting Of the citizens of the
South. The South is made against the North
n maintaining the doctrine Of the national
ay of slavery--a doctrine which carries that
Institution where the federal constitution has
iorce, not only into the territories, but even
A. ec IL
South on these points is so general, and has
endured so long, that it has weaned men from
old party associates. At the North there is
by no means the same universal agreement
IN opinion and feeling. If the conviction
has arisen among any very large number that
a new party organization has become neces- !
sary to protect the free States against these |
it is of late origin, and has but |
Just begun to influence the minds Of the ma
jori,y.
What will be the fruits of this new form
Of political organization, here or elsewhere,
will depend on the degree in VIII oh it effects
the feelings Of the people. If it commands
their assent in its courageous declaration Of
opinions and in the excellence and populari-
" of its nominations to Office, it will make
It's first political campaign in the State of
New York with fair prospect of success;
f it should disappoint the public expecta-
ion, either by the feeb eness with which it
expresses the general feeling or the equivo-
al character of its nominations, it will prove
! failure.
ANTs.-The immigrants by the
Upper ship Dreadnough from Liverpool.
which arrived at Y. on Tuesday. bro't
500, 600 in money, as registered at Castle
5arden. They We're of rather better
lass, II ostly English and Scotch.
The Centurion, which arrived from Liv-
,rpool on Wednesday, brought but few
migrants, who lad but ss42. The emf
,rants were nearly all Irish; and the mass
+ them brought only one or two hundred
lollars each.
According to the New York Tribune, the
ecnipts Of beeves week before last, at New
'ork reached nearly FIVE thousand in number,
Fhich at only six hundred weight to the bull
ock, would make three millions of pounds
s hooe f~- = III m !