Weekly hawk-eye and telegraph. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1855-1857, 1855-08-01
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A SOUTHERN PARTY.

pC0CStui cuJoy uieuk VI tueT bttSTai IjEuib
and immunities.' We have no such faith in
the ability Of the Democratic party: i has
been overwhelmed at the North by abolition,
ends or the protection of the South. The
next Congress will make war to the knife up
on the administration and its measures, and
paralyze it on every point. tbs needless to
state that the repeal of the Missouri restric-
tion--a measure of the highest advantage to
the South-is the cause of this revolution
How shall the South act is the question:
Her first object, of course, is the defense of
her own rights. Now, in our opinion. her
defense and safety ein the very measure
the Enquirer SO much deprecates- a Southern
party. By this ue mean rdllying Of the
sohole Sou upon a platform ,Uhieh meets
the impending issues, and presents to the
North the alternative Of our rights or dis
union. The thing, we know, sounds harsh
to the ears of natlonalism, but it is the only
way in which the South can put down anti
slavery, and save, if possible, the Union"
Such. citizens Of Missouri, is now the Ian
gnnge Of the South Carolina press! Such is
the imperious tone of command in which the
disuuioni. {, Of the Calhoun SCHOOL, speak to
the Sovereign States Of this Union! Nor is
this any idle threat; but rather the settled
purpose of zealots at the South. They know
no compromise of their extreme opinions,
and tolerate no dissent from their terrible
logic. They will have dissolution Of these
confederate States, or else they will have all
that they may deem of advantage and benefit
to their own sectional position.
But does the s.Charleston Mercury" think
that none other than the poor and starveling
appsndage of swamp lands that yields an
equal quota of rice and mosquitoes, and
which it dignifes with State sovereignty,
has any interest in this question? Does it
presume that the dicta of furnished and eff
fete nristocracy among the reeds and slashes
of their pestilential climate. shall be held the
ultimate law and inal decision of this wide
spread Republic? Can it be so foolish and
so presumptuous as to imagine that the time
has not yet arrived when the seditious raw.
ings of demented politicians in the ot-bed
of notification, are TO be received us tn in
splred preachings Of a new religion-the d.
vine revelations of n new faith?
~Hureiy oil this cannot be entertained even
by those ,,bo are reckless enough to put for
ward such sentiments. They must know that
the people of the South will never bow the
knee in worship at such an idolatrous shrine
that the patriots of the whole Union will
never tolerate such treasouable design
against their liberties and prosperity as is
here made plain in the manifesto of tho Sc.
cession print. 81 Southern party," with
ssthe alternative OF our rights or disunion,"
is the speoious cry-and do our readers fully
appreciate the force of the language, and ex-
tent Of the meaning? GA Southern party"
| is but the formation of sub confederacy
within the present Union. 1t aims to unite
the slave States in league offensive and de-
fensive, whose juntc shall dictate laws to
the Congress of the nation, and who, repre-
senting minority in fact, shall control ma
jority Of the people and States of this con-
federacy in all their legislation. Its object
is first to override that provision of the Con-
stitution which declares that "NO State sha j,
without the consent of Congress, enter into
any agreement or compact with another
State"-and thereafter, to form combina-
ton, whose organ and exponent shall be
found in another Charleston convention, and
whose labors shall be directed to effect by al
manner of means non intercourse ,oith The
| Northern States. Again, s'the alternative
of our rights or disunion." And what are
those rights? Are they the rights which have
been guaranteed to the several States under
the Federal compact? Are they the security
and protection Of even that peculiar species
of slave property, which in some of the Dor
der States has been interfered with, by a
wild and ribald fanaticism ? Are they thost
equal franchises and that equal occupation OF
the new territories, which have been added to
the Republic by the valor of our armies, and
the exertions of our statesmen No! they
are none of these! Such rights can best be
enforced and protected inside of the Union
but it is to advantages outside of the
Union that these propagandists of new po-
litical faith point their argument. They look
to the enforcement Of theoretical abstrac
tions totally un ougenial to the thought and
feeling of the great mass Of the American
PEOPLE. They hiss in dersion the Fugitive
Slave Law, and all the efforts made to en-.
forcc its provisions, and demanded instead
thereof the revival of the African slave trade
They contend that the national government
shall devote all Of its energies to propagate
slavery into new lands, and fashion its dipls
macy SO as to embrace only the realms o.
African servitude that lie beneath the equator
They insist upon Southern isolation in relig
ion, in commerce, in manufactures, in social
habits, in education, as wellas in the though
and feeling, and to effect this end they scou
the idea Of the equality, equally with that o
constitutional liberty, and point to the cs
Establishment OF an aristocratical form of gov
eminent in lieu of our present Democratic
institutions. These are the s.rights for whiol
are provided s'the alternative Of s'disunion.
We have deemed it wise thus strongly ant
pointedly to present to the people Of Nilsson
ri the aims which are now entertained by tn
leaders of this new movement in the South
for two good and substantial reasons. III
irst ia, that the Great West can have n,
community of feeling with such treasonabl
designs, rs they will strike fatal blow a
its present prosperity, ard reduce its nov
gigantic strength and wealth, in all the fu
ture time, to the m SCRABBLE condition of BE-
s ing the miserable servile appendage to
Southern or Northern Republic, rent wit
ciyi! feuds-oppres>ed With onerous excis
duties, and cut off from the markets of tn
world. The second is that we desire 10 cal
the earnest attention Of every man in tn
land who has the interest Of his country a
heart to the proceedings and actions flhos
parties in our own mi,lst who are now zeal
ously CO. cooperating in this same S(hsh Caro-
} Ina scheme, and who accept all The ultr
dosnaS and ultimate propositions of thei
secession coadju'crs as articles in their faith
In regard to the FIRST of these reasons, it
needless for us hero to recite the statistics 0
the immense produce of this western valley
its garnered wealth of grains, i,s hoatin
miles of timber, It's unparalleled yield of mos
; of the staples of industry, its commerce, j,
manufactures and indeed every thing where
by more than six millions of people obtai
, their livelihood, and all of which would b
placed at the tender mercy of foreign Gus
tom house if the alternative OF the Charle.
ton Mercury were but once effected and ser
) forced. Is not this prospect from whic
! our citizens need no heightened argument I
induce them to shrink, and to curse the hea
; that would propose such an ultimatum {
that would calmly contemplate such result
In regard to the second it may be sufhciel
! to point oIr readers TO facts that have a
ready been made prominent through the co
t nmns of this journal. 1t was but few da,
. since that the same suggestion Of tSoutl
: ern party with 'disunion upon its banne
> was submitted BY the minions Of Atchinst
at the convention of Lexington. II is but
: week since We published in this paper Il
! proceedings Of a Fourth of July celebrate
: IN South Carolina. in which toasts we