Burlington tri-weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1852-1855, 1855-03-13
THE ADMINISTRATION.

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THE ADMINISTRATION.
The Hon. Lewis ID. Campbell, OF Ohio, j,
q recent SPEECH delivered in committee of tn
whole, in the House of Representatives, a
Washington, discharged a heavy broadsid'
into the reiguing daynas'y. After discus
sion of some length on the subjects Of
"Kans,s and Nebraska, Georgia and Ohio
Free labor and Slave labor,' he concluded
MS follows:
A word, sir, in conclusion, in reference t.
the present Administration. | do net come
here this session to make war upon 1t. 1t il
wrong to strike tho fallen! The Admistra-
ton has fallen A yeara-o the fourth OF
last March, we witnessed in that broad and
beautiful avenue the most magnificent pa
geant ever displayed in the capital OF the ma
ton. The President was elected by an over
VIII lining majority Of the peoples votes over
the '.grcatest Cir.ain of tn age one who
had served most Sallantly on many battle
flis! lie was born triumphantly by the
mss. amidst the joyous shouts of thousands.
from the wcst-end of PENNSYLVANIA avenue
t. The elstcrn front Of this cpitA. There,
appar nty in manly style, he delivered an
inaugural address, which was scarcely ex-
copied to by even those opponents who sought
causes of objection. He solemnly renewed
the pledge which two years before had been
signed BY the gentleman from Georgia, Mr..
Stephens, to- wit, ssthat slavery agitation in
Congress and out Of Congress should cease"
Theme h was usher, into the White House
with the greetings of the peoples glad huz-
zas
Congress again met and opened its ast scs-
sion in harmony. The Admin strat ion threw
this apple of dscord among us. 1t pressed
upon US the consideration of the Nebraska
bl; and thr ough its organs, sought to in
fucnce the Representatives. Of the people
both, through fear of punishment and hopes
Of reward.
1t vetord the bill pissed by Congress of
its own friends, granting lands TO the several
States to support those stricken poor whose
intellccts have been taken from them by the
Almighty. At the same time, under very Pc
culiar circumstances, it approves the Mime
sofa bill, granting near a miller of acres Of
these lands to New York Wall S Street COM
panv--a bill, sir, which, after base forgery
had been IN de upon it, pissed the Senate on
the 18th Of June. The Presidents signature
OF imm dite approval, was necessary, in or
der to take from the pioneer people Of Mn
nosota that imm ense grant, and secure it to
Wall street brokers. On the 20th Of juno
he approved it. SO speaks the recorl.
Thousands of voices broke upon our ears,
from the laborers of the interior, asking APP
Preparations to improve their rivers and lakes
the means which Col had given to bear
from the arm of Americin industry its pro-
ducts to the place where necessity demanded.
These appeals We're not sectional, but ma
tlonal. The appropriations were voted by
the Presidents friends in Congress-bv wise
constitutional lawyers, by statesmen of long
experience in the Senate r the solemni-
ties Of their oaths. The Administration,
whilst asserting the doctrine of popular
sovereignty to be its prominent characterize
les, responded to the public will, 81 ueio.o
1t cast from high places Of trust and from
low ones-.rom the foreign court and from
the village post ohce--men ''honcs., capable,
ana Faithfully" who d lred, in defiance of its
dictation, to exercise Independently, the SOW
erelgn rights Of American freemen; and ap-
pointed, in their stead, those who were nci-
tier htted BY birth, by education, nor by 9TH
q high qualities Of manhood, to fill the sta
tom e
repealed the Missouri Compromise
les, Sir, 1t tore from the record that great
ac' OF Our fathers, rendered sacred, as it had
oeen, to TIE people IF the North, and of the
South, BY the great cause of our National
on'on, in which it originated, and the long
acqaescence of all the States. 1t has re-
openet, in violation of its solemn vows. the
bleeding wounds which the sshealing mea-
kQfpS'' Uf ISln l..
uas thrown wide open the sluces of section
- Hriie, as the elections and this discussion
l. releat it, sir, in no spirit of personal un-
h'Huaess to its members, this Administration
usiallen-sfallen like Lucifer - The I'M
srrns pen of history will record, in small
pace, an account of its works, and it's
@Cuievsments: II repealed the Missouri
:oompromisc--it struck at the Kno,c- Moth
n Ivy, not kno,cing ,chere to strike-it cap
'"'ea ufsyioUn! dndwent down: 4
Like the snow fake on the river,
moment whte--theu gone forever"
j. Looking atits incoming, its condition, and
~ ~ approaching inevitable outgoing, lrepeat,
r. a'le 10 pity than anger" the words of
--lI1w nre the mighty fallen
a All y The peoples hnnt!l Low lie the proud
TAU ai smss'eh' with the weapons Of the pool
AZ" TALE Is ToLD; and for that they were rich,
~ foaed the poai aud for that they were strong
WI afged the weak; and for that they made laws
pen men turned the sweat of Iabors brow to blood
"A'akss r'sIRsiSs, THE ArIox Asrs THEM our.
!. IArRAoRDIxARY ESDuRAScE.-O the 3lst
49, young man named Copp becams lost,
1 nlsas, u the White Mountains of New
10Y upsa sa.e The thermometer at the time,
f,as. q degrees belowzero; and to keep from
9Is Sing % death, he continued t, walk for
VI YOURS, when be came out Oh Wild river,
i -se ne found his father and several friends