Weekly hawk-eye and telegraph. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1855-1857, 1855-11-28
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e ,rs,sv members lefin 10 assemble, and many
more on tl,cjr wass Tie doubt which hangs
ever the parts or political complexion OF the
Heasc give. additional interest to the opening
az The NJ = Congress iitffe or no interest n
felt in regard TO the Senate, as the political ana
uarty character ofthat fody Is well known n
The administration have majority oil the sen
a,c. but in the hous, the administration Is IN
minority. The opposition is not INIT upon
any question except opposition to the Pierce adj
ministrs.ion We hope when the new members
meet together and interchange opinions, that
much better feeling. feeling OF harmony ana
Union will be effected, unless this is elected We
have not much hope OF good results, ..s,
The opposition parties have the power in their
hands TO shape the legislation Of the next Con-
gress. They have the control OF the popular
branch, and with that the control OF tue Appro-
priation bills They can also institute enquiries
{ into many things which would be Of interest to
the people. aud which the Administration would
prefer TO keep secret. The Grcytown affair--the
removal of Coy Reeder and the persecution OF
Passrlore Williamson, by Judge Kane, are all
legitimate subjects for enquiry on the part OF the
peoples representatives. There Is very gene
raj feeling of hatred and disgust towards Judge
Kane and there are doubtless many members
who are in favor Of having him imPeached, md
articles of impeachment may pass the house
the bar of the Senate for trial. This is very
delicate matter, and should not be entered up
on without great consideration, or without due
weight being given to the question in all its
points To attempt the impeachment of the
Judge and to fail therein is TO give him tri-
umph We believe he has been guilty of high
handed wrong, and if there was no party infiu-
encc or sectional interest involved in his con-
duct, we have no doubt that he would receive
the condemnation of Congress as he has the
condemnation of the people; but with party and
sectional interest arrayed in his favor, We can
hardly expect an unbiased judgment from the
Senate 5-s.f..=...s, .
/ Very little speculation exists in regard to the
message of the President. Indeed, the President
and his cabinet notwithstanding they WELD so
vast a power in the appointments to and emolu-
ments of Office, have no warm friends. They
! are regarded with dstrust or what is practically
the same, with indifference, by the people. Mr..
Pierce, however is candidate for reelection;
he is looking to the succession, and we may
naturally infer that he will stuff into his message
as much Presidential capital and popular flattery
as are consistent with an inordinate ambition.
He may in this way manage to procure the Pres
| idential nomination, in the June National Con.
vcntion. A ..-.....s -.....-. LII. =.
The organization of the House is the great
event. The Democrats viii run either Howell
Cobb of Georgia, Col. Orr of South Carolina, or
Mr.. Richardson of Illinois. Both Cobb and Orr
are of the ultra South. The recently erected
Georgia platform, and which has been struck off
in extras and circulated broadcast, is Anti-Amer-
lean and Calhoun Pro-Slavery. At the meeting
at which the platform was erected, Howell Cobb
presided and Senators Toombs and lversOn, and
Representative A. II. Stephens were present, and
took part, No Northern man who has any re-
gard for the future can vote for either Mr.. Orr or
Mr. Cobb, after having placed themselves on the
Georgia platform. As regards Mr.. Richardson,
he is looked upon as the embodiment of the
Douglas party in the House, and it may well be
considered that the vote given to Mr.. Richard
son is the Douglas strength in the popular
branch. Neither of these men can be made
Speaker. A candidate has arisen in the person
of Mr.. Ravens, of Buffalo, member of the old
law firm of Fillmore, Hall Il Ravens. We know
that this has been lucky firm. One has been
Congressman, Vice President. and President
Another has been Congressman, Post Master
General and is now a United States Circuit Judge
for life; and the other has been and lisa Congress
man, and is now candidate for the speakership.
Whether the mantle of luck which covered the
shoulders of his seniors in the firm is to fall upon
his, is vet to be determined. We don't believe
it WILL lightning seldom strikes twice in the same
place and never three ttimcs. The Speakcrship
is due to Ohio. Mr.. Campbellis more geaerally
spoken offor the place than any other man. He
has served with distinction through three Con-
crosses, and is now about to enter upon fourth
term. He is well acquainted with the rules and
manner of doing business. He has good admin
istratve powers. He is upright and honorable
and has always been popular as a member, his
location is right; and hope and We believe that
he will be the next speaker. $751; ...
The probability is that General Cullom, of
hn fhp
capital selection it will be. The other offices,
we trust will be filled by men of ability and char
actcr. and the next Congress hope will be
known in history one that was prominently
patriotic and faithful to the Republic and the
pcoplc-Cincinnati Gazette. @ -
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The Virginia Candidate for The Prcsi-
dcncy.
Ever since MIR. Wise was elected Governor of
Virginia, it has been understood that he
looking still higher, and that Mr.. Pierce had be-
gun to feel uneasy lest successor should slip in
to his place before he was ready to leave it,
The letter of Mr.. Wise, which We published yes
tcrtav, makes it clear that hcintcnds. if possible,
to he candidate for the Presidency.
Mr.. Wise belongs to the class of wilful men,
and it is by no means unlikely that he may have
his way. If he is backed by tolerably strong
support from the South, and is encountered by
no rival in that quarter Of equal determination
of character, the probability is that he will be
the candidate Mr. Pierce has set his heart upon
being nominated by the Cincinnati Convention
but Mr.. Pierce is easily managed. He must SUBJ
nit to go where he is sent, and stay where is putt
he is one of the class for whom that destiny is
appointed; he has not the courage, the perse-
If phpra
own position any where. Even if the Commit
tee, which is to assemble at Washington, on the
sth of'January, should be ever so well drilled
and the Cincinnati Convention ever so skillfully
packed, there is no certainty that Wise will not
be nominated. The men whom politicians use
as the tools of their trade, although ready to
perform any service for which they paid are
faithful to their associations as long as they find
it their interest in being so, but will make no
scruple of cheating their employers, if they
think they can perceive anything to be gained by
it. Ifthey, or q majority of them, desert him, Mr..
Pierce has no alternative but quietly to yield he
has no party anywhere upon which to fall back,
and must go at once into obscuritv.
Even if Mr.. Wise should be nominated and
elected, the country is not likely to be in worse
condition under his administration than that Of
Mr. Pierce lie is considerably the ablcst man
of the two; he is a man of decided opinions,
expressing them and would command that re-
spect which the world readily yields to courage
and open temper He would commit thousand
imprudences but nothing of which the country
would have more reason to be ashamed, than the
follies which Mr. Pierce and his keeper, Gushing,
are committing almost every day. In one re-
spect the change would be for the better. five
must be governed by the shareholders, it is bet
ter that they should govern us directly in their
own name, than through set of canting de-
pendants on their favor, recruited from the north
ern politicians, and pretending to impartiality in
the differences which have arisen between the
slave States and the free 1t is better to i've
der rule which is simply unjust, than under one
which is both unjust and hypocritical.
Mr.. Wise is Southern man in principle, in
temper and character, who makes no pretensions
to neutrality or moderation. The maintenance
of slavery, and of what lie calls the rights of
the South, meaning the nationality of slavery,
forms almost the whole of his political creed, |
and is the profcssed rule of his public conduct
In his moral constitution there is all that impet
uosity, that predominancc of the will and alb |
sencc of selfrestraint, which are the characterize