Weekly hawk-eye and telegraph. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1855-1857, 1855-07-25
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form placed before the public. II is from the
miserable remnant Of what was once ,
strong party, and known rs the Democratic
party of Des Moines County, Iowa. Its own
existence is hardly proven BY the reso-
lu.ions. Something is said Of Gland d-marks"
but no line Of demarkation is run. The
men who got up these tame and stilted rcso-
lutions, evidently worded them so as to unite
oil sorts of spirits in opposition to Know
Notliingism, which they exaggerate into
something very different from the reali-
tY. The perseverance and mechanical skill,
exhibited in expressing, in pompous and high
sounding words, the most common place
truisms, is rather funny.
1t will be seen that the select few who
adopted these resolutions, did not stop to
name any principles or measures to which
| they propose to adhere-they do not endorse
or condemn either the Administration, Pierce
Douglas or Dodge. They have nothing to
say on Nebraska. They have no single sent
iment, touching our slavepolicy, for the pub
lie eye-they are non -committal on the pro-
hibitory law. And not even their absquatu-
lntion of last winter had they courage to en-
dorse. 1t may therefore safely be said that
there has arisen in this county new party
and this party comes before the county
| with only one distinctive well defined fea-
ture, and that is, friendship for the for
eign population and opposition to the Know
Nothings.
Resolved, That while as democrats we re-
affirm our adherence to all the ancient land
marks Of the party and 10 those glorious
principles under which our country has grown
and pro.pered to an extent beyond any other
on the face of tn earth, we feel III PEELED at
the present crises by a sense of public dury,
and our unalterable regard for the free in
stitutions under which wo live, to express our
strong and unqualified condemnation of the
ruthless and sncriligious attempt of unscru
pulous and designing fanatics, to set at de-
iance the laws Of the land and the ob.iga-
tiom of honor and patriotism, disturbing
thereby the national concord, and encourag-
ing a spirit of sectional strife and warfare.
Resolped, That we most earnestly and un
aualifiedly denounce all secret political asso-
Citations as hostile to tho spirit and principles
of republican government like ours, and
that the doctrine so shamelessly avowed and
proclaimed by the present corrupt order OF
s.Know Nothings, of excluding all adopted
citizens however patriotic or worthy, or all
who NAV happen to differ with them in rell-
gion. from all Offices of honor or trust, and
Of subiecting them to all the burdens of
government while denying them for an un-
limited time the common right of suffrage, is
at war with every principle OF patriotism be-
queathed to us by our ancestors and estab-
lshed by the trainers Of our government. We
believe that every man native or adopted
whether resident of our country from cir
cumstances over which he had no control, or
driven by the iron heel of despotism from
the land Of his birth to seek refuge on this
land of civil and religious liberty-who con-
forms to the requirements of our laws and
Yields cheerful and willing obedience to
the spirit Of the institutions, under which
his public and individual rights are protect
ed; is in the fullest and largest sense an
american, Citizen and as such entitled to
ali the rights and privileges of citizenship.
Resolpcd, That We believe in the words of
the Constitution of the country, that 'sno re-
lieious test should ever berequired as quail
ifcation to any Office Of honor or trust in the
United Statss,'' and that every man should
be allowed to worship God according to the
dictates of his own conscience.
Resolred, That we call on all the friends
of the Union-all who have at heart its ma
tional welfare and prosperity to unite and CO.
operate with us in our opposition to bigotry,
fanaticism and intolerance-to rally with US
around the Constitution as the supreme law
of the land, and to wage an uhceasing war
fare against all isms and factions calculated
to impair or set at naught its sacred provi-
sions.