Weekly hawk-eye and telegraph. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1855-1857, 1856-06-04

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parsasnt TO call, the friends OF consultation
:, freedom assembled :, Marion Hall, saturda
,,etiag. for the purpose Of expressing tl,ei
,,iaiors In reference 70 late outrnges In Kansas
IA tho ssssuit upon Senator Of the Unite,
estes. while in the performance of his duty, Il
,sol.siou OF tie Constitution. Tlse Hall va
.rosded 70 its utmost capacity.
COL Warren called the meeting 10 order an,
,.sr,d hat Gov Grimes occupy the Chair which
,.s unanimously voted. Geo Lauman waseicct
"a Secretary.
Upon taking the Chair, Gov Grimes remark
"A ,das we had assembled together, As was ou
ss;,ilese, 10 express our feelings and opinion.
!. reference to recen, and most important DC
ear,pces. We hadindeed fallen upon periIoul
t,aes when our legislators for words spoken in
sebste. serc attacked with murderous weapons
"a ,,,s senate Of The United States. Il was no,
srus.or sumner and the State of Massachusetts
.looe that suffered by this violation of the con.
s,.utlon. We were all interested The State
ofIcva nigh. next be stricken down in the per-
son. Of her senatorsor Representatives. II was
blow a,the foundation Of our liberties the free
dom Of our Legislators.
lie passed high encomium upon Mr.. Sumner.
us was ripe scbolar--a Statesman and an ora
,or--a creditto the State Of Massachusetts, and
20 the deliberative body Of which he was mem.
tsr, What had he said to justify the cowardly
and murdcroas assault that had been made upon
him, His speech fell short, in invectiye, of the
pbiHppies of Randolph, Calhoun, McDuiiic, Hane
prenticc and Henry A. Wise. 1t was diluted
when compared to Daniel Webster's onslaught
upon Charles J. Ingersol. But what Mr. Sum-
ner may have said in debate was Of no conse-
qaeHee--was no pa!liation or excuse for the out
rae that had been committed.
Governor Grimes spoke also Of affairs in Kan
as--of the irgalized robberies, burnings and
murdcrings In that unfortunate territory--of Its
conquest by citizens Of the adjoining State of
Missouri and OF distant States with the compile.
iiy Of the President of the United States. He
said any man or set of men who would palliate
excuse or justify the late assault upon Senator
Sinner or the state of affairs that had been in
sasarated In Kansas, were fit for slaves aud dc.
served 10 be enslavcd. The remarks of Governor
Grimes, Of which We are unable to give any thing
IKE correct report, were forcible concise and to
the point, and interrupted with frequent bursts
ofsppanse.
Col West then introduced the following reso-
luiions:
Rcsolred, LIST. That the Compromise Of 1920,
By which the Northern limit of slavery was es.
,abshed upon the line of SO deg. 30 min. was a
concession on the part of the friends of Freedom
to maintain the integrity OF tho Union and
ensure the public tranquility, at that time jeop-
ardized by the Unsuitable demands of the Slave
Power That the subsequent peaceable concur
renee Of the Free States in the admission of
Slave States organized South of that line, bears
evidence to the good faith of the North, and her
purpose rigidly to sustain the sacred Compro.
mise of our fathers.
Cd. That in the repeal of this Compromise un-
der tie specious pretcxt that the establishment
et slavery in the Free Territories of the Repub-
lie should be left to the decision of the settlers
in those territories, we recognize the fixed pur-
pose of the Slave power to regard no compact,
and to respect no obligations Of honor, which
may demand its restriction.
3d. That the developments Of Rufiianism in
the present Congress- in the brutal assault upon
the Editor of the New York Tribune by Rep
resentativc from Arkansas--in the shooting of
an humble Irish servant by Representative of
Calfornia--and in the more recent cowardly
attack by a Representative of the 'chivalrys Of
South Carolina upon an honorable and honored
Senator Of Massachusetts--are the legitimate
fruits of the policy which seeks ''to subduc' the
natural instincts of liberty in man, and to ex-
tend and perpetuate the great national wrong
Of Human Bondage upon the free territory of
our country. E1..-
4,h, That the the conduct of the supporters of
the present administration in Congress-, by uni
forinly and pcrsstently voting against appoint
ing Committees of Investigation in the contest
ed election case of Reedcr and Whit6eld--in the
case Of the wiliul murder by Herbert-and in
tha, browning act of infamy the murderous at
tack upon Senator Enthusiastically casts
allthe responsibility of these unparalleled out
RACES upon their open and avowed apologists
and defenders.
9Th. That to our brethren and friends in Kan.
as who are struggling against the myrmidons
ofsavery for the great principles of civil rights
which animated our fathers in their resistance
to the British Crown, we tender the assurance of
our warmest sympathies, and our earnest pray
ers for their fnalsucccss; that while their homes
smoking embcrs are all that is left of their once
beautiful villages, VIC still look hopefully to the
hour When Peace and the blessings OF Consti,u-
total Liberty will take the place of that scene
OF devastation and death.
9Th. That the series Of outrages upon Human
Rights and State Sovereignty ut Washington,
which have succeeded the first great atrocity Of
the repeal OF the Missouri Compromise, indicate
that the freedom Of speech aud the existence of
slavery in the same locality are incongruous and
mpractica6le; and that if these violations of
Law and Order nre to continue, it may be well
for the pern,ancncy ofthe American Union that
its capitol be removed to more central and con-
genial point, where the clanking chains of the
Sayc.gang rannot drown the voice Of Freedom
Judge Hall then came iorward-said, from the
language OF the call, as the invitation was general,
taa, he supposed every friend of claw and order"
was invited to participate in the meeting and he
had accordingly come with his friends. He then
drew from his pocket set of resolutions which
he read. He recitcd in these resolutions al.
most every instance of mob violence which had
occurred in the last thirty years, from the
burning of the converts at Charleston and the
swapping OF apistol at General Jackson by crazy
man, down to the riots at Cincinnati and Louis
vile not forgetting the refusal of the Philadel-
paia authorities to allow James Buchanan to
speak in Independence Hall and the hooting
Gown OF Senator Douglas at Chicago. The reso-
buttons were in favor Of law and order-and