Weekly hawk-eye and telegraph. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1855-1857, 1856-07-23
The Truth Fifty Spoken by a Southei n
ss.-...s Statesman.

The Truth Fifty spoken by a Southe. N
ss-..a Statesman.
Hon. Kenneth Raynor, distinguished politi-
clan in South Carolina, has recently published a
letter, from which we take an admirable extract
He understands our northern dough-faces to
an iota, and he draws life like portrait oil
Douglas:
No man of any sagacity and observation can
conceal from himself the fact, that the present
condition OF the country is alarming. At both
| ends OF the Union, the 'savery question is
king. All other questions pale in nsignihcence
before it in the public estimation. American
| ism-all the delicate questions involved in our
| foreign relations-all important questions of in
ternal policy-all for the time, seem to be ignor-
ed by the popular mind. The phantom of dis
cord, exercised by the repeal of the Missouri
Compromise, is stalking through the land, fright
ening men from their propriety.
In the diSsensions which now distract our
country-in the scenes Of violence and commo
ton which prevail in Congress-in the blood
which is flowing in Kansas, and which, like that
OF Abel, is crying from the ground to Heaven
Tor retrlbution-in the shocks and conclusions
which are testing the strength of the Union-we
are realizing the sad consequences of that most
unwlse and unfortunate measure, the repeal of
the Missouri Compromise. Its authors sowed
the wind, and our suffering country is now reap
ing the Whrlwlnd. From the day Of the con-
summation oft measure, | have ever believed
1t would prove to this nation what the wrath OF
Achilles did to Greece--''th direful spring of
woes unnumbered."
| would scorn to take mere sectional view
OF this question, yet it is due to justice to say
that the South, as a section is not to blame for
II. 1t was rendered to the South, as a boon, by
the party III power, to effect partisan ends and
promote selfish and ambitious views. And even
now, when our country is writing in throes of
commissions, the political gamblers who direct
and control this same party are still playing with
the question Of Missouri compromise repeal as
counter i'll the game, where the stake is nothing
short of the Union itself. They are still trying
to cheat the people of both sections-telng the
South that the measure extends the area of slave
ry beyond the line Of IS degrees 80 minutes
and telling the North that it does away with the
guaranty that slavery may 90 as far North as
that line, and that will enable them hereafter to
interpose against it south of that line.
The only hope, i'll my opinion, of arresting
this evil of slavery agitation, is by driving from
power the party that uses it as Il means of per-
petuating their dinasty Until this is done, the
country will have no peace. And if could be
allowed to offer word of advice, l would APP
peal to every national Union-oving man, from
the bay of Chaleur, to the California gulf, to
forget for the time all minor differences and to
unite in one common struggle against the com
mon enemy of all. Whether pro-slavery or
ant-slavcry, let them, even now-ior there is
yet time-make another effort to secure unity
and concert of action, in contendng against
party which is deceiving both, and whose game |
is to keep them in perpetual conflict, that like
the fox in the fable they may carry off the
spoil, when the combatants are exhausted