Weekly hawk-eye and telegraph. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1855-1857, 1856-11-26
VOL. mo. g.
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Next 70 the pleasure Of victory, 10 .hs cen
III seiooancss OF having deserved II All vords -
consolation and al theories n cofppensa -
have become tsite and thssadbare n this wntlA
of disappointment; and although tho proxssa1
81 9 good cause was retarded on Tuesdsy -.
We have little disposision TO indulge incommeuse
4 merely conventional. II The alphabet of mo.
falisy teaches ~ that truth must b. tIiamphaAts
. teaches nothing abssrscsly which The harSsss
prscuca experiences does not confirm. We Mval
fnied % elect Prs6dsnt Of public views supe-.
1os 20 private inseeess { party spirit and PARTY
irill have proved too much iora popular virfce
we are promised four years OF continued sdhess
ION to ruinous policy. and the Intelligence Of
he country Is again excluded from its govern.
nent- would be easitr, after six months Of
tension, TO yield to the languor which naturSlly .
tollows; it would cos, less Of effort and q .
strength TO despair; but speaking for oufselves.s,
and, - We trust, for no small proportion Of our !
leaders, We must declare that never has the fu.s
urc seemed clearer, or more full of hops thar .
Iiaow. We say nothing OF the noisome ayalsnchess
SANDER, OF detraction, aud Of falseeood which r
.,as been heaped cpon an excellent man We
no nos care 70 anticipate the verdict of history
We believe that John C. Tremon, possesses !. 10
character, the brightness Of which NAV for.,as,
lime be obscured by malice and misre presenta.
tion, but which must in the end be understood
appreciated and honorcd We leave Il "a taks =
les chances. as il can we'll afford to take them
I'VE turn from the candidate to the cause; and +.
aud II achieving its own victory, and insurinR,
70 vindication in the irnmutable laws Of pubEs
economy. But for our own sake we might afford ?
% abandon it, and closing our lips forever. 4
90 watch with an abiding faith, the coming re-. -
tributon. No man, however sensitive his spir-
:, or however bitter his disappointment, neep ,
despair Our newspaper controversies are eheap "a
md trivial; the speech of the caucus rarely ri.
ses to the great occasion; we Jest and jibe and =
caricature, we lessen the dignity Of our work
~ our making it personal; yet what a terribis ,
consideration Ia 1t, that unrecognzed, unappre- 4
GATED unthought of, and unspoken Of, the probe :.
EN- is working itself out, while freedom s vim
'qng its victories in every exhausted rice swamp.
upon every blighted tobacco field, by shores -
which no argosies approach, and wherever labor II
anrequited drags to its weary task. The laws 70
81 nature are supreme, and irreps alable by any .
Congress The Missouri Comp omise may be
swept away but not the truth In which il origi- "a
mated. The brain which devised, and the hand .
Which drafted the great Ordinance have long 81,
since crumbled to dust; but the fact which in.
formed that provision Is as vital to-day as II was
NJ the last century. No mathematician was ev. 7Sl
er .surer Of his axiom, than the foe of slavery
extension ia that il must be scf-limited wrong.
The sugar planter Of Louisiana EFFORTS the work
of two men from single set of muscles but he
I'M time, it will be quite evident to him aud to
every Southern who now permits himself to 81
be blinded by q deluded self-interest, that o ge
servie cultivation Of virgin soil may bring 81.
plenty at first, but it is sure to end in poverty.
The whole defence of slavery is mumbled ."
make-shift, hardly rising to the dignity of So a
phistry, One could almost laugh at its small se,
tricks and apologetical devices; at its desperate
and ludcrous recourse to detached and floating
bits of scripture; at its citation Father Abra. ~
ham, st. Paul and Onesimus; at the bludgeonof sV
Brooks, and the gasping logic Of Toombs; at it's ga
childish ISLANDERS of the North at its affected
contempt for education and religion; at It's
twisting Of census tables, and its more than
Austrian surveillance of Presidents cabinet Of 7s
hcers, booksellers, printers and professors. OF 20
course. this passionate nonsense merely suggests -
Mrs. Darlington and the sea. {5'r' a.- ii
In opposlLIon to a system of Labor which pal
sizes the muscles and sinews Of production and
softens the brains of those dependent upon t,a
party seems almost unnecessary. Yet it is not
the custom of mankind to trust to the minstra-
tons of nature, and we are not therefore sur
prised to find powerful organization which in-
sists upon rescuing the administration OF public
affairs from the sheerest absurdity. This, for =,
our own sake, is well enough "The body Of .
death will still 60 on decaying, yet the prayer n
Tor rescue from US is not less pertinent That b;
prayer once uttered, ss it was on Tuesday last Is.
will never be silenced. We are nearer than ev-
er to great, free, united North. Mr. Buchan- q
an may have the Presidency, but we have Mr.. =
Buchanan. Small men may cluster about him,
and may tempt him to deeds of dishonor, but be
will know that great States are watching him,
and will hold him to i rigorous accountability 50
lie cannot afford to confde in vagrants like agy
Saunders, in gamblers like Forney or in unatics
like Soule. The country will not bear for an
other presidential term the unnatural devotion
OF the machinery Of government to the interests -
OF slavery. Many OF those well.meaning, but 81.
not very far-seeing men, who have reluctantly
supported Mr.. Buchanan, only for the sake Of
peace, will expect the peace for which they have
sacrificed, not merely personal honor but prn-
ciple But agitation can never be quieted,
while the President and his ministers are ner. q.
vously watching the slightest motion of the
slave power, and sedulousy ministerng to its
every want The feverish feeling of the coun-
try has been induced by the foolish devotion of
Franklin Pierce to the interests of slavery; it a.
can be allayed only by policy radically differ
ent. We should have had no party which by
any perversion of reasoning could be called Sec
tonal, if we had not had an administration 4
which all the country knew to be sectional, in a.,
the strictest sense Of that much abused adiec-
tive. Mr.. Buchanan and his friends may be
certain, that he will 60 into power with the
wealth, the power, the intelligence, and the
ligion Of the Union against him. He will find 8.
that these must be propitiated, or the ruin of
his predecessor will be his own. He may be
left to the madness of devotion to an interest g'
which is not strictly worthy of the name; he
may try tyranny in Kansas, patronage In Con-, =,
gress, and piracy in Cuba; but we say here,
what we have said from the beginning An i'd
herence to the doctrines of the Cincinnati plat
form will bring wilder agitation than any that r.,
has yet threatened the Union, and will intensity
an opposition which party discipline can hardly
control, and cannot resist Boston Atlas.sg oFFf