Weekly hawk-eye and telegraph. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1855-1857, 1856-11-05

!, AlArgs portion Of the Buchanan party ha,
] already given up the coatest In the ia,
States, where the strength Of the party lies, the
i, are preparing to leave the Union, and join d
'.Southern Confederacy." The Northern abe
tors of the slave power have nosuch resources
They are consequently q their WITS end W
Il shall hardly Be surprissd a any act Of folly,
madness, Of crime, they, may commit. Feeiin
desperate, they win be guilty Of desperate deeda
Let every good citizen stand by his country, ant
resist and expose fraud and faisehood.
Mr.. Douglas and his followers are amazed
At the virtue and intelligence Of the people,
They had calculated upon our servility to the
new dogma Of slavery extension. They expec
ted impunity in lengthening the creed, and IA.
king away the commandments. Nothing NOR
ti6es and vexes them 20 nuch, - to find that
that there are millions in the land who still be-
ieve that old-fashioned book, the Bible. Even
the Bible Society has been put under the bar of
ridicule and reproach as "Fremont" institution,
and its officers aud agents have been traduced.
Unquestionably the circulation of the Bible is
unfavorable to the principles and designs of the
buchanan party. The Ostcnd manifesto and
thou shalt not steal,n cannot keep company
Were the Slave Power as strong in Darlington,
as it is in Mobile, not only would the Bible So.
ciety be ordered out Of town, but our hook.
sellers also would have notice to leave; for they
sell "Dred', and Cowper and Longfellow.
The churches and ministers come in for their
share Of malice and spite. The ecclesiastical
bodies of nearly every denomination have con-
dcmned slavery. There is scarcely any church
whose members can consistently with their prin-
ciples, support candidate who stands upon the
Cincinnati Platform. Not only are the Protes-
rant Churches found to be against slavery, but
the bnll of Gregory XVI, for the abolition of
slavery, is felt to be the unkindest cut Of ALL
That the Pope Of Rome should have dared to
express his "desire for removing the disgrace Of
slavery from the whole confines of Christianity"
md that he should have used his apostolical au.
shortly to prohibit any person from presuming
% defend it, excites the terrible indignation Of
he Iosca State Gazette. That Bull is mandato- |
y upon all good Catholics, and will withdraw
housands ofvotes from the party that by fraud
nd crime opened Kansas to slavery.
Another ingredient in their cup Of despair, is
he loss of the foreign vote. The immigrants
rom Europe want cheap lands, and they want
hem upon free soil. They do not 60 to the
lave States. Of more than one hundred thou.
and who arrived in New York during the elev-
n months ending July last, and who brought
18th them cash capital of more than five mil
on dollars, only 1926 were destined for the
ave States. More than twice as many came
!, Illinois alone, as went to the whole fifteen f
ave States. Our adopted citizens come here 10 p
nd country already free; not one where
ley must fight to make it free. They had that
the land of their nativity, and they know the
ificulty of the contest, where there is power
I'd standing army on the side of the oppres-
II. 1t is our free institutions, mainly that at
act the immigration to our shores. The pros
sct of steady employment, under Republican
lministration, in building the Pacific Railroad,
so calls thousands to the standard of Fremont.
lready our engineers from Burlington are sur
.ying railroad routes beyond the Missouri tow
ds the Rocky Mountains. Onr hardy SONS of
Dor covet field of enterprise in that direc-
On, rather than fighting for Cuba, or laying I
cir bones in the swamps of Nicaragua.
With such considerations against them, no )
onder the supporters Of Mr.. Buchanan are in :
spair. They ought to be. They may try to {
ep up their courage by noise and confusion.
ley may try to retrieve their fortunes by fraud /,
ID crime. But this is confession that before +
c people and in the field Of truth, they are
aten. With ali goou lueu agu,usu sne,,,, .
will be as decisive and over
1elming, as it is just Il