Weekly hawk-eye and telegraph. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1855-1857, 1856-04-09

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Iess wesA - gave ! bsief outline Of the =
sues involved q tie present contest, and the
motion which the Exceisior soald occupy in
reference 10 them. We propose few addition
i thoughts mon the subject. We alluded TO-
The iaconssoverfabl6 fact that the leaders Of the
Anesican Party had surrendered themselves 70
The embrace of the slavery propagandists but
We are compelled 20 turn from representative
men 10 their constifuents--the masses--and we I
confess to have some concern about the course
that WILDE taken by the people OF the Amer. /
can Order. Their sympatbies and tendency, We |
feel sure, are with the Republican movement
The occasion which gave rise 70 the American
movement Was not, in our judgment, without its |
psoYocstion and uses. Not having effected any |
great national purpose, still il has done some
good. by the discussion to Which it has given
rive. II has developed muck truth, corrected |
opinion, eradicated much religious bigotry and
intolerance on both sides-impresse our peo-
p!e with more enlarged vows of their relative
rights and duiies; it has checked sore grievan-
ces in high places, and much more advantage
win be derived from the discussion obviating the
liability 10 future conflicts between sensitive
American population and the hot headed zeaiots
of foreign birth, who have been In the habit OF
asserting and intrnding their distinct nationaii-
ties into our election contests.
The sudden decline in foreign emigration has
had q soothing effect upon the masses of the
people; the value Of foreign immigration to the
country has been fully exhibited, and its impor-
lance felt. In 1854, the year that witnessed
the spontaneous uprising of the American Order,
there arrived 460,474 foreign immigrants; in
,,l,-s 90 ia oH in
one year Of 10000. No serious apprehensions
are felt from this increase-only quarter of
million souls Of our own race TO mingle with 80,
COG, 600 people!
Facts and considerations like these induce US
to believe that the American party has fulfilled
its mission. In the coming contest the prospec-
tire union of its Northern masses with the Re-
publican movement on the one side, and its
Southern wing with the Democrats on the other,
has become a fixed and stubborn fact, and Will
early be consummated.
The present crisis requires this union on both
sides; the times forbid the existence of more
than two parties-the one for the defence of
Freedom and State Rights-the other devoted
| to the propagation and extension of slavery and
| the prostitution of the Federal Powers of the
| Government to its behests.
The Southern wing of the American Order nom
| mated Mr.. Fillmore, but they do not intend to
| support him for the Presidency. They are too
spacious for that. They will make loud pro-
| LESSONS and endeavor to cajole the Northern
portion of the order into his support, and there
| by weaken the Republican element, but the
South will vote in body for the Black Demoeru-
cy-their only true and reliable.allies-with its
| doughface candidate for President. They may
! poll him few votes in some of the States, but
| they will take precious good care that there shall
not be enough to elect him his doughface
competitor; and should he by chance carry a
| Southern State, it will be more attributable to
| accidentror mscalculation than design. MIR. Fill
more is too shrewd politician to be caught in
/ such palpable gu-trap as this movement ex-
| hibits. He has yankee cuteness enough to see
/ through the designing scheme, and when the
4 news of his nomination reaches him in his for
eign tour, it will be somewhat mcllowed in its
hattery-slightly shorn of its gaudy trappings
| and tinsel--and no doubt will be viewed by him
in its true light. If he has any regard for his
character as a Statesman, he will promptly de-
| cline the honor sought to be conferred, and re
fuse to become the cats-paw OF the Slaveocrats.
The masses OF the American party in the North
Indignantly spurn the idea of being bartered
away to the Oligarchy by few corrupt office
seeking leaders, like sheep in the shambles.-
Here and there paper prating about sapiag the
Union by eecting Mr.. Fillmore-repeating, par
| rot like the lessons of its Southern retainers;
now and then MAJ be heard the loud vaporings
of some poor, forlorn, ro-slavery whipper-in,
who expects to be rewarded with fat Office for
his arduous labor; but that class ofmen who do
the voting, and some of the thinking for them
selves, are slow to believe they are under any
/ obligation to be led into the pro-slavery mesh
es of these would be-organs and leaders. They
| cannot fail to see that the American unity Of
their party is dissolved; that this catastrophe was
precipitated by the South, in hopes of exhonora-
ting themselves from all allegiance to its organi-
cation, that they might be freeto enter the ranks
of the pro-slavery Democracy. When the bare
| fragment OF the Philadelphia Convention compass
sed the nomination of Willard Fillmore, they en-
tertained doubts whether he would accept il I'M
| der such circumstances In the Free States the
policy of the Order is precisely the reverse of
| this. Some of the leaders do not want to merge
their existence with either the other parties.
They are completely duped by the South, and
| expect to have some degree ofparty success; al
though they cannot entertain the slightest hope
| of success in the national contest, yet they may
| for a time continue in power, where they have
local ascendancy.
/ Rejecting men will ponder these things in
i their minds; the more thought is left free to
searching inquiry, the more likely is the mind
to take the right course, and we feel satisfied
that the broad, conservative, and sure footing
of the Republican Platform will be crowded with
| patriotic men of all parties and creeds
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