Weekly hawk-eye and telegraph. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1855-1857, 1856-11-26
Moral Husbantry.

Ardently as we desired the success of the Re-
publican party in the late Presidential election,
for the purpose of averting an immediate dam
ger and of rectifying an immediate wrong, yet
SO far as the future stability and permanent as
cendancy of that party are concerned, its pre-
sent defeat is no subject for regret.
The danger of prosperity has passed into q
proverb, and that danger is ten-fold where the
prosperity is sudden, and the subject the great
concern of government. The Republican party
is made up of materials drawn from all the old
organizations of the country. However excel
lent those materials, and however atrong and
definite the law of affinity which has drawn
them together, their solid cohesion must be the
work of time. Immediate success might have
given them jar which would again have sepa.
rated and scattered them. The same law ex-
tends over both the vegetable and moral world.
Except grain of wheat fall into the ground and
die it abideth alone. For q time it is buried,
its elements decompose, and to the eye Of ex-
perence it has persisted. But that very process
of decay furnishes the first sustenance to the
still living germ which will ere long cover the
field with golden grain or shade it with the
gloom of mighty forest. So in the moral
world, depression precedes elevation-the dim
valley must be descended before the broad and
radiant mountain side is scaled. No really
strong character has ever been formed without
the rough aid of adversely. The reformer has
ever had to pass through q period of struggle
and distress to harden the muscles of his char
acter and to prepare him to strike single hand.
ed those blows which should make the gray and
massive wall of abuse to weave and strain as
under the shock of the earthquake.
1t was in the darkest hour of the revolution,
when our army were tracking the frozen ground
of Pennsylvania with their naked and bleeding
s.. hat tIok H. Hal
ing itself to deal the succession of quick and
stunning blows which ended the struggle. Had
the Republican party won an easy victory upon
this first passage of arms with its stealthy foe,
the cloud of danger which now rises high above
the plains of Kansas and overcasts the whole
land would indeed have been dispelled. But
flushed by its sudden success, relieved from the
pressure of outward peril and with old antipa-
thies not yet fully suhdued, that party would
have been peculiarly open to the policy whie'
our antagonists have SO often employed u,;,,
success and which is expressed by tb~ ,o,;n
divide ct imperd.
The two great forces in our go- ornme,t who,
have for more than quarter of a century beer
and national slavery nave at last taken an or
san'o eApIess'oh' no sooner have the line.
oeeI ura"h. sooner has the issue been made
u up :aal ~ sP.e OF lifelong ties-the force o.
Saolt aho the desire of gain, the free, laborne
s'a'es OF the North have formed a common
front. Democratic States which never before
wa'ered' broke rank at the first summons of tina,
merry cross OF freedom which sped from the
mountains OF New England, through the Em.
pre- State, and over the broad prairies no,
spent its fame until it had crossed the food Of
the Mississippi:
Another four years of conflict and hardness
for our imperiled principles, will stereotype
them on the Northern heart, and will be but the
broad and solid stepping-stone to their ultimate
and final ascendancy.