Weekly hawk-eye and telegraph. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1855-1857, 1856-10-01

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NEw Ypsk err, Sepsember II, 1866.
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- Gsxrtxnss ;--The lesies Of your correspond.
ent H., and your editorial eommensS upon il
Of the 18th inst, seem ia common courtesy 10
demand reply. Y0ur correspondent does not
err 10 saying that desrc the success Of the
Republican party and the election Of their can
d.dAse, and that 4 an ready 70 ccDtribute any
honorable effort 10 bring Il about. This d moi
the reAuf oil any preference ~ TO men, but In
spite OF Il. With Colonel Fremont am unac-
qusinted. have never seen hilo, nor had an.
cosanSnicAtioa With him, direct OF indfrect. ter.
bal or written. On the other hand, my feelings
OF irieDdsiip and sdmi1sion for NJ. Buchanan.
N msn, arc Of no ordinary Character, and are
strengthened by years Of friendly intimacy and
reciprocal acts OF kindness. uninterrupted 70
this time bys single Misunderstanding or I'M
pleasant lceiiag; and ] woald AZ sns time dc,
fend him promptly and Indignantly against per-
sonal attacks upon his reputation. believe
bin 70 be man OF distinguished ability, Oi
high Integrity and vsiaable experience He is
surrounded TOO. In Pennsylvania by many POI
Utica, friends, whom personally / lore and es.
TEEN, and 70 whom am united by lies OF long
cherished political and social intimacy, and the
loss Of whose friendship l should regard as
great calamity. For more than quarter Of q
century have steadily labored with the Demo
cratic party, and never doubted that should do
70 during my life. For years have exerted my
self TO bring about Mr.. Buchanan's nomination.
In Is4s and 1862 1 vas one Of those who car
RED for him the delegates OF our district, and
was his jealous and ardent supporter. On each
occasion was In the National Convention a.
one Of his delegated
These ties are exceedingly strong and hard to
sever, especially with one who Is naturally Of Il
conservative cast, and Slow to change old habits
OF thought and action; and have resisted for
months the convictions that were urging me to
my present declaration. have diligently
sought reasons and arguments to save myself
the pain Of breaking up old associations and
alternating myself from my old friends, but ali in
vain. Ny love Of country and hatred Of oppres-
sion would notallow my feelings and inciinations
either TO delude my judgment or stilI my con-
science, and | am compelled TO forfeit my self.
respect by committing what believe 10 be pal
pably wrong, or else enroll myself In opposition
to the Democratic party.
! see no reasonable hope OF justice or sympa
thy for the people of Kansas in the success OF
the Democracy. in its ranks, and with the
power to control It's action, are found the Bor-
der Raffns Of Missouri and their accompIices OF
the South, who have tramped upon the Consti-
tuition and all the essential principles of our
and right OF suffrage, laid waste its territory
with fire and sword, and repudiated even civil
zation itself.
In it's platform | find the enunciaton of prinj
ciples which would put the rope about the necks
of men for exercising the constitutional right OF
petitioniDg Congress for State Government, or
a redress Of grievances far worse than those
which led TO the war Of the Revolution, and a
declaration stigmatiziIg EARNED resistance
to law the moderate and justifiabe self defense
OF men sbamefuy and UNANIMOUSLY oppressed by
ruifan violence and outrage, beyond all human
endurance.
find the whole party of the nation assembled
In National Convention, with but one individual
dissent, expressing its unqualified admiration"
OF an Administration which has lent itself as the
tool and accompce Of all tie wrongs inflicted
upon Kansas, and by its yenality and inbecility
Brought the country to an intestine war;
find all its Representatives in Congress, with
three individual exceptions, laboring in earnest
zeal, by speech and vote, 70 cover up the iniqui-
ties OF this Administration and the Border Rui-
fins OF Missouri, and to suppress fair invcs,i-
CATION Of 0ltrages which shock both humanity
aud rcpublicanism, and defy the Constitution
and the laws.
I.hnd these same Representatives, after the
truth was elected in spite of their efforts, still
refusing TO relieve the people from code OF
laws imposed upon them by foreign army, and
still refusing to admit them into the Union, only
for reasons which, in the cases of nine existing
States, had been declared untenable and of no
account.
lind them disregarding Free Constitution
adopted III a legal, constitutional and time
sanctioned manner, land which no man can
doubt to have reflected the will of the people, }
and supporting n law to produce a substitute,
which Is easy to show would have perpetuatrd
In the State Government, the usurpation which
had by force already seized upon the Govern.
ment of the Territory
find them refusing to make appropriations
for the army, unless that army is to be used to
enforce code OF laws voatve on their face, of
the Constitution, enacted by a Legislature in vio-
lation of the laws Of the United States, and inn
posed by foreign force upon conquered and sub.
jngatcd American citizens.
find them, in word, steadily aiding by all
their Congressional action to make Slave State
in northern ATTITUDES, and that, too, against the
will OF its inhabitants.
| find that one member, who more than any
other stood out against the enslavelnent of his
white ellow-citizens, is refused denomination
by the Democratic party OF his district.
ind in the canvass now going on that the
whole tone OF their party press is in the same
direction. When the first startling intelligence
their editors denounced the foul wrong in terms
of fitting indignation. II was but spasmodic
effort, however, and in Difference to the South
and the prevailing sentiment of the party, they
have dropped off, one after another, until now,
so far as have been able to ascertain, there is
not Democratic paper which darcs boldly to
justify and defend the Free State party, and
denounce their invaders, In place of cncour-
agemcnt and sympathy for their outraged fell
low-ctlzens from the North, there is little else
than jeers and rdcule for their oppressed aud
suffering condition misrepresentation of their
motives and conduct aud pretended incredu-
lily of the statements and appeals which they
send their brethren of the States.
! find their speakers exhibiting the same spir-
it--some of them ignoring the question en,ire-
"; Others Of them treating it with pcrversions
Misrepresentation and false issues; and others
taking openly the sides OF the oppressors; but
no one OF them advocating the cause Of Kan
sas, or favoring her admission under the Free
State Constitution adopted by her people.
In the public demonstrations aud professions
of the party, find banners and devices contain
ing brutal insults, in response to the appeals OF
that people for protec ion against unparalleled
wrongs, calculated us no doubt they must be
intended to prepare the masses for a continued
refusal OF Justice and protection, and a relent-
less persistence in outrage and oppression.
l find all the Democrats South, and portion
Of the Democracy OF the North, boldly repudia.
ting the Kausas-Nebraska bill, by insisting that
Slavery has right to so into the Territories,
in spite OF Congress or the people; and that the
inhabitants of the Territory have no right 30
pass Territorial laws to forbid il or exclude it.
Democratic Representatives from Pennsylvania |
even, in the Senate and the House, hold and
proclaim these opinions; while other Represen-
tatives from Pennsylvania, with Democratic lea.
ders from other States, declare themselves pub |
Rcly to be non comnittal upon this heresy; the
inevitable tendency OF which. it is easy to show,
will be to prevent almost entirely the forn,a. |
tou of amy more Free States.
Having originated a movement myself, to aid |
our people by sendiug them men and money,
and having prosecuted it with the strictest avoi.
dance of party character and studied neutraii-
~ as TO the political canvass, and having earn
estly asked the cooperation OF nen OF all par
ties, have failed TO enlist in it, to my knowls
edge, single Democrat. In the Conventions
OF cleveland and Buffalo, called without dis
tinction Of party, in furtherance OF this enterS
PRISE, there was no Democrat present but my
Splf Th,, ,an,,nt have bapn fran, any want nf