Weekly hawk-eye and telegraph. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1855-1857, 1856-06-18

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ssfhipgs Ii working There l. no mistake
aboat il. North. ~, esen in this hith-
erso ecsson-ridden rnion-saying, trading snd
traizeing city ofNew York. Yes, sir, there Il i
Worth, and IL will b lizard, and unless I greatly
mistake its spirit II viii be felt too IN the No.
vembes struggle with the Plantation Lords and
assassins who are nor ru.hlessly and audacionsly
trampling upon the dearest rights of the ffeemen
of this nation. The recent meeting ut the Tab
ernacie to express the views Of the commercial
metropolis on the subject Of Border Rufianism
as illustrsted in the Senate of the United States,
was very decidedly the largest, the most earnest
and determined gathering ever witnessed with
in the walls of that tine-honored edihce, and
hare attended meetings there during the past
fifteen years. The only one, now remember,
which approached this in point Of numbers ener-
getic, wild, determination was the one which as
sembled to listen to speech from that selfsac-
rifcing champion Of Freedom, GAsIus N. CLAY,
soon after the destruction of his press by res
pectable mob at Lexington, Kentucky, some ten
years ago. If there is anything which will arouse
the people Of the North it is a deliberate at
tempt to stiAe by brute force the liberty ofspeech
or the Press
The resolutions which the meeting adopted
and the speeches which were made you have
doubtless read and formed your own opinion of
their spirit and quality. To appreciate entirely
the weight and Importance of that meeting you
must know that il was called and addressed by
the substantial, conservative men of the Metrop-
olis--a class who have stood aloof from, or OPP
posed to the movemets for the repression of the
rapidly advancing aggression of the Slave pow
er. The gentlemen who inausurated and man
aged this demonstration were of the same class,
and many Of them we're the same men who ap-
proved the Fugitive Slave bill, and approve it
STILL and who, a few years ago, were saving the
Union but, now in slightly different, and, in my
humble judgment, muchm effective manner;
and you may rest assured that they are terribly
in earnest While the speeches were strong and
decided, it was very plain to the observer that
the vast audience were very much in advance of
the speeches in their detestation of ruffanism
and its impelling cause. This was evinced in
their frequent calls for Beecher and other deci-
ded anti-Savery spekaers, and j.. their vocifer-
Gus cheering whenever any of the speakers init
mated disposition to meet and repel the ag-
gressors of the Southern Oligarchy. When
Charles King said, 81 seorn the assassin-like
act, scorn all slarery ITSELF" the applause Of
the people was indiscribably wild, and lasted for
some minutes, large proportion of the audi
ence rising to their feet and mingling their
che ers with the waving of hats and handerchiets
Our masters are raising storm which they will
find it exceedingly difficult to manage Unless
1 very greatly misread the signs Of the times and
the spirit of the people, the slave-drvers are, by
their own outrageous course, rapidly changing
the great issue from one of the extension OF
Slavery over free territory to that of the very
existence of the Internal institution ITSELF and if
the naughty, insolent, rufianly Southrons con-
tnue in their mad career until they goad the
people OF the North to the point of taking issue
directly whether man shall be held anywhere in
the Republic an article of merchandise, they
will only have accomplished what their course is
exactly calculated to produce. s,.
The prospects of the Republican party are
Frightening every day. We are well organized
in this city, where there are thousands Of earn
est Thoughtful men, who have not heretofore min
gled in political strifcs but who are now at work
with an energy and determination which must
show glorious results next November These
men are cheered on in their noble work by the
most fattering accounts from their coagitors in
the Rural Districts. The Southern Oligarchy
are also powerful ally. "Whom the gods wish
to destroy they first make mad, and the mad
ness of this Black power as evinced in the
treacherous repeal of the Missouri Compromise;
in the employment of murderous Border Ruftians
to force their infamous system into Kansas; in
the sacking of Lawrence; in the brutal assault
on Senator Sumner, and their more brutal goat-
ing over the fendish and cowardly act is power
fully conspiring to rouse up the North to some
thing like sense Of its danger and degradation.
These acts of audacious rnffianism reach and at
feet large class who have for years withstood
the clearest demonstration ofthe Heaven-derived
right of all men to freedom Summers great
speech was logical, powerful and truthful and
eloquent; but the gaping wounds inflicted on the
head of the PROSTATE Senator by the pink OF
Southern chivalry, are more powerful, more con
vincing, more eloquent than even that speech.
The people realize that when Sumner fell from
ruffian blows in the Senate chamber, that
"Then I, and you and all of us fell down,
Whilst bloody treason R0m,fsted orer as
Amongst the new instrumentalities for pushing
on the Republican column, we have decidedly
lively and spirited campaign paper just started
here called the Free State Advocate which is pub
lished It the mere cost Of paper and press work,
some true friends of freedom having raised
fund TO defray the cost of type setting, mailing,
and Office expenses. 1t will be published for
twenty -four consecutive weeks ending the LIST OF
November, for thirty-seven and half cents per
single copy, u copies for 50 or 20 for So Inc
second number, just out, contains among other
interesting matter, Summers great speech-a
speech destined to be more extensively read and
exert WIDER influence tnaN any otuei SPeo.h
delivered in Congress for years; and this to
great extent will be due to the rufiianism OF
Bully Brooks From the great length OF Mr..
Summers speech, comparatively few, under ord,
nary circumstances would have read it, but now
they will desire to know what it was that caused
this remarkable exhibition of chivalry, and In
reading it they will become infused with Its splr
it they will observe its candor and truthfulness
of statement, its mGtchless rhetoric, its unans
werabie arguments; they will plainly see that
the speech was answered by the bludgeon be
| cause no other answer could be made So Mr.
| Sumner will make the acquaintance of millions
of people who else would perhaps never have
| heard of him.
A very spirited and faithful likeness of Mr.
| Sumner has just appeared in Frank Leslies IL
lustrated Newspaper which has been transfer
red to the Weekly Tribune SO that the people
/ will not only read the burning words of the mar
tyr Senator, but may behold his manly feature: