Weekly hawk-eye and telegraph. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1855-1857, 1856-12-31

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erai Union. and are ready 70 dcsoiate the land
In its leugth and breadth il the Union il unhau-
PLY severed. Az understood him, theY were:
Il 10 The NorkA. Immediate loss Of that trade.
beneficial TO both sections, By which the nav
material b bought from one portion and return
ed in the shape Of manufactured goods;
The ruin Of the villages, towns aud cities
which hare grown up BY this trade;
The absence Of the Southern visitors who
spend every summer season up here;
An influx Of runaway negroes.
TO the SoxtG All the evils that would befall
the North 1.-THE last excepted, presumel and q
great many more in addition;
She would lose the use Of Northern shipping,
and, having no nurseries of her own, could mot
supply the want;
Even if she had nurseries-like our fisheries
she has no sailors, for slaves cannot be made ef-
fcient seamen, either for commercial or military
purposes;
She would have to throw herself on some for
eign power; *.
For all practical purposes the Canadian from
tier would be brought down to the line of sepsr-
alton between the North and South;
Her negroes would make themselves one
might say, and not to put too fine point on it,
scarce.
Her Northern States would have to sell their
negroes South to prevent them from taking unto
themselves legs and-yamosing the ranche;
The price ofnegroes in the far Southern States
would fall, and no Governor would be under the
necessity of recommending the re opening of
the external slave trade.
Thus, remarked the lecturer, by the workings
of Providence, the very object would be accom-
plished which the Southern Secessionists are de-
sirous Of dissolving the Union toprevent. ~
/ heard a lady near me remark, rs Benton
uttered this prediction, that, if that was true he
ought not to stand in the way Of Providence by
trying to save the Union!
In addition to these evils, peculiar to the an
tagonistic sections, there were other evils in
store for us, in case Of the separation of the
Union, which wonld be common to them both.
Civil-servile- wars South; incessant
civil wars in the border States So far Benton.
If one had time to review the catalogue of
evils which have been coming to come for thir-
ty years past, in the event of the shareholders
solemnly resolving to commit civil suicide, and
South Carolina making up her mind without any
fuss, it wonld not be ficult, take it, to prove
the. the South, and the South alone, would be
injured by the dissolution OF the Union. The
North has nothing to fear, and still less to lose.
by such catastrophe. The South has cause,
abundant and manifold, to fear that event. Her
long oppressed and ignorant slaves would sweep
off the entire white population of come States,
and then that of every state, with bloody be-
som of destruction. But the South has no IN
tention of dissolving the Union. She dare not.
Whoever has lived in the far Southern States,
and mingled freely with their planters and labor
ing population, is as little inclined to fear dis
solution as to hope for a truthful and manly
Message from President Franklin Pierce. No
danger!
The old Senator concluded his discourse by
urging us to cultivate the spirit in which the
Union was conceived and brought forth, and
thereby to save it from destruction
Exactly! That's what we want! No more
extension of Slavery Our fathers approved
that doctrine. Let us return to it, by all means,
and speedily. No more such Fugitive Slave
laws as the act of 1850! Our fathers never con-
templated any enactment SO atrocious, so God
and decency -defying, as that hideous law! Let
MS return to the act approved by Washington;
and let all aid to execute its provisions who
think that piece of parchment is more sacred
by far than the principles of Eteanal Justice
Let us return, and take along Kansas to bear US
company. Vive la Liberte!