Weekly hawk-eye and telegraph. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1855-1857, 1856-06-18
HAwK-EYE Amp TELEGRAPH.
The last Ph..e Of Popular rse.ereisnt,

The last Phase Of Popular sovereignty.
The bold and shallow humbug, popular Sow
ereignty, invented to cover an iniquitous con
spiraey TO extend slavery, has, atthe beck ofthe
Southern wing Of the Black Democracy been to.
tally discarded. The ingenious and finely spun
eulogiums upon the equality Of the States
and the sovereignty of the people were but the
idle tales Of an hour, put off when they had per.
! formed their appropriate work Of delusion. The
work has been done to cover which Douglas in
vented this cheat. Under it orthern Dough-
faces took shelter from the storm Of popular in
digna.ion aroused in the public mind. But this
half.faced friendship was not satisfactory to the
| men who use the party as a means of slavery ex-
| tension. II would if carried out in good faith
defeat the very object Of the conspirators There
fore, at the recent Convention at Cincinnati, it
was abandoned, and will never more be heard of
| through the organs and mouth pieces of the par
~. The following resolution is now understood
TO be the true faith Of orthodox Democracy as
| dictated by South Carolina Doctors to the Black
Democracy of the Cincinnati Convention;
Rcsoloed, That we recognize the right of the
people of all the Territories, including Kansas
and Nebraska, acting through the legally and
fairly expressed will Of majority of actual resi-
dents and WHENEVER THE NUMBER OF
THEIR lNH HABITANTS JCSTIFIES 1T; to form
Constitution. WITH OR WITHOUT DOMES.
TIC SLAVERY. and be admitted into the Union
upon terms of perfect equality with other States.
After declaring that CongaaGshad no right to
legislate for the territories upon the subject of
slavery, and asserting that the inhabitants of
these territories had this right, they now grave
y resolve, in very artfully worded resolution,
that the people have not this right, until "the
number of their inhabitants justifes it' when
they are authorizeds'Hto form Constitution"
with or without domestic slavery" By tins
resolution the doctrine of the South, although
not clearly inaugurated is SO far foreshadowed
sto allow Of that construction. They assert
that the Constitution carries it into all the terri
tories wherever our national flag goes, and this
resolution provides for its continuance there un-
til the number Of its inhabitants" justifes the
formation of State Constitution! A
Under the plea of putting down rebellion,
the conspirators backed by the General Govern
ment, are now engaged, in the beautiful work of
numbering, robbing, prosecuting and driving
from Kansas every man in favor of makingit a
free State. To cover up this 'labor of love-"
subsidized and Infamous press is teeming
with unnumbered falsehoods to mislead the pub
lie mind. No term of reproach is too black, no
crime too infamous to attribute to men who went
to Kansas to find homes upon its virgin soil and
Their characters are blackened in order to justi-
fly the outrages that have been perpetrated up-
un them. A senseless cry of aboltionism has
been raised against every man in that country
not slavery extentionist and rufian. Under
the dust thus raised, by the completely of the
authorities of the nation, the territory is to be
cleared of every friend to freedom and the way
opened TO Southern institutions. When this all
shall have beer accomplished we shall find that
''the number of inhabitants justifes the forma-
ton Of Constitution, and that the work will be
consumated by the formation of another slave
State at whose baptism Stephen A. Douglas will
stand Godfather.
That this is the programme there is no doubt.
The Southern delegates went away satisfied with
the above resolution. They have the. wires all
set-the work progresses under their hands
slavery is to be indefinitely extended under the
fostering care of the Black Democracy. A res
olution declaring that slavery existed by virtue
of the Constitution in all the territories was only
lost by one vote! Opposition to this policy is
to be subdued and beat down everywhere. In
Congress with bludgeons, and in Kansas with fire
and sword-grape shot and bowie knives
We shall see whether the people are prepared
set of doctrines.