Weekly hawk-eye and telegraph. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1855-1857, 1856-07-16


The above paragraph Is the opening ciaHse
4 % article copied conspicuously into the Gazetst
from an Ohio paper Sorry are We to do or 81
anything which would io,cer that paper, for trut
and veracity, in the estimation Of this commu
Il nity. In fact, is is very questionable whether
could be done. But # there be q sfigle Eaal
] who proposes to vote aud act with the Pro
Slavery party, aud who is SO far blinded. by par
/ y. zeal and prejudice as TO give any eredcnc'
+ whatever to the publications Of the organ, w
invite him 10 an analysis Of the above short sen
tence, which is only q fair sample Of q half col
umn article ss4gs
| "Disunion and civil war,n How does it ap
pear that tsdisdnion and civil war are charge
able 10 toe Republican partys 1t is disclosed in
Pro slavery speeches--in the recent speech Of
Millard Fillmore at Albany. If the Republican
party defend The right of Northern settlers to
inhabit the territories--if they put stop to the
slavery agitation by confning the institution to
its legal and Constitutional bounds, then " u the
South dissolve the Union They have already
inaugnrated civil war. Is not this alogical con-
clusions The same reasoning would prove that
Abel was guilty Of exciting the ennity and jeal
ousy Of Cain, and his own murderer! You must
must not maintain your own rights-yon must
not advocate principles in accordance with right
and justice and the spirit Of our free institutions
because if you do the negro breeders and drivers
will not submit will get up tloody civil war,
dissolve the Union, and you Republicans will be
the guilty party. 5'' ~
The Republican party as the editor ofthe GA
zette knows and has asserted time and again,
makes no issue save that on the extension cof:
slavery. Kansas, with Constitution Republi-
can in form, and adopted in the manner prescrib-
ed by the organic law under which she was or.
ganized into territory, has been repulsed from
the doors of Congress, because she came as
free andnot slave State. We are told by cor
rupt and souless politicians and pusilanimous
doughfaces, that it is improper and unconstitu-
tional to keep a slave State ont whenshe knocks
for admission, and if we attempt to do it the
South will and ought to dissolve the Union!--
Bnt the exclusion Of free State is a very diff
ferent matter and all proper enough. The Re-
publican party is in favor of admitting Kansas
into the Union with her free Constitution adopt
ed by a large majority of her settlers. And that
party is also distinctly in favor of con6ning sla-
very to the States where it now legally exists,
and where only it can exist under the Constitu-
tion. These two great points it means to carry
IN spite of Northern Doughfaces and Southern
Nullifers-in spite of Union savers and Union
1estroyers. 1t makes no other issues.
But Fremont is a Shareholder. This is as false |
Is the rest of the sentence, as every body knows,
md as the editor as the Gazette was well in /
ormed Neither is he a member of the Catho- I
ic Church. . .,t.i4- ID
Now we come to the only true word in it. lie /
S the son of Frenchman. 1t seems that this
$ matter of reproach, and is published to the
world as a reason why JOIN CHARLES FREMONT
hould not be elected to the Presidency On
he maternal side he is descended from virginia
took. But his father or grandfather was "a
'oREIGNER!" Here is prescription for you!-
Iereis Know. Nothingism that would condemn
he son because his father was born out of the
United States. The doctrine of condemning a
nan On account of his birthplace is rather hard,
,ut when you hold him responsible not only for
himself but his fathers being born in the right |
,lace, it is in our opinion running the thing clear
nto the ground. A man is rot supposed to have
great deal ofagency in determining the time,
,lace and manner of his BIRTH. to say nothing
If that of his father.