Weekly hawk-eye and telegraph. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1855-1857, 1856-07-09


We do not believe much in the political artil-
lery of epthets or that parties are often recruit
ed by the application of new or offensive names
to their adversaries 1t sometimes however, be
comes necessary to coin name for new political
organizations, as matter Of convenience in dis
cussing their action, and that just now happens
to be the case with the party which is supporting
Mr.. Buchanan for the Presidency.
Ii is a misuse of language to call that the De-
mocratc party, for i'll the first place itbas aban-
doned the great doctrine of state rights, on
which the great doctrine of state rights, on which
the very foundations of American democracy
rest and in the second place, it has in turn been
abandoned by the great body of democrats in
the northern states who have followed their prin-
ciples into an antagonistic organization. Meth
er can it be properly termed the Administration
party, for Mr.. Buchanan's friends are doing
everything they can to discriminate themselves
from the falling dynasty Of Messrs. Pierce and
Cushing, and lose no opportunity of indirectly;
circulating the impression that if they succeed
in electing their candidate, there will be very
general moving of boots in March, 81. Having
reference merely to the leading principles of the
Cincinnati organization, it might be termed the
Pro-Slayery party with great propriety, but the
word pro-slavery is open to two objections-itis
not English, neither is it convertible intoa eupho
would be offensive as well as unjust to large
class of respectable men who differ from them
entirely on the slavery question. The same OBJ
lection may be made to the title of Dsunionists.
for there are some members Of the party at the
North who would lose by separation of the
states, and are therefore opposed to it. Neither
is Doughfaces sufficiently comprehensive, for
that race is produced Exclusively in the northern
states.
But we cannot undertake to conduct Presi-
dental canvass against party without name,
and we have felt that the first thing to be done
by the Republicans in the approaching struggle
was to fix upon some striking, characteristic and
suggestive title by which to salute their adver-
saries, and at last we think we have found one
which will meet the exigency precisely We
would designate them as the Buccaneers. This
name, in the first place, has the great advantage,
over every other, of identifying the party with
the name of its leader; in the next place, it d.
rectly gives suitable prominence to the last great
measure of Mr.. Buchanans public life, the pirat-
ical manifesto from Ostend. The Buccaneers, we
need hardly remind our readers, had their origin
among the West India Islands, where they orig
inally promulgated the platform of principles
adopted in our day by the diplomatists at Os-
tend, and where thev prosecuted similar policy
with reference to the property and lands of their
neighbors, indeed, the Queen of the Antilles was
then deemed as necessary to the safety of the
BUCCANEERS who had their head quarters in st.
Domingo, as it is now to the constituency repre-
sented at Ostend and it is curious to OBSERVE
how imperceptible is the difference between the
policy pursued towards Cuba one hundred wears
ago in the councils at La Tortue, and that ecom-
mended by the United States Minister to Eng
land in 1854.
In other respects the name is equally appro-
pirate. The Buccaneers were eminently Sound
on the goose" Not only did they hold slaves
themselves, but they conducted a thriving trade
in that commodity; thus practically recognizing
all the fundamental principles of the domestic
policy laid down at Gincinnati, half u century or
more before Mr.. Buchanan was born.
By accepting the name Of Buccaneers, there
fore, the party to which we refer will derive
from them whatever advantage belongs to anti
guilty of birth length of descent; will also put
an end to the malicious attempts which people
are constantly making, to trace the organization
and principles Of the party to mischievious abo.
litionist in Virginia of the name of Jefferson.
We would assign many other reasons for the
adoption of this name, if we had time, but we
presume it is unnecessary. The appropriateness
of the designation will strike every welnformed
patriot at once, and we will therefore dismiss the
subject with simple suggestion in regard to a
change in the banner which should accompany
the change in the name of the Cincinnati party.
Instead of the stars and stripes waving over
the uplifted arm of the mechanic which now
float from the walls of ST. Tammany we would
recommend a flag with black ground represen
ting slavery as the great practical interest of the
country, striped with red to symbolic the bloody
process by which anew territories are to be recon
ciled to slavery and added to the confederacy. as
in the case of Kansas; while in the centre, the
figure of a raw head and bloody bones, having
sort oflikeness to Buchanan, would represent the
foreign policy of his administration, as fore
shadowed at Ostend. That would make a land
some flag, and would be in admirable keeping
with the name we propose, and with the priincii.
pies with which the party in question is now
identifed.-N. Y. Eve. Post.
Social AND PoLITIcAL REVOLUTION IN CALI.
FoRNIA.-It is certain that California is in the
midst of an allperyading social and political rev.
olution. The authority of the gamblers and
shoulder htters in social matters is disputed, and
their supremacy, as pro-slayery politicians. in |
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