Weekly hawk-eye and telegraph. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1855-1857, 1856-11-26
VOL. '3:NO. g.
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II scloosnsss Of having deserved "a An .o,ds -
consolation aad al theories of orune ~ ~.
nave become trits and thrsadbArs Il TIA vukl6
of dsappointment; and althosgh The prosveGg
of good cause vas retarded on Tuesdsy -,
se have little disposition 70 indulge incomme ~
merely conventional II The alphabet of mo-
falty teaches NJ that truth must b. triumpha6ta
i teaches nothing abssracsiy which she hsr1rss
?rscticai experiences does not confirm We hup.
siied 70 elect Prssidsnt Of public views iuse.
for @ private inseress ! party spiris aud palsy
itill have proved too much Tor, pouulsr virfsss.J
~c are promised four years Of continued sdHesl
ion toa ruinous policy, and tho intclljrepes ~,
he country Is again excluded from its goycrn.
nent, IL would be easier, after six uacnths of
'enson, TO yield 10 the languor which naturally
oilows; il would cost less of effort and g !
srength to despair; but speaking tor oarselyss.
md as We trust, for no small proportion OF our !
readers. We musts declare that never has the n.
ure seemed clearer, or more fall Of hope than .
lnow We say nothing of the noisome avalancAei /,
d SANDER, Of detraction, and of falseeood, whch
As been heapsd upon an excellent man. We
10 not care to anticipate the verdic. OF history.
I've believe that John G. Fremont possesses . d
character, the brightness Of which may for, a.
time be obscured by malice and misrepresenta.
tion, but which must in the end be unders,ood
appreciated and honored We leave it "a tskc =
lts chances, IS il can we'll afford to take them.
sVe turn from the candidate to the cause i and
aud Il achieving its own victory, and insuring,
.ts vindication In the immutablc laws of public
sconomy. But forour own sake, we might afford .
20 abandon IL and closing our lips forever, IA
90 watch with an abiding faith, the coming re- =,
fibution. NO man. however sensitive his spir.
y or however bitter his Disappointment neep
despair. Our newspaper controversies are CHEAP
md trivial; the speech Of the caucus rarely RI. =
ses to the great occasion; we Jest and jibe and
caricattlre, we lessen the dignity Of our work
~ our making 1t personal; yet what terfibls
consideration is 1t, tina: unrecognized, unapprs-
GATED, uuthought OF, and uaspoken Of, tho prob-
lem Is working itself out, while freedom is wia-
'nng It's victories in every exhausted rice swamp
upon every blighted tobacco field, by shores
which no argoses approach, and wherever labor =
anrequited drags to its weary task. Tie laws ,,
OF nature are supreme, and irrepc alable by any
Congress. Tho Missouri Comp oulise may be
swept away, but not the truth in which il origi- ka
mated. The brain which devised, and the hand q
Which drafted the great Ordinance have long
since crumbled to dust; but the fact which in.
formed that provision is as vital to-day as II was
NJ the last century. No mathematician was ev. ~
&c .surer Of his axiom, than the foe Of slavery
e extension is that it must be solf-limted wrong.
The sugar planter Of Louisiana extorts the work
OF two men from single set Of MUSCLES but he
knows well enough that he il killing his chattel.
lnI time, it will be quite evident to him and to
every Southern man who now permits himself to -
be blinded by deluded sef-interest, that , q fs
servile cultivation Of virgin soil may bring
plenty at first, but 1t is sure to end in poverty. .
The whole defence Of slavery is numbled 81
nake-shift hardly rising to the dignity Of So
phistry. One could almost laugh ut its small .,a
ricks and apoogetical devices; at its desperate
md ludicrous recourse to detached and floating
bits OF scripture at its citation Father Abra. ~
IAN, st. Paul and Onesimus; at the blldgeon of g
Brooks, and the gasping logic of Toombs; at it's
childish ISLANDERS Of the North at its affected
contempt for education and religion; at its
visiting of census tables, and its more than
Austrian surveillance Of Presidents, cabinet Of
icers, booksellers printers and professors. OF -
'onrse. this passionate nonsense merely suggests
Mrs. Partington and the sea. q
In opposluon to a system Of labor which pal .
hes the muscles and sinews Of production, and
otens the brains of those dependent upon IT,,
party seems almost unnecessary. Yet Il Is not '
he custom Of mankind to trust to the ministra-
ions OF nature, and we are not therefore sur
'rsed to find powerful organization which in-
lists upon rescuing the administration OF public
'ffars from the sheerest absurdity. This, for
,ur own sake, is well enough. "The body of !.
ieath will still go on decaying yet the prayer !
or rescue from US is not less pertinent. That h.
'rayer once uttered, as it was on Tuesday last, !.
will never be silenced. We are nearer than ev-
II to great, free, united North. Mr.. Buchan- a
IN may have the Presidency, but we have Mr..
5uchanan. Small men may cluster about him,
md may tempt him to deeds of dshonor, bu. he
will know that great States are watching him,
md will hold him to rigorous accountability. ~
lie cannot afford to confde in vagrants like seq
saunders, in gamblers like Forney, or in lunatics
ike Sonle. The country will not bear for an.
'ther presidential term the unnatural devotion "a
'f the machinery Of government to the interests
If slavery. Many OF those well.nleaning, but .s,
lot very far-seeing men, who have reluctantly
Mr.. Buchanan, only for the sake Of
'eace, will expect the peace for which they have
acrificed, not merely personal honor but prin-
While the President and his ministers are ner- 8
'ously watching the slightest motion of the
lave power, and sedulousy ministering to its 3
very want. The feverish feeling of the cour.
ry has been induced by the foolish devotion Of 50.
franklin Pierce to the interests of slavery it -
AN be aayed only by policy radically differ
mt We should have had no party which by
my perversion of reasoning could be called Sec
ional, If we had not had an administration 4
which all the country knew to be sectional, in o.,
he strictest sense Of that much abused adiec-
i've. Mr.. Buchanan and his friends may be "'
certain, that he will 60 into power with the
wealth, the power, the intelligence, and the
igion Of the Union against him. He will find al
hat these must he propitiated, or the ruin Of
lis predecessor will be his own. He may be
eft to the madness of devotion to an interest 80
which is not strictly worthy of the namer; he
nay try tyranny in Kansas, patronage In Con-. y
,ress, and piracy in Cuba; but we say here,
What we have said from the beginning: An adj -
,erence to the doctrines of the Cincinnati plat.
orm will bring wilder agitation than any that r.,
las yet threatened the Union, and will intensity
IN opposition which party discipline can hardly
control, and cannot resist Boston Atlas.ag e~f