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


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4. Attenuation - TO the number and resources
,1,he enemy. TO exaggerAte their forces, may
nod unnecessary aiarm. TO underestimate
,A.,a Of % BE- mistaken - to their position, may
S Ia 70 presumption and disaster. Who then
7 6 the slavery party, that are now trampai ng
anon shs liberties, and threatening the Unioa Of
dis country
The census Of 1850 gives the answer to this
c,.st;op. Il shows that We do . wrong 70 any
..ct,on Of the country, in couceding that Il may
!. el,imed for Slavery. The number Of Slave
hs,ders in the U. s., according TO the eens,s Of
is;o. IL s47 ,s25. The number probably has
30, Increased during the last six years. Nearly
eoe-hsH OF the number, own less than Eve slav.
4 One-stth Of them, own only a single slave.
Thu whole white population Of the slave States,
NAMES: So that the number Of whites in
DE slave States, who are not shareholders, Is
ss7%. s93. This is . remarkable fact, and de-
~ryes 10 be candidly pondered. The compiler
Of the census supposes that there are about two
millions Of whites connected with the families Of
The shareholders, SO that less than one-third of
the white population Of the slave States have
.ny connection with, Or any interest in Slavery.
More than two.,hirds Of all the white population
Of The South, are practically and really against
slavery. South Carolina and Mississippi are the
ouI. States where more than one half the people
are Slaves. But in those States, the number Of
shareholders is less than fifty thousand, TO more
than hall million whites who claim nc. property
IN the bodies and souls Of men.
The Slavery party, therefore, are no more a
Sectional party, than National party. A ma
icty Of the people even in the South, are against
Slavery, and in practice as well as in theory. A
large and respectable portion Of the population
ofIoxa, 1t is well known, has come from slave
Safes According to the census of 1860, there
xe.e more persons In Iowa from Kentucky, than
from New York. There were more from Mary
land than from Massachusetts,, and more from
Virginia than from the six New England States.
The tens OF thousands who are here from the
slave States, passed by Missouri and came to 10.
wa, because, by the Compromise Of 1920, slav-
ery was here prohibited. They preferred free
dom. And who does not know that the strong
est opponents of Slavery among us, are from
Virginia and Kentucky and the Carolnass
There IL every reason forthe opinion, entertain
ed BY many rejecting persons, that had the Ter
ritofy Of Kansas been organized, as Iowa was,
under the Compromise Of 1890, the emigration
10 il from the slave States wo'd have been much
greater than It has been under the Douglass bill
Of 1854.
The Slavery party, 80 far from being confined
10 the Southern section of the country, have
their strongest advocates in the North. There
are unprincipled men at the North, to whom
nothing is too sacred to be put up in the market,
provided will win. To trade in any thing,
from wooden nutmegs to their country is their
profession Many such men have gone to the
South, and have become proverbially the most
cruel overseers and owners of slaves. Leta sin
gle fact be considered. In one Southern town OF
$50 shareholders, lis were natives Of free States.
~. TO-, ouch man hOv
no. left the North. The most prominent man
among these Is Stephen Arnold Douglas. Like
Benedict Arnold and Aaron Burr, this gentleman
has plotted'a conspiracy against his country.
has been the misfortune Of the North, thatit
has furnished all the traitors to liberty. Mr..
Douglas, like his Infamous forerunners, Is con
denied at home, and viii soon suffer the repro
baton Of the country at large and of the whole
civilized world The South, though they fam
cisd the treachery for season, will upon sober
seoord thought condemn it, and spurn the trait
or from their embrace.
The Slave Power, then, be it remembered, is
not national or sectional party. 1t is fac
ton. Its character is portrayed by Mr.. Madi-
con, in the Federalst, who says:
eBy faction, understand number of citi-
tens, whether amounting to a majority or minor
iy Of the WHOLE who are united and actuatedby
some common impulse Of passion, or Of interest,"
adverse TO the rights Of other citizens, or to the
permanent and aggregate interests OF the coun'
ayn
Such is the Slave Power, that has psrpetrated
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