Weekly hawk-eye and telegraph. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1855-1857, 1856-10-22


visers in Washington, their bodies were at once
removed, any further time or expense in treat
ing them being deemed quite unproftable 1t
is said that the disease peryadesSg the Custom
House quite extensively, and that several cases
are already in the last stage, but none but those
we have enumerated have as yet terminated fa-
tally. q It. is apprehended that the news from
Maryland and Florida this morning may so lower
Brodhead's political SYSTEM as to predispose him
to the disease. 1t is to be hoped that he may be
spared, for it is difficult to get such men to serve
the public on any terms, and when they do con-
sent, it is distressing to contemplate the possi-
bility of their loss. The people in this region
have as yet scarcely recovered from the shock
they received some months ago from the an
nouncement that he was to be sent to Japan.
The Reign of Terror-WilI a Free Peo-
pie any Longer Endure il IS 80
A reign of terror has hung out its black flag
Of sedition, treason and notification, over one
halt the American Union. In all our Southern
States except little Delaware, there is as little
of political liberty as in Russia and meaner,,
and more sneakng, and more remorseless espi-
onage. over the liberty of speech and the public
press than in any of the Italian provinces of Aus
tria. Under the auspices of the ,JacObn democ-
racy this invisible and awless despotism oil the
| South has become as inexorabie as the savage
|
French Revolution and as blood-thirsty as Ro-
| besperre, Marat and Danton. Suchis the fierce
and shameless despotism which reigns over the
South and such is the government to which the
rotten democracy are laboring to subdue the
North, under threats Of disunon, a robbery OF
the public treasury and war. .y234 -@'''."' ~
This overshadowing eyil.of the day is the ri-
pening fruit of those seeds of corruption and
discord which were planted at Washington by
this Pierce Administration. There was IN 1853
peace upon the slavery question---Mr. Pierce
was pledged to continue this peace, and studl-
ously to avoid anything calculated to disturb it.
But, false to the people false to his pledges, and
faithless to his trust in every way, he reopened
the box of Pandora, and scattered the seeds of
mischief broadcast over the land. He sold him
self and the peace Of the country, his party, his
character, his conscience, his body and soul, for
that paltry mess of pottage-the support OF the
nigger-drlying leaders of the democratic party at
the Cincinnati Convention. But they had suck
| ed him dry like an orange, and they cast the
empty shell away. They sought another man,
equally reliable as an instrument but better cal
culated for their purposes of public deception in
the North. We see, however, that SO lar from
there being any abatement in the Southern de-
mocratic policy Of terrorism and notification
with the nomination of Mr.. Buchanan, his name,
his influence, his pledges and his authority have
all been used to sink the constitution iii Kansas,
in Washington, and in fourteen States of the
Union, and to threaten us with dsunion and an
armed invasion ifthe rest do not submit
For practical purposes of their own--for office,
profit, spoils and plunder-Jctf. Davis, the de-
mocratic Mcphistophiles at Washington, and
Atchison, his right hand man in kansa, and
poor Pierce, their suppliant tool set this policy
of rufiian tyranny i'll motion. The results have
disgraced the country in the eyes of the whole
world. Armed invasions ofrutfian merccnares,
terrorism, ballot-stuiflng, spurious Kansas Leg
islatrres and their bloody laws, have. been fol-
lowed up by the Dragons sabre, the ruffian
musket, pistol bayonet, bowie knife by nl,lr-
der, scalping, robbery, and other crimes too re-
voting to think of, until the plains of Kansas
have been Redeemed with the blood of its unhap-
py settlers, and blackened with the ashes of their
houses burned to the ground. aattF77 "a
Next we see this contagion ofterrorism break
ing out at Washington--in fights and rows,
and fearful homicidcs, and in brutal violence,
even within the sanctuary of the American Sen
ate chamber--and nextwe find the whole South
under rigid blockade OF democratic spies and
intormcrs, to cross which passport is as ne
cessary to New Yorker and Pennsylvania as
at the Austrian frontier. Anywhere beyond
Delaware it is only necessary for some hireiing
democratic vagabond to get up the hue and cry
of "abolitionist" against any Northern stran-
ger, to put him in peril of his life. South of
Mason and Dixon's, in fact, this country is un-
der despotism worse than that Of Austria, be-
cause 1t is lawess, invisible and irresponsible
despotism. 1t is however, complete despotsm
OF ruifian democratic reign OF terror
There is no such thing as free press i'll the
South, except here and there straggler close to
the Northern border; there is no such thing as
free speech except here and there on the part
of a man whose position, influence and family
associations-Mr. Bolts for example-render it
dan erous to disturb him. ,5].s4 i" -5'S+3'''
The latest case of heroic defiance against this
irresponsible and lawless despotism,. is that of
Professor Hedrick, Of the University Of North
Carolina. He bravely declares for Fremont
and casts his life and fears to the winds He
was threatened with instant expulsion. We have
not heard his fate; but we have no doubt that
he has been ostracsed, and is on his way
to the North, where the constitutional rights Of
free spec hand freedom of opinion are still the
living and supreme law of the land, as the faith
ers Of the republic ordained them. Thus, in vi
olation of the constitution, and under an inexo-
rabe and suicidal policy of despotisni, our |
Southern Buchanan democracy are driving off, |
through disgust or prosecutions the bone and
snew, the blood and muscle of the South, into |
the North; they are the best class of men in |
any community who viii dare everything rather
than tamely surrender their constitutional and
inalienable rights. '!Ia 7at - T914" sal |
Such are the bitter fruits OF this wretched !
Pierce administration and the demoralized de- |
mocratic party, reduced to the whip and spur of |
niger driving disorganizers and dsunionists of I
the South. Is this state ofthings any longer to |
be endureds Will the people of the North |
still free, still living up to the free gift of the |
Constitution, free speech, free press, and the I
right of the people peaceably to assemble in the I
discussion of public atfairs-will this free peo-
pie OF the free North thus consent to vote them
selves under Southern niger driving despot |
ism scarcely less humiliating to free born white
man than African slavery itselfsWe say this in
all seriousness for when free born white man |
can consent to have his pen and his voice under
the control OF censorship like that Of the ruff
fan Southern democracy, and can cry ''iulrah"
Tor the party which thus ties him up i'll bondage,
he is ready to mount the block and be sold like
niger. We await, upon this question, the
Judgment of the free people ofPennsylvania.-
n. Y. Herald, 18th. R.-@ '@2sa g siai
Pennsylvania has spoken, ard struck terror
to the heart of the BUCCANEERS Assa -saadi
BUCHANAN ON TWO SrooLs.-The New York
Evening Post is advised, upon good authority.
that committee of the State Democratic con-
vention OF California have addressed Mr. Buchs
"u2h a ASstti, ashiuS nts VIEWS OF the DUTY OF
the general government in reference to the con-
struction of a Pacific railroad, and that they are
IN expectation Of an answer by the steamer
that sailed on Monday, to be used in California
during the seven. or eight remaining days ofthe
canvass, but too late for its contents to reach
the Atlantic states before the election '-'' nv
This is just one of the tricks for which Buch
anan has a genius. Anything like Ian3 exnres
sion of favor towards that enterprise on the
part of Mr. Buchanan would be a gross fraud
upon the election of California Both he. and
his state have uniformaiy gone with the slave
states in a determined opposition to the con- +,
strnction of that great work, simply or mainly :
because of It's tendency to settle the whole CON-
.insns between the Pacific and the Mississippi
With free laborerss 9eof ~ sGia -
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blasting paper, which is pronounced BY old mi
1ers a desideraturi. It is thin, flexible and per
ectly solid, imperrious TO water or moisture. and
ios pore exists in it. Water may be KEEP. in
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