Weekly hawk-eye and telegraph. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1855-1857, 1856-09-10
HAWKsxYE ARD TELEGRAPH.



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There never has been 4 party, since we ia
aaY knowledge Of politics. thai ever went befor
the country on no shameless declaration Q
principles as The Fillmore and DoneIson Kno,
xoshings. The platform which MI. Fillmore ha
4 endorsedin his latter ef acceptance, Il taken q
mainly with recitation Of the peculiar tenet
/ Of that party touching the "Pope Of Rome,
/ .ttwcnsy y-one years rcsidence- before naiuraiiza
ticn by foreigners, and the prescription, Of al
but native citizens from holding Office. All thi
stands prominently forward in the platform
while not q word of it is found any where else
Their speakers never talk of 1t and their writer,
never urgeit It il not only dead issue so fal
As any agitation Of the public mind is concerned
butt 10 dead aud buried issue with those who
| now profess to be the true and only American
party, Thus two-thirds Of the platform is taken
| up with dead matter.
The 18th section is taken up with recitation
Of the grounds Of opposition to the present Ad-
ministration, among which is named the repeal
Of the Missouri Compromise and the consequent
re-opcning Of the slavery question. And what
remedy does the reader suppose is proposed I?
What atonement for that outrage does the read
er suppose they have to offer? Here il is, EN-.
bodied in the seventh section:
Z. The recognition of the right Of the native
born and the naturalized citizens Of the United
States, permanently residing in any territory
thereof to frame their constitution and laws,
and to regulate their domestic and social affairs
in their own mode, subject only to the provisions
of the Federal Constitution, with the privilege
Of admission into the Union whenever they have
the requisite population for one Representative
in Congress. .Proeided, al,cays, that none but
those who arc citizens Of the United States un-
der the Constitution and laws thereof, and who
have fixed residence in such Territory, ought
to participate in the formation Of the Constitu-
ton, or in the enactment Of laws for said Terri
tory or State r .ts ...-ra-s.
Here is the stump speech which was put into
the belly of Douglas Kansas Nebraska bin, here
is the asquatter sovereignty of General .Cass,
invented solely for the purpose Of extending
slavery into free territory! The only remedy
they have to propose, it seems, is a nnockery-
is the very identical words Of deception employ
eI by the political knayes who have brought
about the deplorable crisis in which the country
now is. It is the doctrine Of non-intervention
on the part of Congress in the affairs of the Ter
ritories. A doctrine contrary to common sense
Ito the practice Of the Government from its Il
foundation to the present time. A doctrine in
vented to force slavery into Kansas, and which,
as soon as it had accomplished the object of its
authors, was cast off like an old garment. Ar
rayed in this cast off humbug from which have
come all the evils under which we suffer, and by
which many suppose the very existence of the
Union itself is in peril, this Fillmore party comes
forward selfconstituted band Of Union-Sayers
--conserpatipesi Their remedy is founded in
The philosophy Of the saw ."the hair of the dog"
&C. For all the terrible evils which have grown
out of the experiment of popular sovereignty"
IN murders and robberies and burnings and civ
/ war in Kansas, and the consequent excitement
throughout the whole country, these patriotic
Union-Savers propose to administer another dose
IF 'ssquatter soyereigntyp Is not this refine
nent OF crueity-a sMockery VI Tie cohinion
ense of the people. Instead of conservatism it |
s the quintessence Of rowdyism and innovation.
Instead of saving, it is the very thing most like
y to dissolve the Union. Instead cf a fair and
equitable adjustment of this slavery question,
he Fillmore party would have it fought out
,and to hand in all the territories as already be-
,un Instead of deprecating the agitation of
The slavery question, they would make it per-
,etual bone Of contention as long as we have a
loot Of territory to be struggled and fought for.
The Fillmore party is doing business on bor-
rowed capital, and, according to Gen. jackson,
ought to and certainly will break.