Weekly hawk-eye and telegraph. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1855-1857, 1856-12-24

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{ N txclsag per INFORMS us that A11Agt -
hammers borne IN tba uiamphai procession Of the
Democrats q Washins fohs on ThnsHday Of list,
week, was one bearing the following inscriptions:
Summer and kansas-Let EN- bleed.
We have no eTidcncs that such q banner was
aSs borne In the procession referred 70, and
taking il for granted that the assertion i true,
We propose 70 write . few words In regard TO IL
Is was legitimate banner. No deaths head
and cross-bones, ghastiy and CORY on their
ground OF black, and flung 10 the breeze from
the tapering mast Of the btoodiest freebooter on
the seas could be more appropriate. II set
forth the heartlessness the brutality The debase-
mcnt Of that party which calls itself democratic
"A party which was founded IN liberal prinri-
pies, and which has had devoted to It's interests
the energies OF many great men, whose suns
have set beneath that horizon from whence no
suns arise "a party originally aiming TO elevate
the masses, but which has now degenerated in
principle and aim TO that condition OF beastiaii-
~ which can make no distinction between viz
tue and vice, which mistakes crime for inno-
cence, which rsjoices with . cannibaFs glee at
the sight OF human blood
We hope that the great mass OF those COM
posing the party are not thus debased-indeed
we do not believe that they are; but the princi-
pie is IN the party, and the leaders make it the
rule OF duty TO live up 70 the principle. The
campaign which has just closed, was conducted
on the sentiment expressed in the inscription
upon the banner displayed in the streets Of
Washington "Let them bleed" has been the
cry from the rostrum, from the democratic
press, from the democratic Border Rufhans
brandshing their bloody bayonets from demo-
cratic Senator'S and Congressman, upholding the
bully, from degenerate sons of the great intel
lects OF the land, commencing suffering Senators
to shield their sore heads with iron pots, from
a democratic President, who has been slow to
restrain the ruffians, but eager to 1.-THE the mint
and annise and culnmin of the slightest infrac-
ton of the Draconian code Of immoral law
All OF the immaculate democracy, from the Ex-
ecutive head, down to the tide waiter on the
wharfs, each to himself, if not to the world, has
said ..Let them bleed
The tide of the ocean has its ebb aud flow !;
so it is with the affairs of men; so it is with the
affairs Of nations. The Democratic party has
been one of vitality. 1t inherited strong con-
stitution 1t was athletic and vigorous, but it is
debauched 1t has tasted blood, and it thirsts
for more. Might makes right, is its motto, and
no matter what the obstacle, it is ready to peril
all not only in its own existence but the nation
also, that it may perpetuale, it knows not whas.
1t has become drunk with Slavery. The Consti.
tuition, the blood OF freemen, the heaven-born
rights of man, the instincts of humanity inn
planted by the Deity in the soul-plead in vain
before that brutality, which, in the hour Of vic,
tory, cries over its fallen foe, "Let them bleed"
1t is said that the victor in battle, with the
vanquished dead before him, feels strange re-
Jennings while beholding the old-time smile re-.
turning to the cheek of the slain, as the soul
flies heavenward from the gaping wound. But
not so is it with the demoniac Democratic party.
Not SO would it; be, even, II Senator sumner
were in his grave, the victim OF that party; But
instead, like barbarian, 1t shouts over the IN
suited freemen, and the suffering statesman
LET EN- bleed" shout on Democrats-Let
EN- bleed. Kansas l1 can bleed sfli longer. ehe
is but little hnger. Inc great hedTt OF tue ma