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

sA7s Leave tempest's wrath and Indian rage 4
To serve upon noble field: e.
& 81 ThAt field thy country sacred ssii---E1 s.
The Canaan of the human race q
Made by the Reyolution's toll
True Freedoms only dwelling-place. u
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NullificatiOn In q New Shape &
Nj. Fillmore ia suspected by his friends TO be-
en,inentiy conservative in his principles. He
has never been charged with tendency to nulii-
fcation, and we did not suppose he had adopt
ed this tenet Of the great South Carolinian's po-
-liticaI faith, but perusai of his late Albany
speech unsetfles our opinion on this head. Read
the following extract from it: So. fa.,.ss
g But this is not all, sir. We see political
party presenting candidates for the Presidency
and Kice-P Presidency selected for the FIRST time,
from the Free States alone, with the asosed pur-s
pose of electing these candidates by suftrages of
one part of the Union only, to rule over the
whole United States Can it be possible that
those who are engaged in such a measure can
have seriously reflected upon the consequences
which must inevitably follow In case of snceesss
4 Cheers. Can eghase the MADAGASCAR the folly
10 behave that our Southern brethren noaldi SID
nit to be gopereaed tysach a Chief HGgtstrdteg
fCheers Would he be required to follow the
same rule by those who elected him in making
his appointments? IL man living south of
Mason and Dixon's line be not worthy to be
President or Vice President, would it be proper
to select one from the same quarter as one OF
his cabinet council, or TO represent the nation in
a foreign country or, indeed, to collect the rev.
enue or administerthe laws OF the United Statesg
If not, what new rule is the President to adoptin
selecting men for office that the people them
aelvas discard in selecting him
These are serious but practical questions,
and in order to appreciate them fully 1t IS only
necessary to turn the tables upon ourselves
Suppose that the South, having majority OF the
electoral votes, should declare that they would
only have shareholders for President and Vice
President, and should elect such by their exclu-
siye suffrages to rule over us at the North! 90
you think yow agottld submit to 1t No, not tor
q moment Applause. And do you believe
that your Southern brethren are less sensitive on
this subject than you are Or less jealous Of their
rights?' Tremendous cheering. II you do,
let me tell you that you are mistaken and, there
fore, you must see that If this sectional party
succeeds, It leads incgitablyto to tie destruction
of this beautiful fabric reared 6yourJ orefathers,
cemented by their blood, and bequeathed to us
as a priceless inheritance. 5a $500 t&Fi.8 $50
81 tell you, my friends, that Ispeak warmly
on this subject, for feel that we are in danger.
| am determined to makea clean breast OF it. i
will wash my hands of the consequences, what
ever they may be; and tell you that we are
treading upon the brink of volcano. that is LA
BILE at any moment to burst forth and oyerwhelm
the nation. might, by soft words, hold out de-
lusive hopes, and thereby win votes, but / can
never consent to be one thing to the North and
another to the South. / should despise myself
if could be guilty of such evasion. Tremen-
dous applause. For my conscience will ask,
with tue dramatic poet,-s ah 8ds a. Is
Some hidden thunder red with Immortal wrath
To blast the wretch who awes his greatness
To his countrys ruin ?-' - lCheersl
In the language of the immortal Henry Clay
" l would rather be right than be President"
Enthusiastic and prolonged cheers .5yr5y..
The New York Evening Post very properly
characterizcs this sectional appeal as folly and
madness, and points out to Mr.. Fillmore the
plain constitutional provision, that President is
to be chosen by a majority of the electoral votes
irrespective of issues of sectional lines, The
Post adds: fs @-' p ~
And how long is it since Mr.. Fillmore became
aware of the Nervousness of clecting two nom
shareholders to the two highest Offices under the
federal government? Does he remember what
Presidential ticket he voted in 1886. lie GER
tainly did support Mr. Van Buren,, and if he
did not. be must have supported Harrison and
Granger, the candidates of the wing party at
that election, and both citizens Of Northern
States. s.-r a..,..-s.g.- j ,,ss; e..
Where was Mr.. Fillmore in 1928, when John
Quincy Adams and Richard Rush were both can
didates from the Northern States for the Presi-
dency and Yiee-Presidency, against Andrew
jackson and John G. Calhoun, candidates for
the same offices from slave States : How did
the Union escape destruction thens Were there
no demagogues then in the North astute enough
to discern the enormitv OF such nominations, or
unprincipled enough to create an insurreetion
against the government OF the successful caRdi-
dates? Not one, though there were some pretty
clever and pretty desperate, politicians in that
day as we'll as in this. ta.s.l .y,fe7 g.ssg s.7
Again, if we are. not mistaken, in Sl2, Mr.
Fillmore was cooperating with Mr. Buchanan in
defaming the political character and administers
ton of James Madison, then a candidate for re
election to the Presidency--but we have yet to
learn that it ever occurred to either, or to any
body. else in the course of that canvas, to doubt
the propiety of supporting De Witt Clinton and
Jared IngGrso who We're nominated on the
opposition ticket, because both happened, to be
citizens of free States se.4gs-g sget,,ss-
For the whole period of Mr.: Fillmovc's sexis-
tenee he has been associated with g party which
four different times within that period has nomi-
mated what he terms a sectional and disunion
ticket AS the Union has survived these perils
so often, let us hope that it will survive the
nomination and election of Fremont ard Dayton
though both are citizens of free States, in spite
of the Vaccinations and incendiary invocationsS
of Mr.. Fillmore. 5afea9e ~ .FlasySig
But aside from the preccdents to which we
have referred and which Mr.. Fillmore has had
his share in establishing, we ask in the name of
the constitution and common sense, upon what
principle he justifes this new doctrine of nulliti
cation? Where does he get his authority for
saying that majority fthc people Of this coun-F
try, in whatever State they reside, are not enti-
tied to select the President? Is it not the vote
of non-slayeholder as good as that OF q slave-
holder, espeeiallyif We allow the latter, as we
are obliged to by the Constitution, three extra
votes for every five slaves that he happens to
sowns If tits, then upon what principle should
minority be justified in resisting an Admins
tration elected in the constitutional mode,
even though all the electors voting for the.
successful ticket have the good fortune to re-
side in Tree States? Might not an objection be
made with equal propriety to taking both candi-
dates from either side of the Alleghanias, or
either side ofthe Hudson River or either side of
the Erie Canal9 Il .sH ssis5.,1s 4
b sg87 gE swamp Lands. atf- "a Is,s
At ameetng OF the citizens of Mills Co, at the !
Court House in Glenwood, on the astll ult.. the
following resolutions were unanimously adopted.
in reference 70 The interests of Mills Co. in ,he
Swamp Lands. IL ! ,5s,s rs 8ssg s,s5s.9
Resolved, 1st. {. That our Senator and Repre-
sentative from this district, in the Legislature,
be and are hereby instructed to urge. upon that