Weekly hawk-eye and telegraph. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1855-1857, 1856-07-09

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your city n rsply n NJ Hon. s b Carsis, Rep.
candidsts Tor CougTeas Ia this district. and With
rom permission 1 ahaIl itsmixe few things bis
Jadgsship said, By way Of pleading bad cause ]
md defending most corrupt and venial admin.
istfssion Fer be actually undertook "a 10
fead I1esces Administration.) 10 fpllow The
tc1ge through all his xindinss AID .twistifea-
tons y task shan not undertake 10 perform.
no man should attempt impossibilitiea
ihe great idea ia the Judges bead and which
seems to absorb an his mental and pn ssicai
powers, be Fomised forth IN the following dog.
ma, declaring ~ he did 20, In the most emphatic
language that the doctrine he was abort 70 pro-
msigste 70 bis sstoniahed auditory was one Of
great import, underlying The ,sery foandation.
Of ~ ihe institutions Of TIA l.nd, and withou
which the Constitution Vas nothing, law nothing,
l'eerty mere by.yosd and knocking and our
Whole government superstructure . mere hct-
foseneosis naass Of stuff and not worth q straw.
tnefe tue Judge shook bis whole body violently
ana Aiiar;pcd his finger and thumb
IS great fundamental idea, or doctrine as
e called 1t, thus underlying everything else,
the Judge, when the horr Of delivery camel
announced to be athe quiet, psaceabie acquies-
eenee By The people under srrong and oppression
until such fine as peaoeabte remedy could Be
Aad.p Here the Judge stopped to breathe.l
This mas The Doctrine, said the Judge, the 81
mon pure Democratic doctrine, and fit only could
find Already and willing response in the hearts
Of the people at this time, all trouble and diff
Guilty would cease Even the Kansas troubles
would pass away as morning cloud, and the
clear noon-tide sun of Peace would forthwith
smile upon all her beautiful plains. And the
Judge actually seemed to think that the doc
trine Of . Peaceabic, QUIET dcquiescence" under
wrong and oppression was tie great panacea
which was to heal all divisions, and settle
all the disputes and differences of opinion
throughout the whole land. And he also
seemed to regard the doctrine as new, and him
self as the discoyerer of it, and the especial
Apostle to proclaim it to the uninlightened GEN
tile politicians of the 10th century. Why, Judge
this Is q most wonderful doctrine. II is so easy
understood and so easy Of application. All a
people, who are suffering wrong and oppression
have to do, when they see their houses burnt
down--their property destroyed-friends and
family murdered and driven away like dogs from
their homes, is to sit down and enjoy the happ-
ness Of this "Peaceabie, Quiet aeqaiescence" in
such outrages until such time as peaceable
remedy can be had
Why Judge Hall are you crazy? Has your
love of Party stolen away yonr brains? Or has
the introduction of this great idea into your head,
added them? Surely something must be wrong
in your mental organization, or you would cut
loose from a party which requires you thus to
humate and degrade yourself to find argu-
mcnts to sustain its inherent rottenness.
Why Judge, this mem, this great doctrine
this universal panacea for all trouble, has beeu
preached and practiced upon by all the Tyrants
the world in its manifold wickedness has ever
| produced to curse the race of men. And the
more cruel and bloody the Tyrants, the more
strenuously has this doctrine of "peaceable, quiz
| ct acquiescence" been urged and forced upon
| the people.
King George proclaimed this doctrine to
our forefathers and actually attempted to force
them to believe and practice it. And, pardon
me Judge, if suggest, that had you enjoyed
| existence then, instead of now, King George
! would have had one more to help him. Some
there were in those days of trial and trou-
Bile, who preached this great Democratic Doc
trinc Of "peaceable, quiet aequiescence &c On
! the other side of the water, they were called
Royalists,-on this side, Tories; name of re-
proach among patriots do not say Judge,
that you would have been a tory had you lived
then. But | do say You mow preach the same
infamous Doctrine that the tories of that day,
/ did
In 1863 King George undertook to teach the
people of Boston the excelencies of Doctrine, by
| sending his armed troops and placing them
around the building in which the people were
| assembled to take means against the tyrannica
and oppressive laws attempted to be forced upon
them. But neither King George nor his armed
troops could intimidate the people of Massachu-
setts There were no Judge Halls among them
to teach them this great panacea doctrine
| What pity! Had there been there trashy
| school-boy stories about, Concord, Bunker Hill
| and Lexington would never have been written.
All! Judge Hall you were too late getting into
this world, you and your South Carolina allies
| might have prevented all the horrors of the
Revolution. In the days of that glorious Revo-
luton, those who proclaimed the doctrine you
now do, Judge, we're called Tories. What
should they be called now? 1t degrades the
word Tory to apply it to such men now. Anew
cognomen must be devised.
But Judge you have something to say about
treason. You are a lawyer. OF course You
ought to Know what you are talking about when
you speak of treason. 1t is legal terminus a
legal meaning, and in this country, at least, up
till the days of yourself and Judge Locompte,
has had constitutional meaning. But by
your and has logic treason has slave demo cratic
meaning. Resistance to the extension ofslavery
is treason. That s it Judge! To say that
slavery is wrong-that it ought not to be extern
ded over territories now free, is treason--rank
treason! What pity Judge Hall and Lecompte
were not members of the conventiontion that
made the Constitution. Would not they have
fixed up an article on Treason-onc that would
have been death to all their political enemiess
The world may never know how much has been
lost to the cause of Human Liberty for the want
of few such men in that convention. Great
Britain, however, can tell how much she has lost,
because such men were few and far between in
the Revolution-none at the North and but a
few at the South-she lost the brightest jewel in
her crowa, A few Judge Halls at the North to
have taught the people the exeellencies of
"peaceable, quiet acquiescence' under wrong
and oppression, might have saved much to Eng
land But alas! for modern Democracy, the
soil of much abused Massachusetts produces no
such specimens of the genus homo as Judges
Hall and Lecompte.
But, Judge Hall, you said the President had
no right to interfere in the affairs of Kansas II
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