Weekly hawk-eye and telegraph. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1855-1857, 1856-08-13

/ NAas1 Iak@a seesls1aa Cenasaass
5sssela Hosss{xla has & nrcd kis mind since
3 ~ lste sisis ID Texas, and has tpncludcd not to
Stun f0g the Presidency th tinas. He means TO
supp6rt Filimerc iEsiead The party with which
/ be acsed, he 1Althosh i retains the name
s.of democracy, has no memories to which the
present organization can rcter without = blush
ssof shame. Il has dwindled down to mere Sec
.'tionaiism, and Is now but faction The Re-
publican party on the other hand, Is sectional in
les character, and he 'scannot conceive how any
s.man loving the Union can support ticket
s.fraught with such disastrous consequences TO
..the whole eountry as is success would be. He
therefore arows his intention TO support Mr..
Fillmore. who combines in himself, in pre-
eminent degree, the objections raised to both
the Others. II the old xhig party has any me-
nIories TO which its present organization, under
Fillmore, can refer without blush, then il is
because its members have not sensibility enough
left to feel as they should, in contemplating one
Of the most hidcous phases Of intolerance, big
otry and impossure of our age. In regard 70
sectionalism, which is the specific objection to
the Cincinnati and Philadelphia candidates, We
do not see in what respect the General bctters
himself by supporting Fillmore. III either of
the three candidates is sectional Willard Fillmore
is that candidate. He was nominated by Con-
vention from which the great body of the rep
resentatiyes of every free State had Withdrawn.
He was nominated by the delegates from slave
states alone, assisted by few minorties Of their
respective delegations from two or three of the
free states, not one Of which, however, is likely
to give Mr.. Fillmore an electoral vote.
But General Houston does not need to be
taught at this late day, that ii is not the non,-
ination but the popular vote at the election that
determines whether a candidate is sectional or
national. man may run upon his own noniin-
alton, as the General did, for month or two,
without being sectional but il he is supported
only by particalaf topical interest," by the slave
ry interest, for example, or the manufacturing
interest, and is defeated, then he is a sectional
candidate If he gets majority Of the legal
votes, from whatever states between whatever
degrees of latitude or longitude, he is the con-
stitutional choice of the American people, and
no more sectional candidate than every can.
didate is who gets less Than unanimous vote
Now, it is not probable that either Fillmore or
Buchanan can get both together, FIVE free states.
The best their friends expect for either they may
defeat an election by the people, and have a
chance for victory, the one in the House and
the other in the Senate. There are some more
sanguine as to results, but very few who sup
pose that either can carry more free states than
were southern states represented in the Phila
delphia Contention VIII General Houston nre.
tend that there is any probability of the Repub-
lican candidate occupyinDa more sectional po-
stion than this?
But in what, we beg to ask, consists the sec
tionalisln of the Republican party in the eyes Of
the Texan SENATOR? By the terms of the call
OF the Philadelphia Convention all who were
opposed to the repeal OF the Missouri Compro-
mise, to the Kansas policy of the administra-
and 10 E..l
Congressional or Executive action, were invited
to send delegates to it. No state or territory
North or South, East or West, was deprived of
the privilege OF representation In what then
consists its sectional character? There was no.
thing, we believe, in the principles avowed by
it, not entirely accordant with the principles en-
tertained by General Houston himself He has
said as bad, If not worse, things of the Douglas
legislation in Congress-; he has not disguised his
| opposition to the extension of slavery, and his
| friends in the North pressed him with great
| earnestness as candidate upon the ground of
his well-known sympathics with the free-state
party. Did the Republican party sectionaize
itself in the eyes of the Texan senator by avow-
ing doctrines which they might have learned
from his lips: If so, then is every party sec
tional which avows any disputed opinions s
1t the Southern states do not happen to agree
policy, which they respectively support, so much
the worse for the weaker candidate, whether of
the North or South: but we have yet to learn
that the vote of free state for President is not
worth just as much as that of q slave state, or
that minority of shareholders ought to have
more weight in the choice of chief magistrate
than ma ority of non-slaveholders. consti-
tutional ma ority is all thatFa candidate requires
to make him national and a constitutional
President; whether that majority come from
the North or the South of the Potomac, or from
the East or the West of the Allcghanies. .'-T IS
In what sense of the word, then, can Colonel
Fremont be called sectional canddates His
mother belonged to one Of the oldest and most
influential families in Virginia; he himself was
born in Georgia, he was educated in Sauth Car
oina and resided in slave states exclusively till
he was over thirty years of age. His wife is the
daughter Of a Virginia lady; her father was
born In North Carolina; and she herself always
resided in slave states or territories, until with
in few years. Colonel Fremont is, in every
reputable sense of the term, a southern man..
lie has no prejudices in regard to slavery which
he did not acquire at the South, nor has he any,
so far as we know unfriendly to the best inter-
ests- of the South. Heswas nominated, on the
other hand, by delegates representing every
northern state, and is supported with a greater
unanimity at the North, apparently, than either
of the other candidates is at the South, whence
they expect almost exclusively their support.
81 1t is idle to call candidate thus descended,
educated, associated, nominated and confined,
sectional candidate. OF course we did not
expect Senator lpuston to support Fremont or
any other Republican so long as he has any po
litical aspirations of his own unqualified, for
such course would not be tolerated by his con- |
stitucncy at present but we must say that like |
a distinguished citizen of our own state, recently |
he has irrcvocaby lost splendid opportunity of !
keeping silent.-Ncw York Evening Post.
MORTALITY AMONG HoGs.-The Cincinnati GA
zctte says that the farmers on~thc Big Miami,
from New Baltimore to Venice, are losing nearly |
all their hogs by a severe epidemic, which car
ries off 90 out of every 100 attacked, within two
hours after the symptoms are manifested. The
farmers call the disease cholera the spasms and
other symptoms exhibit similar evidences of
to those manifested by human beings
seized with that fatal disorder. A. C. II. Cone,
Esq, has lost 800 hogs, and l.. B. Garrison, Esq,
over 200; neighboring farmers have lost in pro.
portion These were lively healthy hogs, not
stiil-ied. A panic prevails among the hog deal
'rs OF the above district, and they are selling off
Is fast as they can. a2. r. g$zafseg 47z g.a-E sel
BEEF .CATTEE.-Owing to the almost total
failure of pasture because of the drought, beef
cattle are very scarce at the present time, and
selling at very high figures for the season.
Very few are coming into this market, and our
butchers are obliged to buy in the ST. Louis
market, and that is a very uncertain chance
Two of our butchers went down on Saturday
asst. One bought few cattle at three cents
gross for an inferior quality. The other came
pack without any. They represent many of the
n 10 ,a,l-at
init for slaugter.-Alton Cour.
JUSTICE AT WAsHINGroN.-Judge Crawford
u Washington city, who instructed jury to
Icquit man who had killed another, has Just
entenceda poor man to one years imprisonment
or a "siaple assauh.-Rauchester Union.
This acquitted man was know-Nothing Buch-
man members of Congress, and his victim an
rishman-waiter 1t was the same gentleman
Who wrote to the Alabama committee, when in.
ted to address Buchanan meeting, replied
hat circumstdnces-he being in Jail at the time