Weekly hawk-eye and telegraph. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1855-1857, 1856-07-23
The ChivnI , and Fourth o,Ju,,


South Carolina is as itll of patriotism on the
Fourth of July as il is OF nggers The Chivary
meet at the county towns, have ont their scare.
crow military, listen to the union.saving PRAYERS
OF their cody men, swallow the urged oratory
OF their QuattlebumS, eat poor DINNERS, and
suck down the hardest kind OF toasts in still bar
der iiqnor The proceedings are then paradel
in the CharleStown Mercury and scll-,iisfed
South Carolina goes scuitiing along SLOWLY rs a
decrepid old darkec until another grand cechra
ton Without these pc iodicul vents the
Chivalry would burst themselves as well as the
Union. As it is, both are safc-thcir threats
and iatulency awing and alarming nobody but
human chnttlesn used to The lash o. the "pc
culiar institution"
The Mercury of July llth contains the pro
ccedings on the 9th of July ut Grahamyille,"
with notice of prayer, reading of Declaration,
grafton, regular and volunteer toasts, &c. The
4th regular toast pronounccs the Constitution an
apple of discord, US follows
THE Constitution OF TUE UNITED STATES The
apple of discord between virtue and vice, reason
and fanaticism.
The Free men of tho North have ALWAYS re
garded the Constitution as the very "apple Of
the eye " of the Union. The South alone makes
it an 'apple of dlscord."
The 9th Toast is emnently South Carolina
Wonder If the company did not feel tighrnes-
about the neck while drinking il:
TIE UUGoN OF THE STATES: Nominal in form,
but dissolved in spirit. May the next overt act
Of aggression snap the remaining bond, and
thus place the South upon that political equal
ity winch Northern injustice and Northern
principles have denied US III the halls OF egisla
ton.
Such disunon sentiment would he his.cd
down at every Northern celebration from Maine
to California. The gutta percba coward is thus
honored in 7th regular:
Mr.. Brooks: May the glorious example here
set us in the chastiSement of Northern insOlence,
arouse US TO due sense of the indignities which
have from time to time been offered to the
South, and stimulate us 10 avenge them as
speedily, as promptly, and as eiectunlly.
The Chvalry also honor Mr. Brooks in three
volunteers, quite as rufian in sentiment.
Massachusetts and Abolitonism are awfully
cut up in the regulars, and the 10th is for the
benefit of Northern doughfaces. II will be seen
that even South Carolina does not despair of the
Union quite yet.
TIE DEMOCRATIC PAErr: The platform adop
ted by the Cincinnati Convention, inspires
hope that the rights of the South may yet be
maintained, and dissolution of the Union post
poned for time
Fhe valiant capt. Thomas Dawson" thus
shows his chivalry and decency:
May God, in his wisdom, see fit 10 remove the
white skin of the honorable Senator from Nassa,
chusetts-Sumner-ands substitute bluck one,
together with "kinby head" that he may be
taught to appreciate his dior.
And "a. 7. Boyd, ESD thus agonizes over
Kansas,
KANSAS: Already stained with the blood OF
Southern martyrs in the cause Of justice and our
most sacred rights. May her streams become
rivers OF blood, and her forests charnel houses
before her soil shall be contaminated and her
polluted By the free soil partizans OF
the North
Such is the Union, Constitution, Patriotism,
Chivalry, and Decency in State in whose prin-
cipal city the first Free School wns established
the 4th Of July, 1856 !-CIev Gland Herald.