Weekly hawk-eye and telegraph. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1855-1857, 1856-06-18
The Nomination Of Buchanan-Its pur.
pOSe-HOW it Takes.


pOse-HOW it Takes.
The nomination of JAMES BUCHANAN has fall
len still-bOrn in this community. There is not
the remotest approximation to anything like en-
thusiasm seen or felt The paid lobby which
came on here from Pennsylvania, and which was
billetted around like tnercenary soldiers on a
peaceful community, have departed. They
have accomplished their mission, and gone back
to the Keystone State, to secure the reward
which they were promised. The Democracy, in
the nomination of BUCHANAN, have for the first
time shrunk from the issue. Like the Old
Guard of NAPOLEON, victorious in hundred
battle.felds, at Waterloo they have wavered
and become broken, and terrible defeat and dis
aster is sure to follow. The nomination of b.
cHANAN was an indice of cowardice, and there
fore am acknowledgement of weakness. The
true men of the party, those who had won re-
spect by the courage which they had evinced
in the fierce and protracted struggle in the Kan
sas-Nebraska fight, have been slaughtered by
the cohorts of Office expectants, and the pol
troons and "cow boys" Of the party. The nom-
ination of BUCHANAN was brought about chiefly
by the expectation that he would command the
support of the ultra conservatives of the old
Wing party, and so friends were stricken down
and scalped, in the miserable expectation of
gaining the support of the enemies. They dared
| not rely upon their own strength, and therefore,
like political Lazzaroni, they sought eleemas-
ynary aid from their opponents, to save them
from political starvation and absolute famine.
These are not the times for sheet-iron thunder
and the melo-dramic rain of dried peas running
through tin canister. Such mock semblan-
| ces OF reality will do in awel-appointed theater
| to illustrate mimic representation upon the
| stage ofnature in its most grand and sublime
| works. But the American people of this day,
! with the real, active, living drama now being
played on the fields of Kansas and in the Senate
Chamber, with minds full high advanced, can
not be deluded by the mere sham of new ac-
tor being placed upon the boards, ito strut and
fret his hour upon the stage" They do not
wish to have "a period of four years elapse be-
tween the fourth and fifth acts" They demand
an immediate facility to the swelling drama of
bloodshed and violence, of which we hear by ev-
cry mail from Kaasas and from Washington !;
and the only way in which this object, so de-
voutly to be wished, can be accomplished, is by
the election of the ticket which win be nominal
ed at Philadelphia on the 18th of this month.
That Convention will represent the conserva-
tism of Freedom, the Democracy ofWAsHINe-
TON and JEFFERSON, not that of hireling press
and corrupt band of of6ce-holders 1t will
represent the conservatism of American consti-
tutioaal liberty, liberty secured by law, and
made valuable by its good effects, and made
strong by its virtue, its glorious martyrs, and
its noble ancestry.
The Democracy of slavery extension, in the
nomination of james Buchanan, made another
mistake in supposing that the old HENRY CLAY
Wings would vote for man, the most interest
ing part Of whose history is connected with the
prosecutions of HENRY CLAY, name ever dear
to the free hearts of the American people, and
whose memory is among their most cherished
recollections. HENRY CLAY is dead, and will
those who loved him so well while living, dis
honor his memory by placing in the Presiden-
tial chair, the man of all men now living, who
did the most to strike him down, and throw dis
grace upon his names NEvKR!
Let the history of JAMES BUCHANAN be fairly
written, and we shall see, and the American
people will see, that in the old SANDER Of the
bargain and Corruption fassehood, JAMES Be.
cHANAN bore prominent part. He was the Iage
Of the tragedy, the go-between, the man who
visited Mr.. CLAY, in his room in Washington
and attempted to seduce him to support JACK
son rather than ADAMS by offers of q place If
the Cabinet Of the former, and when he found
that Mr.. CLAY was not to be saduced, and had
determined to give his influence in favor of the
election of ADAMS. joined in 1.-THE cry of politica
bioodhounds, to detract from his good name
and spoil his usefulness. Mr. !BucHASAN wa
among the foremost of those bitter malignant
who banded against the administration Of Mr.
ADAMS, and resolved to put it down, ssthonch j
was as pure as the Angels of Heaven This i
the man brought forward at this time, when civ
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