Weekly hawk-eye and telegraph. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1855-1857, 1856-06-11

Now that Mr. Buchanan Is the nominee of thu
Black Democracy for the Presidency, it is pre-.
surnable that biz friends will tell Ms what to ex.
pcct Of bis administration, should he be elected
l:e the guns and soldicry Of the United States
still 10 be used to enforce odious laws upon .
people this, never enacted those laws. Is slave.
~ extension still to BIO the issues In short Is
old Buck to walk in the footsteps of his iIlustri.
Gus predecessor, Franklin Pierceg The Conven.
ton has placed him upon platform denying to
Congress the power to egslate for the territories
should he be elected therefore, there will be no
way of settling Kansas affairs, except to fight It
out. The quarrel between slavery and freedom
beQueathed from sire TO son, Is to be fought TO
.he bloody end. The General Government only
interfering when freedom shall be too much
for slavery and be likely to gain victory. In
that case the troops, as now, are to reverse the
scale. Is this to be the programme under Buch-
anan, as now under Pierce? We are anxious to
know. The people Of the country are anxious
to know. Mr.. Buchanan and all his friends have
ssld themselves. VIII they be true to the arti.
cies Of agreement and faith, freely eat dirt as
have Pierce and Douglass Or win they play
false to their pledges-to the platform made for
them, and swind!e the slavery cxtentionistsg
These are interesting and important matters
In these perilous times men are not disposed to
take a great deal upon trust. While old Buck
kpaced upon an absurd platform making tho
crazy assertion that Congress has not the power
to egislatc for the territories upon one particular
subject, twill be ofvery little avail that irrespon-
sible newspaper editors assert that he is opposed
to the Nebraska bill, or will not favor the ex-
tension Of slavery. The party cannot change
front SO readily.
But there are many moves upon the political
chess board and our opponents have not been
accustomed, in times past, to be deferred by any
little qaalms of conscience, from making any of
them likely to prove advantageous. From many
unmistakeable signs we are satisfied the Black
Democracy are attempting one, which will be
perilous, but may result to their Advantage
And that move is a fusion ,cith the Knop Moth
i,gsi Such afusion would be the result of nat
ural aiIinities. All slave owners are opposed to
freeabor and as matter of course to foreign
laborers who find home in the free States
What more natural for a party which IL now
driving free white men out of our territories, to
make room for colored slaves to fuse with a par.
y whose object is to impose disabilities upon the
foreign born and exclude him from a voice in the
government laundering resolutions, meaning
nothing, are passed by their conventions, which
are intended to keep the foreign allies in line,
while the leaders are intriguing for Know Moth
ing votes Buchanan has been accused Of K n
proclivitics. In the platform recently adopted
a, Cincinnati the word "American Democracy"
occurs, What does this means Is there cat
under the meal. This is new term. The Ne.
etasAa papers are evidently softening towards
"sam." They are patting the K. Ms very pat
ronzingly upon the back and calling them "Na-
tional." 1t is not at all strange that there
should be a friendly feeling between the Negro
breeder, and the aristOcratic element which
would exclude or ensiave the white man who
earns his bread in the sweat Of his face. We
shall await the full development of this scheme