Weekly hawk-eye and telegraph. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1855-1857, 1856-03-05

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Pelisical PRsErcss.
Blu, few years ago il was cardinal doctrin
of the Whig party that there should be no fu'
,her extension of slavery. The Wilmot Provis
was even voted for by the Wing Representative
from the State Of Kentucky, without any pow
ow having been raised about it, and without, q
we are aware, having been abused as "Blacl
| Republicans or .Abolitionists." At that tim
| "Aboltionistss we're understood to be small
body of men who proposed, by the power of tn
National Government, or in some other way, Il
abolish slavery in the states, wherever it existed
or dissolve the Union. How is it now, ever,
body who is not in favor of the universal exten
sion and expansion of the Black Institution oye'
all our territories, is obnoxious to the whoie
string of stcreotyped epithets in vogue, such as
'Abolitionist,' "Black Republican, "Woolly
Head ETC. 1t is now understood that the Dec
laration of Independence is fanatieal paper,
and Mr.. jefferson was very ''wooy' politician.
John Bell, John NJ. Clayton, Thomas II. Benton,
Sam Houston, and goodly number of Southern
statesmen, are under the present classification,
"Aboltonsts" of the Ebony" stripe Henry
Clay, Daniel Webster, and the great men who
gave tone to the Wing party in its palmiest days,
we're but deluded set of Negro worshippers and
sympathizers according to the present arrange
ment. Isaac Hill, one of the champions of DEM
ocracy under Gen. Jackson's administration, op-
posed the admission of Missouri as slave state,
into the Union, and he could not begin to shine
with the Pierce party now. F.P. Blair, Gen.
Jackson's right hand man, and so many years
editor of the Globe, is still alive aud is President
of the "Black Republican" National Convention,
in session at Pittsburgh at last advices Even
Dick johnson, with his honest and generous i'm
pulses, would hardly be in favor Of shooting and
hanging men in Kansas, because they preferred
free labor to slave and his notions would be ruled
out as heterodox in the Democratic Church of
1856. OF all the dead great men of this country
we now remember only one whose opinions are
orthodox, and who would, if alive, be allowed
to commune with the Kansas Nebraska party, and
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progress.
THE ELEMENTS OF THE PRESENT POWER OF
GREAT BRITAIN, AND HER PROBABLE FATE AS
NArIoN--The Hon. THOMAS EWING, ofOhio, lee
tured at Cleveland on Thursday and Friday, of
last week, on the above subject. The Herald
the lectures as the ablest of the
season which were listened to with pleasure and
interest by select audience. The following
will give our readers clear idea of
the leading points made by Mr.. Ewing: The
area of the Island Great Britain, which is the on
ly portion of her vast empire that possesses uni
ty, excluding the highlands, which contribute
nothing to the support of the population, is
scarcely greater than Ohio and Indiana, and the
population is 800 to the square mile. The chief
elements of power are her manufactures, and her
East Indian possessions which create COM
merce, and from which incidentally arises the
necessity of navy. The latter is surpassed by
none other, but her army is secondary to others
on the continent; she has never ranked as first
military power. Her debt is $4,00o,o0o, ,o00.-
This is owing to her citizens. She pays the in
terest punctually, and in order to do this she
again borrows, so that with the lapse of every
year her debt increases. The East Indies which
have been in possession of the East India Compa-
ma for over 80 years, were obtained by an en-
ergetically followed system, of what in the west
ern world, would be called piracy, are held in
subjection by force and fraud, and the greatest
cruelty is yet practioed to cxtort wealth from the
natives. The rival to be feared by Great Britain
is Russia The latter now controls Persia, and
thus is very near the northwestern Mountain
passes through which a comparatively small
army could he poured, which, aided by the Af-
yhans, and the restless Musselmen Of Hindoostan,
could with ease wrest the entire peninsula from
Great Britain. This was even now the subject
Of notice by the British. The coal fields of the
sland are rapidly being diminished, and accord
ng to Bakerwells Geology two hundred years
will suffice to exhaust them. With the loss of
coal her manufacturing pre-eminence must fall
with the loss of the Indies her commerce and
1et navy will become at least secondary, and
ier prestige as a powerful and wealthy nation
vanish The lecturer likened her position now
% that of Spain in the beginning of the 10th
century, and predicted for her similar decline.
There could be no probability 'ef her anniha-
ion as nation, her situation, and the spirit of
ner people preclude such an idea-her arts, sci
,nce and learning could not be lost, but she
must he thought, lose her present immense pow
,r among nations. In noticing the present war
and its probable results, he said one thing was
certain, Turkey would become as nothing.
She was sick and nigh to death, and even now
her funeral obsequies were being celebrated in
advance by the waving of Christian flags on both
SIDES of the Bosphorus, and the roar of the can
non on the north side of the Euxine,"
A Plank for the Old Line Wings.