Weekly hawk-eye and telegraph. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1855-1857, 1856-10-08

West against the transit Of emigrants seeking
home on tinted States !ands, in addition 10.
these things, the Indictment Of printing
and hotel by Grand Jury. and the summary
punishment Of both By burning without trial.
Would you rot like to copy Of these ii1dict-
mcptss This act. must also have been done IN
imitation OF Draeo, who sentenced a statue TO
be banished for having fallen upon man.
Al the same time that these indictments we're
executed, the town of Lawrence sas sacked,
and the peopied robbed by those famous police
| executioaers. No; content with these onsrages,
proving hrigands from the Blue Lodges and
from distant States we're indnlgsnty encoura-
gcd 70 range through the Territory, robbiag,
banishng and rnurdering, in cold blood, its pea
ceabie inhabitants, ayosedly 10 exterTniaate
them from the land under the hue and cry OF
| ssobcdience to Law and order'-fhat Is, the law
and order OF Missouri invaders, administered by
| Judge Lceornpte and executed By Atehison
/ Appeals to the President were answered by re-
| ference to the protection of these sacred laws,
a. coolIy and graveiy referred to as if they were
the Jostinian code. When, under the menace
of the las. invasion from Missouri, the people of
Kansas sent a special deputation TO the Presi.
dent of the United States, be not only perempt-
ority refused them any relief, but insulted them
| by reproach for having mcddled too much with
their institutions, instead of minding their own
| business; meaning, evidently, that be had pro-
yided for them institutions, through his comb
Dental friend General Atchison, and it was a
grave otfense for them to interfere with him,
and grossly presumptuous flo. men "who do
their own drudgery' TO attempt to form institu-
tons for regulating society according to its
natural and normal condition"
4 & tt,n Ia ly IN t}rp
Kansas deputies, he must have been SO absorbed
in the doings of the conspiracy as to have lost
all compunetious "reminiscences. He was so de-
termined upon the execution of their laws, that
be preferred to jeopardize the whole military
appropriation for the year, rather than forego
the employment of the army to establish this
Atchison code. The facts have thus adverted
10 constitute but small part of the indisputa-
BILE evidence that might be adduced to estab-
ish the charge of the conspiracy among certain
/ high functionaries of our National Govern
ment to interpolate new and false construc-
ton of the Federal Constitution, upon point
of fearful and vital interest; to accomplish
which solemn pledges have been violated, and
means employed in which the great principles of
| Democratic Government have been wholly con-
demned and disregarded and an actual coup
| detat attempted, more abhorrent to treemen
| than thing we have been from infancy taught
| to condemn in the achievements of the Old
| World
| To those who have been trained, as I have
been from youth, in devotion to Democratic
| principles, the measures which have thus cur
sorily presented 10 view must cause additional
pain, as well as alarm, from being the exclu-
sive devices of high public functionaries,
placed in power by, and reputed to represent
the Democracy of the United States. We have
cherished with ardent devotion to the benevo-
lent sentiment embodied in the term that de-
sgnates a government made by the people for
their own good; but how revolving to every
sincere, ardent, patriotic Democrat, to be COM
PEELED to see his time-honored patronymic pros
| tituted not only to the destruction of sacred
chartered rights, but to the establishment Of
doctrines subyersiye of Democratic charter
itself There are many examples of corrupt
men, who relying on the prestige of an impo-
sing popular name, have used 1t as mantle to
protect them in the preparation OF diabohcal
crimes; but who could have imagined that the
| name of Democracy could be thus effectively
abused, before its model Republic Astounding
with every thing necessary to human happiness,
was eighty years old?
But, all is not yet lost. If high officials have
prostituted our name and by vile Vaccinations
betrayed us, we have our principles to stand
upon, from which we can make battle at the
ballot-box, and rebuke back the conspirators to
harmless retirement. OF the candidates be-
fore the people, | have little to say. The
great question to be decided is one oil principle
only. Mr.. Buchanan stands upon the same
platform with Franklin Pierce, and is so
pledged by his supporters to carry out his meas
ures, and especially the plot of the conspira-
tors to use the Constitution of the United States
to carry slavery into, and drive Free Labor out
OF all their Territories, that unless he possess
the heroic nature of a Regulus, he cannot re-
spond to the demands of free Democracy.
| Mr. Fillmore is, probably, well-disposed
gentleman; l know nothing against him, cx-
cept his recognition of the right of certain
States to revolt if they should be defeated at
the polls, or il he did not mean revolt, as he
did not use the word, he must have thought
of coup d'ctdt, as has since been suggested by
| Chevalier Brooks of South Carolina. Some of
his friends seem to have vague idea of his
powers of compromise, but has any one Ven
tured to suggest the terms? Will they give
part of Kansas up for a slave pasture and re
| serve the rest to Freedom? Neither side will
conccde one inch to such terms. 1t is set
| tied point that Kansas must be given up eli
| ther to Slavery or Freedom, and who pretends
to guess what Mr.. Fillmore would do on such
| a question?
| Of Col. Fremont l have still less to say
1t is asserted that be is too young and inexpe-
ricnced. As to the first objection, he is even
| beyond the age when the ablest and most sue
cessful men the world has ever seen began
| their achievements. As to the second, he
| will require only IA clear head, disciplined
| mind, n steady hand, an honest and stout heart,
| to do all the work the nation can demand of
| him. All those qualities have been accorded
to him by impartial opponents. We have the
fullest assurance in his history of their reality.
Thus armed, and standing on platform of simple
construction, founded on rock, Unencumber-
ed by any delusive architectural distractions,
and supported by an untlinchng phalanx of
free Democracy and staunch Republicanism, if
! have any Judgment of the causes that most
effectively operate on the minds Of Americans,
he will be triumphantly elected, and as tri-
umphantly lead this Republic onward to its
glorious destiny.
With great consideration, am yours,
S. d. INGHAM.
| The reading of Mr.. Ingham's letter was fire.
quenty interrupted by applause; and, at its
| the writer
An Indictment.
/ The Baltimore Democrat contains bill OF
Indictment against the present administration
and Mr. Buchanan, which includes the follow
ing Counts:
ENDORSEMENT OF THE PIERCE ADMINISTRATION
| BY MR.. BUCHANAN.
The present President of the United States
came into office by such maj GRITTY as scarcely
any other candidate has ever received lie had
not been in Office two years before his admins
!, tration stank in the nose of the entire Union.
/ There is no record of loss Of popularity SO
complete, so sudden and so overwhelming. This
administration, with all its faults and all its
unpopularity, the Cincinnati platform fully en-
dorses, and Mr.. buchanan has expressed his de.
termination to shoulder it, as Samson did the
gates of GAIA, and bear it to the end of the