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

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/ There Il great body Of thinking men II, the
4 southern ssates--manFI know il MARYLAND, a
considerable number, my neigheors in Mont
gomery county. who deplorc the repeal OF the
Compromises In relation TO Slavery, which all
hoped had terminated the distractions, growing
out Of this disturbing subject forever Il IS trHe
these people have not hitherto manifested by
public demonstrations their solieitude. The VIC.
| lation Of good faith in the breach Of these
/ eonipaets of peace between the sections and the
/ fatal consequences likely TO follow, we're not at
| frs; obvious to the of the Southern people
/ because by the art OF the politicians who con-
Quoted the passage of this measure through se-
| cret caucus, where all the personal interests of
4 the leadersin Congress and their partizans ma
| king up the majority In both Houses necessary
| to effect it, we're previously arransed-the re-
| peal was made to appear, as the voluntary ten
| der of the North TO the South. There had been
| no consultation by the members of Congress, in
any quarter with their constituents, either by
| issues made before the people, during the cam
yass or afterwards, or by address, petition, and
| votes in public meetings or by resolutions
| Among US, extraordinary changes affecting
| large interests and reaching the feelings the
prejudices, the religious and political principles
| of men, as well as the political eower of the
1 States had hitherto always been preceded or
| attended by every mode of forming and elicit
| ing the public opinion, which is the vital move
! ment in a Republican Government But in the
late overthrow of all the adjustments of the
most anxious question which Congress has had
to deal with, from its first to the present SEES
| sion, not a whisper OF the design was permitted
| to reach the public ear until its success was
| sealed by the private arrangements OF the polti-
clans in Congress, in conjunction with the Pres
| ident. The measure when publicly presented,
| was at first yelled in the Committees Report,
as being but reference TO the Supreme Court
of q question involving the constitutionality of
| the comprehension as conclusion that the
compromise of 1920 was superseded by the
compromise of 1850, but >this interpretation of
the Bill, corertly contained the repeal of the
| compromise of 1s20-that of lS50-and also
the compact of Texas; by which all the Terrific
| ~ reserved by each of them as free from Slavery
in the territorial condition, was opened up to its
I admission
This Bill of intrigue passed in conclave, by
the aspiring politicians, to subserve personal in
terests, was well understood by themselves and
partizans to be bonus for the Southern vote in
the election of President, but it was ushered in
to Congress as the voluntary Offering of the
North to the South to the principle of equality
1t was thus Invested in the eyes of the South, Of
being breach of faith on their side. 1t came
as free gift to them from the Chief Magistrate
and other leading men, Representatives of their
| Northern brethren.& -
They were not aware of the treachery of
these Representatives to their constituents nor
did they anticipate the excitement which has
| ensued from the wrong, aggravated by the be-
| trayal by which it was attended, nor the dam
gerous consequences likely to follow. Multi
tudes of honest patriots in the Saveholdng
States who love the Union, would willingly re-
store the compromises, the work of the great
men of their own region. They are sensible OF
the fatal effects of its dissolution upon the peace
and prosperity of the confederacy and of the
inevitable destruction of the security in which
| they hold the Slave Institution-of the fright
| full scenes of civil war and slave insurrection
which might arise out of the collision between
the sectons-on the one side wearing the as
| pect of of conquest, for the extension of
| Slavery--on the other a war of defence to pre-
| serve the rights of the emig grants who have gone
| from their bosom. But these men of good faith
who respect engagements, and above all, the
gagements which have produced concord and hap
Ply ties between the States the Union, find their
section, already embarked in strife by the COM
bination of politicians, who seek personal ad-
vantages by the power it gives them over the
masses. Warfare always commits the power
and interests of the many, to the few chiefs who
manage it. and the whole South is at this
| moment IN the HHuuS Oh pOnticla1lS VINO nave
contrved the movement, to strip the North of
its interests, as provided for in the several COM
| promises and the best men Of the slaveholding
States who are sensible of the iniquity cannot
venture to declare their sentiments, Test they incur
| the imputation of deserving their own section
in a contest in which defeat would be humilia-
ton, and for which the leaders who have pro-
| duced it, would subject them to the charge of
failing to stand by the of their peculiar In
| stitutionS. ' ...--
The persons who have sent me to this Con-
vention, the first of the sayeholdng region
who have come toward to vindicate the cause
| of our common country against this sectional
| influence. They are a body Of business men of
Baltimore who feel that their city especially and
| the State of Maryland have great stake depend
| ing on the preservation of the Union and the
peace of the country. If the bonds which unite
the twoportions of the Union, distinguished by
| free and slave institutions should be severed, the
nature of the different interests growing out of
the species of property in which it exists
| side, must involve continual conflicts for its re-
| covery, when flying to the other for freedom
| and the luminosity thus engendered cannot fail to
bring on those protracted and bloody wars of am
bition and conquest which have characterized
nations of contiguous Territory in every age
| and which have produced the most relentless
hosties between those of kindred blood
land-the wars between France and England
| of France and the northern nations OF the con-
| tincnt-wars which make up the history of Eu-
rope, would have their parallel here. Maryland
would become the Belgium of this side of the
! Atlantic-the Potomac the Rhine. The shores
of all our great Rivers dividing the hostile States
would trown with tortresses and centuries of
bloodshed ensue, unless the peculiar cause origi-
mating the strife which makes an early end of it,
! Inv tho Of ro}orS has fpniDp
| extinction. "
Those | represent abhorring the thought of
civil war pressed on the mind of every man by
| the sectional feud, which although now showing
| violence only upon remote frontier, Is never
| theless at work in every spirited heart on the
continent have desired me to submit to this
| Convention convoked to take the initiative in
the nomination of Chief Magistrate to uphold
| the cause of the Free States in the controversy,
aproposition marked by justice and moderation,
to restore good feeling and concord, and GER
| tainly there never was contest where the
plain, honest idea that directed Jackson's ad-
| ministration of such easy application in
settling difficulty. Let the North ask moth
ing bit aehdt IS clearly right, aud submit to moth
ing that is aerong and it cannot fail to bring the
quarrel to an honorable termination. The dis
| pute about the Territories was adjusted so salts
factorily to the whole country that all parties,
| however widely differing on other subjects,
made it point to give in adhesion to the set
| Element in every subsequent election-all the
candidates for the Presidency before and in the
last canvass in obedience to the several nominal
ting conventions, stood upon it as platform.
| The present Chief Magistrate did more. BY
the very terms of his Inaugural address, closed
| by solemn oath, he may be said to have sworn
his allegiance to the compromises Of the Slave
question. declaring they should not be disturbed
if he could prevent it during his term of service
| He renewed the VOW in the message to the first
Congress he met; and before its close became
the active instrument in abolishing every com
promise made on the subject since the tounda-
ton of the Government. 1t was done with the |
suddenness of the explosion OF mine of pow
der The system planned by Jefferson and his |
eompatriots to prevent the extension Of slavery
and its dangerous tendency to disruption of the
Cnion-the safeguard superadded under Mon |
roe's administration, Lowndes, Pinckney, Cal |
houn, Crawtord-ail the great men Of the South |
aiding; and Clay especially distinguishing him
self after two years of struggle in its effectua-