Weekly hawk-eye and telegraph. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1855-1857, 1856-08-06

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= due q OR readers that The Mirror sa1asd
define III position 90 the question OF the Presi.
denc!- We las SISTED, sasched, Inquired, OBJ
Erred, and sieiiberated calmly on the subject,
ard have decided 70 vote for Fremont. The
resons thai hare led 10 this coHclusion. we will
briefly state
In the first place, We ike the MAs--Ais char
ter and his career. We like him for what he 10
and for what be has done, and are willing to
take the record OF the past AZ guarantee for
the future. With biz political principles, az in
dicated by his sotes and speeches In the United
States Senate, and set forth ia his recsss Let
ter OF Acceptance, We have no fault 10 find
And we hare private reasons for believing,
that, in the event Of his election he viii prose
az good and AZ prompt . President as General
Jackson.
But other and stronger considerations thar
these have determined tie election we have
made. After fighting the battle of the South
for twelve long years, defending its political
rights, domestic institutions, social character
manners and habits on all occasions, recent oc-
eurrences have convinced as that the time has
come for the North, with its superior numbers,
intelligence, wealth and power, to take stand
firm and fixed IS the granite hills, against the
threatening, bullying, brow-beating, skal!.
breaking spirit Of the Soutli-a spirit tiIat tram
pies on Compromises; violates the sacred free
dom Of parliamentary debate aud murders the
settlers upon our common soil for simply oppos.
ing, by voice and vote, the fastening of Slavery
upon free and virgin Territory.
II Is not necessary to assure the readers OF the
Mirror that we have nosympathy with the polit-
icai Abotionists Of the North, who have been
riding the negro hobby for fifteen years, seek
ing Office while ashrieking for freedom But.
however miscbieyous and letestable the senti-
ments promulgated by these sectional deina-
gognes may be, they have never resorted to
bullets and biudgeons to carry their points, or
to silence their opponents. They haze even
made virtue OF necessity submitting to the OBJ
efations of the Fugitive Slave Law, 1.-THE bitterest
pill ever swallowed by the North Tor the benefit
OF the South, and even the repeal of the Missou-
ri Compromise would have been quietly acaui-
esced in, had "fair play and no gouging" been
secured to the settlers in Kansas
AS the representative OF Northern feeling,
aroused by series of unwonted outrages on the
part of Southern Politicians and countenanced
by the Fierce administration, John Charles FIRE.
mont has been selected as candidate for the
PRESIDENCY. In the great emergency of the ma
ton the eyes of the Free States turn to him.
who has waved the flag of his country upon the
top of America, US to the rising Star of the Re-
public. The HOUR and the MAN have come to.
gether, as they always do come, in the right
time OF nations need.
1t is not now orr purpose to prophecy; we
have not even made an arithmetical calculation
of the chances of this complicated campaign.-
The question with us is not one of policy, but of
principle; not fpolitics even, but of patriotism.
In the event of Fremonts election, the very tri-
umph would suggest a course OF magnanimity
towards the South. The Republican Cabinet
and Foreign Missions should fairly represent
every section of the Union. And it is the strong
assurance that such a generous and purely ma
tional policy would be adopted, more than all
other considerations, that has decided the step
we have taken.
Against the other candidates in the field-EilJ-
more and Buchanan-the Mirror has nothing to
say. They are good men, both But the plat
forms on which they are mounted, the alliance
and associations they have formed, and the meas
ures to which they are committed, are not broad
enough, free enough, grand enough to accom-
modate the progressive, independent and go
ahead spirit Of Young America Old Fogyism
may lift its spectacles, shake its Silver GRAY
locks, and warn us against yielding to this sud
den hurricane that is sweeping ovar the North.
But so long as the breeze blows in the right d.
rcction, it is better to go mih than against it
and without throwing overheard single con-
sentative principle hitherto advocated BY the
Mirror,we can go into the fight for FRRMoSr
and DAYTON; for the Union of the States and the
constitutional rights Of both the Moth and the
South, as conscientIously as ever crusaders bat
tied Tor Jerusalem In times like these, to be
neutral is to be a coward.