Weekly hawk-eye and telegraph. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1855-1857, 1856-04-30
JUNCTION. IOWA, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 50, 1856.

EDNESDAY !, APRIL 50,
FOR he Hawk-Eye and IsasrspA.
! NJ. Sspayds Spseeh Sectional Limifatio. g
II Sareay moi agreeable to sAe South--;tSqsa
!, ser Sovereignty 1yasioaaI aefioa--Pr Pro@pec
Of snionef a A5olifionists aaa aareAoid<ys, dc
Nh. EDITaR:
! never read speech of any length from
Mr. Seward, but that Il communicated . sense o.
safety, By giving new force to the fact, that
behind al wrong and outrage, as ! firm back.
1 ground, there Is law and right, and that the
right can never be entirely shaded and hidden
mot by all the wrong.
regard his plan or principle Of action, as
providing for the Aboliaon of Slavery by its
own natural decay--a plan similar to John 6.
Calhouns plan Of eonfiasang slavery by its own
natural laws Of extension.
Either plan, adopted by the General Govern
ment would be particularly successful for the
time in promoting its particular design even were
the final decay Of slavery considered GER
1 tain. sss @ s ssA
Mr. Sesard's is equally the policy Of "Naster-
II inactivity penning slavery up within its
present limits and then leaving it. to die its nat
ural death, and leaving the South to provide
! for the emancipation and emigration of the
blacks, lin their own time, and in their own way.
The day Of the adoption Of this policy, would
| be the date Of the doom Of slavery
This plan, besides being just is humane, for
under no other plan can the blacks ever learn
economy;to husband their own resources, to
work and fertilize old lands, &c. Without learn
ing these things, they will never complete their
education, and be enabled to conduct any busi-
ness but robbery, Independently. They have
plenty of country now, upon which to try this
plan or experiment, and complete their educa-
ton
The Southern people fear to try the expert
ment-they fear to be shut up, alone, with their
blacks, within boundaries to try it out-thcy fear
to carry ont their old Estate right" doctrine,
that slavery is their oc's--they fear to hear the
same doctrine acknowledged and repeatedat the
North, that slavery is sectional fear to
letit die on their own hands.
What then is their plan to shirk it off upon
the whole nation9 It's this--whether they admit
it, whether they are conscious of it at all, as
yet, it matters not. The ''squatter Sovereignty.
idea, as it is being worked out, is two-fold-to
force the extension Of slavery, and, in case of
failure, to force the General Government into
the act of erpelting it from the territories, by
nf Ia Ia sokro
therein. .a ss
Either point they intend as point gained for
them If they can do nomore than to cause the
General Government to assume, some action up
on it, and thereby make 1t National, it will be a
great point at which they aim, that they pur-
pose not to bear the curse alone, or the cost Of
emancipation and emigration of the blacks from
the country alone, and, in future, instead of
talking of Estate Rights" and secession they
will talk ofthe National Government, and its
duties to the SLAVES.
William Lloyd Garrison, Gerrit Smith, and
Southern Stare holders, are most Of them no
doubt genuine Abolitionists, and if the matter
is not settled by the movements of the present
day, these men must all be united in time to
come. in the great work of abolition, and be
successful too, as far as success can be had from
a future point Of beginning, bit. at the cost Of
the schole nation-this, because, Northern 'Den,-
ocrats" won't believe any body but save-hold-
ers, or somebody who "has slept with a slave
holder" They won't believe that nor they can
throw the whole thing wholly upon the South,
or rather make it stay there, and still the South
be glad more than ever to stay with us.
After seeing what we have seen, we cannot
blame such men as Garrison and Smith, for look
ing forward to the abolition of slavery in the
country. even at an advanced cost because
they fear that men wont do it at present cost,
(which is nothing and, because they know that
when shareholders strike for abolition, Northern
Democrats" will dolikewise, and also help these
holders to reach their hands into the National
Treasury, to cover the freedom of countless
slaves-''to save the Union-ah" -
Wouldn't that look very much like these hold
ers wanting to s,cap slaves They will take our
bonas il place of their slaves, any time.
With National debt on this principle, the
SidSe-noluerS, auu tic slOck-uOlueTS WouAu iay
down together, and the ''millenium" would be
| come, to them-but, very much like the past
Milleniums, where many are called and but few
saved.
The reader may draw mark around these
conclusions as black as he pleases, or paste it
on blank leaf of his dictionary, and if not very
far advanced in years, he will stand q chance Of
| seeing the thing attemptedif the subject is not
settled at the present crisis.
Mr. Seward is anxious to economise for the
North, where his constituency live, by having
this matter settled noac, while it will cost them
nothing, but the nerve to step up to the Ballot
box
| Mr.. Stewards speech contains lucid state
ment of modern usurpation, and revolution not
yet finished, which cannot fail to be read with in
tense interest by all political readers of the civ
| ilized world. j. B.P. q
Mt. PLEASANT, April 29d, 1856.
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For the Hawk Eye and Telegraph.
1 QuINcY, ADAMS Co., Iowa.
I. April 18th, 1855.
DEAR S1R:-A few weeks ago | sent you a
copy of the resolutions adopted at the Republic
can convention held in this place.
1 And in order that you may know how well we
have sustained them enclose herewith the vote
on School Fund and Drainage Commissioner. -
The votes were strictly party votes each party