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

oEn seeking--Tpas1ftd BY Sts own greatest
sssstesrnen, under which they hnse enjoyed
peace and safety for swothirds OF century .and
the snbyersion os which makes the tenure. not
only of the domestic Institution, bat OF all they
hold dearest ia public or private life, depend on
the chances of civil war Whenever this issue
comes, the North viii find an auxiliary in THAI
same Union party in the South, that sustained
Jackson, and my constituents will have the great
pSe-enlinenee OF having first given in their adj
hesion 10 this, the really patriotic party of their
section.
7he repeal Of the repeating ciaase IF the Ne
brdska-haasas act, would be the finale of all
the existing coinmotion and of the eager am
bition which originated them. If this single line
Is Inscribed our Flag We shall conquer underit.
It viii be the Union Flag
The repeal of the Kansas Nebraska clause,
overthrowing theerights of the Free States is
vital pressing exigency. 1t is the issue made by
the acts OF the administration, and is the only
one producing the existing excitement. 1t
should be moved at once in the House of Repre-
sentatives, practical mode of redressing the
wrongs and rebuking the aggressors, and to
give notices that the majority of the people of
the Union mean to yindicate their rights and
the cause of Free Institutions in the most direct
manner; and also, that Shareholders may have
warning in advance, not to hazard the property
they value so highly in Territory from which by
solmen covenant slavery was interdicted, and
which the sovereign power of the country has re-
solved to reinstate. This waring is necessary to
preclude the plea of vested rights, as having eff
feet in favor of such as go into Kansas or other
free territory with slaves-a plea which was urg
ed successfully in Missouri. 1t is necessary too
to estop owners of slaves from claiming adem-
iity for slaves, freed by the act of Congress, re-
cognizing such Territory on coming into the Tn
ion as free. Even if Kansas were admitted at the
present session of Congress as a free State, the
repeal ought to be urged TO prevent the REPETITION
of the Kansas outrages, in New Mexico Utah,
and all the Territory of the United States, the
Nebraska act having lin violation of the prohibit
tory laws or treaty. opened them all up to SINH
lar invasions. For thesereasons, and many more
that might be urged, touching the policy of the
measure, hold that every issue should merge in
that of repeal.
There is one view more which my duty to my
Southern constituents, prompts me to present
for consideration. In the South both the old
parties, Wing and Democratic, have blended their
strength to secure the conquest of the free Ter
rtories for the Slave Institution. Mr. Caruthers
a staunch Wing of Missouri, when asked where
were the Wing party, answered that its soul
had transmigrated into the Democratic body in
the South and while pronouncing the proudest
eulogium on Henry Clay, whose principles he
still held his political faith admitted that the
measure on which the slave holding section had
planted it's standard had identified in its support
the Wings and Democrats of the slave holding
States however differing on other questions
The South Americans, although all connection
with them was reprobated by the Democratic
Caucus of the House, and by the official organ
ofthe Administration, at Washington. were con-
strained to support Mr.. Aiken, the Administra-
ton candidate for Speaker at the close of the
contest. This proves that all political organiza-
TONS hostile as they are ON all subordinate ques-
tons upon the sectional policy of extending
Slavery to Territories heretofore free, are one
and indivisibc. The success achieved by the
Southern politicians by inducing all the North
ern aspirants for the Presidency to run race
for the favor of the South, in showing who
would go fartherest and fastest to make surren-
der of the rights of their constituents to the
slave-holding section, leaves no public man in
the South any other alternative than to relinquish
his position or insist on that great conquest for
the slave-hoding interest, to which it was con
trived to give the appearance of being q youn-
tary boon rendered by the North to the South.
1t is this strategy which renders it impossible at
this time for those among the people who favor
the compromises, to rally in the South to main
tain what they are sensible honor and good faith
recognizes as binding, because made by its own
statesmen, then in command of the Government,
and sanctioned by their own consent. In the
South, there can never be party, to assist in
redressing this wrong until the North dspels by
its unanimity, the illusion, that its people are will
ling to acquiesce in it.
The hopes depending on party leaders, con-
trolling everywhere the organization of the Dem
ocratic party in the free States and the ntiu-
ence and patronage of the administration, have
done much to stitie the voice of the masses in the
free States. If they will in the approaching Pres
idential election unite all parties, indignant at
the violation of the rights of the North, to as
sert them, as all have united in the South to de-
ny them, the injustice will soon be remedied-
When the North is true to itself, there are null
titudcs in the other section who will perceive the
iniquity it has suffered, but who would never see
it, iftamely acquiesced in. There are thou
sands in the South who are sensible Of the dan
ger to themselves in the breach OF the compacts
about savery-Nho estimate truly the conse-
quences of a rupture Of good feeling between
the sections and who rather than bring matters
TO the arbitrament, to which they seem to be
fastening, would wllingly.see the broken COM
pacts restored-but if from want Of concert of
action, the North, however injured and excited
can make no eiiectual resistance, it NAV prepare
for reception ofindignitcs and wrongs to which
those who offer them viii setno limit when there
is no bond of submission. This Republican Con-
vention is nucleus whichit may be hoped will
gather around it, the masses of the North who
are resolved to redress the wrong perpetrated by
the passage of the Kansas Nebraska Act. Gre
publican party" was the early designation of that
which subsequently took the soubriquct of Dem
ocrat at first given in derison Mr. Jefferson in
his inaugural, calling the parties by names un.
der which they then were arrayed against each
other said 1--WE are all Republicans, we are all
Federasts.' He meant doubtless, that there
were certain great principles in which both
agreed embraced in their designations however
much they disagreed about matters OF policy and
modes of administering the Government
The Federalists gave their support to the Re-
publican form of government. The Republicans
were devoted to the Federal compact; both
agreed in oppostionto royalty, and in opposition
to severance ofthc federation, and leaving the
States to drift as petty nations detached from
each other. May not those who have or
gained with view to correct what they consider
mere error in the legislation and administration
OF Government, under whatever party name or
watchword they rally, unite with those who do
not agree with them aboutth measures or mode
Of reform on points which involve nothing vital,
to redeem the government from an inraction of
the fundamental laws, on which they believe its
peace and prosperity certainly depend, and pos
sibly its union as nation. Cannot all parties in
the North unite in such a crisis to preserve what
they in common feel to be paramount to all 9TH
er questions in controversy which have hereto
fore divided them, and cannot all rally under a
Republican Standard to defend the cause of free
institutions aid the Union against the aggression
Of interested ambitious men, who make Slavery
means of combining sectional force to accom-
pGsh their designs against them? -.~"
The great object of defeating this attempt, by
putting all questions of difference in obeyance
for the time, does not imply surrender of par
ty principles or of the organizations to be en-
ployed to give effect to them hereafter But
such is the reluctance of men who have battled |
for a cause under a banner to which they have
given their atfectons-so loyal are the hearts of
good men, even to the badges they have worn |
and which they honor that they will not desert |
them for Others, although they feel the necessity
Of Uniting with those whom they have once op-
posed, in support of still dearer and more impor |
ant interests. | think this noble feeling should |
be consulted by this Convention in the arrange |
nents it may make to. produce concert among all |
parties who place the preservation OF the free ter
'itories from Slavery land as result the preser- |
ration OF the union,) above all other subjects of
controversy, and it is to be hoped that measures