Weekly hawk-eye and telegraph. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1855-1857, 1857-05-06

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pablicanism acknowledges.
fFrom the \. D. Delta
Every political event. movement and indica
ton At this time in the North unite in confirm
ing the prediction We made as soon as Mr.
Buchanan's election was established, that the
Black Republicans, far from disbanding, would
undertake preparations for the ba.,ie of 1856
with more Sigor, determinations and zeal than
ever. Though they failed to elect their Pres
ident, yet they were signally triumphant in con.
solidating such an extended and serried polit.
ical organization as was never before effected
within the same brief period They were not
beaten; they yielded no inch of vantage ground;
they encamped upon the hstsle-held, and are
now defantly Haunting their black banners
across our lines in Mary land, Virginia and Mis-
souri, Confident in the numerical strength ex-
hibited by the Overwhelming vote of twelve
States in their favor; conidens in the increase
of this strength, as the avalanche acquires mo-
mentum when plunging down the mountain
side into the plain; and confident, alas! in the
pertinacous inaptitude of the South, while SO.
porized by national politics, to arm herself in
real earnest against aggression, they already
regard themselves as predestined conqnerors,
and the South as helpless foe that must sur
render at discretion or be subjugated by main
force. 3.tfa 4s G
''In every war;" saws Gibbon, "a motive Of
safety or revenge, of honor or zeal, of right or
convenience, may be found in the jurispru-
dence of conquerors." Predetermined upon
war, and anticipating conquest, the Black Re
publicans as facile in discovering presexts as
active in making preparations for their crusade
against the South. Whatever may be the solu-
ton of any of the vexed questions of the time,
they find in the resul, something to stimulate
hop ban thor boy
set to work with renewed zeal and organize
With yet great unanimity. Does Kansas threat.
en- to come into the Union as q slave States
Then Pro-Slavery is appropriating the domain
of Freedom" and must be hurled back. Does
it appear almost certain that the same Territory
will be consecrated to Freedom" in spite of
the internal efforts of the Border Ruffians" to
the contrary? Then, after beating the Romans
at Canine, it will not be wise to daily at Capua;
but there should be no rest until Rome itself be
besieged, stormed and sacked. -..5-' --
With the same facility for turning every pub
lie event to misunderstanding elements of
agitation and new resources of strength from
either absolute success or seeming reverse-the
Black Republicans have converted the late Su-
preme Court decision in the Dred Scott case into
an active agent of combustion, and that ,chich
a few antedilurian prophets told MS ,rould be as
oil poured upon the '0aters, has really had the
effect of oil poured upon the flames They see
in it design through Pro-Slavery Judiciary
to natonalze slavery, to attack 'the rights Of
man, and to stultity the Declaration of Inde-
pendence. But there is law higher than tina.
which informs the counsels of the Judiciary;
there is a sanction of more force than the Bench;
there is will which cannot be reversed, and
which it is pitching straws against the wind to
attempt to resist, with merely legal instruments
and that is an incensed, revengeful and i'm
placable ma jority, whose worst passions are now
invoked by the most dangerous and wilieSt of
agitators; whose gospel is to destroy the South
and propagate lcentousness and social chaos
in the name of Freedom"
They have sworn never to lay down their
arms, these enemies of the South They hate
her with Carthagenian hatred. BY the hide
Gus black god they worship, they have sworn to
conquer her in 1860. They are Frightening
their weapons every day. The tramp of their
gathering hosts may be heard on every North
ern plain. The tocsin of war sounds shrilly
fires burn all along the Southern border, and
in more than one place they hare al'ea4y crossed
the boundary and established outposts upon South
ern territory. They never yet been known to
take step backward, and their order of march
is still Southwark.
In the face of all this what are the Southern
sentinels doing upon their watch? What is the
South doing for defence-what is she doing for
Where is her encampment, where
are her leaders, and who are they: Where and
who is her Fabius or her Scipio Africanus?-
Alas! where? Alas. who? But never despair;
when the hour comes the man will come, doubt
less. We may wait awhile for the coming man,
but we can wait no longer with safety to pre-
pare for the inevitable hour.
The national Democratic party has no longer
any rational hope to hold out 10 the South
South gave it victory in 1856, and she has tasted
Sea ashes. Another such victory would leave
her naked, to starve upon the desert. But ME
national Democratic party holds out no rational
hope Of success for itself, as at present organ
ized Office is its strongest eohesire element, and
the rotary principle is taking amayits strength
from that source. Wherever one applicant for
office has been appointed, at least a dozen expee-
tants have been disappointed; the erincunbents
are secretly or openly hostile to'eards the pouers
riich displaced them; the nem inc"mbeats riH
prove ungratefut, of course, and expecting to
give up their positions on the incoming Of an
other Adminstration-the rotary principle be-
ing established in the national Democratic creed
they will have nothing to stimulate them to
labor for the election of a Democratic President,
but on the other hand, wiH be strongly tempted
to secretly make terms 'cith the opposite party
Black Republican or what not-and render a
quid pro quo in the way of political treachery
for a continuance in their places. Ofall these
weakness in the national Democratic organiza-
ton, the willy enemy will be sure to avail HIM
self Pennsylvania was carried for Mr. Buch.
anan by liberal tar upon Democratic office
holders. Is it at all reasonable that they mouid
again undergo such a tar, nth tue certainty that
the candidate they ,cere thus aiding to elect ,oould
cut their o,cn heads of? Is it not more reason
able, on the contrary, that many of them would
listen tavorably to the overtures of the enemy
to sell their party for their offices9 Assuredy
it is, as the morals Of politics 60 nova days.
Now, a word about the policy OF the South
We have been charged with luxuriatng in op-
position, without proposing any definite pro-
gramme of action for the South. We are not
justly amenable to any such charge. We have,
time and again, outlined a programme which
was fully definite enough for the state Of the
public mind in the South. Opinion must pre-
cede action A general idea OF what Is to be
done ard the will to do it, must precede the
details of the plan by which it may be accom-
plished. When the Southern mind-emanci-
pated by tradition and liberated from the des-
programme will not be wanting. Meantime, we
have this to say: The issue is distinctly made
between the North and the South; II is life
and death contest, and Nth her present resources
the South cannot conquer IN the Union. If she
is to be saved, she must work out her own sal
vation; her own foresight must be her provi-
dence-her own will her destiny.
1t has been proposed by a company at the
North that some of the Yankee farmers, shoe
makers, blacksmiths, carpenters, wheelrights
schoolmasters, &C., shall emigrate into the quie
old Virginia counties on the James River, pur
chase lands, increase their value by cultivation
and build up towns and villages. The bare pro
position has thrown some of the old fogies 0
Virginia into terrible spasms. They cry out 70
prompt and forcible resistance. They are TO
/ meeting the emigrants with sword, bowie knife
bayonet and rife. NJ. Pryor's new paper
''The South" actually invokes the in,erpositio
of the Virginia State Government
We do not we'll see how the Virgnians ca
properly drive out Northern men who purchas
and pay for their lands and afterwards behav
themselves. We think that the Virginians,