Weekly hawk-eye and telegraph. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1855-1857, 1857-02-11
HAWK.EY1 AID TRIH0RAlH.

HAwK.EYR Ard TELEGRAPH.
Enaancipasisa IL Missouri.
Looking at III the internal proceedings i
Kansas--ths oppresalons and barbarities, Ii
thefss, rcbbsries and murders-she devastation
Of the country, BY Hre and sword, in order i
extend slavery Looking as the attempt fron
Maine to California in the late election Of Presi
/ dentto subyeft the vital principIeof our govern
ment ITSELF and make il really government
uhose principal object was TO foster and e1tent
slavery and protect and defend The white mar
IN breeding, buying, selling and carrying the ne
gro ass chattel where he pleased
i The Missouri Compromise stood 10 the way
OF the conspirators and It was repealed. Free
dom Of speech and Of the prcn, guaranteed in
our constitution had been virtually repealed in
| fifteen states, no man daring to give utterance
to his opinions, when those opinions did not co.
incide with popular prejudice. In fact, 80 weak
and dastardly had many Of the Shareholders
and their spologists and tools become, that they
had feared the voice Of woman, and had with
al the dignity and enlightened philanthropy Of
Spanish inquisition, banisbed such from par.ic-
ular ncighborhoods, cities and states, where It
was thought freedom Of speech might interfere
with vested rights Of man in man, even though
shaf freedom OF speech was exercised but BY
woman.
Looking, We say, at all the violence and blood.
shed, and barbarities perpetrated in the name of
slavery, from the Senate Chamber to the utmost
extremity of the Union, it was clear, and has for
some time been to our mind clear, that the gov.
eminent itself must be subver.ed in the violence
OF the struggle and . state of anarchy and rev.
olution supervene, or there must be terrible
reaction. It is now apparent that there is a
fearful reaction, the beginning Of which is upon
u. Jane Buchanan with all the patronage of
the government at his control, is loathed and
dispised, as well by those who voted for him at
the South and the North, as by those who op-
posed him. Scarcely less odious is he with the
people than Pierce and Douglas.
But this reaction is upon the slave states
themselves. Missouri has been the residence of
most Of the violent consprators, who undertook
to mould the domestic institutions of Kansas
Invasion after invasion was planned and execute
ed in Western Missouri, and up to this time, or
rather to the appointment Of Gov. Geary, these
conspirators, living in Missouri, have governed
Kansas, made Legislatures, enacted laws, and
when their laws were disregarddd, marched in
person to compel submission. This attempt
to extend slavery by bloodshed and murder, has
produced its legitimate effects. St. Louis is in
favor of getting rid of the slave, and q majority
OF the legal voters of Missouri are to-day oppos-
ed to slavery. Buta few short weeks ago Mis- {
aourians we're compelling men in Kansas to hold
their tongues, or if they said any thing they
must not dispute the legal existence of slavery
in Kansas. Now men in Missouri are bold by
not only their opposition to the .
niger, but raising their hands and their voices
boldly and fearlessy for the abolition of slave
Stringfellow and Jones and the Blue Lodges - |
Dead as Senacherib and his army. Public opin- .
ion has slain them. Those who were going to
make the institutions of Kansas, have not now
the power of saving their own. Men are NOV J
ing in favor of emancipation in Missouri. They
boldly advocateit in the legislature the
and at all proper times and places. s
And although it would seriously, for the time 7
being, retard the growth of Iowa, yet We could
not but rejoice exceedingly at an event which a
should make Missouri . free State. c
The followingi is extracted from the speech of
Mr. Brown, in the Legislature Of Missouri:
Lam freesoiler, and don't deny it. No
word or vote of mine shall ever inure to the
benefit of sucha monstrous and abhorrent doc
rine as the extension of slavery over the patri. t
nony Of the free white laborers of the country.
am, sir, for the greatest good Of the greatest
number, and against the system which monopo- 8
ises the free and fertile territory of our country
tor few slave holders, to tho exclusion Of
thousands upon thousand of the snewy sons Of
.oil, who in peace and war are the foundation s
md ramparts Of the social edifce. The time d
will come, sir, and perhaps very soon, when the
people will rule for their own benefit, not for
class which, numerically speaking, is insignif- II
,ant. In that near day democracy will not only il
mean the rule of the sovereign people, but the 8
rule of the sovereign people for themselves, and 6
be recognized. Therefore, it is, sir that stand
ng here in the midst of the assembled legisla-
ture Of Missouri, Il am proud to avow myself
FREE SoILER. Let those who are scared at
names shrink from the positions, if they will il
should never feel alarmed at meeting the issue f
under whatever name, or style, or title, or shape
Or form it may come. And furthermore l would =
add, sir, that whenever the question may arise,
the contest comes between the labor r
Of the white man and the labor of the slave, S
SHALL TAKE MY STAND IN FAVOR OF THE WHITE
Aora N MiesOuri I oh loup tho riuht |
the dignity and welfare of the 500, 900 non.slave
holders in preference to perpetuathg and up I
holding the dominancy of the $4,000 slavehold-
ers who inhabit our state. Ny sympathies are I
with the toiling masses and not with the priveg-
ed few, and while l shall be far from designing ,
any violation of the property rights of any class,
yet conceive has labor to be as much the pro-
perty of the white laboring man, as the slave is
the property of the STAKEHOLDER and as much
entitled to the fostering care and the protection
Of government as any vested right in the COM {
shall be glad to see both protect ,
ed as long as they may be co.existent, but
a wise and salutary system of emancipation,
Missouri may rid herself Of the evils and incu-
bus OF slavery and open wide her rich harvest
fields and unbosom her mineral wealth to the ac-
tive energy of her free white population. Such
are my sentiments, sir, upon the subject, and
scruple not to avow them openly and with no ;
shadow of concealment.
SE The New York Times brings to notice a
curious omission in the proceedings, growing
out of the return Of the Arctic ship Resolnte.
The real hero Of the affair has never been allu-
ded to. Capt. Buddington, who found the de-
serted ship adrift in the Arctic sea, and brought