The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1857-1858, 1857-12-23

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ciple y having. since 1854 cen,nuessiy cried
aloud Sor squatter Hovefesensy having adve-
Gated the sovereignty Of che teri ;sosiea = ven
% the States. How hearsiess and falss this ad-
vocacy Of what seemed % be liberty, Is easily
ys1zE 1s1Fnssy, slmuus tva nan. while sAs9-''
wesv crying With Z loud vo:ce, that they did mot
deJarc TO exclude slavery from noe 10 extend i
into Kansas, but 70 leave tile people perfees..
free. at the sAme time SANCTIONED . conspiracy
whereby majority Of the people 81 KansAs we're
actually deprived Of every political right. Men
in that Territory who we're opposed 70 Slavery.
were not only disfranchised but KEPT under :
surveillance worthy of the petty tyranny OF .
half civilized monarchy. They had code thrase'
upon them BY their Missouri masters sach %
the Algsrine pirates would have adopted in the
days of their power for captured province. To
second this weil planned and well executed con.
spiracy Of ths Blue Lodges Of Missouri, the Pre-
sident sent TO Kansas two ~retches-Cato and
Lecompte-who were truly fit tools TO enforce
such CODE aud well did they do their work.
They abated Hotels as nuisances, threw printing
presses into the Missouri river according 70 law,
burnt private houses-committed highway rob.
berry, arson, rape and murder in the name oflaw
and order. They seized the ferries across the
Missouri river, planted cannon and stopped the
boats that nav;gated that river, and sent back
every man, woman aud child that was suspected
of opposing slavery. And to make assurance
doubly sure, after pauderins and often manning
and outraging they sent back every emigrant
from the free States. Aud because our Cover
nor thought that we had right to demand OF
the General Government that that river should
be kept open and free for the use Of all the peo-
ole of ell the States, and that they should have
free access to, and be protected in, the common
territories, vas abused and ridiculed by the
whole Locofoco party. The claim set up that
under popular sovereignty men with free soil
proclivites had rights in Kansas, or upon the
Missouri river, was thought to have been SO
great an absurdity as to have been an excellent
joke! s
These acts and doings, most all in pursuance
of their accused laws, and sanctioned aud back
ed by the Judiciary and the authority and arms
ofthe Nation, were approved by the Buchanan
party. The speakers and newspapers Of the
party preached acquiescenee in these damnable
laws and submission TO the barbaritics commit
ted in the name Of justice. t.s te.8 a
But they now come forward and plume them
selves upon their consistent aud continuous ad-
vocacy of popular rights and squatter sover
eighty A year ago they denied the sympa
thies due to common humanity denied no
only the right Of free State men to live at all IL
Kansas, bu, would hardly allow them decen
scpulchre when murdered. When they wer'
shot down, robbed and scalped, they refraine'
from making known their disapprobation, thus
authorizing us to believe they approved.
These are the men that have now set up as de
voices of civil liberty aud freedom shriekers.
~ All the Democratic papers in Iowa hav
taken the Douglas shute, except the Davenpor
Democrat and Dubuque Northwest. The ad
ministratior, as far as we learn, has nc
single friend in Burlington.
"THE ABoLIrroNIsrs HAVE Cor Us."-Th
last Leavenworth Times has most piquant pan
agraph. 1t says:
"The proclamation which Acting Goyerno
{ Stanton has issued, has had most excellent e
feet upon Kansas When Judge Cato read !
he exclaimed, in that chaste and classical styl
so peculiar 10 his honor, "by Cd! the d.
Aboltionis,s have got us!' and then ad;onrne
to drovn his sorrow in surdry glasses of LIE
compton whskey."
ssTAE DEyEouoN OF DOUGLAS. Under TIL
caption the Richmond South of Saturday las
the 18th inst, devotes a column of denuncia
ton 20 Mr.. Douglas, aud closes with the follow
!, ing "first-rate notice."
I'VE are no longer allowed to entertain
d doubt of Senator Douglas determination I
abandon the Democracy and enlist in the ser
;. vice of the Black Republican party. In h
e speech Of last Wednesday he not only reproacl
ed the President with the utterance Of radios
: and essential error in the Message, but dis
tinctly declared himself champion Of Blac
, Republican interests in the Kansas controver
OF course this apostaey was greeted with IL
= unaffected applause Of the party to which ii
. Senator from illinois so suddenly transfers h
u allegiance Seward and Hale bore the mo
n cons picuous par: in the ceremony OF initiation
. but all Pandemonium welcomed the lost spir
with an energetic grasp Of friendship, while ha
leluahs resound from every anti-slavery pap
Is in the hireling States.
e eve cannot affect Indifference at the treact
s cry Of Senator Douglas. lie was politician
considerable promise. Association with Sout
ern gentlemen had smoo,hed down The rugg'
vulgarities of his early education, and he b;
come to be quite decent aud well-behav'
= person."
;. TERRIBLE SCENE IN THEATRE.-A writ
o from Europe gives the following description
It the scene at Leghorn, where, in an agony
ii alarm, one hundred men, of a crowd, We
If trampled to death, and five hundred wounded
/. "The house was crowded. The play, SIT
taking of Sevastopol." The first acts went
y well, battery after battery exploded. aud Z
y thrilling spectacle made the theatre ring wi