Weekly hawk-eye and telegraph. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1855-1857, 1857-01-07
Republican Principles Progressing.

Although nonlna.ly defeated at the last Tres
idental election, the moral influence Of the Re-
publican cause in the nation has never been ac-
tualy so great as it is at this very moment We
see the evidences of it all about us. In Kansas
in the tardy awakening of Gov. Geary to the
wrongs and indignities perpetrated against the
Free State men OF that Territory, may he seen
one of the first conclusive evidences that the
moral weight of the muorities given in the
eleven Free States, and of The hardly less pow
ertul minorties in the Others has been felt At
Washington, the silence OF Northern Democrats
during the debate on the Presidents Message, is
another ominous feature that they are neither
blind nor deaf to that great and growing power
at the North, destined if they dare to resist it
Us they have done, to sweep the Democratic
party from every Free State in the country. And
when, at last a Senator from Pennsylvania does
speak, how different is his language and tone
from what it has been. Kansas is to be, he
hopes and believes, Free State. At las. he
admits the iniquities of its bogus laws, the JUS
tice and reasonableness of the demands OF its
inhabitants, all the while conscious that all he
says will be taken as toreshapowing the views OF
the inc oming executive. The Marshal OF Kan
sas undertakes TO thwgrt and defy the Governor,
when the latter seeks to bring pro slavery
murderer to justice. He resigns his post, aud
the pro-slavcry leaders at Washington, who in.
sist that he shall be re-appointed by the Presi
dent, awake to the diSagreeable reality that
their behests can no longer dragoon the Presi-
dent into detyng alike justice and public opin-
ion. The ex-president that is to be, remembers
that there is North, in the midst OF which he
must soon take up his abode; the moral infu-
ences of the late election are vet strong upon
him; they strengthen his spinal column, and he
dares to say No! Marshal Donaidsoi's resigna-
ton isaccepted, and successor, presumed TO he
a decent and respectable man, is appointed i'll
his place. Judge Lecompte, who has so long
deGed and outraged all law, violated all sense
of right and justice, who las trampled upon
every conceivable right of the right OF the Tree
Settlers packed juries and grand juries, indicted
private dwellings nuisances, sheltered lawess
mobs of bandits and murderers-and all with
apparent impunity, even he is made to feel at
last in his own person the reflex Influence IT the
great moral power OF the late election. Even
Judge Lecomple realizes at last that there are
lengths to which even he, backed as he has been
by the full support of the slave power, cannot
with safety Co. He realizes it all TOO late to save
his own official existence, and he who has been
guilty of far more fragrant offences against JUS
tlce, morality and constitutional law, falls ut
last before a comparatively slight transgression
OF his official powers. II is because that trans
erosion defes the public opinion of the entire
North and of the conservative South; it is be-
cause the administration dares no longer TO take
The responsibility OF his acts, that he is dis
missed.
In st. Louis, again, we find yet more conclu-
sve evidence OF the reaction in public opinion,
and that there is healthier tone prevalent in
that community. The St. Louis Democrat, stis-
tanned BY that public sentiment, comes boldly
forward and maniu'ly takes the ground, that
IN he Of liz.
souri,. Even the st. Louis Republican, than
which no paper has heretofore gwen warmer
support 10 the border ruihans OF Missouri, or to
the iudcienshle laws ofthe bogus Legislature OF
Kansas, is compelled essentially to modify its
tone. The moral sentiment oil ST Louis wall
longer tolerate the raids on the borders, nor the
atrocities practiced by those who get them up,
and even the Republican becomes sensible OF
this healthy reaction. All at once it becomes
conservative in its tone, administers sharp re-
buke to Governor Adams, of South Carolina,
for his volunteer message in defence OF the At
rican Slave traffic, and takes the somewhat nov
ell gronnd--novei for its columns at least-that
missouri has no idea oil turning the Union up
sid. down for the sake OF extending Slavery"
Ii even presumes to face Davie Aichison HIM
self, DENYING the truth Of that worthy declara-
tion that Kansas is to be "a slave Suite, either
in or out of the Union" More-than this, the Re-
publican iutimates, that IN tae case OF disSoiu.
ton of the Union, Missouri would go with the
North; aud, most surprising OF all, it awakens
at last TO the iniqu ties OF the Kansas laws, de-
claring that inasmnch as they cannot be success
fully defended, they must DC repealed
All these things SHOW that though these chaag-
es have come after the election, they are yet in
consequence OF its teachings They indicate the
force OF public opinion even upon Missouri
Murder and robbery can no longer be defended
or paliiafed. In spite OF the trickeries or the
scoundreiisnis of party, the great mass OF the
people are honest and will not uphold injustice
The wrongs OF the Free-State men are Icing un.
dersrood even ia Missouri, and public opinion
compels their bitterest enemies to do them JUS
tice. The great neral infueice of the late eiec-
ton is yielding golden fruits, and pervadng ever,
the stronghoids of the worst enemies of human
rights and popular freedom Let no true friend
OF the. cause of Republican principles despond,
then, because our party has not achieved at the
polls all We may have desired. The evidences
are everywhere around US that we have not
fought in vain, but that the great moral victory
OF the triumph, if we remain firm and true, may
Jet be our own.-Boston Atlas
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