The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1857-1858, 1857-12-23
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vera ID Ao@0D - ~ vEP0ssOusy ~ se6~ssss
ling shenssIves. and vosing for delegates y III
lCouss;tutioaal Conventioa. This is potorioa
untruth, = everybody knovs. No opportunity
| wss ever s1ered or intended 70 be given 70 any
! save friends Of slavery to vote for dslegates
This description Of naisrepresessation and false
hood, - largely INDUCED in by Fiercs in hi
msssages, In order 70 shield himself aud hil
party from the merited indignation excited b.
the var upon al ssttlsrs not in Kansas fos shl
purpose Of sssabliahing slavery, has pretty much
lost iss potency, and old Buck viii mot be apt Ia
meet With very dattering results in following in
the same beaten track. The fact 10, the party
undertook, frea the beginning, - lie through
shis conspiracy. and succeeded very we'll for .
while. But the whole thing is nov transparent,
and any further lying, particularly By our Chiea
Magistrate, would not be likely to produce ben
e6cial results.
Slavery nos y Domestic 1nsitasisns Bat
| Il q Relic - 1arbaslsan. "a !
| Maoh hes been written Upon the abuse OF
words Oar own country affords many illustrA.
tions Of this abuse. The Democracy. for in.
stance, consists Of those whe are in faver not Of
govesnmsnt Of the people, but the slave oil.
garchy. The Union party means the Slavery
party. or the party that proposes disunioa 10 the
event that ubsrty gains the helm ef aaaifA =
Popular sovereignty mesns the supreme right
| of the slsvsholders % buy and sell human be-
inge, to extend the area Of The traffic, and to
increase The representation Of slsve psoperty In
Congress, aad In the electors for President Of
the United States Another instance Of the
gross abuse Of words is in calling slavery -
do~es.ic insaitusioa." The whole counsry adopt.
Cd this term In daes past, because Slavery was
. hsrsh and barbarous word, and manifestly
contrary to all our ideas Of American liberty
The Northern man, st least, felt ashamed to
speak Of an American slave. A softer term Vas
desired. And when It was proposed to say
s.domestic institutien," instead Of speaking hon
esely aud bluntly slavery, il was received a. .
most welcome suggestion. A happier euphen-
ism was never invented. II has probably done
more to confound right and wrong, to blunt the
conscience Of the nation, and 70 strengthen the
slave power, than all the lbors Of Douglas,
Pierce and Buchanan. For il has come TO pass
that The word, which was merely introduced BY
courtesy, and TO save our consistency, has grown
TO b. regarded ~ representative Of . literal
fact. And millions have been led 70 think Of
slavery - natural and permanent institution.
with 40 good right 70 be, a. husband has to
his wife, or parents have 70 their children.
One Of the best Easlish writer's deplores the
mischief arising from the practice, in the coun-
try parishes Of England, Of calling . child born
out Of wsdlock, - lovechild," instead Of .
bastard. "It would be hard 70 estimate" says
this noble writer, chow much e he's lowered the
tone and standard Of morality among us; or fer
how many young women it has helped to make
the downward way more sloping ssill." In pre-
ciseiy the same way the cOuscience OF the Amer
lean people has been Gebauched BY calling sla.
very ~ domestic institution" We do not say
that this was intended. Dut this has been the
fact. The enormisies and barbarities. the vices
and crimes OF slavery are overlooked, and We
are boldly told thas these things make no more
against slavery than unhappy marriages and
family jars invalidate the claims of marriage and
Of the family to be ordinances Of God.
President Buchanan, in his recent Message,
does his part 10 perpetuate the errors Of the
past, and 10 befog the public mind on this sub.
ject. He says: so,',.'#.g. s,..
s"Domestic institutions" are limited to the
family. The relation between master and slave
and . few others are "domestic institutions"
aud are entirely distinct from institutions Of .
political character" fv- Isl r,s}r-.,
Hero the relation Of master and slave 10 class
ed with that Of husband and wife, Of parent and
child, and Of brother and sister. and the term
domestic institution" - applied to slavery. Is
taken literally. II 10 unnecessary 70 ny that no
such special pleading 10 to be found in the mes.
sages or in any Of the writings Of our earlier
Presidsnts. In fact, though the term had been
long in popular use, it found NO place in the
laws Of the land, until the Compromise measure
Of 1850. From those measures it passed into
the Nebraska bill. And now it is explained and
!! enforced in Presidents Message! For all
this, the introduction Of the term domestic in-
s.itution" il responsible. The warning Of the
"eo'e" p'SP"es Ses
to fhe'" fAes ca" ss1 so"d Inc census o' .o'o
shows that some siaveho'ders nave over : .nos'
sand slaves. whats sort o. fanny !. '"A' =
is rather q satrapy or .dukedom. Many slave
ho'defs own over "u"osea s'A's ~ '"e'
consusu'e 'A""y Vn =, '"e a con".'y' y.
los'ous uAe' 'ney A's No par = '"e' "''' :
.s""s' ..ss ~ ~. W. .''.--. .s..;,;..
a. existing among the slaves. There are mo le
gal marriages among them. Unless. then, con
cubiDags i domestic insulation, slavery i
not. So si' aes a'e aaEaa.s
The President 10 guilty Of another great mis-
take in saying that Slavery - "entirely dlstinc
from institutions Of political Character "
the cnnHfapv Slavery n wholly political tuoeleu