The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1857-1858, 1857-07-22

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deter pination on The part OF the Federal Ad.
min ation to sustain Gov. Walker la Kansas.
end Vat il as pledge that the people Of thar
TS.titory shall have an opportunity Of passing
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This article, assuming ii 10 be authorized By
ia government, makes an era in the political
Dry Of the country; II Is the first tribute Of
resfAct to the Anti Slavery sentiment Of the
| Northern States which has come from the Fed.
| eral kecutive for the last twenty years. After
. consess conducted with great bitterness, and
90 fllr rs the North was concerned, under every
imaginable disadvantage, We have 70 day to re-
cordthc very first act Of any Federal Admins
tration wearing an aspect Of resistance to the
pro shvery policy of the Southern oligarchy-
The g&iefms which Gen. jackson gave to the
nullitiess in 1886, though blow to the same
political interest as that which has had the con-
troll o. the government for tho last few years,
arose upon altogether different issue, and,
therefore, does not deserve 10 he regarded as
an exception. Mr.. Buchanan and his advisers,
in tho article to which we refer, have deliber-
ately sounded retreat from the ground which
was occupied by the late administration; they
admit that the circumstances under which the
late legislative government Of Kansas was i'm
posed upon its people were unpopular, and new
er could command their general obedience and
respect; and in spite Of the threats and denun-
Citations Of the Souteern press, they recognize
the necessity of giving the people OF the Terri
tory an opportunity of approving or Of rejecting
the constitution which convention elected I'M
der that organization should provide Such a
submission to the popular voice was not provi-
ded for nor even contemplated, so far as we can
discern, by Congress; no such concession was
ever dreamed OF by the late administration, who
spared neither brides nor blood to silence the
speech and bind the hands Of the Free State
settlers, who sought at the ballot box and with
the press to keep slaves out of the Territory
But we have had Presidential election in the
country lately, aud state Of feeling has been
revealed which Mr.. Buchanan, we begin to
think, has had the good sense to profit by. He
has discovered-so We suspect-tifat the gov
ernmens Of this country cannot be conducted
any longer under slavery extension policy;
that the nearest approach to it that our people
will bear is rigorous neutrality, and for that he
is steering. To reach it he will be obliged TO
take several steps back. The first we have to-
day the pleasure Of recording. We hail the
omen. May he select for his motto the words
inscribed upon the pillars Of Hercules-Pfus
ultra. If so, he will be able to do what no
President Of late year, has done land for an
obvious Teasonl-he will lay down his Office
more popular and more respected than when he
assumed it,
But the question which will soon be in every |
mans mouth is, will the President have the mo- |
raj courage to meet and brave the assault which |
The policy here indicated is sure to bring upon |
1ims Nearly every leading administration Jour- |
1al is committed against Walkers course, and |
most of them, such as the Charleston Mercury. |
he Richmond South, the Washington States, |
md the Georgia, Mississippi and Louisiana |
presses, have very generally denounced it in
erms which will compel them hereafter to oc- |
,upy an attitude of hostility to the Governor, |
md to any party that sustains him. Two State |
Lesi latures have expressed similar opinions, |
Ind others may follow their example Has the /
President the tirmness necessary to stand 10 his |
,olors, and risk second dismemberment of his |
party: Ii not, he is ruined. Ii he has, the /
orce of circumstances will give him one of the |
inest historical positions occupied by any Pres
dent.
In either case, whether he is or is not equal |
o the emergency, he is at least able to mark |
he change of current which has taken place, and |
o show to the future student OF history when
lavery ceased to be protected by the federal |
government as national. and freedom to be pre-.
eribed as sectiona|.-N. y. Eve. Post