The weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1858-1860, 1858-12-07

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b Ne late elsceiesA hae been i1sssruplsd b. -
sncssss Of Doeelas n Illinois. Many q :.
brethren are congratnlating themeoivee ane
The event, = Pc0uke 70 she Adminjseration. !.
Il may Be rebuke 70 the Admluietration a.,
sis ominoas to Republican progress. "a q.
most dAngcrous indication, 0e have VET -
the: the battered and Grassy old political organ.
issson, called Democracy, is about 70 obtair
another lease Of life. The adminiatrat;on N.
for some sinss ceased 10 Do in our vav. !. 1
. powerless to resist the coming in .of Eevara =
whonsosver the Republican candidate NAV be
Really, u q not maguanimous for such ! Sre.
party % ours 70 join with the powerful enimie,
I q Ar. Buchanan in destroying tho quiet 81 III,
nighss. for We take il the success Of Ant .Tecosn
, sonlsm can have no other result Of Importance
Ar. buehanan y Of no further use to the
: eavehoiders. He 10 to be the next victim OF
{ sne'r sreacnsry and ingratitude. He can be NO
longer used, - be vas before to cheat with =
Douglas is the man, for with him the Douglas
isss expect to have the double satisfaction Of
ponisnlng the North, and Of playing . spccesa-
ful trick upon them. The Democracy are nevnr
e happy Is when they are cheating somebody.
Ever since thsir policy and principles have been
opposed to the. convictions Of the Northern peo.
pie, the thing to be obtained for each new cam.
paign has been. hrst. new trick. The late con.
test IN illinois interests the whole countrv -
disclosure Of the new line policy Of the D.mo-
cratic party.
We do not see that our friends AZ the we..
osvs spared any pains to prevent the catastro
pne tnat mas happened. They seemed to annrc.
caate the great importance of defeating Douelaa.
They were never fer one moment imposed m
on by his quasi hostility to the national admin
istrasion, nor By his falacious promises Of fair
play to Kansas. They opposed him to the knife
ano fought him bravely at every point We
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the event. Douglas had toe many of the chances
BESIDES, ne was in too desperate q position 20
| anord to be beaten. With his energy, his reck-
| iessness, his wealth, il success required the buv
| ing OF votes, the wholesale importation of citi.
zens, he would not hesitate ut the achievement
inaeed, we do not see why perfectly legitimate
success did not lay within his reach. Illinois i
largely made up of illiterate men, emigrants
from Southern States Even in New England
the proportion Of intelligent voters is so large.
IS TO make any specious political deception
dangerous and sometimes fatal, But in Ecvnt
Illinois, rife with intempcrance, Incidence. me-
gro-hate, all asfruitful of democracy az filth il
OF disease, man like Douglas has an incalcula-
Die power. He is type Of the coarse, brapga.
doclo. American demagogue. He knows how |
to use all the epithets of vulgar prejudice. to
bring out and coax, and fatter depravsd pub. |
lie sentiment, as though it were the highest m. |
triotism and virtue. To believe that q popular
audience in Illinois would prefer Lincoln, with
his fine moral feelings, his appreciation of the
great principles that underlie society and oolit,
ical movements his clear candor and capacity
for Craftsmanship, to Douglas with his brutal
force, his thorough contempt Of REFORM his
clownish talent for aping the passions aud re-
hecting the views of vulgar men, his capacity
to avail himself of the expediences of any stu
alton in utter disregard Of any personal consis-
tency, is to suppose the millennium to have come.
Maine is fifty years shead Of Illinois in real civ.
ilization, and yet 1t would not be safe even here
to make an issue between two such men,
The success of Douglas is of national interest
because it discloses how the democratic party.
If sagacious and if no new disasters befall It.
may perpetuate its power. We have no doubt
that the shareholders will see the path of safety
in the direction Of apparent Cancellation and
compromise. Unless madness rules the hour.
unles9 they really desire the dissolution of the
Union, they will seize with avidity this chance
Of humbugging the Northern people. No doubt,
! show OF hostility will be kept up between Blu I
shanan and the anti-Lecomptoniles, just to keep s
he party in fit position to swing into line after
he Charleston Convention. But hereafter the
Enemy is without, and not within the White
House, and what is worse is in too close alliance
With republicanism itself, in many States, to be
consistent with orr safety. {
The overthrow Of the administration in Penn. {
ylvania, New Jersey and New York has been t
Effected by afiliating together Republicans c
md anti.Lecomptonism. With Douglas in the a
senate, and prospective candidate for President.
hese fictitious advantages must be lost Forney |
loids the key of Pennsylvania, and the Little
slant owns Forney. All those able and saga. :
ious democrats whom the Tribune has been
ALTERING and supporting, will soon be found !
lifting their heels against US. Had we left the 9
nemies of Buchanan in those States to be run 4
Iown by the regular democracy or come square P
'ver to US, should not indeed have had the v
ontr0l OF the next House of Representatives
Tor is this at all desirable. All the Republican 0
arty ought to have asked was to strengthen .
heir popular majorities, and move forward .
ather than backward the standard of their DO.
tical faith. The last thing we want is com p
licity with, or responsibility for, the national
Dgisaton. With presidential veto against u.s.
nd an arstocratic Senate, no beneficial legis- L
alton is possible. The control of the Banks G
congress almost fatal to Us, and the very 9
over We have gained in the next may defeat L
ur expectations in 1860.
Douglassm upon its Northern side will look 3
hus. Acquiescence in the freedom of Kansas.
Hereafter all the territories to be legally slave
Gliding, under the bred Scott decision, subject q
D no interference by Congress. But their in u
abitants, in forming Constitution, may il they u
0 vote make them free States A tariff that n
ball better protect certain branches of North Z
IN labor This concession will be made to II
ave Pennsylvania and take the wind cut of the u
rotective sails of the Republicans lis South In
rn aspect will be TO favor any scheme OF fill
lstering or slavery extension the South may 81
appen to have in hand. To make an issue ty
it'll such party the opposition will have to "
, deeper than Kansas or Lecompton. A er
,ainst Douglas Lecompton is perfectly use ma
So weapon. I'll
Most significant and most important in this to
,nnection is the speech OF Senator Seward, de-
rered on the eve of the New York election,
I'd which we publish in our present number tn
nat sagacious statesman evidently fOresaw the hs
which might bring up the demo- D.
ratio party to the very point upon which the ly
ection in his own State and Pennsy lvania had ST
ben contested. Ofcourse, when the Democrat Fri
party are forced by the popular Indignation tn
advance aud take position more favorable gr
freedom, it is no tune Tor the power that has tr
reduced that result to recede. 1t shows that BIZ
e pro slavery party have met its first defeat, &C
ave received check, have lost their prestige. a
hey falter and hesitate. The columns Of at TO
ok must be pushed on. New positions in ad- in
lnce must be seized, aud the whole line adyAn- an
ID nearer the enemys works. lib
The only two vital agencies in American pol Gu
cs the tive sentiments, pro slavery and to
III slavery. The former is the life of democ. til
cy, the latter OF Republicanism. Other issues m,
AZ secure transient results, but each party re- an
uits its strength and feed its growth upon ha
ese two elements in the popular heart. Doug. cir
5, the Arnold Of the Missouri Compromise lin
rfdy, the coarse satirist of negro-philism is q NJ
svehnlder and belongs to the slaveholdsrs.-
e have always feared him, never had any
it'll in him. The Republicans of the West have h.
, confidence in his good faith nor in bis integ- 6c
". He must be met upon the very grounds 40
at have just been contested so galantly by -
ncolp in Illinois, that is: The Declaration of IN
dependence, and not the bred Scott opinion, T..
the true exposition Of the spirit of the Amer =.
an Constitution. If We drop down upon q o
ere tariff discussion, We shall find ourselves
restalled by an INSCRIPTIONS faction before pill
md with US, just as Bradbury promised the
hermen to add 10 the existing bounties, and tel
card, and other distressed Lecomptonists made ce
e largest assurances to their constituents of tw
election to Northern industry. But upon the tel
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