The weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1858-1860, 1858-08-17

Ehe 0osmls - ouR E1ocsion.
The result q or slsotlon \ suhjsct lbr ~
greet or sejeieing d 81 parts Of the country.
The leading hewspsperu have expressed them.
selves upon 1t according 10 their kind and
capacity. Pso-slsveryisnl through its tho0sand
brasen tbroats, seeNtni in exultati0n, and accepts
the dprsoS3 b. rs great deliverance. II
lays The 1attstIng ua6sion to its soul, that the
defeat Of d1e,lag leAder ID the decline Of
essas e1uss. e yields 70 grosser self-decep-s
don uhsn Is lktnks thst the election Of nation-
q democrat n g.. Louis restores the reign Of
ignesance and night throughout the southern
bordoga. Agitation-the terrible demig0d agi-
tation-eo fatal 70 tyranny and al the powers
of darkness, will walk the waters nevertheless;
will not be laid BY any vulgar Incarnation which
coward conservatism, drunken rufianism and
federal bribery and corruption can utter. What
ID agitation but the throes Of an unQuict con-
science--tho efforts which IN aspiring people
make to place themselves in accordance with the
everlasting lawss Wherever wrong exists,
there will the voice Of agitation be heard.
Wherever wickedness prevails there will be
Witnesses to testify against it Wherever an
e6ete institution cumbers the ground the young
Titan spirit which it oppresses viii shake il like
an earthquake. And the peculiar institution 10
not exempt from the operations Of the Law
creeds, extirpated races, and recast the nations
of Europe. The slavery agitation will continue
until the institution is established or abolished
in all the states and territories of the Union.
The whole truth may as well be told. Slavery
must be eternzed or abolished ir this country.
We are people who have the resolution and
heroism which are vouchsafed TO young nations
appointed to great destiny. We will not be
content with any timld, negative, circular con-
Trajectory Craftsmanship. What is right will
be established and planted on the sure and firm
set earth and what is wrong land the people
Of America s6arch all thngs,) will be detected
and destroyed however hoary and Malignant it
may be. Halfway measures may continue to
be the favorite device OF nervous patriots. The
tinkering of compromise may be in vogue for
few years yet, but the earnest nature Of Amer
lean democracy will assert itself in spite Of
"Union-saving patriots" and national parties"
aud every other mirage of political life. To
realize how far we have advanced, it ia neces-
sary to look back. Three years ago no man
in Missouri dared 10 utter he word emabcpa.
ton. The three parties, and oil their leaders,
with one exception,) we're competing with each
other in the miserable task OF serving slavery
with the zeal OF kngh,-errants. Each claimed
supremacy over the Others by reason of its in.
tenser loyalty to the institution within the
Cthtc. now is IL HOW LIE OppUsiLlJu III tDlS
city were forced TO nominate an emancipationist
for Mayor last spring They were forced to
nominate free soiler for Congress, who never
dared throughout the canvass, to define himself
fully on the question OF slavery ex;inction-its
modes and its ends. They were forcedto sup
port Americans in two Congressional Districts,
and wing in a third, and to misrepresent the
emancipation question and malign its authors
throughout the canvass. Our cause can afford
to be defeated hundred times. The pro-slave.
ry cause defeated once, is ruined forever. 1t
has been compelled already to enlist the aid OF
an apostate press blackguard Senator, bad
whisky, (Which made men froth at the mouth
on election day. and the secret service fund
1t took this unhOly alliance and three thousand
fraudulent votes to beat Blair, and though all
these will reward the service Of he rational
democratic party, the liquorish squire who was
elected will have to return to the Barrataria
the agricultural and mechanical association
ST. Louis Democrat.