The weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1858-1860, 1858-02-09

very as federal institution. BY no arft
can they postpone the deciaion Tor any time
4 which viii be Of any acco1nt in history; and
/ whether a. y. and e. make or upmake par,
ties, and uph ID or desert this Or thst Presi-
dent, pOsterity - little likely 10 care. One
thing which win be nofad by future genera
tiOns ID the great Balaam epeech in Con,
greas which cofounded the heather hlat,
and which [while inspiring no particular re.
spect for Balaam) gave new life y the inva.
| ders or its epprsssion. AllS that xs.hAye to
do with Mr.. Douglas Il that We nov have
ha assurance that HE old policy has no
chance. s's .ss
4 Senator Hale on Federal Politics.
The following passages are taken from
the eloquent speech delivered IN the United
States Senate by John 2. Hale, Of New
Hampshirc, ON the 18th inst. etss9s
THE sHMr-oFFIcIAE nFFTixG IN DOUGLAS
s-s PARLOR.
This omission to submit the constitution
to the people of Kansas is not accidental
am sorry to find, as / have found out this
session, that the omission to put in the orig
inal bill was not accidental We have q lit
tle light on this subject from gentleman
who always sheds light whel he ssaks to
the Senate-l mean the honorable Senator
from Pennsylyania MIR. Bigler. He says
that this was mot accidental by amy means.
He has spoken once or twice about q meet
ting that was held in the private parlor Of a
private gentleman There was . good deal
of inquiry and axiety to know what sort Of ..
meeting that was The gentle man who
owns the house raid he did not know any
thing about it. That is not strange. The
hospitable man let his guests have the usc
Of any room they please. The honorable
Senator from Pennsylvania said this meet
ns was "semi-oficial.' do not know
what kind Of meeting that was 4 hare
heard of a semi-barbarous, o semi-civiiized
and a semisasage people, have heard ola
semi-annual, and semi weekly but when
you come to a semioi6eia', ] declare it
bothers mo Laughter What SORT Of o
meeting was itg Was it an Official meeting !?
M Was it an nn official meeting Mo-
What was it? Semi.of6ei,I lkanghter.]
have never met anything analogous 30 it
bat once in my life, and t.,at will mention
by way oil illustration. 4 trader, in my
town, before the day Of railroads, had taken
a large bank bill, and he was little doubt
full whether it was genuine or not lie con-
cluded to give it to the stage, driver, and
send it down to the bark to inquire of the
cashier whether it was q genuine bill. The
driver took it, and promised to attend to it.
He went down the FIRST day, but he had so
many other errands that he forgot it, and he
said he would certainly attend to it the next
day. Tho next day he forgot 1t, and the
third day he forgot it but he said to NOR
row 1 viii do it If do nothing else; | will
ascertain whether the bill is genuine or not
lie went the fourth day, with n like result
he forgot it, aud when he came ho:ac he
saw the nervous, anxious trader, wanting to
know whether it was genuine or not; and he
was ashamed to tell him he had forgotten it,
and he thought he would lie it through
Said the trader to him, ''Did you call ut the
bank?' "Yes" ibid the cashier say it
was a genuine bill p mo he did not -
"Did he say it was . bad one ?" Mo-
swell what did he say 2 i''He said that it
WAS about NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. -
daughter have never learned to this
day whether that was a good or bad bill.
Laughter They used t. say, in Gen Jack.
sons time, that ne had kitchen cabinet as
we'll as regular one This could not be "a
meeting Of the kitchen cabinet, because it
sat in the parlor. Laughter II was
semi-oficiai in its character also a 8
Again, sir, taere is another thing remark
able about the meeting. The Senator says:
1T was semi-oficial and called it was call
ed meeting; it was not mere accidental
gathering Of few gentlemen, coming in to
pay their rcspects to the distinguished Sena-
tor in-his hospiteble mansion; it was semi
official and called. For what? Called to
promote the public good. Yes, sir, a semi.
eficial meeting called to promote the public
good; and what did it do! The honorable
Senator from Pennsylvania says:
my recollection was clear that left the
conference under the Impression that II had
been deemed best to adopt measures to ad-
init Kansas as State through the agency Of
one popular election, and that for delegates
to the convention. This Impression was
the stronger, because thought the spirit
Of the bill iniringed upon the doctrine Of
nOn-intervention, to which had great aver
sion; but with the hope Of accomplishing
great good"
the meeting was called for the public good"
land as no movement had been made in
that direction 10 the Territory, waived this
objection and concluded to support the
measure have a tew items eff testimony
40 to the correctness Of these Impressions,
and with their submission shall be COM
tent" .ssT i
e Then lac goes on to say e 'i.aiea
n have before me the bill reported by the
Senator from Illinois, on the 18th of March,
1856, providing for the admission Of Kansas
N q State, the third section of which reads
- follows:
.',That the following proposition be, and
the same are hereby, offered to the said con-
vention of the people Of Kansas, when form
cd. for their FREQ acceptance or rejection,
which, IL accepted by the convention, and
ratified byithe people at the election for the
adoption Of the Constitution, shall be obliga-
tory upon the United States and tho. said
STATE Of Kansas" rs4 gsxa ts's - "a
s.Thc bill read in the place by the Senator
from Georgia On the 28th Of June and refer
sNd3o the, Committee on Territories, con-
talHea the same section, word for word
Both these bills were under consideration ct
the, conference referred to; - 81
Two bills under consideration at this semi.
pJ6oisl meeting snaH eYs
s--"fsut air, when the Senator from I'LL
nois reported tho Toombs bill to the Senate,
with amendments, the next m0rning It did
contain tisst portion. Of the third section
which indicated to the convention that the |
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES 30 approved BY the peo-
The result of thh s.mi-oiIeisl meeting,
caIlsd for the public good. xas that the bills
cane into The senate the next morning mi 1
sds the clxuse sabnitting tho consultations |
% tbe people. IL ms stricken ont, but the |
hcLorable Senator does NO impngn anybody
nop his motives, basause be saga:
!, !, DO struck the words ONT % for what |