The weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1858-1860, 1858-08-03

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There is an old and true proverb which SAYS
| zone man may steal horse with impunity,
while another will be hung for only looking ov.
Or hedge" The latest instance Of this Is the
relative treatment Of Northern and Southern
disunionists. They are thinly scattered through
| the Free States, mainly in New England, . few
| thousand people who proclaim themselves hos
tile to the Union, because Of its Pro- Slavery as
pects and influences. In other words, they re-
| fuse TO be in any manner mixed up with or re-
sponsble for the enslavement Of human beings.
| and believing that the Union renders all who
freely subscribe to it thus responsible, they say,
Away with. the Union!" Not one Of these Dis
nnonists is Governor, Member of Congress,
Judge, or even Justice of the Peace-in fact we
do not know that one Of them holds anv Office
whatever. They do not rule any State, County,
City, Town or Village in the North no journal
in general circulation subscribes to their views;
and they are just about as powerful among us a.
the Shakers or tho Mormons.
On the other hand, the South has a Disuni0n
party embracing thousands Of her foremost cit
izens-Governors, Senators, Representatives
Judges, Generals. &c, &c. Leading CONNER
cial journals in Charleston, New Orleans, and
other Southern cities, openly advocate Disunion
sentiments, and the Disuuionists enjoy their
full share, in proportion to their numbers, Of
office ard consideration. 1t is rarely an impe-
diment to u politicians advancement in the South
that he is an avowed Secessionist; in some To-
callties 1t Is positive recommendation. Gen.
Quitman,a well known leader Of the Secession
party came within q hands breadth of the last
Democratic nomination for Vice President at
Cincinnati. Mr. Campbell Of Mobile, who was
then and probably still is a Secessonist, was
called by Gen. Pierce to a seat on the bench Of
the Supreme Court. Foreign Missions and
Consulships are dispensed with liberal hand to
those who proclaim the South their country;
and spurn the idea Of being National Democrats
or National in any sense that accounts New
England a part of their nation.
Under these circumstances, Messrs. Everett
and Choass make orations in depreciation of
"seetionalism" and in ostensible support Of the
Union but against whom are their rhetorical
batteries lsveled? Against the Disunionists in
station and authority, who are sedulously edu-
eating one quarter Of the Union to regard its
connection with the rest as a blunder and .
calamity? These are the grnndsons Of the well
known iactionsts who disturbed and harrassed
Washington's administration, and against whom
the thunders Of his Farewell Address were di-
rected. But these are passed over with the
faintcst illusions, the blandest rebukes, by the
great rhetoricians, while all their voileys are
poured upon Northern fanaticism and section
alism, some Of them ostensby aimed At the
Garrsonians, but all Of them intended to reach
and harm the Republicans, who are not and
never were Disunionists at all. Their camor
against Disunon is calculated and intended to
strengthen the only party that hugs Disunion-
lists to its bosom, which psmpers them with Of
hce, and which could not maintain its ascenden-
cy without them. Thus the real horse thieves
are let oil nth the geGtlest admonition and all
the terrors of this sham justice are lauached
against him who is innoceLtly looking over the
hedge.-S. Y. Tribune