The weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1858-1860, 1858-04-20
From the Springfield Republican.
The DugFaGitWde of the South

The South is neither magnanim0us nor CRATE
ful, and its boasted chivary is humbug. We
mean the South, as represented at Washington.
There is proverb that everybody will help
man with kick who is gong down hill. But
the South ls meaner than that. It turns upon
its friends as soon as they become powerless to
serve it, and assists its enemies to finish them
off, The Jackass who has used himself up in
tugging their load towards the top Of the hill,
because his exhausted strength prevents the
completion Of the task, is indignantly kicked
over and rolled down into the bog, bruised
and aching heap, to die at his leisure. Why
should the South abuse the dying Buchanan ad-
ministratiOn? 1t has done all it could in their
behalf. II has come to its death in fact BY at
tempting impossibiiities; it has sacrificed itself
in the hopeless effort to subject the free people
of territory to the ")eculiar institution" and
now the section for whom it has done and suf-
fered 30 much, instead Of rallying to its sup
port in the hour Of defeat, takes the very first
occasion to fling up its heels at it in contempt
and spite. Witness the attack by three or four
Southern Democrats in the House Of Represen.
talives, on Tuesday, upon the Utah policy Of
the administration. Has the South made any
new discovery upon this subject? Not at ALL
II has been evident to the whole country for
months that the government was managing this
difficulty in the weakest and most fatuitous
manner. But the South is just now in pet
because its Kansas policy has suffered defeat, and
having found that the administration, although
servile to the last degree, has become power
less to it, it takes the earliest opportunity
to begin . crusade against it--not that it cares
a fig whether the Utah policy is wise or foolish
| II would have supported it without word Of
| criticism il the administration had maintained
| its supremacy. But having lost that, the South
will now have the keenest vision to detect its
| faults, and the readiest tongue to expose them.
| We shall see it manfesting its chagrin and re-
lieying its ill temper by the heartiest abuse Of
| its falling ally. 1t will seek occasions to be
| ugly and 10 thwart the poiity Of the admins
| tration.
Such is the ingratitude Of the slave power
II rewards only successful service. II SCOTS at
unsuccessful fidelity to its interests il il were
open treachery. The "ngger" who does not
| pick his daily ''stin,r Of cotton must bear the
lash, without regard to his disposition to do
his task. Slavery makes no allowances for
weakness and incapacity. The discipline oi
the plantation must be kept up, ii Sambo does
get an undeserved walng occasionally.
How long will the patient back Of Northern
Democracy bend under these indignities, and
| show no grain of manly spunk? Or is it true
that they deserve oil the contempt their South
ern masters manifest towards them? II looks
30, and We shall aot be surprised 10 see the ad-
minstration degrading itself still further, and
humbly suing for mercy at the hands Of III
Southern masters, from whom il does not dare
demand justice. Poor jackass Of pro-savery
democracy! II has taken the big nigger on III
shoulders for its permanent load, and it must
bear portion Cf his stripes from the common
master of both. The South despises both alike
the white democrat who does its bidding a
I Hho nd ark
who does its work in the 6eld-why should !,
not treat both with equal contempt. Ant
both, 50 far, are about equally submissive ant
abjsct
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