The weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1858-1860, 1859-03-01

I nass By De dine H. said road 10 eouplssed 70
the latter place. Now Eddyvills can do q good
deal, but 1ivlded che eannse effect msch to-
wards carrying eat ths project - much desired
here. nor viii shs need 70 Dc muoh. fos such 10
her positioa that il her present schsns + reaIiz-
ed she sill have : tsade (all vest and northwest
Of her) that viii make her Ill the aspires to be.
But what makes our people fear shis recent ov-
srture u the fact that Oskaloosa 10 not only iav-
orable % t. but will 30 al 10 her power 70 car.
| ~ out the enterprise And the reason for this,
as We suppose. b that she fears Il her road runs
west 70 the river new and rival town will spsing
into existence only few miles distant, well cal
culssed 70 do her great injury, whereas. EDDY
vile being much farther OF. and being the point
where all her goods are shipped BY steamboat
up the Des Moines river, it will be TO her advan-
taee TO have the road run to this point than 9th.
erwisc.
Now. sir, be it known, that We Of this place,
and think may say the same Of all the people
OF Marion county, living west Of the river, are
opposed to any project such as named above
We must have the N. l. n. road ourselves. or
what will suit us as well, the road projected BY
your correspondent; and, moreover, we say that
it matters not how much may be said Of your
road, or the Keokuk and For. Des Moines road,
or any other road running up the said river on
the other side, We believe that it is easy of dem.
onstration that road such as is here conteu,-
plated, getting as it would, the vast trade Of
the country west of the river, would be better
paving road and secure more aid in the building
OF it than any road yet brought to the consid-
Grafton ofthe public in this part of the State
May We not therefore hear from you again up
on this subject, and in way to stir up the
whole people alcng this road from one end of
1t to the other. UNcAs OF MARION COUNTY.
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JUsT AS We ExPEcTED.-A recent debate in
the Senate upon Mr.. Hale's motion to strike out
the clause in the English bill requiring a census
and ninety-three thousand population for Kan
sas before she can be admitted into the Union
as State, proves what we have all along as
serted would be the case, viz: that the South
would demand Slave Code for the Territories.
Davis and Brown and Green and other Senators
from the South openly proclaimed this as the
last Democratic test, and with the exception Of
Douglas and Push, not Northern Democrat
opened his mouth. The new demand was met |
by obseQuous submission. With the exceptions |
above named the Democratic party is ready to
enact such laws as shall protect slavery in the |
Territories! On the other hand Douglas an.
nounced his determination to stand by bis
Squatter Sovereignty doctrine, which, as inter
preted by himself, gives to the people of the |
Territories the power to exclude slavery by |
simply neglectng to enact laws for its protec |
ton. He condemned the action of the Kansas
Legislature in passing a law sbolishing slavery |
as in conflict with the bred Scott decision, con-
tending that the only way that it can be ex-
Guided from Kansas or any other Territory, IN
der the Constitution, is by unfrendy legislation,
lie. not legislating at all.
Mr.. Douglas has evidently gone to such ex-
treme lengths with the view of still retaining
the friendship and support of the South, as to
be left, now that it is demonstrated that he
cannot do SO, with an exceedingly narrow plat
form, upon which he never will succeed in rally.
ing any considerable party.