The weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1858-1860, 1859-01-25

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L Andrews, Pacific City, Mills County Iowa"
National Democracy in tho United
States Senate Senator 1verD0n q
Georgia Openly Proolaims Disu-
MON and ID not 8ebuked.
The following are Ito concluding portions Of
Senator Iverson's speech upon the Pacific Rail-
road bill. We extract from the Congressional
Globe. Wa wish all 70 read it and 70 remem-
Der that this proclamation Of treason vas made
in the Senate Of the United States on Thurs-
day, January 9Th, and that no Democratic Sem
ator and no Democratic press Of the country,
90 far as We have seen, has to this hour con-
dsmned or censured.
Mr. IvERSON said:
Speaking Of the Union, Dir, take occa-
sion to say there is another reason connect.
ed with it, which makes me object to any
bill, the provisions Of which will secure the
Government aid in the construction Of ! rail-
road to the Pacific, exclusively confined to the
Northern States. Sir, believe that the time
will come when the slave States will be COM
PEELED, in vindcation of their rights. interests
and honor, to separate from the free States and
erect an independent Confederacy; and am
not sure, sir, that the time is not near ct hand
| when that event will occur. At all events, am
| satisfied that one Of two things Is inevitable !;
either that the slave States mist surrender their
peculiar institutions, or separate from the North
| l do not intend, on this occasion, to enter into
| an elaborate or prolonged discussion Of this
| proposition. content myself win expressing
| my firm belief, and BRIEF allusion to the
| foundation Of that opinion. II is unnecessary
| to look back to the commencement Of the anti
slavery agitation in the Northern States, and to
trace its regular and rapid growth to its present
monstrous proportions.
/ remember twenty-five years ago, when pc
titions were first presented to Congress for the
abolition Of slavery in the District of Columbia;
it was the beginning of the agitation, and was
limited to few deuded religious fanatics
amongst the men, and some Of the weaker sex,
of the New England States. 1t nevertheless
aroused the fears and excited the angry feelings
Of many Of The southern people; it produced
much discussion iii Congress, and amongst the
newspaper press of the Southern States. Many
expressed their belief that it was the beginning
of storm which was to sweep over the free
States, carrying everything before it; but they
were met by the syren song which the distin-
guished Senator from South Carolina has re-
Gently SO eloqueDtly poured forth, .'there is no
danger; slavery is too strong to be overturned;
let the sound conservative mind and heart OF the
North be appealed to, and all will be right; our
friends there will protect US" Behold the re-
suit in the late elections! With the bold, IN
disguised declaration Of hostility to slavery at
the South, as enunciated by the great leader Of
its enemies at Rochester, with his loud -soanding
pronunciamento of ''down with the accursed
thing;" with the bloody flag Of anti-slavery I'M
furled, and "war to the knife" written upon
its folds, there is not at this day q majority OF
true, conservative friends of the rights of the
South in single free State Of this Union this
side OF the Rocky Mountains. The demon Of
abolition, in his most hideous shape, has cover
ed them all over with the footprints Of his on
ward and remorseless march to power.
Sir, he knows but little of the workings Of
human nature, who supposes that the spirit of
anti-slavery fanaticism which now pervades the
northern heart will stop short of its favor.
itC auu Audl Gnu duu dlm-tDe universal eE1an.
cipation of slavery in the United States BY the
operation and action Of the Federal Govern
ment. When Mr.. Wherefore began the agi-
tatiOn of his scheme of emancipation in The
British West India Islands, there was not a cor.
rorafs guard in both Houses Of the British Par
Lament who sympathized with him or approved
the movement; and yet, in less than a quarter
of a century, all England became aboiitionized,
and perpetrated, by decree in Parliament, one
OF the most arbitrary and outrageous violations
of private rights which was ever inflicted by
despotic power upon peaceful and loyal subjects.
And SO it will be in this country. The same
spirit which brought about emancipation in the
British Islands, will produce it here Whenever
the power is obtained to pass and enforce its
DEGREES. When the present Republican party,
or It's legitimate successors in some other name.
shall get possession of the Government; when
it has the President, both Houses of Congress.
and the judiciary, what will stay its hands 1t
cannot stand still; if it does, it dies. To live
and reign, it must go on. Step by step it will
be driven onward in its mad career until slavery
Is abolished or the Union dissolved. One Of
these. two things is as inevitable as death.
know that there men even in the South. |
who, like the distinguished Senator from South |
Carolina, argue that slavery is stronger and |
SAFER now IN the Union than it ever has been |
that the South, by unity and concert. can al |
ways combine with party at the North suffi. |
ciently strong to carry the election and control |
the action of the Federal Government. In nv
opinion there never was greater mistake
Suppose the election of President were to come |
of at this time, and all the Southern States.
including even Maryland, were united upon A
candidate: how many free States would he car
ry? Perhaps California and Oregon. If she il
admitted; but not another State The recent
elections show clearly that the aboitiopists have
not only decided but an overwhelming MAORI
ty, IN every free State on the Atlantic slooa-
In all the late elections, conservative and sound
Democracy, the only element sympathizng with
the South, has not carried single free State
do not consider the triumph OF the distin-
guided Senator from Illinois Mr.. Douglasl as
4 victory OF sound Democracy. 1t was a vic
tory OF Free Soil Democracy over Abolition
Whigery, and no more; and would not give
copper for the difference. So far as the South
md her constitutional rights are concerned. il
was victory over her and over them. would
net turn on my heel for choice between the
WIlmot PrOvisO and. the squatter sovereignty
doctrine and policy of the Senator from Illinois !
indeed, sir, II was driven to select between
hem, would take the former. 1t is open manly
md decisive; it settles the question at once. by
iebarrng the Southern people, in terms. from
entering the Territories with their slave prop
'rty; 1t is an open and undisguised denial Of | (
light to the South, which the South could re- (
list or submit to, as her sense OF homer or her
policy might dictate, while the squatter-soyer-
lgnty doctrine and practice. as defined by its I
distinguished advocate, is plausible, delusive, !
deceptive, and fatal. No man of common 1
ense can suppose that, under it, the South will !
yer obtain another foot of territory, or add /
mother slave State to this Union Both are I
.oitical heresies. finding no authority in the 1
Constitution; equally violative Of the rights Of
he Southern people, subversive Of their eauali.
y In the Union, and an insult to their honor. 8
'hich, in my opinion, alike demand their repro.
atOn and resistance. Ir
The people Of the southern States as CO. (
quals in the Union, aud as joint and equal own. /
RS OF the public territory, have the right TO a
migrate to these Territories with their slave I
roperty, and to the protection and the enioy-
lent OF that property by law during tho exist. T
nee OF the territorial government; laws passed i
y Congress as the trustee and common head
the joint property-head OF all the States .
nd all the people of the States in the public v
errltOrV laws rpe0pr iyinv tho ae,,a1 ia. In