The weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1858-1860, 1859-10-29
How Doctors do Differ.

The recent disturbances at Harper Ferry
are a perfect god-send to the janissaries Of
the American Political Press. Everything
is tortured to give political coloring and
bias to the affair and to show that it had
an intimate connection, some way, with the
next Presidential campaignl The telegraph
started the ball by an exaggeration Of the
extent of the movement IL was announced
AZ an instruction" in which ''six or seven
hundred whites and blacks were leading"
The fact was, that only about thirty scren
were engaged on the part Of the rioters, and
net over half a dozen Of these were negroesl
But as the telegraph wires were cut nt Har-
per's Ferry, and the facts could not be known,
this exaggeratinn is not surprising
But the instruction" is quelled, and the
United States Government survived The
next question is Who are responsible for
this mad cscapade? Here the doctors do
differ immensely. The Missouri Republican
Of this city, the organ of the Douglas Democ.
racy Of the West expresses, this morning,
the opinion that the Harper's Ferry ..insur-
rection" is due to the Republican party. 1t
says:
browns instruction ID not SO much spon-
taneOns protest against slavery, as it is the
outgroscth Of srntiments which have been
reeklessly preached Up for years by an influ.
entail portion Of the Black Republican press
of the c0uBtvN'
On the other hand, the New York Herald,
which ia the most renowned organ Of the
Administration Of James Buchanan, ia all
the Union, holds this opinion Of the insur-
rection
1--WE have thus before Us some Of the ripen.
r-.:sa tLo< n;aoh;nvcuo A,o.O41D9,i93n nj
the slcreyy agitation in. 1853, CONNIE need by
Douglas and Pierce as Presidential candt-
dates for the decisive cote Of the South IN tie
Cincinnati Contention. There would have
been no border war in Kansas between sOnth'
ern pro slavery advcnturers and Northern
anti slavery emigrant aid societies, had there
been no inpitGtion to them TO fight out the
slavery issue. face to face on the soft Of Aan-
sds."
Now, Mr.. Republican you have your o,cn
political idol arraigned by the highest Ad'
ministratiea authority, for producing the
| very crimes that you attribute to the Black
Republican, Defend your man, Il you can
| A Chicago paper also takes The New
York Herald view Of the case IL says i
there had been no repeal Of the Missouri
Compromise, (by Douglas) there would have
4 heen no battles ID Kansas--no OssawatOmi'
j Browns--no Harper's Ferry escapades, WIZ
saws this is not probably correct2 !.
We must, in justice to all parties, say il
conclusion, that 80 far, we have seen no he
publican paper in the Union expresses an.
sympathy for the mailman Browns move
mank On the contrary. all we have seen
promptly and emphatically execrate It. Ih
cleveland lOl Herald bitter Republican
paper, says: az
I'VE don't yet believe the whole tale: w
don't vet believe that Ossawatomie lJonn
Brown-crazy 40 be il on the Slavery que
tion-has been engaged in such . fool-hard
business. Ifhe has, he has fallen IN mi'
cradle cause, and his fate was deserved
And the Cincinnati Gazette. which the ~
publican, oil this morning. quotes a. eqnivoc;
IN its article on the subject, has given u
following emphatic judgment
"Whoeyer was at the bottom Of the la
emeute ut Harpers Ferry must have bee
; one Of the most witless - well - reckless
, knayes. Scarcely less fanaticai and sens
less, il the interruptions partisan who pr,
fesses to believe that single sane man,
. any part Of the Union can tel the lea
J sympathy with 20 mad procedure
The Republican Party Of the country nun
J. bers million and half voteEs--a mal0ri
Of the citisens Of III the Free States. VII
: i to be gained BY denouneing them g aide
and abettors in the proposed crimes o. lnsu
rection, asson ed murdsrf WoaM y not
: unjust, offensive and highly iajsfions 70 u
GOOD feelings and concord Of the nation
There are fanatics in tho North WI
would willingly ezteymtnats slavery y. v