The weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1858-1860, 1859-01-11
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fall of republican eovsrnments alwaye has3besu
/ she enpsoymsns q violence and fsasd 70 carry
the slscsions and shus.so Substitute, in place Of
the voice Oe the eieia6na, The 6asis upon which
al1 6eepotioms resec onoh vas the case in Rome,
ard oueh has been thetcase il evefy republic
that ever xisted. The choice Of the people
thua Get aside, al the quiet and timid, who
form In all communiaiss . very numoroua body,
terrified ct these nnanal scenes Of violence and
sumuis, soon become ready to aid in abelishing
the whole system Of popular elections. They
regard, and not altogether without reason, .
ueurpeeion once for oil as far better than .
ususpation occurring annually, and attended
with scenes Of viOlsnce and uproaR dangerous to
life, and, what they dread still more, dangerous
80 property. They think il better to b under
the surveilapcs Of military fsrcs which the
interest Of iis head requires 70 bs subjected to
|a Ecertain dsgree Of discipline, than 70 be ex-
posed 10 the nnrestrained violence Of . sst Of
rowdies, like those Who are beginning 70 play
80 conspicuous . part In some Of our American
elections, sgainst whom there 10 neither protec-
tion nor redress; since, even in the plsinest
cascs, partisan Judges, placed on the bench BY
the employment Of this same machinery, are
certain either to aequit them altogether or to
let them of with . merely nominal punishment.
The decent citizens, from the moment this sys
tenn Of violence and intimidation ID introduced, J,
rapidly withdraw themselves from the polls
So far rom risking their lives and limbs in the
effort to get at the ballot boxes. they are unwil-
ling to rick even their coats And why should
they! Even il they succeed in polling ma
jority Of vp;es, it does not avail them. Cheat
ing Inspectors, fraudulent Judges Of elections,
unscrupulous boards Of Canvassers stand ready,
when force has failed, to supply the deficiency
by fraud, and thus to render unavailing the
courage and perseverance, Of the decent and
patriotic majority. In this state of things, it
is not to be wondered at that the great body Of
| the industrious and productive citizens, more
intent upon order aud security than ON liberty,
should baa,en to surrender up the dangerous
and now unavaiing privilege Of voting, and
should look with complacency on the assump-
tion of all political authority by some small
set.constituied association like our Tammany
Society, to be superseded in due time by a
single despot like Louis Napoleon.
Our people are possessed OF very arrogant
selt-con6deuce in their exclusive capacity to
maintain their own liberty. But, however true
that might haze been Of the original Anglo
Saxon stock by which this country was settled,
bringing with it, as it did, the Englsh habits oi
respect tor constituted authorities and submis-
sion to the laws, we must recollect that OF late
years we hase had very large influx into this
country Of populations who have no other instru.
ment Of freedom except violence, who, in fact,
know nothing of freedom, coniounding it with
| the idea Of having everything their own way
irrespective of the wishes, interests or rights OF
others. Pride, says high authority, goes be-
fore = fall, and there are but too evident indi-
cations that unless this nation arouses itself to
a desperate exsrtlon to re establish the purity
of its Institutions, our fall is near at hand
tba uhopo hat Vit
no, serve, papable fraud in declaring the
result of the elections have become regu-
lar part of the tactics employed by the pseudo
Democratic party to keep itself in power
These frauds, barefaced and atrociOus, are not
| confued to any particular section of the cOun-
try. We see them now in Minnesota, as means
of controlling the State elections and securing
| to the party two United States Senator's; now il
! Kansas, employed with like object in view
now in ST. Louis, with intent to deprive tht
troublesome Mr.. Blair of his seat in the House
of Representatives.; now in Maine, in hopes o
gaining Democratic representative; and nov
in the City Of New York, employed to exclude
Republican Common Councilmen from thei
seats, aud to keep the city little while longe
under the control of thieves and plunderers
Nor does this system of cheating confn
itself merely to the original elections by th
people, nor is it limited to the returning officer
of those elections. 1t has been adopted b.
those very bodies in which alone lies the powe
of applying an adequate remedy to those frigh,
| full outrages Thus we see the pseudo Demo
cratic members Of the Legislature Of Indian
combining together to give false certificates Q
Senators OF the United States to u couple Q
imposters, and that very Senate of the Unite
States, whose first great duty it is to guard ou
| republican system against such attempts to d.
stroy it, making itseli a party TO the fraut
and welcoming these impudent cheats to ses
in their own body. Indeed, what else could
/ expected OF Senate which had already dis
graced itself in the eyes OF the nation and tn
world by giving it's aid, countenance and sup
port to the BorderRuffian intruders from Mis-
souri,, who had driven the people Of kanss
from the polls and returned Legislature
suit themselves?
But this horrible corruption, this attempt
substitute fraud, false voting and false returl
il place of the freedom Of choice on the pa
of the people, has ascended even higher ths
the United States Senate. The Federal Exect
tive Administration has fully come into th
scheme Of kee ping itself and its party in pow
by the use OF these infamous means. II
whole project Of the Border Ruffian usurpatia
in Kansas, ii it did not originate in Preside
Pierce's Cabinet, was fully indorsed and su
ported by il; while President Buchanan, inte
upon forcing upon Kansas, the bogus Lacom
ton document, which pretended to be the drs
, of State Constitution sanctioned by the PEE
pie OF that T. rriiory, turned Robert ). Walk
out of the office of Governor because be !
, fused to aid This scheme by becoming an Z
complice after The fact TO the forgery OF elscti
] returns.
Compared with this system Of fraud, me
violence at The polls, even though carried
: the extent OF riot and murder, is but a triv
u occurrence. Violence may be repelied. Fol
NAV be met with force. The very atrocity
- such acts exrtes the public horror and Ind
n nation, and tends TO prevent their recurren
= The system ot cheating which the pseut
=, Democratic party, after amply trying ot
d violence and fraud, seems now inclined
d adopt as peculiarly its own, is OF tar M
l. dangerous character. The remedy against 1t
IS appeal from he false returns is, It best, v
r, slow and expensive process, aud wnen the oo
& to which the appeal is made is itself CORFU
u and = party to the very frauds appealed agaiI
1t what hope can there be Of redress! There
j. in fact, no hope except in an energetic ris
at Of the people, and in the hurting from POI
le of an unworthy set Of men, who, no longer trl
Is, ing to the support OF majority which =
have ceased 10 have, are now attempting
prelong their ill used power by undermin
~ the very foundations OF republican gOvernm'
er GOLD DlGGINa.-The discovery Of gold
al Kansas, Nebraska and New Mexico has ct
es Just in time 0 meet the wants OF the Ia &c c
h OF our population who are adapted to the
citing and variable life of the gold.sseker.
,s. business Of mining in California has underg
,b . radical change within ten years. The surl
ns diggings are pretty we'll cleaned out, and the
ch style Of digging and washing the dirt does
~ pay, except in rare cases. Quartz mining al
"a. 10 profitable, and tor this capital and m.ohil
,st are requisite. The business is hersiore pas
- from the laborers 70 the capitalists, and wi
IL are declining. In the new gold regions, on
=. contrary, the old rockers aud loRg toms wi
nd used to advantage for years, or until the y
IN. surface has been worked over. Advent
- whose only capital 10 their bone and muscle
:. therefore seea the new gold fields Of Ka
'hs and Arizona. aud although, as in California,
ian a minority viii get prizes, yet the chance ct
N. cess will prove sufficiently great to indu
om large emigration thither in the Spring.
wv The second Of Mr.. Eyeretts papers aPI
~, in the New York Ledger Tor January Sth
-. treats OF Christmas. II occupies two and .
-. columns, and is clearly historic. Elegant