The weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1858-1860, 1859-08-06

Mr.. Clay said that he he'd taken 10 publio
part in the excited canvass now drawing 10 .
CLOSE, but had chesrfally responded 10 q call
from his friends for political address in
Covington He wns humble represeutative
of the Republican organisation, and he only
askedsof the Wings and Democrats, and
Americans Of the city = respectful hearing.
The people fthese States were engaged in
no new controversy, and It was well to recog
nice the features Of q struggle as old rs the
world-the struggle between the class in pos
session OF Legitimate power, and the people
who would be free of that power The pos
SCISSORS are conservatives conservative. of
monarchial prerogatives, of privileges of
caste, OF the material advantage for the day,
derived from the ownership Of labor. Ma
poleon 1 oppressed his view of the conflict
OF principles BY declaring that Europe was
bound TO b Cossack or Republican. So
here in America it is inevitable that as q na.
ton we must be the Propagandists Of Slave
ry--and that in its worst form--or of Free.
dom. Ia
To the men of Kentucky he wished to pre-.
sent this living issue, aWould they have
commonwealth in which labor was honora-
BILE Z" 1t was the execrable feature Of hu-
man slavery that it degraded the Afri.
can, but the condition Of labor. The ideaapf
the Independence Of these States was the es-
tablishment of federated, union of States,
in which the right of all men to all the sweet
rewards Of labor, health, sleep, property, and
"the pursuit Of happiness" should be univer.
sally recognized. The fathers Of the Repub-
lie too fondly hoped this recognition was Sc
cured BY the War of Independence But
in the Convention that framed the Constitu-
ton, the slave power rose, and demanded the
indirect recognition Of slavery and legisla-
ton Of the slave trade for q term of years
The fatal spirit Of compromise prevailed and,
rather than 60 back to English allegiance
and taxation without representation, the
trainers Of that instrument legalized the
slave trade. The slave power grew apace
Kentucky, and Tennessee, and Alabama and
Louisiana were gained. Even the comprom-
Use of 1920 carried slavery west of the Mis-
sissippl, and the compromise of 1850 contain.
ed still greater concessions.
p We're the people of Kentucky prepared to
stand by and be committed to the support of
slavery propagandism, by the small minority
who had hitherto represented the State ?
I The present Gubertanorial contest had
nothing in it to enlist the enthusiasm or the
care of Kentuckians Your Bells and Mog-
of6ns were quarrelling about measures, and
measures only-neither of them dared to risk
q full discussion on the principles underlying
the extention or rejection of slavery in the
territories He (Mr Clay) called this polit
ical quackery and empiricism. There was
nothing IN the present canvass that touched
the heart OF the people-nothing that chal-
ienged the interested attention of maturity or
evoked the enthusiasm of youth.
he repeated that the questisn, which most
Of all interested twenty-five out of every thir- |
~ OF the people of Kentucky, was whether |
the condition of labor should be honorable |
Would the non shareholders of the South be |
forever retiring with their scraggy horses |
and rickety wagons from the baleful presence
Of slave holding oligarchy, under whose |
cold shade there could be no common schools |
no social equality, no ownership of the soil |
valuable to those who themselves held the |
plough. Would the non shareholders. who
lad first moved to Kentucky, then to Mis-
souri, and now to Kansas, consent to continue
his westward retreat--poorer at every re-
nove-until with the Indians, they finally |
disappeared Oh the Pacific slope /?
fhsse vas hope in the future The con-
rol OF the National Government was about
o pass to the Republican party. Stephen
Douglas would stand in the Convention
Ike the mutineer at sea, who has the ships
'harts and compass on the magazine, and
With lighted match in hand demands supreme
of the ship, or will engulf all on
'oard in "a common ruin. The South NAV
urrender to this bold consprator, but Penn.
ylvania is revolutionized, and Illinois will
10 longer follow Douglas. ,.-".s
The prominent politicians of Kentucky
we're looking two ways-they were preparing
be with Douglas successful, and against
Douglas defeated.
But the men of Kentucky had higher pur.
oses to accomplish than could be secured by
he election of any nominee of the Charles
On Convention. II
Mr.. Clay appealed to the naturalized citi-
ems OF the State to recognize the political
rganization whose perpetuity and success
expended upon the elevation of the condition
labor, and who repudiated the doctrines of !.
le so called Democratic party, enunciated
y Lewis Cass, which abandons the Ameri
ms OF foreign birth, if impressed into the
'rsica Of European despots.
Mr. Clay was listened to with marked at
ntion throughout =