The weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1858-1860, 1859-11-19
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The 2Fsss eoaie tragedy IL Visa 4
9eeely playo4 Oh | T6o oIScfae sc1I6 viii
- . Rrandi tahleaux, insNhfh 1ohN Ieovn
I'D hie tellov pSib6neso till ~ eoeasknnepsl
See crises My never oon1 atcHed o. exhtem
plated. 6ecanse Virginia is.alunid 10 No. thcm
tos theis real tolIenses; tho spectacle being
relieved by single aes Of o1olnency Apw,rde
one who ha4 deqQGsatle frio1s1e. Thdnsse en-
citemen4 isl now over aud men can mn look
q the matter calmly and spason sboat it,
And THAT has John BROWN, aocdh naished :
First che uselcss death Of some twenty-five
or thirty men. llia object vas 10 run or
slavse from Virginia, audeit does nos cor
tainly APPEAR that i single Shave wssfteed bv
the operation. IN ti.a adaptation of means
70 such ends no eneerpfise moro reckln and
insane was ever undertaken BY men with
sense enough TO keep themselves out of Gre
and water. The immediate resulte 70 ali
engaged haso shesefore been ss disaifrous a
they could well Be, and we srast therterrible
Lesson will not b iost On men whose excited
humanity runs,avav With their common
sense ER4 q ass ess &
Bat virginia and Tho South are determined
that The affair shall not lack 1 moral result,
and % John Brown and the survivors Of his
company are to be made martyrs. and their
blood ID be devoted to the noarishment and
etrenathenina az that! aoitation ~ which
slayefy Is anallvs % meet is doUss This i
! folli greater than that Of John Brown. but
such 1olly seems 70 DO the predestined means
By which the inhuman institntson il " ac-
oomblioh il ewn oyerthrov. Slavery il to
bc removed b. discussion And agitation. and
every thing which serves to keep It before the
public mind, whether Il be the mad maliqui.
" Of ID supporters or the mad philanthropy
Of liz enemies, contributes something towards
the final result. The process 10 slow but
sure and inevitable. sszs
One Of the frat effects Of John Browne
raid has been TO cxasperate The South, and to
make the supporters Of slavery there more
intolerAbt and more unreasonable in their
demands. A Temporary eject at the North
has beer to inspire the democratic and other
allies Of the slave power with . spasm of
courage. l3y falsely charging Browne folly
upon the republican party they hone to
ffighten tinid men, into their own ranks.-
But The trick ia too shallow and too sasilv
exposed. Already the democratic leaders at
the North begin % see that they shall lose
more than they can gain out Of the affair,
maugre all their bold lying, and are begging
Gov. Wise 10 snare John Brown Tor the
democracy SAKE. Tho North too will re-
sist the new famands of the slave power.
growing out Of Of this affair, and 20 the de.
mocrAnv in the free states WILDE placed still
hnnelcsslv = the minority. Already several
nf fhe leaIa;no aouthern nsnera nra taking adj
vantaoe az tho axcitement q puah the de-
mond for conpreasional lerislation 10 aus
tain slavery IN the territories. and the pros
pecte Of Douglas at the South are melting
away in the heat eff the new fury An Ala.
bama democratic paper saws there is aperfect
revulsion IN the state. and old prominent
d.mocrat;c leaders from every corner of the
~ - ara ont aca;n.t Douulas, We ara. mot,
aure that .Iohn Rrown has not given the
honea of Douolaa their death blow. The
d;sun;onista Of the south make John Brown
the text for ;mmediate dissolution. The
Charleston Mercurv declares that Browns
Affair." 4 mot An isolated event. but the begin
ninc of 4 series of attacks. which are to end
either in the de.truction of Slavery or the
dissolution nfthe Union. and that the sooner
the latter result il reached the better. It
eays q
1Tha great aouree of the evil is that we
|. ~ uraos ana oovarnment with these neonle
-sh.t hv The const;tnt;on thew deem them.
selves resnons;ble for the institution of slave.
" and, therefore. thew seek to overthrow it.
Thev do not Mot instructions for Cuba or
Rrsy, ,f VA haa 4 .enarate government of
n,,- n,,n m. no.t o1ice all he avenues Of
;otereoarse the police and military Of the
onnn.~v would no under our exclusive con-
troll Aholitionism would die out = the
No..h o. is edharants wopld have Ia one
.s.a ~ tha Sa"th "a foreign emis..r;es. in
: Country armed and nrenared to exclude
ths;r ;ntsrconrse or arrest their designs and
nnn;.h their ;ntervention." -
P1 !, = aasv ~ sa.. that nnder this exaspera-
TOD condition Of the southern mind. the
Ch.rlsston conyent;on. which must satisfy
Az Snrth ~ ernloda into fragments. will be
comnelled to take such high southern ground
and 10 nominate such ultra pro-slavery
candidates thnt the prospects Of the demo-
S.a; ;nspp;.a y nnant;tv All this onerate,
~ a""n.s - tho adrantsge OF the rcnub.
lican party, and goes to assure its sus