The weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1858-1860, 1859-05-03

mains, with the rights, contested and intense
" realized, that gaze rise to il Since then
there has been continual bending and
forcing Of the Central Power, at every point.
BY the preponderatiag body, for the estab-
lishment Of the slave system in the inchoafe
societies for the border-to the utter neglect
and injury Of all other interests. The man
ayers Of the Government seem to believe that
it ought not to be employed for any other
purpose.
When Mr. Douglas and his Southern
friends withdrew the Bar of Compromise,
they argued that it would relieve the Gov
eminent by removing cause OF agitation
and alarm they protested BY this measure
to have 'banished from the halls OF Congress
all questions affecting the social condition OF
the Territories" leaving those to be decided
by the people The hastile powers we're Lett
facing each other without q bar or even
scratch between them to give honor to the
fight A general cry, turmoil, and q MUIR
derous civil conflict followed, combatants
pouring into the seat of war from all quarters
What is the object of q Congress, It 1t De
not to gather into some centre ofrcason, and
make debatable and soluble, those questions
which. if lost to the masses, end only in the
shedding of blood j? We might as we'll re-
move personal contests and strifes about
properly from the halls of justice and ''leave
them to the people" as take from Congress
the power OF controlling the Territories,
with demagogical purpose Of pleasing the
half wild population Of the border The ends
of Government are defeated by such meas
ure
A Territory organized under a pro slave
~ constitution notwithstanding the reserved
power of the people that can always revise
that constitution, is finally o slave State;
the constitution is potentially changeable,
is potentially capable ofreform, but actually
cannot be reformed; for the same power
that established it will continue active IN
maintaining it, and the initiative is two
thirds of success. Slave owning carries with
it an overwhelming political influence the
fact of possessing and governing with viz
tual power of life and death, a colony OF hui
man beings, without suzerainty or response
bility to any authority except the public
opinion of a sympathizing class, gives dc
gree of influence over a non slaveholdlng,
free population, quite equal to that Of le-
galized and titled aristocracy. Hence the
desperate and bloody struggle for the initia-
tive between the two factions in Kansas
Each side fought for all futurity enc for
aristocracy, the other for republican equal
ity.
Events have shown, that the measures OF
Mr. Douglas and his Southern friends have
removed the control over inchoate societies
of the border, not from Congress to the people,
but from the Senate to the President, from
the conservative to the Executive arm Of the
Central Power. In proof of this assertion
now first made to establish time mark in
CONSTITUTIONAL history, and new guide for
the action of political parties, We have only
to remember the course Of Executive inter-
vention in the affairs of Kansas.
Was it the intention of the movers to make
this transfer ? or were they ignorant Of tie
effect of their motion Pending the civil
war, Mr.. Douglas reproached the Administra-
ton for its active Interference but the re-
moval of the Bar of Compromise created
civil war, and it became necessary for MIR.
Buchanan, as faithful servant of Democ-
racy, to take sides with the slave owners
The armies, the agents and the patronage ola
Democratic Executive could not be kept
neutral in such contest.
The protective influence of the Senate was
| withdrawn from the Territory, and the for
midable task of impressing an aristoeratic
form the border constitutions imposed upon
the Executive alone How keenly the bitter
responsibility was felt events were not slow
in revealing MIR Douglas lifted the Bar of
Compromise and let it fall upon the right
arm of Democracy, that was broken by the
blow the flights of the vultures are now
| northward, and victory does not soar, as
hitherto, over the standard of the South.
The transfer of power to the Executive has
made it necessary for that large majority of
| the people who do not employ slaves to choose
| for itself a President who will recognize the
| superior claims Of intelligent labor; and who
will protect the young and tender constitution
| of States that are about to be born into the
! Union. This majority must initiate the
steady and uncompromising conduct of the
slave owners. leaving minor and local differ
ences to be alterward determined. Let them
remember that the savehoding body have
| always subordlned minor questions, and with
a tortitude and courage worthy OF the highest
encomlums, have pressed forward toward
the grand object, the control Of the National
| Executive.
The slave owners have never asked iavors;
on the contrayr, though small minority OF
| the nation, they have retained powerful
| body oil allies by dispensing them. Ry the
same policy the majority of the nation may
at length obtain some control in the govern
ment. II to have Il hand in territorial af-
fairs were the only object, it.would be worth
struggle, when it is remembered that the
entire foreign and domestic policy of the
nation hangs from that issue when the
| question: whether the Central Power shall
| be employed, as hitherto: entirely and ex-
clusively in creating territorial market for
home grown slaves to the injury and utter
neglect of all other interests, there seem to be
motives enough tor solid combination ofthe
people to elect President who will do
whatever is constitutional in the premises.