The weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1858-1860, 1859-12-24
WHO'S TO isOlr1

discussed. And in fact Republicans seem wi
y agreed to agitate this question scarcely At
leaving the Convention to select THE BEST nj
WHO'S TO DOlr1
Mariners always anticipate stormy weather
, passing the Great Capes. Il 10 siso true
nateras aud the Horn. The Ship Of State
similar perils to encounter. We were launc
ed upon the stormy Atlantic Of our prese
voyase and plunged into lis pillows, by tho
two renowned political navigators, Command d
Pierce and Pilot Douglas We have had
stormy, but on the whole successful passa.
thus lar. We have passed our Hasseras. aI
are now facing the gales and Drawing Il
storms OF our Horn. There is commotio
among the passengers, and little threatene
ma.iny: but the good ship is tight, strunch an
strong, aud the voices OF \ valiant aud inden
liable crew ring loud and clear above the ten
pes', CHEEKY, boys" "0heery, boyslnt .Ali
right, alPs WE'LL" We are rapidly passing o
to the broad Pacific, where the mists and th
SHOWS, the winds and the storms Of our voyag
WIN be forgotten in placid and peaceful water.
We cannot hearken to voices that exaggerat
our perils, nor to counsels that bid US tur
4 back. With loins girded and spirits high, an,
craft that has hitherto borne the brunt 0
every conflict, without opening seam or shiy
| eritg spar, we confidently count upon sue
cessful and happy termination to our presen
enterprise. -
Ins hgurative exposition of the condition ol
public affairs needs no Interpretation. In oul
political concefns, there are always plenty Oi
people to magnify small national disorders and
10 create imaginary ones. just now, the effor
to DO this is in very busy hands, But, as here,
toiore, It will soon die out. Joha Browns
ghost will soon be laid, and then all will be
quiet again. So soon rs our more youthful and
ardent Members of Congress get :airy warm in
their seats, and begin to feel the sedative phy.
sicai influences that 6ow from luxurious eating
ana drinking, when the Christmas holidays shall
come, We snail witness very marked abatement
OF the existing hurry Of speech at Washington.
Anu when the unionsaving meetings in our
large cities shall be over, our aeitated respecta.
biil'iss and quivering devotees OF Trade will
sueside into their usual dull routine. Peop.e
profess to be frightened, aud to see portents in
the SKY, and to tremble Tor some imaginary fl.
sure OF insurrection, and rebellion, and dis.
union, and civil war, and we do net know what
other extravaganza. But it is the tremor of
chronic timdity, the apprehension of very dull
minds and very weak nerves. Who is to be the
author OF these calamities, whence they are to
come, how they are to come, nobody can tell, no.
body knows. Certain it is, the fifteen millions
of people in the North propose nothing, ALSO,
Iutely nothing. but to mind their own business.
There is not a bomb, nor a she'll, nor a,pike
(excpt intellectual ones), preparing in all our
borders tor any Illegal or improper purpose
whatever. People have said John Brown was
brave man, and exhibited moral qualities that
were an ornament to human nature. This is the
head and front OF Northern offending--no more.
How Is 1t sith the nine millions OF the South
A N,.,
iiict, to cry havoc, and let slip the dogs OF war
DO they want any more agitation at home than
they have got! Is not all uiggerdom sufficient.
y excited already! Does not Mr.. Wise say
that neither lie nor property is worth having in
Virginia in the existing state of alarm and tire.
plda; on! Does not Mr.. Senator Chesnut saw
that the South lies bleeding and powerless?-
"ho, then, is to bring on these imaginary hor.
rors that torment the Imagination of our terror
struck old women in pantaloons ?-[New York
Tribune.
The Democracy held a Union-SaviDg
Meeting at Muscatine on Tuesday last The
Journal says it was a regular Locofoco blow.
out
The Boo Hoos AT last nights meeting OF
he Boo Hoos, after one Of Mr.. Burgesser's ora.
or'eal efforts in his usual eifervescent STYLE the
audience. which had previously been rather in
,llned 10 the mirthful, was rebuked in solemn.
almost fearful, indeed quite sepulchra manner,
,y Nc. Anderson Chambers. Mr.. c. thought
hat dark days we're upon US, and that, in view
Vt the recent capture Of Virginia by Brown and
lis twenty-five men, no man ought to smile
except in his sleeve, we suppose. Indeed, he
eened TO think that it might be said to be
reasonable to smile in such u meeting, except,
We suppose, in the metapaorical Democratic
ense OF this word as used at the '.bar'-uot
hat our friend ever "smiles" in that way.
New, IL does strike US as peculiarly ridiculous,
1t were not sad to see men of sense acl SO
in view OF the fact tha. all the dis
Inion threats come from the South; that at the
'outh there is large disunion party, while
here is none at the North; that the first move
# Southerners in both houses Of Congress, this
sinter, was to spring the ''nigger" question,
nd the clsunion bugbear On the country; that
henry A. Wise, the man who hung the brave
I'D hero, Brown, was the first man to suggest
he idea OF forcibly sezing the National Arme-
y and Treasury; and that the Southerners are
ow openly avowing that, if u Republican Press
dent is elected, they will dissolve the Union,
While at the North not corporais guard are
'old enough to even hint at such sentiments; in
Jew Of these facts it is mirth provoking 10 see
Northern LocOiOcos get down on their knees,
nd with tears coursibg down their cheeks,
mpiore Northern men not to dissolve the Union!
Gentlemen Boo-Hoos, are you not ashamed Of
ourselves?
JERRY CLEMENS ON OH BRowN.-A number
4 country girls who had been to wedding,
n;ered the same car in which was sitting, at
.sncister, made my cheeks burn by their
angling comments upon the chivalry of the
'outh. do not remember that was ever in>
lined TO deny my birth place before, but if one
# Il em had asked me at that particular time
shcte was from, l think | should have an
wered Iowa, or Minnesota, or perhaps Oregon.
)f course, all this is HARMLESS, aud the stories
o current are wild exaggerations. At home |
hag.d laugh at them as heartily as any one, but
do not like to hear them here, and nothing
tut the fear of making myself ridiculous by
,ett.ng into passion has preserved me several
imes from retoitng witticism by tAunt.-
Besides, when l sit down and think over it
almy, am forced to confess that il is nothing
nore than q fair retaliation for the clustering
hreats IN which our people are SO prone to
ndn'ge We talk about whipping the North
With as much self>complacency as II her popu-
alton would not more than half suffice for q
breakfast, for tho militia of single Southern
State, and yet John Brown, aided by seventeen
White mcE and seven or eight free negroes,
eized national armory, in a thickly populated
,ort'on Of Southern State, and was only cap
nred at last by the aid of United States ma>
ines from Washington. Since the arrest and
Of this Insignificant band we have
lad Southern Legislatures aud Governors going
through the ridiculous farce of tenderag aid 10
he Governor of Virginil to prevent a rescue
10 sane man believed to be possible. Scarcely
day passes but We have some startling dis
,losure, and the telegraph is kept busy in re-
,ording the imaginary movement of the res
.uers on the one hand, and the warlke prepar-
ltians Of the guardians Of the Law on the other.
The above is an extract Of letter from the
Ion. Jerry Clemens, one OF the editors of the
Nemphis Enquirer, written from Philadelphia.
Ne reprint it, just TO show how Southern gen
ieiaan looks upon the Brown affair. Nobody
will accuse him Of Aboltionisn.
MORE AFRICANS CoMINs.-The Sea Coast
Miss) Democrat OF the 7th inst, under the
,ea Of ''Good News, has the following:
We learn from good authority that cargo of
African Slaves is expected in Ship Island lIsrbor
he latter part Of the present month. They
will, il they arrive safe, be landed without any
attempt At secrecy; the consignees trusting 70
he sentiment predominant in Mississippi as to