The weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1858-1860, 1859-05-31

00O OuOVOe400 AOUDDDUVN0HUIDa
II The assembling q Ten thousand men In mas
convention. 1t Cleveland, ON Tuesday, was not ,
: mere chance affair, to be snesred at or scoldes
/, about. aud then steaightwAy forgotten. Thess
were peither idlers nor the factious enemies 81
!. Law and order. Laborine men we're they chiefly
leaving their work as this busiest Of periods m
der the impulse Of strong convictions % to theiI
endangered rights, and their pressing duties y.
freemen. Among the number, too, were some
or the most influential men Of the State, utterng
and giving guidance to the common sentiments
pervading this army Of intelligent and deter
mined citizens. Such an assemblage is one that
wise men and sagacious rulers, in free coun-
Try, are not wont to regard with Indifference
IL 10 idle to think to subdue men Of this eort,
either by denunciation or BY threats Of armed
! iateryention
The grounds of oil this excitement are, irst.
an odious statute, very widely deemed unconsti.
tu'ionai in many Of it's provisions, for the
reclamation Of runaway slaves on free soil, and
secondly, an intolerably tyrannical method Of
enforcing this law, in the particular cases re-
Gently arising on the Western Reserve. The
Fugitive Slave Law was, Of purpose, made %
offensive as possible to the North. 1t has never
Gone shareholders any real good, and it never
VIII. In the nature of the case, they, and
everybody else, must see that this cannot be
otherwise. But when enforced by federal Off
Gals, after tue manner Wilson, Belden l. Co.
nave chosen to adopt it cannot fail to awaken
1ntense popular indignation. 1t ought to do SO.
The law itself is justly called "odious." Such
On execution OF It is palpably outrageous. The
cleveland Mass Convention, without violence.
threats, or any unlawful proceeding, uttered
their earnest protest against oil this perversion
OF our free institutions. They are prepared, to
| man, we doubt not, to back up their words
with decided acts, if necessary.
WIZ there, then, be q collision of the State
and Federal authorities? And if so, what ought
good citizens to do? To the first question, we
can only answer, that if the Supreme Court of /
onio orders bushnell and Langston to be bro't /
before 1t At Columbus, Or even to be released.
it is the duty of the Executive to see that order
oceyed And at Cleveland, in the presence Of
the mass Convention, Gov. Chase expressed
himself very decidedly on this point. He will
90 MS duty. What the Court will decide. how.
ever, we cannot undertake to say, nor how far
the Federal officers, citizens of our own State.
would see tit to resist, should the decision favor
the prisoners. But should q collision occur.
every good citizen must decide for himself whe.
sner ne ought, in this case, to 60 with the Fed
eral or with the State authorities. The cham
pions OF centralizing federalism will back up
the pretensons of the Federal Court and Exec
utve. Genuine State Rights men, anti. CONSOLE
o"'ionlsts, and friends OF genuine popular SOW
ereignty, will maintain the rights Of the State.
against crushing central despotism. The great
mass OF our people will undoubtedly stand by
the State authorities.-Cin. Gazette.
The SovEREIGNs OF EURoPE-Queen Victoria
was oorn IN 1919, and was 40 years old the oath |
OF this month /; she has been on the throne % 1
years. Alexander H., of Russia, was born in {
1918, and has been Emperor years. Louis q
Napoleon was born in 1908, and is 81 years OF {
age, and has been Emperor since Dec. g. 1852. 8
lie was elected President in lS49--but before
his term expired, conspiracy was formed to +
'mpesch him. He arrested and imprisoned the =
consprators, and asked the people of France to :.
eject him Emperor, which they did Francis I
Joseph OF Austria, was born in 1880, and has |,
been Emperor since lS4S. Victor Emmanuel.
os Sardinia, was born in 1920, and assembled the q
brone in ls49. Frederick William w., Of .
Prussia, is "a years old, became King in 1910, q
S now insane, and the Kingdom is under Re- v
,ency Isabella H., of Spain, was born 1880.
md has been Queen since 1888. Pedro ". of 0
'ortugal, was born in 1887, and became King "
n 1858. George, Prince Of Lippe Schaumbere. o
the Oldest sovereign in Europe, being born in a
,IS4, and dated his accession from l7S7. q
DuEL.-A despatch from Mobile, of the
7th SAYS - A.
Mr.. Suth and Mr.. Wick, both presumed to b
e from Vicssburg, arrived here this morning
rom New Orleans, and Immediately proceeded o.
the Old Race Course, to fight duel
The weapons were rifles; the distance forty d.
aces. \;
At the word fire Mr.. Wick fred. At the II
ord +" one Mr.. Stith fred. Mr.. Wick fell and in
xpired instantly. i
gentleman in Springfield has invented an
pparatus, upon which he has the caveat, which y
"a e. |
lstens upon the mouth guta percha tube lead. y
g to the tampanum Of the ear. Whenever the III
l0rer shores he himself receives the first i'm sc
ression, and If q sensible man or woman 10
lits. al
BAD ENoUGH.-The Rockfort News saws that ~ ~
st Saturday evening the dead body Of an in u. -
mt was found in Rock River, in that town. 1t y
I'd been strangled, the cord being still around w
} neck. 1t says this is the third child that ~
IS been abandoned in Rockfort, and the Sc re
md that bad been found in Rock River in the nj
st three months. This shows bad state of su
lngs for that supposed to be moral city. tn
AccIDENr.--The Vinton Eagle says that on NJ NJ
onday last, Mr.. John Newton, from I.aperte ~,
ty, who was on his way to Pixies Peak. was IL
rlousy and probably fatally injured by the W
cidental discharge of a gun which he was ne
King from his wagon. The accident happened IN
the
CEDAR R4PlD.s-The Cedar Rapid, Times
Us: "The Cedar Rapids is now at Clinton or,
10 name OF the pilot who haze her in charge ma,
the time she colded with, and sunk the Ia,
Gle May, was Root. His papers were taken 40.
m him on his arrival at st Louis. No blame 90 20!
attached to any other officer of the boat" ~
On Easter Monday there took place at Sails hal
ry, England, the wedding of a cattle dealer. day
o bad avowed that if ever be did get married ,
would ride to and from church on donkey. !
, friends kept him to his word, and provided "A
q fifteen donkeys, that they might bear him ano
npany zen suite. This ludicirous wedding to
'cession headed by q fife band, went the J
nds.
NAPOLEON AND CUBA.-The Paris correspond =
OF the New York Times has the following:
DR.. Chanut fermer editor of the Presse for o"it
'erican affairs, now employed in the same
acity on the Review Contemporaries, has lust rOol
,lished lengthy article in this ionrnai an tern
subject OF Cuba, and is preparing another q
Central America and the Nicaragua canal car,
stion. According to NJ. Chanut, the French mor
pile, as well the French Government. are ~ :
20 - ,he J1,';,oa S.' Aas.on VI ouoa' W incr
would he manifested n ,,a.a a ups gree
than by mere protest. l have every rea- "e,'
to believe that if Louis Napoleon were dis wet
ed, he could easily gain the contest of his pou
pie, to constitute this Que of the civiliziDg 55o
sions Of which he has talked 60 much in bis feet
manifestos. His new and powerful navy ing
n Wv have la nnrtn ptfv pGA | nua