The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1860-10-20

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11aB GREAT Rm1UEH.
While IL Old World troQh9Da With III throea
ofincipisnt revolation, whese6f dsvasea1toa and
bloodShed are The inevitable concomitAnta. oar
own more favored land 3 pasaing Through cor
dln1 cf1r1o - i mAN1e9 Which - spaAy
ploo6ly ca1in I. Aef own. Wlthinaths laes t6say-
eight hours. our streets have reverberated to the
crash Of i dynasty, yet 10 one has suffered or
feared bodily haEn, and The show Of anxious mel
ancholy SslSo = limited % fen o0lce-h0lders.
Gladness beams from 4 million eyes, and joy
CLOVIS IN H. popular hSart, for Il b felt and
known that our peaceful conyulsion bodies SIM
ply that replAcesnent Of the bad BY The better,
With i the Inevitable condition Of Human Pro-
gsss and ths naanifsstation Of . genuine Nation
Il life.
Il was every way 1t that Pennsylvania and In
diana, clasping hands across Ohio, should claim
and enjoy Tho apsond distinction Of inaagurating
the National teuovat alton. In the Arst place,
those two States justly share between them the
honor Of ahavinn made ABRAHAM LINCOLN our
standard bearer In the momentous contest now
20 near ~ clearly foreshadowed termination
Indiana-which had previously inclined 70 and
vas confidently and reasonably counted on for
Judge Bates-was the irst State ct Chicago 70
take her plsco firmly and srdently beside Illinois
in supporting Mr.. Lincoln's pretensions, and
thenceforth her delegation Was most vehement
and untiring in commanding her new choice
PENNSYLVANIA, which, rnlfke Indiana, had can
didate OF her own, hesitated and debated long;
but. when pressed ct length to say decisiyely,
I'm case you cannot have your own candidate,
who is your next choicefs she, too. designated
~ r..sat..ra hn. saansoss,n, IN efyprt irnnell
ed TINT Of the Conveation. All wary politicians
we're. aware, before 1850, how crashing is the
weight wherevith the October elections fall up
ON the party which they declare against, in the
very syony Of Presidential canvass; and when
PENNSYLVANIA and Indiana said TO the Conycn-
ton, give us Lincoln for President, and you
shall hear Republican thunder from US in Octo-
Der !" their appeal could hardly be resisted, even
had the Convention been stubbornly hostile to
their preference. Moreover, the choice Of their
Delegations VAS heartily seconded by that OF
their respective candidates for Governor, Cot.
Curtin and Gen. Lane, who were both on the
ground, aud who-their personal fate being at
stake-could not be suspected of favoring anoth.
cr than he who was, in their judgment, the very
strongest man. How well founded was that judg-
ment, the shouts of Two Nillions Of Republican
voters are now proclamng
II was especially desirable that Pennsylvania
should take that position at the head Of the Re-
publican array which she 30 nobly justified on
Tuesday. There never was imagined more con-
elusive an answer than she has furnished to all
the wretched drivel of the day about "Fanati.
cism,n "Nigger equality" quitting the negro
above the white man" &c, &c. The whole coun.
try does know Pennsylvania as an eminently 500
Der. conservative, Union-loving State, of whose
Five Hundred Thousand Voters not Fifty Thou
into v,Vyity
the Southern States their institutions" or their
negroes. They are for Free Labor; they believe
in IL; they live by it; they wish to see it pro-
tected, encouraged, developed; they insist that
the Territories-since they come to US Free
shall be consecrated to it; but they are willing
that the South shall take her own time wherein
to become convinced of its immense superiority
to the wretched system, inherited from Pagan
barbarism, to which she so insanely clings. The
fact that Pennsyly ania has declared for Lincoln,
BY majority which puts her vote in November
beyond all cavil, is certain to exert tremen-
dous influence in queting the fears of the ti'nid
and assuring the thrifty and cautious that the
new era now opening upon US is destined to be
emphaticslly one of order and peace.
The elections of Tuesday spanned the Slave
Border from the shore OF the Atlantic almost to
the banks of the Mississippi, embracing the three
Free States next after New York in population
and power, and unitedly casting sixty-three E!ec-
toral Votes-m0re than one third Of the number
required to choose President by the People
That those sixty.three votes will all be east for
Lincoln aud Hamlin, nobody doubts any longer,
more than that the sun will rise tomorrow. Add
Pennsylvania and Indiana to Col. Fremont's vote
in SO, and they elect President, saying nothing
ofIllinois or the States Of Minnesota and Ore
gou. IL it possible any longer even to affect not
II. Al. H.. Ia H.,
Washington, Oct Q.
POLl1lCs IN TEXAS.
Senator Wigfall made Breckenridge speech,
last night, before the Breckenridge Associa-
ton In the course of his remarks he said
that after the recent election in Texas he found
it unnecessary to remain there, SO far as can
wasting was concerned. The enemy were then
completely routed, and there was nothing now
left of them except the dead and wounded
And having no fancy to ride over field that
had already been plowed by artillery, and
swept by cavalry, having no inclination to
amnse himself in massacreing the wounded and
mutating the dead, he thought he would come
to some country, if it could be found, where the
enemy was standing in square ready for the charge.
SENATOR wIGFALL ON TIE SOUTH.
In regard to the prospects in the various
States through which lie had Travelled. Senator
Wigfall said he would say that Louisiana they
expected to carry by small majority. Aissls-
sppi and Alabama, of course, were safe. In
Tennessee al! parties admitted that unless Doug
las could carry Oft ten thousand, they we're sure
of that State. Arkansas and Texas they could
carry BY overwhelming maiorities As to the
other States, he could give them no Information,
inasouch as he knew nothing personally about
them.
THE DOUGLAS DEFEAT IN FLORIDA.
The result in Florida is a great dampcr upon
the hopea of the Douglas and Bell men, who
were thoroughly united, and hoped to carry the
State. Florida gave Taylor large majority in
lS4S, and upon this fact the hopes of the Flu
sionists were based.
Senator Hunter has pronounced Virginia sure
for Observation-Disclosures Dispatch to Gin.
Gazette.
The PKopLE OR THE HousE-THE GREAT DAN
GER.-If the true Conservatives of Pennsylvania
appreciate the real nature and Importance Of the
pending contest, they can scarcely be misled in
to throwing their weight into the anti-Repuoli-
can scale The issue, rs made BY the Fusion
ists is not simply between the election OF one
candidate, or the triumph of one party, and an
other. It goes far beyond this. The point to be
tested is, whether the People shall elect their
President, or whether the election shall be
thrown INTO the House OF representatives ard
then decided by 4States. If the people elect any
body. it will be Mr. Lincoln. If he is defeated,
the election goes to the House.
The Union men" profess to dread the result
Of electng Lincoln by the people. Do they
never think of the danger of throwing SO mo-
mcntous a question into Congress, in the pre-.
sent excited state of theapublic mind and in the
present condition Of parties in the House 1t
is morally certain that nobody but Mr.. Lincoln
could possibly be chosen by the present House
Is there any doubt that Southern ultraists would
resort to bribery, corruption, menace, and vio-
lent collisions in the House to prevent snch
result? Is il not certain that such contest
would be protracted day after day, with con-
stantly increasing excitement in Congress and
throughout the country Would not thousands
from both the North and the South gather at the
Capitol to watch the result-eager partizans on
both sides, ready TO give or take offense, and
more than likely to engage in street collisions
which might fan the smoldering fires OF the
country into open outbreak and revolution!
These are points to be carefully considered by
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