The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1860-08-25

dogs, bot mono ofthem knowisg any honest road
70 political power, have gone ''fickefing," ''un-
wept, unhonorcd and unsung!'
why is this. How l. thiss samuels cannot
understand Il. Cele cannot understand it Why
10 not lying ~ successfhl In Iowa - Virginia,
Kentucky or Missouri Why cannot party be
built upon svindls and sustained by hard lying,
a. we'll In Iowa a. the States named! Because
" have free and untramelled prcsst The men
who have pesistently lied during each succeed
Ing year about every item Of State expenditure,
do mot realize the important fact that over one
hundred newspapers are printed and read in this
State. Here 10 force entering largely into the
canvas and exercising more influence than all
the stump speakers Of oil parties. Dean finds y
meeting and exposing him at every turn. Cole
and the others ditto. The lesson Of the last four
years viii teach even Elwood that resort to
falsehood is dangerous. We are willing to wager
that IL he again goes upon the stump be dare not
tell the old yarn about tho Lnnatic Asylum being
the biggest building in the wor!d-that it has al
ready cost 500, OOO and win cost million more.
Cole has started in upon the old plan but is
already sick Of it. He is learning BY bitter ex-
perience that the only person injured BY his COW
and calf and other shameless and ridiculous
falschoods is c. C. Cole. But he, like the rest,
il not likely to lind on. what hurt him until it is
too late-until he is damaged beyond the reach
of medicine.
| Two propositions NC herewith submit to the
1 r 4.
lst. It is not easy even for cunning old rats
like Cole to follow lying as a business in Iowa,
without being canght and exposed.
Cd. A character for mendacity is not believed
here to ct man for high Offices and honors and
not even for Congress, and does not endear him
to the people or even TO the rank and file Of his
own party.
~ There arc mot FIVE Democrats in every
hundred that do not know that popular sover-
eighty 1.-THE ''stump speech in the belly OF the
Kansas-Nebraska bill") was intended for the pur-
pose Of reconciling Northern people to the in
tended extension of slavery over free Territory.
There are not Eve Douglas Democrats in hum
dred, take them as they run. with brass enough
to deny that the extension Of slavery wasthe OBJ
ject Of the repeal of the Compromises And
fifty Douglas voters cannot be gotten together in
public meeting in any part Of Iowa. 50 wanting
in intelligence. that fortynine Of them shall not
know that this talk about sclfgovernment and
popular sovereignty is not humbug. sham.
A Douglas meeting, whether it be in q school
house with Corsc and Clune as orators, or in a
large gathering Of the people with the great lead
ers Of that party as speakers, is just about the
same thing, and as much resembles Peter Funk
Mock Auction in New York as any thing else.-
1t is all transparent sham. The speakers mum
BILE over a long, hsckneycd rig marole about
''selfgovernment" popular sovereignty, ""rights
Of the States" property in nggers," 'unfricndly
legislation" '.Dred Scott" 'subject to the Con.
stitution Of the United States" etc., etc., looking
IS wise as owls, but meaning and caring nothing
about it. The masses listen with self-immOla-
ton worthy Of better cause, entirely conscious
that there is nothing in it-that the whole thing
10 not only sham but an awful bore, but like
the eager r T.'s in mock auction, who bid on
pinch-back watches that greenhorns may be
sold, each individual thinks his neighbor is swa-
lowing the whole thing a. reality, and suffers
the infection for the benefit Of the cause.
Il strikes US that It 10 q total loss of time in
Republican speakers spending time, boring their
hearers and wasting their breath in combating a
humbug that is already sdead and DID," and
which, by no possibility, can ever cheat any man
who would under any circumstances vote Re.
publican ticket.
But, says gentleman at our elbow, what il
there about Douglas, IL ''squatter Sovereignty
10 30 transparent humbug, that rallies to his
support large majority of the Democratic party
in the free States! Mr.. Donglss owed all his
strength in the Convention at Charleston and
Baltimore and before Northern people, not to
his invention Of this shallow cheat to cover vi.
olation Of pighted faith, but to his opposition to
the "Lecompton iniquity"-to his hostile position
and war upon Buchanan's administration. As a
rebel, and in that capacity cooperating with the
Republicans in Congress to defeat the Iecomp-
ton conspirators, Mr.. Douglas obtained his whole
capital In trade. Without it he would have been
in As bad odor to-day, and a. much an object Of
distust and loathing - NJ. Buchanan.
| BY his opposition to Lecompton Douglas lost
the South, although he attained what be could
not Otherwise have had, reelection to the Sen
ate from his own State. Having attsined this
end, NJ. Douglas again cast his eyes toward the
cotton fields and sugar plantations, and sedu-
lously courted Southern votes and sought South.
ern favor, bnt in vaia. The frc-eates were
never known to forgive an act Of disloyslty to
their peculiar institution. And although he
surrendered Internationally, and threw down
the arms of his rebellion although last winter
he Inundated himself in the Senate. and humbly
| sued for restoration to favor and confidence,
it was in vain. Rather than support him they
are willing to break up the party, and We had al
most said the Union. The short Of the matter
is that Mr.. Douglas lost the favor Of the South
By his opposition to Lecompton, and in his efforts
70 regain it, lost pretty nearly al the strength
his rebellion had given him in the North. He
y neither fsh, Aesh nor fowl, and is not in this
contest At all except as far as 1t 10 personal be-
tween himself and the Fire.Eater& The jumbled
up platform upon which he stands, check by jowl
with slave code disunionists, asserting ''lny
great princpls' in one line and taking 1t ell back
In the next taken In connection with his oft-rc-
peated declaration Of indifference whether slavery
was voted up or voted down, most ehsctaally
rule Douglas out Of this eight. except % skir-
niahse. Earnest men with positive opinions will
not support him unlsss for an ulteriof purpose.
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