The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1860-07-14

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negsay 90 a6sy vlssten article, iron IL -
q - zoos - - ssl)ecs Of sRuliaice &
noae." isis pretty generally known. thai PM
Browneou, although native Of one ~ NJ mos.
ineensely Protestant Of the United Htatee-Yer.
moat-eo'ne yean ago espoused the cause Of RO-
man Vasnoaacssm, and since then his review has
ess9 4esesed - - adsecaey of shat saith rim
anAOutsy unsurpassed BY any sectafskn fellodicnl
heretofore, ~ Roman Catholic oracle. Il ~
been powerful adjunct ofthe Democratic Partv.
DAT "a me article 70 which 10 allude. the Pro.
lessor shows with clearness and Independents
wny that organization d no longer Trustworthy.
nc sae reason Of his abandonment o. & Tie
arsscle eatife would All our entire paper, and we
Gan only therefore give the points Of Il.
Lnferentially il holds the Democratic Party rea-
ponsible for having singie ont and pampcred Tie
foreign born voters Of the United States; court.
ing and rcwarding them % the s.Irishr or The
herman" element, instead Of treating them %
American citizens, making no more nor less of
them than native born electors Processing "a
discuns the political diGEersnces between rarSica
it assumes that the Constitutional Union Partv =
one Ct NO account, and that the Republican ana
the Democratic organizations are both sectional
the one having its real constituency North m
the other South. The article was written before
ne results Of the BaltimOse Convention had ssan-
spased' out itexamines and repudiates Douglasism
under the evident expectation that il might h.
possibly adopted BY. the Democtatic PARTY
Speaking Of the denial by Mr. Douglas ofthe pow
er OF Congress to prohibit slavery in the Terri
toriey, it says:
I'VE knaw nothing more discredi.ablc to to !
man who has had the honor to he q Judge even in
an inferior court. 1t is undeniably opposed Ia
that clear, logical understanding boosted not in
vain, BY the people of the Green Mountain State.
andespecially by old Windsor county, from which.
both he and We hail. The people IL Territory
have no powers except such as are conferred by
Congress in the Organic Act, and Congress can
confer no power which it does not itself possess.
Memo dat qMod non ha6et.
While assuming this much, however, the arti.
Gle denies that Congress has the power to either
adds: =.
so far we 60 with the Democratic PARTY
South, and dissent from both the Republicans
and the Douglas Democrats The Republicans
on this point we believe, are wrong, but they are
integibie, logical, and are s,sssdiaed BY tie asoss
practice Of Congress, e,er since ,ce haze lad
a Congress Ifthey err it is in respectable com.
pany. Their error, as far as an error can be- 10
. respectable error. The Douglas Democrats are
neither one thing or another, neither fish nor
flesh, nor yet good herring In this connection.
read also what it says of the Kansas Nebraska
bill and Stephen A. Douglas: st was an artfully
contrived plan for throwing, for all future time.
the power of the Federal Government into the |
hands OF the slave interest, and no man deserves
more the cxecration of the whole American peo- |
pie than its protector, or the Senator who engi. |
neered it through Congress"
1t might possibly be inferred from these ex. |
TRACTS that Prof. Brownson sympathiscs with the |
bred Scottites and the Slave Traders Not bit |
oft, If there is any significance in language He |
lnarrcls particularly with Judge fancy for his !
opinion in the bred Scott case. He says: AS |
Catholic, Judge fancy is bound toregard negroes |
As men, men sprung from the same stock, and
having the same natural rights with himself, and
therefore he should regard all laws creating dis
Einctions to their prejudice odious, and to be
strictly construed as he would in the case Of |
white men. lie seemed to us to reverse this and |
TO labor to give to the laws prejndical TO the
gro race the broadest Specification they would
possibly bear, and thus to neglect the duty of the
court to protect to the full extent of its legal
power the weak and the oppressed
With one more extract we will conclude:
1--WE cannot sec, if we accept the policy adop.
ted by the present Administration, on the ground
taken by the leading statesmen of the South, how
A man can give his vote to the Democratic party
unless h means 10 Be praa;caQya Pro Slavery man,
and to sustain negro slavery as one ofthe normal
and permanent institutions oft country; or, in |
other words, unless he is prepared to nationalist
Slavery, and make it q Federal, instead Of mere |
State or local institution"
Mr. Br0wns0n disclaims being republican
but he takes care to do it very delicately, while
his logic drives him, whether he will or no, to- |
v ard the Republican tanks, it is matter Of very
little consequence what may have been the mo-
live for this article, whether it the result of
convictions, or because its author
snutfed Republican patronage and power in the |
distance 1t will do to 60 along side Of the late |
Letter Of John Mitchell, Us one of the |
portents that the scepter is about to depart from