The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1860-02-18


- og 49, Alse1oese1c pc1ftcal heo1e'
- - g. $500 e yeas ond pefhnps recent
esenM 10y anooce - deA9nefs and nanstcr
b.Aog "a make mporsant altefatiens b tie
80 6sall, tpA TINA - time, plank h either
enAoa0ea . nAvlng been determined upon and
naae reaoy ior ~ place, Or It, form and sab-
etence are endowed forth in SONS leading Jour
mai charged with the duty OF manufacturing
poDlc sentiment, Of getting the people prepared
% ADMIRE when the new plank = ready 10 ap-
pear.
~ . propose 1t this time only to notice soma Of
scese expsctine, OF course, 70 do our part in
aiding to discuss them more ax large during the
coming campaign. The main plank Of the whole,
long enough, e many think, to bridge over the
vide gulf Of Democratic Inconsistencies; wide
enough 70 cover up all past follies and present
diasenaions, and thick and strong enough 70 bear
q once, without breaking, Southern fire-eaters
and disuni0nists, and Northern Onion savers,
KNOW N0tmnes and Northern Democrats, Of
'pnrest ray serene;" in short, anything but Buch-
anan and Douglas At the same time. This plank
~ - we suppose, set up and finally determined
upon This plank, Squatter Sovereignty by
name, AYERS that the people Of the Territories or
any othef people, have the undoubted right to
ADOPT chattel Slavery - one oftheir institutions
IT they choose.
u thus u true Then It follows either that chat
tel Slavery, the reducing Of man to the condi-
taon OF the brute, is right in ITSELF in accordance
with natural law, and the revealed will Of God,
OF men have right to associate themselves in q
Government and then legalize moral wrong
III other words, either Slavery is right, or men
nave r1ght to annul the standard OF wright and
wrong which has been established by God, and
set up q new one OF their own. We understand
onr democratic friends to claim that both side
Of this proposition are true.
First that Slavery is right socially, politici
caliy and morally, and that it is not forbidden
by any law OF natural right, or any written divine
law.
This We understand to be the present position
OF the leading defenders OF Slavery. This is the
platform ON which its logical champion, Mr.. o.
Conor, has placed himself, with the additional
plank that as it is established and guaranteed by
the Constitution, no State law can ABOLISH it even
within the states own limits.
we deemit exceedingly fortunate for the coun-
Try that the issue has been clearly and fairly made
in the commencement of the campaign, whose re-
suit involves SO much The people can now be
made to understand the character and demands
OF Slavery. The demand covers all or nothing
Mr. OConor, admits right and wrong, and de-
ciarcs that II slavery is wrong it must fall. II
slavery IS wrong, the Abolitionists are right; so
~1' OSonor "ssuEcs US but this ls not the
purest or perhaps We should rather say, the latest
Democracy Democracy has new plank on
winch Slavery, even If thrown overheard as a
wrong ircm MI. OConor's Court, may yet be
saved alive. There is, or should be, no conncc-
ton between religion and morals, is the new
plank proposed by some OF our Democratic friends
ana therefore, men have perfect right to adopt
and abolish, and enforce against their fellow men
tnal winch religion declares to be moral wrong
uod reveals TO us HIS will as our rule of con-
auc!, py the frophets and Apostles, and en-
eodies II IN the written Word, and sends His
Son also to explain it, and throw over the whole