The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1860-06-02

That is all, gentlemen.
"a very good story, very well told J! said l.
as ROdman concluded. .
"And true gentlemen, whether you believe it
or not"
The Glorious Prospect.
From the Chicago Press Tribune.
The prospect Of q close and effective union be-
tween all the opponents of Slavery extension Is
now more favorable than it has been since the
Old Wing Party was dissolved The nomination
of Lincoln has reconciled all Earring elements in
the great Opposition party, and the signs portend
a great political revolution like that which, in
1854, overlook the conspirators who stirred up
anew the vexed and still unsettled Slavery ques-
ton. Mr.. Lincoln's personal character and po-
litical antecedents-his honor, integrity and his
conseryatism-are guarantees to men OF all reas-
enable and admissible shades of opinion that, IN
his hands, the government and the interests OF
the people can be safely reposed. Men who have
up to this time been radicle to point far be-
yond the platform of the party, and who have
but family seconded the Republican movement;
men who have feared that the Republicans were
going too fast and too far, and that injustice to
the South, by violation of the compromises Of
the Constitution, vas intended; men who for
years past, have paid no attention to politics ex-
cept to deprecate the dongs of each PARTY-al
these see that at least they have candidate de-
manded by the exigency of the times, who will,
if elected, administer the government with scru-
pulous regard to the conceded rights of all, and
in spirit of candor and honesty to which Wash
ington and the White House have long been
strangers The position of the country favors the
rising of the surge which will carry Lincoln into
the Chair. Section embttered agains. section by
the treason of those in power; the Democracy
torn into factions by unconceaed aud irreconcil-
able discussions; the american movement giving
away to more imperative demands upon the IA
tional conscience the astounding corruptions
of the Buchanan Administration; the WEAKNESS
of the whole country with strife, and an univer-
sal desire to forget minor points of difference and
60 back to the old and safe policy OF the Fathers
that peace may be the result-these are causes
which win impell men who have heretofore look
ed upon each other with distrust and hatred, to
Join hands and 20 heartily into the work before
Them The time has come for change. The
efficacy Of Democratic measures has been tried
and proved worthless. Under two Presidents OF
the sham Democratic faith the nationalprospeti-
ty and the integrity of the Union have been put
in imminent PERIL and it is the Just and well
founded conviction that four years more of Pierce,
Buchanan, or representative successor, would put
an end to the institutions which the Revolution
created. This unskilful treatment of the Slavery
| question, has made the South and North as
| strangersif not enemies Their disregard OF the
great national interests has left the rivers and
harbors ofthe West unimproved, and has brought
ruin upon thousands and tens of thousands OF
| manufacturers and operatives in the East. Their
profigacy in the use of the public money has bank
rupt the treasury OF the nation. Their disregard
| of the rights Of nations and their illbustering
| spirit have brought US to the brink Of war with
| half the civilized world; and their general re-
| creancy to the principle Of freedom upon which
| the government is founded, their smamelessness
and recklessness in all matters that appertain to
the public good or the national reputation, have
| disgraced the Republic in the eyes of all man.
| kind. All this is seen and felt Mems deepes!
political convictions point to the necessity for
| union against the debauched and rotton Democ-
| racy by which these disastrous results have been
worked out and by which deeper woes are fore
| Swallowed. The country wants peace, 1t wants
ain honest Administration. 1t wants the attention
| Of the government turned to material interests
1t wants men ofintegrty. not mere politicians, at
| the head of aiflirs. 1t wants an old-fashoned
| dynasty with HONEST OLD ABE as its chief He,
with his clear head, his training among the peo-
pie as one of them, his comprehensive intellect,
his glowing patriotism and his inflexible WILL is
the man for the hour. And as we have never be.
lieved that it was the design Of Providence that
the American experiment of self-governinert
should fail, either by aggressions of the slavery
propagandsts, or by the corruptions of Blu
chanan, SO we are, in this crisis, ready to hail
ABRAHAM LINCOLN as the man whose mission it
| is to save the nation! Upon no other could OPP
posing interests and opposing opinions have been
reconciled; and, say it with due respect for the
| great names that the Convention set aside, upon
no other could these opposing interests and
opinions have so relied for conscientious exami-
nation and fair adjustment He will be elected.
| Gov. CoRwrS's SpEEcH.-Beckers Hall was
crowded with people last night, who went there
to hear Gov. Corwin. We do not intend to ut
tempt report of the points of the speech which,
for two hours, enchanted the attention OF his an
| dience. If it were a possible thing to have all
men Who undertake to enlehten or instruct
their fellows on the subject OF politics, exhibit
the same candid, generous and noble spirit which
Gov. Corwin ,nanifests, the struggle for princi-
pie, or for place and power il you please, would
| be seasons of refreshing, rather than such occa-
| sions of discord and heartburnings, and bitter
ness Of feeling, as are so often witnessed. Gov.
| c. never appears as a partisan to excite preju-
dice, TO stir up i'll blood, to attempt to impose
| on the confidence mislead the judgment Of
men. His object is rather to still the troubled
| waters, to appeal to the reason and the con-
est discharge of their duty as American citizens
| We doubt vely much whether any man who has
ever heard Gov. Corwin, no matter how strongly
| opposed to him in politics, could help awarding
| to him an honest, sincere and generous spirit
and attributing to him purpose to speak the
truth without fear of the consequences to his
own or any other party. He is one Of the few
politicians who seek always to enlighten those
with whom they come in contact, instead OF min
istering to and stimulating their prejudices.-
Such was the object of his speech last night
Gov Corwin referred to the action of the Chi
cago Convention, to his own course there, and
to his preferences in regard to a Presidential
candidate. Of Mr.. Lincoln he spoke in the high
est terms, as an honest, upright, able man, who,
if elected, would administer the government
with strict regard to his constitutional obliga-
tons, and with determination to metc out equal
and exact justice to all sections Of the Union
He said he believed the administration of Re
publican President would serve 10 convince the
South that the charges of hostility to it, which
was attributed to the Republican party, was
without any foundation in truth. In Mr.. Lin
coin, the candidate of that party, he expressed
the utmost confidence as man who would do
right in every emergency, and one in whom the
people might repose entire confidence
His exhortations to faithfulness on the part of
the people to the requirements Of the Consttu-
tion in relation to the execution Of the fugitive
slave Law, as well as in relation to all other laws
was eloquent and impressive.
He spoke of Mr. Seward in terms which the
eminent character Of the man justly merited,
without regarding the prejudice which leads so
many to misreprcsent and traduce him.
The speech abounded in eloquent historical
allusions-in impressive appeals in behalf of the
interests of the free white laborer-in condem-
nation Of all efforts te extend slavery into free
territory. and In generous exhortations to enjoy
aud perpctuatc the blessings ofthe free govern
meit under which We live.-[Dayton Journal
Tho Illinois Journal contains the following obit.
uasy notice If . once popular ANIMAL
DUD.-At Charleston, 9. G., ON the I'd inst,
the old and well known horse Democracy
1he above hosso was sired by Thos Jefferson,
and dan(n)ed By q. A. Douglas.