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

THK IxrERkEclxE WAR-TALL SwEARlxG 81
rnr DouGLAmTRs. The Baltimore correspondcr
Of tie Ciacinnati Commercial returned with !
squad'of Northwestern delegates 70 the Balti
more Convention. He gives the following repcr
or their conversation:
The Northwestern delegates, on their return
home, congratulated themselves upon the Pre-
sumption that IL they bad ripped up the Demo
cratic party they had shown the Republicans
that they, as Democrats, we're NOT dOughfacca
The reflection that they were no more to be re-
preached o. serfs Of the South, seemed sweet
and ample consolation for al the struggles and
perils through which they had passed, and the
pangs they had suffered In the dissolution Of the
party. They talked all the way over the noun.
tains TO this effect: "Well, there is one thing oi
which We can't be accused any more. There
was not : doughface shown in the Northwest
The fact il the South was never before quite 70
we'll matched in her own game Of brsg and intol-
cradle arrogance. They never before met in
menace for menace, and told with a. much We
hemence % they threatened to secede, that they
might do 1t and Be d----d.n ,
No cool-headed man Of all the Democratic
party believes in the possibility Of the election Of
either Of the Democratic candidates The cleo
tion Of Lincoln is considered . liked fact. Many
Douglas men say they don't care If he is elected,
and hope he will be, if they can't elect Douglas;
| task which no persons except those connected
with the Cincinnati Enquirer, and the Popular
Sovereignty Club, are silly enough to believe, or
foolish to proclaim, within the limits of possi-
bility. shared > railroad scat, when crossing
the mountains, with Northwestern delegate,
one Of tho most jealous and fragrant Of the par
tizans Of Douglas. He was in q bad humor with
the South. asked what was the matter. He
said: Il have been vexed. After oil the battles
we have fought for the South-to be served in
this manner-it is ungrateful and mean" He
said further that the South had insured the selec-
tion Of an Abolition President" He hoped the
election Of Lincoln was sure thing-and if il
was not sure he would help to make it 80. He
wanted AbOlitiOnism poured into the South in q
perfect flood. He wanted the South to be made
to sweat under an Abolition President He was
glad Seward was not the Republican candidate,
tor he would be too easy on the South He
hoped Lincoln would make them sweat The
Southerners had been ruling over niggers SO
long they thought they could rule white men just
the same. The South should not 90 out of the
Union either. She would stay in and sweat
The fugitive slave might 60 to Canada or to the
devil in welcome, and their masters after them.
He never would trouble his head about them any
more. lie did not care whether the Fugitive
Slave law was enforced or not. He declared the
South had alienated her best friends forever, and
must now do the bess she could for herself; and
should not break up the Union either. He was
disposed, too, to rdicule the South on account
Of her poor country, her unimproved lands, and
to prophesy unnumbered woes in relation to the
swarms of mulattocs, quadroons and octoroons.
/ suggested that it might improve the case for
Douglas and Breckinridge to resign and call a
new convention. He said that If such thing
were done sthe Douglas men would not pay any
attention to the convention. They had too much
of conventions already. He would not spend
an ,ther twenty-five cent piece for the party
The South gave every indication Of wanting an
Abolition President. Let her try one and see
how she would like it. He also seemed to think
John Browns course toward the South not alto.
gether unreasonable; Knowing as much of the
South as he had just found out, he would not, ii
he were at the head of the government, allow a
John Brown to be hung, ii there were fifty oil
them. His greatest anxiety was that the South
should be made to sweat.
And this conversation represents the feeling
with which the Northwestern delegates crossed
! the mountains returning home. The extent and
| bearings of the political revolution, of which
! this is one Of the indications, may be further
| illustrated from the har-room talk at Baltimore
One delegate from Indiana was happy to tell the
Seeeders that the valley Of the Wabash was
worth more than all the country between the
Potomac ard the Rio Grande, niegcrs included
And then. an Ohioan, believe, boasted that
there was lone town in a corner Of Ohio, called
Cincinnati, worth more than the whole d--t
| State Of Alabama" Another assured the sece
| ders that he thought more Of Black Republicans
han nf nd hat
there was to be fight between sections. he wa
| for his own side Of the Ohio.
| 1t is my conviction that thousands Of tin
friends Of Mr.. Douglas, recognizing the impossi
bility Of his election, will vooe for Lincoln, de
string to make the assurance Of his election b,
the people doubly sure, especially guarding
against throwing the contest into Congress
whore it might terminate in the Senate in TIL
election Of Joe Lane, whom they hate most cor
daily.
| The Republicans, presume. will presently b
obliged BY tho extravaganza Of tie sectional hos
tilty between the Democratic factions, to tax
the attitude Of the conservative party.