The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1860-08-11
The Clubs then adjourned.


Mr.. Douglas Southside view Of the bred Scott
decision is expressed in the subjoined extract
from speech he delivered at New Orleans after
his reelection to the Senate in 1858.
u, in connection with the Democracy Of I'LL
nois, accepted the decision of the Supreme Court
in the DredsScott case 40 an authoritative expo
sition Of the Constitution. Whatever limitations
the Constitution, as expounded by the Corrts,
imposes upon the authorities of Territorial
Legislature, we cheerfully recognize and respect.
In conformity with that decision, slaves are rec
ognizcd as property, and placed on an equal
footing with other property. Hence the owners
OF slaves, the same as any other species Of prop
erty, have the right to remove to the Territories
and carry their property with them."
VERMONT QUARTERLY GAzErrEER-A historical
magazine, embracing digest of the history
of each town(ship), civil, educational, relig-
ious, geological and literary. BY Abby Maria
Hemenway, Ludlow, Vt. Press Of Rand and
Avery, Boston. No l, PIP 100, l2mo, double
columns, fine paper; new type.
A work Of great value, replete with facts and
rich in personal details, specimens, sketches, so
arranged alphabetically by counties and town.
ships as to be of easy reference. Miss HIS first
work, Poets and Poetry Of Vermont, met such re-
ception as induced her to re-survey her chosen
field and bring forward, not poets only, but the
brave and strong Of old-the Starks and Aliens
of the bloody times, with their true hearted Mol
ly's, too often widowed in the struggles of the
early settling, as well AZ the Wrights, the Pow
ers, and others in the later days, not better
I. r.. lofc~ To- oJ.l
to this sumptuous array Of personal history, an
ecdote and specimen, both in prose and verse,
the subsequent numbers are to be enriched with
geological matter from the State survey now in
progress We subjoin one or two extracts as
samples, and after the manner ofthe work itself:
"A traveller once drove to the public house at
Canton, St. Lawrence county, 1.-THE residence OF
the late Silas Wright, Jr) and called for the
hostler. The landlord being out, and no one re-
spending, man near by loading manure into a
cart, came and took care of the travellers horse
and returned to his work. Presently the land
lord came in, to whom the traveller said, '.you
have splendid looking hostler." ''Hostler," said
the landlord in an enquiring tone. Eyes sir, the
man that took my horse; that man shovclng
dung there The travellers surprise may lie
imagined, when the landlord, casting his eyes up
on the man at work, replied: THAT, sir, is Sen
ator Wright Mr.. Wright had bought some
manure Of the landlord, and was drawing it
away; p l12"
Here is one glimpse of the kind ofmen and the
sort of Democracy. illustrated by Miss Hemenway
and her co-laborers in this work. We heartily
commend her enterprise to the imitation of all
historical societies, East and West--her patron
age table reconnaissance of good living, especially
those from Vermont, and copy enc stanza Of po-
etry from page 81.
The woodcock in the tangled brake
Marks well thy whistles note;
The deer that by the wood-fringed lake
A moment stops. his thirst to slake,
For thee looks sharply out.
The wild duck, as he scuds along,
Seeth thine eve of black,
And cries with shrill, despairing tone,
"Don't shoot. old boy, I'm coming down,
I kaow you, Cousin jack"
Our criticism, the only one we have to
make is, that these lines should appear under
with the name, Martin Scott Mr.. S. was one of
the many poets who never renned their inspira-
lion; nevertheless q true and valiant man, to |
whom the thought in the above lines belonged |
many years ago.
We hope to hear all about him, as we'll as Jo-
'eph Smith and Brigham Young Stephen A.
Douglas, and ether great and little giants,
prophets, seers and reyelators," all from Yer
mont, in due time.
"a The only hope of ever getting Home |
tead Bill through Congress is in the success of
he Republican party and the election of Abra-
lam Lincoln. The South-all the fire eaters and |
lavery propagandists are bitterly and determi-
ledly opposed to it. 1t will make all the Terri |
cries free and as matter Of course the enemies
Il freedom oppose it. All the politicians who
ook Southwark for promotion are at heart |
are seeking Southern votes are secretly or
openly opposed to it. Mr.. Douglas, should he be
elected to the Presidency, which is hardly a
case, never dare affx his signature
and approval to such bill, because Southern
politicians would take mortal offence, and he
would be left, like Tyler and Buchanan, Presi
dent without party. He would find some
plausible pretence for veto or have the thing
crushed in Congress. The Democratic party has
had the power to pass such bill most of the
time during the last six years Northern freemen
have demanded its passage-Southern slave
holders have forbidden. It has not been passed
because demagogues knew better how to cheat |
their constituents than to resist and disobey
their masters.
OF course Breckenridge and Lane and their
are opposed to = homestead law. So
Are Bell and Everett, and Sam Houston. At any |
rate We have no evidence of their friendship
There will therefore most assuredly never be o
Law, giving to each actual settler 100
lcrcs Of the public lands, passed through Con
,ress until Republican Senate and q Republic
AN House pass it, and Abe Lincoln puts his sig.
lture TO il as President of the United States.
rhe same remarks win apply with almost equal
orcc and propriety to the Pacific Railroad bill.
III the friends Of thess great measures should
'ote for Lincoln and Hamliu. /
-O- |
NJ. Douglas, in . recent speech At Burlington,
T., made casual allusion to the privations and
abors Of settler in nsw country-one who
aaa 70 make his own fences and split his own
iails' The Burlington Free Press says:
This Incidental application brought out
neafsy and esasrsl round Of acclamation from
- 49, We house. which told the speaker at
Uacs waere b was, and that his assembly, in
ne main, had their hsarts On Abraham Lincoln.
and mot on Stephen A. DoaslaAr
TIE REPrBLIcAS PRrsIDExrlAL CAspIpArm-I
)f the many curious colocations Of the pamea Of
he Republican candidates for Prssident and
Vtes Psesdsnt. which ~ have seep. the follow.
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