The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1860-03-10


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Jorlfy, while no party could cast more tnan
plurality of vetea The gloom q the late
tragedy IN Virginia rested on the Capitol from
the Gay Fhen congress assembled WINE tne
Two great political parties were peacefully, law
FULLY, and constitufionaily, though Ecaloasy,
conducting the great national issue between ifec
labor and capital labor for the Territories 70 -
proper solution, through the trials Of ne ballot
operating directly Or indirectly on the various
departments Of the Government. band Of ex-
ceptl0naI men, cOntempfu0uSs equally q iAaf
great question and Of the parties 70 the coEtE0-
yersy, and impatient Of The constitutional aNs
tenn which confines the citizens Of every State
70 political action by suffrage in organized par
ties within their own border2 inspired BY an en-
thnsiasm peculiar to themselves, and exasperated
BY grievances and wrongs that some ct them had
suffered by inroads Of armed propagandists Of
Slavery in Kansas, unlawful rs their own retail
alton was, attempted to subvert Slavery in Vir-
ginia by conspiracy, ambush, invasion, and
force. The method we have adopted, Of appeal
ing to the reason and judgement Of the people,
to be pronounced by suffrage, il the only one by
which free government can be maintained any
where. and the only one rs yet devised which is
in harmony with the spirit Of Christian religion.
While generous and charitable natures win
probably c0ncede that John Brown and his ~
Gus convictions, vet all good citizens will never
theless agree that this attempt to execute an
unlawful purpose in Virginia hy invasion, involy-
ing servile war, was an act Of se.lition and
treason, and criminal to inst the extent that it
affected the public peace, and was destructive Of
human happiness and human life Ii Is painful
reflection that, after 50 long an experience Of
the benefcient working Of our system as we
have enjoyed, we have had these new illnstra-
tions in Kansas and Virginia OF the existence
among us of class Of men SO misguided and 30
desperate rs to seek to enforce their peculiar
principles by the sword drawing afte- II need
for the further illustration by their punishment
OF that great moral truth, especially applicable
in a republic, that they who take up the sword
as weapon Of controversy shall perish by the
sword In the latter case, the lamented deaths
Of so many citizens slain from an ambush and
by surIrise-ali the more lamcntab,e because
they we're innocent victims of frenzy kindled
without their agency. in far distant fres-the
deaths even Of the offenders themselves, pitt
able, although necessary and just, because they
acted under deliriun, which blinded their judg-
merlts to tile real motive of their criminal enter
prise; the alarm and CONSERVATION naturally
awakened throughout the country, exciting for
the moment the fear that our whole system,
with all its securities for life and liberty, was
Bile because continually aggravated BY new chi.
nleras to which the great leading event lent an
air Of probability; surely all these constituted
sum of public misery which ought to have
satisfied the most morbid appetite for social
horrors. But, as in case of the gunpowder plot,
and tile Salem witchcraft, and the New-York
colonial negro plot, 80 now the original actors
were swiftly followed by another and kindred
class, who sought to prolong and widen the pub
liz distress BY attempting to direct the indigna-
ton which it had excited against parties guilt
less equally Of completely and of sympathy with
the offenders.
Posterity must decide in all the recent cases
where political responsibility for public disasters
must fall and posterity will give little heed to
our instructions. 1t was not until the gloomy
reign Of Domitan had ended, and liberty and
virtue had found assured refuge under the sway
Of the milder Nerya, that the historian arose
whose narrative Of that period of TYRANNY and
terror has been accepted bY mankind
The Republican party being thus yinslicated
against the charge Of hostility to the South
which has been offered in excuse for the mena-
ces of unconstitutional resistance in the event Of
its success feel well assured that ii will sustain
me in meeting them in the spirit Of the defender
Of the Engli II Commnnwp ,lth. ss8
s'surely they that shall boast as we do to be d
free nation, and, having the power. shall not also
have the courage, to remove constitutionaiiy
every Governor, whether he be the supreme or
may please their fancy with
and painted freedom, fit to cozen
babies, but are, indeed, under tyranny and sery
itude, as wanting that power, which is tile root
and source Of all liberty, to dispose of and econ
omize in the land which God hath given them,
as members of family in their own home and
free inheritance: without which natural and
essential power Of a free nation, though bearing
high their heads they can, in due esteem, be |
thought no better than slaves and vassals born
IN the tenure and occupation of another inherit |
Ing lord whose government, though not illegal |
Or intolerable, hangs on them as lordiy
seourgc, not as free government"
The Republican party knows, as the whole |
country will ultimately come to understand, that |
he noblest Objects Of national life must perish |
# that life itself shAl be lost and therefore it |
will accept the issue rendered. 1t will take up |
he word Union, which others are so willing to |
'cnouncc, and, combining it with that other |
glorious thought, Liberty, which has been its in
'piration 50 long, it will move firmly onward, |
With the motto Inscribed on its banner, "UNioN
md LIBERTY, come what may, in victory as in |