The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1861-03-02

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THY PRxrExfS FOR REsxnos.-Th3ss who
look with favor on The Cotton Re6sllions and IN.
sist that The Government should virtually sue
eumb TO il, are invited 70 consider these facts: 3
p I. There d nos to-day law affecting Slavery
On the statute book Of the Union which was not
| demanded BY the Slave Power and voted for BY
a majority oisin adhsrenta. The Aissonri Com.
promise OF 1890 was carried By the votes Of
hearty every member Of Congress from Slave
Btatss, eked out By an eighth Of the votes from
the Free States The Fugitive Slave Act Of 1873
was Just what the slaveholding interest sar At
at that time to make it,, In 1850, that interest
demanded more stringent act, and cafried IL
| The Nebraska act Of 1854 received most OF the
votes Of the Slave States, with those Of the Pro-
Slavery members from Free Statea. We have
talked about passing acts 70 restrict Slavery, but
never passed any; 20 that the laws Of The United
States, - they stand today, are just what the
Slaveholding interest has chosen to make them.
2. Nor does any one hope orexpect 70 change
them, essentially, provided the Slave States see
ct to behave themselves. !. We know that there
will be an sntiRepublican majority in the next
House, as there has uniformly been in the Sem
ate, and viii be hereafter II the Union 10 allowed
to stand The Republicans have never yet had
power to pass an act OF Congress, and are not
likely to pass one unless through the secession
Of Slave States. Il is morally certain that, if
Secession be repudiated, the Slave States can
prevent any legislation adverse to their supposed
interests, at least for years to come. ..,.4n.
s. The Federal judiciary is also fixed in the
interest Of Slavery. The Supreme Bench is al
most entirely Pro.Slavery, and would inevitably
remain so throughout Mr.. Lincoln's term. Sc
cesson, should it succeed in forcing the South
ern Judges to resign, may give US a preponder-
ance on that Bench; otherwise. We must defer
to Slaveholding jurisprudence for an indefinite
| period. All the real or imaginary danger to
Slavery from this quarter is therefore the product
| of rebellion.
| 4. The Republicans have elected a President
and Vice President who will be constrained to
execute such laws az Congress has enacted or
| may enact, as construed and applied by the
aforesaid Supreme Court. So much we have
won, and that is all; for whatever we may gain
beyond these points, we shall be indebted to Sc
session.
/ 8. Up to this time, no party, having carried
General Election, were ever required to sur.
render their principles as condition precedent
to their taking and welding the power thus
confded to them by The People. To charge a
party with making professions only to ride there
on into power, with readiness to abandon or
ignore them thereafter, has hither been deemed
the gravest impeachmen Of its integrity and hon
esty; never till now was such course commend
ed as patriotism
g. Those who urge US to abandon our princi-
pies in order to secure the Federal Offices alege
that We may thereby win back the Seeding
States; but THEY say Just tie contrary Of Mis
Not a single State which has gone through the
performance ofseceding has offered to come. back
if we would acquiesce in the Extension Of Slave
~; on the contrary, JEFF. Davs's and A. H. Ste
1 phens's recent manifestoes expressly scout the
suggestion. They treat the Cotton Rebellion as
q legal and final procedure-one to be on no ac-
count recanted :. Reconstruction" is banished
from their vocabulary; they have gone out of the
Union to stay, and viii in no case be tempted to
return. We may choose between peace and war;;
but we can do nothing that will reconcile them
to the Union. We have right to presume that
they mean what they say.
| Z. While we cannot coax them back, we shall,
by entering on the path of Compromise and Con-
cession, clearly admit their right to secede. Nay;
to make concessions now is to confess that they
have been right and we wrong throughout. In
other words, if we undertake to buy them back,
we admit not only their general right to secede,
but the validity of the reasons which have i'm
PEELED them to Secession.
Friends of the Union reflect! beware!
New York Tribune.
The RECEPTION OF Mr.. LINcoLN.-The pro.
gress of the President elect toward the national
capital has brought him to this city, where he
now rests for a day before continuing his jour
ney. The reception yesterday was one of which
any man might well be proud. No snowy dis.
play OF troops no societies decked with the re-
gala of their order, theatrical
or allegorical groups-in ine none of the ordi.
nary bats to draw out the crowd were used,
none were needed. Quietly, sobery, but with
an earnest purpose and with swelling hearts, the
people assembled for the single purpose of pay
ing their need of honor to their Champion, De.
fender, and Friend.
| The scenes in the city and on the way thther
are recorded at length in other columns OF this
days issue. The city, simply decorated with
the Flag which the people will ever uphold and
revere, wore its most brilliant appearance. The
houses, the streets the balconies, and all public
conveyances were crowded with the eager eyed
of both sexes; old age, vigorous manhood, the
lovliness of woman, and the beauty of childhood,
all were represented, and represented by no
mere cold spectators, but by enthusiastic actors
in scene which called forth the warmest SYM
pathies of all. AS the President passed along,
bowling in respone to the shouts and waving
hands, he stood as a noble type of the true
scene was one of the most beautiful and impress
sive ever occurring among US.
The arrangements of the day were made with
judicious care and were serupulously carried out,
with the most happy result. No accident mar
red the occasion, and when the procession had
passed to its destination, the immense throng
separated as quietly as it had gathered. Mr.
Lincoln took some required repose, refreshed
himself with food, and then gave a reception to
mis- fellow-citizens Without distinction of par
ty, they fastened to give him the greeting of
friendly men, and then left him at peace
Aside from the special object of yesterdays
ovation, it accomplished another 1t showed
how strong and undaunted is the feeling of re-
gard the people entertain for the Union of
which the stars and stripes are the emblem
That Flag, so trampled upon and torn by trail
tors, is still cherished in the great heart of the
nation, is still borne aloft by strong hands
Floating from our shipping, waving over our
public buildings and the dwellings of men, dec.
Grating the streets with it's inspiriting blazon it
never leaped more boldly to the breeze, never
appealed more hopefully to the patriotism and
loyalty of those who love the light
-l ra N. Y. Tribune.
WHAT WE HAVE EscAPEb.-We can now be-
gin to understand what we escaped last Novem-
Der when the fusion failed to accomplish its OBJ
ject of separating enough States from the Repub-
hcan column to defeat the election In that
case Mr. Lincoln would still have been the lead