The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1861-08-03

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| Ds Noisrs, July Is. 1851.
One wing Of the sham Democricy Of lows
met In State Convention in this city yesterday
Az another Convention Of the party, under ID,
call Of Sample, Of Keokuk, viii asse dble H.
short time, the gathering Of yesterday may y
regarded as that Of the Mshoaeyo wing. Suci
an apology for State Convention hss not beer
Witnessed since the organisation of parties .
Twenty odd counties were represented after I
fashion, aud sisty-m;se were utterly unr present
ed, not even furnishing proxy. The utter de-
noraliza tion Of the party is evihced BY the fact
that Ssnsuels and few Of the most devoted
Douglas men we're betrayed into this movement
against the patriotic eounsels Of The dead states
man. Douglas sounded . clarion blast ut Spring.
field and Washington, exhorting the people %
respond to the call Of the President and crush
the rebellion sgainss the Union. He visited the
President in person and pledged an earnest sup
the overthrow Of the rebels and the preserva.
ton Of the Government. Yet such long cared,
long.haired popinjays Is Van Bennett, and such
letcherous, leprous demsgogues ms Palmer, Of
Council Bluffs, had the hara,hood to pretend
that they were, Yesterday, rejecting the senti.
ments Of Jackson and Douglas. Jackson-who
threatened to hang the rebels of South Carol,-
ma, on the first overt act Of rebeiiion---was quo.
ted as hostile to coercion for the preservation Of
the Union. Could assurance and venality 60
furthers One growl from the old lion of the
hermitage would, have been music 10 fhis sstar
MALTA of treason Such Sinking away IF yelp-
ing ours as would have followed the appearance
Of the old hero, could have been psralleled only
in the forest. among kennel of the canine
species, when the king OF beasts lie aroused in
his lair. esi=l Esiia'aS y''o Il aei qeis $50
Ex Governor Hampstead, Of Dubuque, pre-.
sided over yesterday's conclaye., Negus, Of JEFF
ferson, was temporary President An organiza,
tion was effected before dinner. but Mahoney
and his kers were unable TO persuade
packed Committee to swallow the bitter dose
of treason embodied in his resolutions, until
the gongs had sounded for ten. 1t was nearly
six o'clock in the evening when the Committee
reported, the delegates and spectators having
been detained the whole afternoon awaiting
the result Of their deliberations. The old
Jesuit is entitled to vote Of thanks from Re-
publicans for having done his work so we'll
Had they been consulted as to the best meth.
cd for scattering to the wind the remnants of
the old Democratic organization, they could not
have devised scheme better adapted to that
purpose than that furnished to their hands by
the untiring Mahoney. Clark, of Johuson,
Phillips, of Polk, and others, told the Conven-
ton that the adoption of the resolutions, as re-
ported would annihilate the Democratic party
of Iowa. But there was no use. The jesuit
knew his men, and they could be trusted to do
his work effectually. In the votes on the con.
tested resolutions, the objectors were voted
down, three to one. Judge Love and Belknap,
of Lee. Cole, of this city, and Old Timber,
who were among the spectators, (refusing to
Participate in its deliberations) choked down
their wrath with difficulty, as they listened to
the incongruities, falschoods and enormities Of
the resolutions. These resolutions set out by
declaring that the doctrines Of an ''irrepressi-
BILE conflict"-as promulgated by Lincoln and
Seward-had brought upon the ration the pre-
sent conflict. They regret the remedy sought
bv the Secessionists. deprecate Secession as Il
fallacy and disunion as an evil But, in the
next breath, they denounce the efforts OF the
President. to suppress the rebellion, declare
against coercion and in favor Of II National Con.
venton and Compromise That is, they are
in favor of the Union, If it can be made hc-
ceptable to traitors, but for abandoning it, if
force is necessary for its preservation. A vol.
unteer resolution declaring for coercion, if all
Efforts at compromise should prove fruitless,
,ras laid upon the tablei The regular resolutions
denounce protective tariff. and all systems of
Banking looking to an issue Of paper currency.
The engrafting of the cid Locofoco nostr'lm of
"individual liability" upon the Iowa Banking
system, was earnestly recommended.
Upon this platform of the jeff. Davis De-
mocracy was nominated the following ticket,
after the dispersion of nearly all the audience:
For Governor, Judge Mason, of Burlington;
for Lieut. Governor, N L. Fisher; for Supreme
Judge, j. NJ. Elwood, Of this city. Two Of
these men were nominated without any c)nsul-
tatien with them. They were not present, and
shall be surprised they do not spurn alike nomi-
nation and platform. That, however is mat
ter that concerns only their own standing and
comfort, and have no advice to give. They
will witness among the Democracy a worse
stampede than that at Bulls Run, when the
platform of yesterdays Convention is promulga
ted.
What think you, Mr.. Hawk Eye, OF Dem.
ocratic Convention in which such counties as
Des Moines, Lee, Muscatine, Van Buren, Hen
~, Dec at,r, Clayton, &C., &C., have not soli-
tary delegate?
The Union-People's Convention, so called
meets in this city to-day. It will hardly sue
ceed in equalling that Of yesterday in numbers
| or character. Judge Love and Brlknap, OF Lee,
are here as lookers-on, and gentlemen OF the
Sample wing of the Democracy. From ap
pearances am led to doubt whether any non'i
nations will be made by to-dsy's Convention -
If platform is put forth, twill be more
creditaple affair than that Of yesterday. Bu
there is no use. There is but one party in the
North, aud that is with the President, for tht
vigorous prosecution Of the war and the main
tenance Of the Union, at whatever cost of lii'
and treasure.
The fears and misgivings that I shadowes
forth in my last letter, as to the possible conse
quences Of the advance movement of the army
have been more than realized, and a shadov
darkens the brow and saddeDs the heart OF 81
this people, But the rational resolve is NOR
determined than ever, and the rush of no
blood back from the heart, around which it 70
moment congealed, will signal torwar
movement irresistible as the wind, "whcn M
yies are stranded DEs MONIES.
DEs MolsEs, July 2S, 1861.
, EDlroR OF HAwK-EYE:
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