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

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/ sasa.s: : ,.etc'on. my, the nrss great
!: Ia S1 JUN uouos'ess nave preferred 70
e uease. pesceaosy, wouid nave been will
/ w w Seno commissioners, must nave thought
%usess p'oceeolhgs in)udiciou:an ana could prob
s soy even nov aemonssra.e the hlegal'ty OF hell
- uN 20 40! nve.yeef-o'd mp OF average educa-
uon ana ihselllgence. What's hns world We
s"oaio, nave VI We could only come quietly to-
se'"er IN convention, ana declare ~ unanimous
resolution, or even ny = two-thifds vote, that
eoge.toois shouid hereafter cut everybody's fin
gers out MN that played with hem,-that, when
sWoMen roe on one morse, s'e hindmost shall al
Ways BIT IN tront,-aho that, when man tries
% thrust nv partner out OF bed and gets kicked
out himself, ne shall be deemed to have establish
co ms title TO an equitable division, aud It shall
be thenceforth his as OF right, without detriment
10 the others privilege on the door!
II secession be right, then the moment Of its
exercise is wholly optional with those possessing
It: Suppose, on the eve Of war with England,
Michigan should vote herself out of the Union
and declare herself annexed to Canada; what
KIND OF reception would her Commissioners be
likely to meet IN W Washington, and what scruples
should we feel about coercion? Or, to take
case precisely parallel to that of South Carolina
suppose that Utah, after getting herself admit
| TED to the Union, should resume her sovereignty,
as u IS pleasantly called, and block our path to
the faclhc, under the pretence that she did not
States entertained such scriptural preiudices
against her special weakness in the patriarchal
line? Is the only result of our admitting Ter.
ritory on Monday to be the giving il right to
steal itself and 60 ont again on Tuesday? Or do
only the original thirteen States possess this pre-.
cautious privilege of suicide We shall need
something like q Fugitive Slave Law for runaway
republics, and must get provision inserted in
our treaties with foreign powers that they shall
help US catch any delinquent who may take re.
fuge with them, as South Carolina has been try.
ing to do with England and France It does not
matter to the argument, except so far as the good
taste of the proceedings is concerned. at what
particular time State may make her territory
foreign, thus opening one gate of our national
defencee and offering bridge to invasion. The
danger of the thing is in her making her territory
foreign under any circumstances; and it is dan
ger which the Government must prevent, if only
for selfpreservation: Within the limits of the
Constitution two sovereienties cannot co-exist;
and yet what practical odds does it make, if
State becomes sovereign by simply declaring her.
self sos The legitimate consequence of secess.
ion is, not that State becomes sovereign, but
that, so far as the General Government is con-
cerned, she mas out-iawed herself, nullified her
own existence as State, and become an aggre
gate of riotous men who resist the execution Of
the laws.
FERsoNAL.-A correspondent writing IRON
Springheid, Limos, ABOUT the PRESIDENT elect
says, mat the occupations OF the president eject
consist now principally in receiving visitors, con-
Quoting negotiations for the completion OF his
Cabinet and attending to his correspondence
As to visitors, those that come here on his spe-
ca invitation are called upon by him at their re-
spective hotels, while those that come OF their
own accord are either received at his private
dwelling or in his downtown office-according
to their several political stations and tie object
Ut their calls. The general crowd OF place-seek-
ers has to content itself with one hour each day,
during which alone the Presidential ear is open
to their whisperings. The fact that they are
hardly ever granted separate and private hear
ing, but admitted into his office in bulk, usn-
ally prevents them from making their desires and
expectations known. AS to his correspondence
1t has increased so wonderfully during the last
fortnight that he finds it utterly impossible to
read, not to speak of answering it at all. met
his servant only last evening in the vestlbule OF
the Post Office carry ing good sized market bas-
ket full Of letters. His private secretary opens
them, and from the signatures determines their
relative Importance. Those emanating from OBJ
scure sources are invariably consigned to the
stove without the least mercy. Petitions Tor Of
fee especially share this fate Since the depar-
ture OF his spouse TOR the East, the President
elect has been keeping house alone. Whatever |
his other qualifications may be, it is we'll known
that in the management Of the kitchen and other |
domestic concerns ne is sadly destitute OF both
talent and experience. Hence 1t 10 more than
probable that, upon the return OF the master
spirit OF his home, whose functions ne 80 imper-
fectiy exercises, awning out praise VIII De De-
tration during her absence. 1t was but yester-
day that had occasion to converse with Mr.
Lincoln on the subject of his impending trip to
Washington city. He stated that he had as yet
neither fixed the day Of his departure nor select
ed the route, but that the former would probably