The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1861-01-19

| On Friday l.st Mr.. Hunter. Of yi,p;,;.
aisun'on speech, sssertiog that the Union =.
broken up and proposing. new Con ieder,cv ,;a
tive Presidents, one from each, section and nv
other absurdties and monstrosities He
lowed by Senator Harlan, Of Iowa. The y.n.
lntelligencer has the following abs,rac, - ~
remarks: VIZ
| Mr.. Harlan said that the princiule ,b,,
ed the whole speech of the Senator from, vyl'ad
| ia who had just sat down, was tina, the n,;.sh
should control the majority. That vas wh..y
amounted to, and In order to effect Il Tho S
| ernment must be evertbrown WY
Mr. Harlan then discussed at much lpno.,
with minuteDess the history of the legisls,;o. a
reference to the fugitive slave law; IL ob;ac,;."
able features making il difficult Of execution
defending tie Northern people from many ., -, ~.
charges urged against them in reference to j,
| lie admitted that the South had good rich, >.
such law, but thought the North could be i'm,
ed to furnish impartial juries to determine ~
IS ana VINO is not a fugitive slave. The stat
| hicnt that had become so common respec,;nn,r
sectioDality of Mr. Lincoln tells with far yrs..s
force against each Of the other capdid.iss =,
Mr. Lincoln is sectional the other capdid.,s,.
| intensely sectional. He received LARGO -,
ity over each of his competitors and I.,r.
jority of the Electoral vote. What is the de-
of the South upon US Of the NorrhY Fir, s.u
speech in the Free States must b, stor,oS M
must not preach or print We must br;d,. ,,e
pulpit and the press, and the tongue aronnJ on.
tiresdes. They next demand that the neon,s "
the Free States must adopt the laws and mace.
of the South, for the sake of the South and vi,S
no view to the desires of the people Of the Free
States themselves Another demand is thai the
rio Nc ira o;f NJ abon -
Southern men with their slaves; right denied
by Northern States to their own citizens. Yos
demand for yourselves what our citizens are M,
entitled to. A further demand is that the "euual.
ity OF the States" in the Territories shall Ia
maintained. Now, there is no room for equalir,
Of States in the Territories; no State can set 4,
jurisdiction there. When a citizen of any STAT
| enters Territory he loses his citizenship ana
so completely that he cannot maintain snt n
| the courts of his State. But secession will ~,
| cure any OF the evils complained of, but rattle,
give them agsravation. The grounds Of the com.
plants against US sound like preteYts ana a.a
not be the true reasons Of the buster ve COO Ia
hear on this floor. The true reason If cow a.; ao
pleasure is that for sixty years yon governed ,h.
country in all Its branches; you have con,,ollsd
its legislative its Judicial, and its FOREIGN ~
tons From this iorg possession Of no1ar r".
have become proud, naughty and, he would 80
it without meaning offence inso,ent. lcc,..
toned TO rule, you know no; how to obev Won
| propose to adopt the Mexican policy. and ubs.
van4uIshcd at the polls 10 appeal TO arms and RIM
the hazard Of the bloody battle field Every n-o.
position and plan which has been propose5 a,
suggested on the other side of the chsmber in.
cludes the Abandonment of the principles of tba
| Republican party and the Douglas partv and tLa
| adoption of the Breckin, ;dge platform po,L
| the Republican and Douglas parties agreed ,h,,
! slavery could be ,XC!H!ed from the Territorie.
| though differing as to In" Leans the former a.
srttin@ it to be within the power beth Of Con.
gress and the Territorial Legislature, and the,a,.
ter OF the Territorial Legislature only. The
Southern Democracy, led by Mr.. Breckinridge
said that citizens with slaves could enter the Ter
ritories and enjoy their slave property withor,
let or hindrsnce BY Congress or the Territorial
| Legislature. The Senator from Oregon. CNr
Lane) in his speech accepting the nomination,
spoke of non-interference in slavery bv Con.
gress and the Territorial Legislature as the
| principle on which his party went into the can
vass. The issue between the parties was Joined
and went before the country, and the people have
decided against the Breckenridge platform by the
difference between $500, 600 votes for Lincoln
and Douglas and 100000 for Breckenridge and
Bell. Why, then, have you not the grace to SUBJ
init to the constitutional decision OF the peopes
| Government
and attempt its overthrow You talk OF STRIFE
a strife that your hands have stirred up. tn.
terms of peace and compromise you offer are that
the majority shall surrender at discretion to
small minority. Nay, the propositions made to
US by the Senator from Mississippi are the very
same as those on which he went before the coun.
| try and was vanquished. The same of the other
propositions of the Senators from Georgia and
| Tennessee. The resolutions of the disting uished
Senator from Kentucky (Mr. Crittenden) comprise
| congressional slave code like all the others
Mr.. Crittenden said it was not Congressional
slave code, but Territorial code
Mr.. Harlan would be happy to find the planof
the Senator less Objectionable than he had SUP
posed. But there was proposition from the
Senator from Virginia (Mr Hunter) to amend the
proposition of the Senatorf ON Kentucky max.
ing enlarged demands. Why not harmonic on !
some plan which would be humiliating to neither Il
party? Such plan may be found in the pro-
posal to admit New Mexico as State, and thus Il
put an end to the Territorial controversy Ia |
this there would be no humiliation on either side
1t is for you, then, to say whether you will make
fair adjustment or betake yourselves to armA /
The war; if it should unhappily come, would be
but brief Wars are conducted in a different wav
now to what they were in former times. Mexico i
was conquered in year, and the war in Itslg Il
was but brief IL would cost less TO keep up |
war in the South than tic sum lost by the mer |
| chants of the North IN Consequence of the panic l
brought about by your sectional agitation, in or.
der that you may break up this Government and !
| then reconstruct it so to have Government
in which minority shall govern the majority.
A curious letter from Lucius Slade, the state
| senator elected by the coalition Of Beacon and /
Ann streets in Boston, is published in the Geor. !
gia papers, 1t urges the disunIonists to hold on
and whit tnlIs them thorn Ia rrra,. uaaa,ion Z,