The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1861-06-15

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certain Journals, which did thei, best to keeE
the Republicans out Of power, now clamol
against the use Of that power to FIJI subordinate
Offices with men who have aided TO achieve Their
triumph. Their argument runs that, because the
country is involved Ia perilous civil war, where
in all parties cheerfuly and heartily unite to mat
tain the Union and the Constitution, therefore
the Democrats who hold Office under Mr.. Blu
chanan's appointment ought to be continued in
place. c
But this rule Is only allowed to work one way
When Gen. Jackson summoned the Nation
around him to resist and put down the Nullifiers
rebellion, Wings Wed with Democrats in the
unanimity and heartiness of their response; but
nobody suggested that Gen. jackson should
thereupon divide the civil offices between the
Two parties, and he never thought Of doing any
thing OF the sort. Why should the rule that
served then be repudiated now?
Two months ago the Democrats carried the
Municipal Election in st. Lolis, previously Re
publican. Did they leave the Republicans in of
hce! Not they! They pitched them out mech
and heels at the first opportunity. So in Other
cities where popular disgust at the hesitation tc
reinforce Fort Sumter threw us temporarily into
minority. Nobody supposes or inagines i,
weuld be otherwise in Philadelphia, in Rochester
in Chicago, if the Republican ascendency should
in like manner be subverted there Yet Demo
Gratis and Republicans in those cities heatily
unite in upholding the Union. Why should that
fact constrain Republicans to keep Democrats in
office and yet leave Democrats perfectly free to
turn out Republicans?
There is confusion Of ideas involved in the
assumption we are combating. Supporting the
Union is one thing; supporting the Admin stra
ton quite another. Many will fight for the one
and directly vote against the other, as they have
perfect right to do. 1t is by no means the
special duty nor the special interest of Republi-
cans to maintain the Union. The States we thus
save to it will doubtless vote to turn us out
OF power on the first opportunity. On the other
hand, our Democratic Unionists are fighting not
only to preserve the Union but to extend and
consolidate their own power. With the present
Slave States in the Union, they can probably
rule it three terms out of four; let Secession be-
come fixed fact, and their chances of future as-
tendency will be materially lessened As patri-
OTIS, we are grateful for their enthusiastic devo.
ton to the Union; as Republicans, we feel that
IN sustaining the Union We are working for them
quite as much as they are for u.s.
Whenever the Democrats shall be willing to
divide the merely ministerial and subordinate
places under the Government fairly between the
two parties, fix their salaries permanently on a
moderate scale, and say, Henceforth, no man
shall be removed from any place which pays less
than $4,000 year except for proved incapacity or
we are ready to unite with them
in firm, irrevocable compact to live up to that
rule But so long as they turn out nearly every
opponent whom the fortunes of politics bring
within their reach, we cannot do otherwise than
follow their example. They began this game
wantonly and without excuse. Whenever they
shall be willing to make an end oft, an anthem
tic intimation Of that change of Heart will be
responded to. Meantime we protest
against the retention in custom-houses. pos:-offi
ces, &C., Of Democratic clerks, inspectors, &C.,
who got in by prescription, and kept in by Civ
ing money and effort to help defeat the Rcpubli-
cans. If you say the incumbents are needy, we
answer there are Republicans equally needy and
more deserving. If you say the incumbents are
for the Union, we say there are Republicans at
least equally so, and who are certain to remain
Unionists whether in or out of Office. If you say
You are opposed to prescription, we respond
that we seek.to rebuke and punish prescription,
aud II possibly to convince our antagonists that
it is not only wrong but Improbable. Thus
only can We hope to establish .juster and more
benefcent system. Finally, we urge that naked
justice, to say nothing of gratitude, demands
that the places held by Democrats under our
Republican Enthusiastically Democrats who
were appointed because of their presumed effic-
iency as partisans-should be given to Republi-
cans, many of whom were removed and all pro-
scribed by the last two Administia atoms We
call upon the depositors OF the Federal power to
do justice in the premises, and do it soon.-IN
Y Tribune
SOUTHERN OPINIONS OF TIE NoRTH.-A gentle.
man who has recently Travelled through the
Southern States, and conversed with many of
fla Ia .,,t hat Itl.,
nected with the Southern army, informs the
Press that they are utterly incred-
ulous in regard to the reports they hear from
the North in reference to the number of men
who have volunteered to serve the National
cause, and the money and other resources at our
command We are not astonished at this. The
masses of the Southern people are at best but
poorly Informed ON any subject, and they have
been grossly deceived by their leaders about the
character and position of the Northern people
They have been taught to believe that nearly all
our wealth was derived directly or indirectly
from the South, and that the moment she clos
ed against US what was supposed to be her Ca
paclous purse, our very existence would be en-
dangered, and that we could no more subsist
without her lordly and munifcent patronage
than live without air and water. The evident
delusion involved in this doctrine will, however,
speedily be dissipated. even though the severest
financial blow we have suffered arises from the
fact that hundreds of millions of dollars in mer-
chandize and in money that the North, out of
her abundance has advanced to the Sruth in her
thlnly veneered poverty and restitution, is not
now collectable, and that in reality this naughty
traitor section is at this moment indebted to us
for nearly all the signs of prosperity which ex-
ist throughout its dominions.
Another fal,acy extensively believed at the
South is that while the chivalry' are all models
of courage, the people of the North are essen
italy cowardly and utterly incapable OF encoun-
tering in arms the Southern forces. The course
of events, up to this period, if it could be un-
derstood in the South, would 60 far to destroy
the idea but pitched battle is perhaps, nee
essary to entirely eradicate it. 1t is said that
when one of the fugitives from Alexandria had
retreated AS far "a Manassas Gap Junction, he
met vaporing South Carolina soldier, who ex-
pressed an earnest desire for hand-to hand con-
tiict wthssive or Fix of the New York Zouayes
but his Alexandria friend gently remarked: II
have seen them, and can assure you that one
would be quite enough to moropoiize your at
tention." IF brag and buster could decide the
fate of battle, we should be completely at the
mercy of our antagonists but unfortunately
for them the argument henceforward is to be
conducted with more substantial weapons.
O-
SECESSION IN 1857 IN EMBRYo.--A well known
Democrat of Boston communicates to the Jour.
nal the following singular and curious facts?
He was at Washington for some time previous
to the 4th of March of 1857, having deep inter-
est in the tariff bill then before Congress. His
main efforts were directed to ascertain the views
and secure the influence of the Southern menu
bers, among whom there happened to be an old
and intimate personal friend through whom he
was invited to their social meetings, and ascer-
tanned the views and plans of the leaders from
the South, among whom were Letcher, Cling
man, Keitt, Rusk, Preston S. Brooks, and 9TH
ers. Browns hotel was the headquarters of the
Southern delegation, and they frequently met at
Letcher's rooms, to discuss matters, smoke,
drink whisky, and curse the Yankees and the
tariff. 1t was just after Brooks attack on Sen
ator Sumner, and tie former was furious against
the North. 1t was whispered that Rusk. Keitt,
and Brooks matured plans for Southern Re-
public, but that Gen. Sam. Houston had thwart-
ed them and threatened to have them hung for
treason Gen. Houston was then ut the National
Hotel At this time Brooks died at Browns
very suddenly, and there were rumors that he
had poisoned himself. Immediately nfterward
the horrible and unaccountabIe poisoning affair