The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1862-11-29


| a Evening Star and TINES (Schenectsdy)
very pungent article on ''The Cant OF
m..r,cy. ~ from which we quote the follow
ssrbere are no people under the heavens more
81, duped by cant words or unmeaning con-
.,opsl phrases perverted to the vilest de.
n...;ops, than the people of our ever boosting
now broken Republic. In no other way
Nv 20 account for certain things in our bis
T.bich have struck inteligert foreigners
ri suazement. Take, for our first example,
~ Nv ,ord democratic For fifty years end
~s,. have Virginia, South Carolina, Alabama,
:. been called Democratic States-purely
ccss~ocratic-Democratic par excellence. Very
Wv have they failed, and most Of them have
s ~, failed, to vote what has been called the
nus..socr,tic ticket, and to sustain the Demo
.sse principle if any human intellect is acute
s.ash 90 tell what that principle is." 81
SSov al these States are Intensely slavehold.
:, There are millions of human beings there
,S.t have no rights whatever. They are not
rsrely kept in an inferior position, but they are
a,.e,ly unknown to the law: state Of things un.
Ss.rd Of before in any ancient or modern despo.
.;. fam Tho con)ugal, the flial relation is denied
~ them. No man in this abiect class has any
-;sbt either natural or moral, which the Law will
enforce out Of any regard to him. The duty of
.hs v;fe. the obedience Of his child, belong not
- him: they are the property of his and their
amer. We need say no more. This undenia-
NE fact reveals the horrors Of the American
s.spot;sm. There Is nothing in Europe, there
Il nothing in the world, that, in this respect,
comes up to it, more perfect reduction Of a
human personality to the condition of thing
s.nuot be imagined. These States have for
more than fifty years been called the Democra-
dc ststes-the strong Democratic States. They
have. during oil this time, constituted the
strength, they have been the ruling power, in
Democratic Conventions, 90 called. Hosts of
our Northern laboring men-mudsills the Caro-.
lini.p calls them-have voted hand to hand
With these despots; the result Of the vote being
aver to make stronger and 6ercer this horrible
euormity at which the world stands aghast. -
Nov, somebody has been cheated by this kind Of
Democracy. It has not been the STAKEHOLDER.
We need 60 no further to ascertain where have
been the fools, and the knaves that have befool.
ed them.
"Tbere is but one way of evading the force
Of this. It is such an insult toreason, to com.
mon sense, to maintain that State may be
Democratic where one>half of it's people are
thus absolutely owned by the other half, or BY
very small fraction of the other half, the
rest even Of those who are nominally free being
reduced to condition as bad as servile-this r
20 absurd, We say, that something must be done
70 give the mind some sense ofrelief from the
intolerable folly Of such Democracy. The mos,
thick.skulled biped that claims to have brain
cannot claim to have it pure and simple. Hence
The tendency to dehumsRize the African. e
make him out a monster, an sniL.l, or at Least
not man. We call it tendency, for though
il. is one of the inevitable results Cf Slavery. II
its unnatural union With sham Democracy, it ha,
come on very gradually, II was one of the ne
cessities Of the system. It Was one of the de
mands Of conscience. If it is an animal, v,
are thus reducing it to q thing of merchandise
o. if it is . mere monster Of man, the thing i
not so bad, conscience can bear it There is q,
doubt that this thought, gradually coming in
has given more comfort to the STAKEHOLDER thu,
oil The New. York Observer and Princeton ar
sunents from Ham and Onesimus."