The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1862-05-24
The Future OF Politics.

The "small experiments" recently made il
Washington to initiate new party organizations
or to re-establsh old ones, cannot in the present
condition of affairs amount to much. The pub
lie mind is in no mood to entertain questions
which relate only to peaceful times. Now there
Is but one subject on hand, and on that all Loyal
men are agreed. As nation, We are engaged in
putting down the most remarkable rebellion in
oil history. We are straining every muscle, tai
ing all our resources Of strength and endurance,
and tasking brains and hands to their limit OF
power to crush treason. Our sons are on the
field, and possibly engaged in deadly conflict this
very day. Our legislators are in their seats, de.
vising ways and means. Our government, from
the President to the most Insignificant clerk in
the most Insignificant department, is engaged in
the one grand work of defending national integ.
rity, supporting the constitution, and enforcing
the laws. At such time as this, Washington
politicians, forgetting the prophecies of the Pc
Rod, meet to plot for party ends and for power,
We tell these men, whatever may be their per.
sopal and party sympathies, that the people look
upon their operations with equal indignation and
disgust.
There are certain other things to be said to
these men, or to be said generally, for the ben.
eft of all men. The first is that if Abraham
Lincoln lives, and goes on the way he has thus
far pursued, laboring for the single end he has
proposed, and choosing for his counsellors and
helpers such as are loyal. without further cues.
tons or other tests, the man does not live. and
the party cannot be formed, that will prevent
him from second term of Office. We have had
no such President since Jackson,-an honest.
patriotic, unsel6sh man. The months that pass
away conspire to lift him higher and higher in
the popular esteem, until none but traitors and
their sympsthizers hate him. If he continues
n nd 3
ing the great work which seems now close on
the eve Of accomplishment, the gratitude of the
American people will not permit him to retire
to private life. and any party that undertakes to
butt him of the track, will butt its brains out
Again, no party can succeed in this country
which allies itself with the slave power. We
do not wonder at all that the decent demo.
cratic press of the North declines to come into
NJ. Vallandigham's nice little arrangements
The common instinct of selfpreservstion ia its
protection. The grand fact must be recognized
that the power OF slavery 10 forever broken, and
mat tins country will never again trust itself in
tne hands that have once betrayed it. ANY
body OF men that undertake to bolster up the
old power Of slavery, and re.establish ite su
premacy, will only prepare for themselves disap.
pointed lives and Infamous graves. The fact
must also be recognized that reforms never 90
backwards, and that the death of slavery ia
sure. 1t 10 abolished in the district Of Columbia
II 10 abolished In every part of the strictly ma
tional domain, the slaves used on the rebel
works are declared free, and In all the border
States there is rapidly springing up party in
favor OF emancipation, in accordance with tie
Presidents plan. The progress which these
events indicate cannot be checked by party op-
position in the North, and that party will oniv
court destruction which places itself in IT,
Dath.
T Once more, parties for tho next ten wears must
necessarily be based upon questions intimately
connected with the present rebellion. There
are confscat!on questions to be settled. ones.
tons Of personal disability in conseouence NJ
completely with treason to be settled. Questions
in relation to the collection of the national
In the rebellious States to be settled. ouest;ons
reisung to such an organization of the armv
and navy and such an occupation of ports ~
Will render another rebellion impossible. IN be
settled True loyalty, above oil suspicion Of
sympathy with treason and the traitors mnst
therefore. be the first stone in sny succeasfn,
party structure. This party, whatever ito
name, will be the party Of the future and tha
Old slave power, with all who love IL and cours
10 favor, will be in disgrace. Twenty miIl;on
people are no more to be slaves of ten millions
ana are no more to be subjected to the necessity
Oh war IKE the present to prevent them from
running the nation. In short, the party of the
future Is to De in principle anti. slavery and
loyal to the core. There will be time enon.h
to organize it when the war shall be over
tSpringfeld Republican. -