The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1863-01-31

tains the right to secede as . part of jts sovo.
eighty. There 10 no middle ground. One or ~.
other of these doctrines is to be established he
this war. That there we're scattered tbron.i
the North many men who sympath:zed in Son,S
ern Fs was we'll known. Blu. We doub. vbe,h
er it Ess dreamed that party existed in N.
North that held the doctrine Of secession az f.'
beyond the Southern as to leave that male ana
poor by contrast But it is 40. The concurrsn.
utterances of orators East and West. and ~
newspapers not few, show that the 90 called
Democratic party now seeking ascendency. be-
lieve in forcing States to secede, and by n.
Southern methods They threaten to excise
exclude, and baDish FIVE States aeainst tha;,
will It is not alleged that they have broken the
laws, violated the Constitution, departed from
the faith of the founders of our Government
They have also exercised the great rights, bald
from their fathers, and guaranteed BY the Con.
sttution, in manner displeasing to these des
potic excisionists. And for no crime but the en-.
ercise of their own rights, it is proposed IN
drive them from the Union. 49,.
We wish oil men who voted with this nev
and revolutionary party TO consider the courss
that they are likely to run, and the fate which
awaits our nation should these disorganizers and
radicals of anarchy gain full control OF affairs
The South is to reaounce its mild doctrine Of
secession in favor Of far stronger and more ef.
fective form of the same heresy. Hereafter. !,
is to be part Of the so-called Democratic the
DRY Of Government that States have the rich,
to eject States Under the newfangled name Of
reconstruction, the West and South may exclude
the East; or the North and Middle States NAV
exscind the South; or the great midland States
may cast of the Oceanic States on both sides
In short, National Unity is ended The Union h
knot that may be tied aud united at the will
politicians, and the future opens to view
scene of wranglings and mutual repulsions or at.
fractions among States, ss their interests o.
their passions may dictate.
This purpose has not come to the light an hour
TOO soon. Cautious ana prudent men may have
been alarmed at the radicalism of sboliti0uism.
But what will they think of this revolutionary
radlcallsm OF the super serviceable sympatbizers
OF she South! Are these the men into whose
hands it is safe to place all the great interests of
this Government all the vital interest. Of
humanity that are bound up in the welfare o
this nation?
These mortal doctrines would be enough dan.
gerous were they advocated and defended by the
usual methods of political propagandism. But
1t is to be noticed that the party bearing thei,
destruction into our midst is borrowing South.
ern methods of procedure. The recent election
of Senator 10 Pennsylvania was in the pres.
ence and under intimidation of armed rufians
brought to the capital on purpose to overawe
the Legislature. The scenes that have transpired
at Albany the past week are even more extraor.
binary. The House has been prevented from
organization for two weeks, The Hobbies have
been f led by bulies from this city, to intim.
date the members and coerce their conduct
The most open and murderous threats we're made
by Democratic members of the House, should
Speaker be elected not in accordance with their
wishes.
A party that does not disguise it's interest 10
slavery; that avows its sympathy with the South;
that outruns the South, even in an exaggerated
doctrine Of enforced secession; that seeks to
overawe Legislatures by the presence Of armed
men and bloody DULLES; that scarcely walls ts
threats Of riots in our Cities and of violence to
the persons and property o. obnoxious citizens
lis this the party to which the sober North is
about to commit the destinies of this nation -
The time has come for men who love their coun.
try to be on their feet, and to be prepared to
meet at home an enemy more deadly and I'm,
principled than any that is waging battle against
The Union in the South