The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1863-08-01

We say these things gladly concerning q
public officer whose action we ourselves
have on occasion criticized, but to whom,
in common with every other faithful ger
want of the country, we would also award
merited eredit-N Y. Times.
COMPROMISING FOR THE RIGHT OF THE
PEOPLE TO ELECT THEIR RULERs.-If q
family dwelling were on fire, and any per-
son were to mount the stump and harangue
the crowd with violent contortions, exhort-
ing them not to put out the fire, nor to per-
nit the firemen to turn on the public wa
ter, because the householder might have
prevented the fire by compromising with
the incendiary at the cost Of giving him
possession of his house and goods, the
public would be likely to conclude that he
was accessory to the ineendiarism, and
was fool enough to expose it there. But
he might be considered an honest and a
wise man compared with those who are
now expanding themselves in violent har-
angues to the people of the North, exhort-
ing them TO let the nation be destroyed by
rebellion, and foreign nations be invited in
TO dictate the terms of our humiliation, and
share the spoils of dissolution, because,
they say, the instruction might have been
prevented by the Crittenden COMPROMISE.
Whether this assertion is true or false
and every intelligent man knows it to be
false-it makes no difference with the guilt
of those who would cripple the Govern
ment in its defense now, because the Crit
tenden Compromise was not adopted three
years ago. Is our country to be given up
to destruction by bloody civil war, because
an expiring Congress failed to pass the
Crittenden Compromise in December. 1860?
If that were the case, such Government
ought never to have existed. Yet this is
the issue presented to the people of Ohio
by the itinerating Democratic speakers.
What was there in the political situation
that required the Crittenden Compromise
to be passed? The South had had the en-
tire control of the Democratic party and of
the Slavery question ever since the Gov
eminent was formed. A constitutional
majority of the people had elected Presi-
dent. Was that an act that the majority
must compromise for, and for which the
country is to be thrown into the conyul-
sions of civil war? If so this so-called
Popular Government is a fraud upon the
people. If so our Constitution is a mere
trick. If the will of the people, expressed
according to the forms and spirit of the
Constitution, is cause for precipitating
this country into instruction, unless the
majority speedily atone for exercising their
rights by degrading the Constitution, this
Government ought never to have existed.
els should make the real issue Of the war
the issue of our State election; and we, the
supporters of the Government, will con-
tend in the popular discussions as we do in
the war, for the right of the popular will
to rule according to the Constitution as it
is, without penalty or compromise for the
exercise of this right. A people who have
established a precedent of bartering with
insurrection for the privilege of exercising
the right of franchise, and who had consen-
ted to hold their right to elect their rulers
subject to the menace of war, would be
more abject and pitiable than the subjects
of any despotism outside of Dahomey.-
Cincinnati Gazette.
A MAN MAKES HIS LAST WILL AND
SPEAKS His MIND.-A short time since
Mr.. William Dunlop, of Gairbraid, Col
borne Township, C. W., departed this life,
leaving the following as his last will and
testament. 1t is now being contested in
Chancery in the district of Huron, on the
ground that its author was insane. There
was certainly some sense in his whims, as
may be seen from the following copy of the
will:
In the name of God, amen. /, William
Dunlop, of Gairbraid, in the township o.
Colberne, and district of Huron, Western
Canada, Esquire, being i'll sound health
and my mind just as usual, which my
friends who flatter me say is no great
shakes at the best Of times, do make this
my last will and testament, IS follows:
Revoking Of course all former wills,
leave the property Of Gairbraid and al
other landed property I may die possessed
of, to my sisters Ellen Boyle Story and
Elizabeth Boyle Dunlop, the former, be-
cause she is married to a minister whom
(God help him) she henpecks; the latter,
because she is married to nobody nor isshe
like to be, for she is an old maid and not
mark et-ripe; and also, leave to them and
their heirs my share of the stock and inn
plements on the farm; provided always,
that the Enclosure around my brothers
grave be reserved, and if either should die
without issue, then the other to inherit the
whole. / leave to my sister-in-law, Loui-
50 Dunlop, all my share of the household
furniture and such traps, with the excep-
tons hereinafter mentioned. / leave my
silver tankard to the eldest son OF old
John, as the representative of the fami-
ly. ] should have left it to old John him
self, but he would melt it down to make
temperance medals, and that would be
sacrilege; however, I leave my big horn
snuff box to him; he can only make tenn
perance horn spoons of that.
/ leave my sister Jennie my Bible, for
merly the property of my great-great-
grandmother, Bertha Hamilton of Wood
hall, and when she knows rs much Of the
spirit of it rs she does of the letter, she
will be another Christian than she is.
I also leave my late brothers. watch to
my brother Sandy, exhorting him at the
same time to give up whiggery, radical
ism, and all other Sins that do most easily
beset him.
leave my brother Allen my big silver
snuff box, as I am informed that he is
rather decent Christian, with swag-
belly and Jolly face.
I leave parsen Chevassie {haggie's hus-
band) the small box I got from the Sarnia
Militia, as a small token of MY gratitude
for the service he mas rendered the family
in taking sister that no man OF taste
would have taken.
/ leave John Csdesl q silver teapot, to
the end that he may drink tea therefrom to
comfor. him under the affection Of a Stat
ternly wife.
l leave my books to my brother An
drew. because he has been SO long jang-
ly wolloh. that he may learn to read with
them.
give my silver cup, with sovereign
in it. to nv sister Jane Graham Dunlop,
because she is an old maid and pious, and