The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1863-09-26

for the greatest good of the greatest num-
Der. The Democracy we have had to put
up with displayed mastery inactivity"
whenever common man was to be bene-
fitted, but worked with all the energy OF
delirinm in the interest of any mongrel
who had been sucked by negress! The
Democracy we began with enlightened the
thought OF Jefferson and throbbed in the
heart of Jackson. The Democracy we had
to put up with originated in the intellect OF
Mr.. Calhoun and exasperatcs the bile OF
Mr.. Jefferson Davis!
This kind of Democracy produced the
whole Abolition agitation, and handled it
from the very beginning with savage STU
Pidity. Gangs of dyspeptical males and
deranged females perambulated the Com
monwealth, telling the truth in a crazy way
about the wrongs of the negro. A states
man would have let them alone. A hu-
name man might have successfully en-
countered them with. argument or with
physic: But the leaders Of both political
parties preferred to employ violence and
abuse. That happened then which always
must happen. "A strong band ofsympathi-
zers sprang u ns,around the prosecuted ma
MACS. The more they We're outraged the
stronger they grew. Mr.. Garrison became
the Moses and Mr.. Phillips the Aaron OF
T. the Wing Party-were torn to pieces in
about fourteen years. Mr.. Phillips and
Mr.. Calhoun rejoiced equally at the down
fall of the great Constitutional opposition.
And the latter feasted his eyes upon the
deep public. humiliation of their greatest
mana humiliation which Mr.. Webster
voluntarily brought upon himself from the
very first moment that he lifted his finger
to put down freedom Of speech by force!
Our democratic politicians could, even
then, have grasped political power. Four
teen years of shuff1ing, canting and lying,
in competition with the Wing party, wo'd
have been forgiven them. One years hon
est work, while the Wings were killing
themselves-one vigorous assertion OF our
own fundamental principles would have
balanced accounts and give us the control
of the State-yes, of the nation, for fifty
years more. But no. Honesty paid by
and by. Mr.. Calhoun paid in votes now
and they, too, preferred to play the game
of Mr.. Calhoun. He was the deadliest foe
Democracy has yet seen in America. These
gentlemen thought he was only politician
like themselves. Men not fit to dust his
books affected to sneer at his ''abstrac-
tions.'' Practical men complacently un-
dertood to manage him-and they did
manage him-as sheep manage the drover.
Fools Of another description undertook to
separate, for adoption, the inevitably con-
nectek propositions ola mind so far-reach-
ing as to be able to measure everything but
its own contempt for them. Whole capi-
tolls full Of such creatures as are commonly
to be found in politics were as cattle before
that satanic energy, subtlety and vindic-
tiveness which created, almost out OF moth
ing, the whole world of discord in which
we now curse his memory Gen. Jackson
was one of the men who saw through him :,
and as the Old Hero was not able to fear
him, he sagaciously and patriotically hated
him to the last-him and his principles,
and his friends, and everything that was
his. On his death bed he regretted that he
fdid not have him hung. Events have vim
dicated his sagacity and have brought
twenty millions of people to join in his
regret. .s flsG
This great, bad man wanted to ruin the
Democratic party and to divide the nation.
To do this an "issue,' that is, in the flash
language of political thieves, something to
contend about, was wanted. The tariff had
been exhausted and would not answer
Slavery he thought would. He according
ly commenced the political agitation of the
slave question. He would have agitated
the mule question just as soon as it had CO.
incided with geographical lines. And he
could have united the South upon the mule
question just as well as upon the slave
question, if he could have received the
same help on it from those Northern idiots
whose slbserviency continually encour-
aged him in the "fatal exercise Of domi-
| neering talk"
| He infused into the discussion of the sla-
very question all the malignity which it
has ever had. He set the fashion of calling
the slave breeders the South He ori-
ginated the lie that the NORTH wanted to
interfere with the blessed "institution' in
the Breeding States. He began to make
war upon the right OF petition. He began
to rob the mails. He began to educate the
rising generation of amalgamationists into
contempt and hatred for free society; and
above all-and before all, he undertook to
put stop forcibly to "agitation,' that is,
to talking about slavery in the free States.
And our pig-headed politicians, unwarned
by the impending ruin Of the Wings, swan
at his bidding down that swiftly flowing
stream of perdition, cutting their throats
as they swan, For free speech is the life
blood of free States and the life breath of
freemen. And to freemen no greater out
rage can be offered than a command, by an
unauthorized person, to talk, or to stop
talking about anything whatever. Such
an order, whether proceeding from CAL
houn or Burnside, might possibly justify
killing. And surely it will be acknowl-
edged that when language of that charac-
ter is used without authority by anybody,
the greatest exertion of self respect is re-
quired to keep you from splitting in his face.
These deep and sacred feelings itwas the
desire Of Mr.. Calhoun to excite anft then to
outrage. Naturally arrogant, for this pur-
pose his arrogance was calculated. He saw
the effect of it we'll. So did General Jack
son. So did William Leggett. So did Ed
ward Livingston. So did all honest and in
telligent men who noticed his movements,
or who attended to politics in any way
But it is the curse OF our party that its hon.
est men have not always been intelligent,
and that its intelligent men have not al
ways been honest. Our leaders have not
always understood their own interest even
when they thought of nothing else. With
sense enough toIunderstandth their own prin-
ciples, or with principle enough to stand by
the dictates of ordinary common sense,
they could have turned the feeling of the
State against Mr.. Calhoun alone. BY what
they called "a discriminating support
that is, by taking sides with him, they
drew it upon themselves. Adversely .
says the proverb, "teaches wise man, but
it texasperates a fool.' 1t certainly exas-
perated the managers of the Democratic
party. They cursed with much dignity
the fanaticism of Massachusetts. They
turned their backs upon the State House in
order to grasp the Custom House, and let