The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1864-11-19


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laying % for our sufErages; but the vessel
we trusted to carry us safely through every
drifts before the storm . shrunken, help
less and snarling minority. Why isit that
every east wind drizzles upon US Demo-
cratic defeat? Why is it that every North
ern blast whirls down upon us Repnbli-
can majority? Why ss i that the West, to
and fair weather-.he West is black with
the popular refusal to restore this called
Democracy Alas! uninterrupted pros
perity has weaned patriotism and wisdom
from politics. Little men have been per-
mitted TO trifle with great principles, and
death or disgust swept all the Democratic
giants from the helm. The Democratic
party came into life, to give life TO free in
Institutions. Many heroes of the Revolu-
ton who fought for independence had no
faith in popular government. After the
formation Of the Constitution, this distrust
exhibited itself in the support of aristo-
cratic privileges and monopolies. The
the Constitution from the misconstrnctiOn
Of oligarchs and the people from all illibe-
raj tendencies, and no: to play into the
hands Of despOts and traitors. 1t began the
world with the tears OF Washington, the
hatred Of Hamilton and the alteration Of
Jefferson and Madison. With its infant
hands it strangled the Colossus of the Rev.
olution, John Adams, and threw his party
and his policy into the grave Of the eight
eenth century. Has 1t not advocated and
administered every war since the RevOlu-
ton? ? Did it not Danish the Indian and ei-
lence the nullifer? Did it not chastise
England, threaten France and conquer
md n ,~Gr rHxn
| red waves Of still more righteous con-
hict? The old Democratic party has added
more territory to the Union than the peace
of 1888. II purchased Louisiana. negotia-
ted Florida, annexed Texas and dropped
all the gold Of California into our pockets !;
and shall this counterfeit pinchbeck sue
cessor leave It barely State on which TO
lay its dying headf
| stand by the Baltimore t,oket because
there find my country, and nowhere else
in this election CO know where TO look
for it. It is open, manly and national. On
tha; platform sits the courage Of the North,
the spirit OF the age, the genius Of war and
the safety Of America. It calls gull. by
its right name, and proposes to deal with il
in the right way, with those who ask NO
quarter and mean no Union; whom If you
face you must fight, and if you treat with
you must yield. The Baltimore resolutions
represent the highest point to which cour.
L
zenship, The Chicago resolutions proclaim
the most diminutive proportions 70 which
political demoralizatien has sunk Ameri-
I can character. ] see there only an Ameri-
can libel copied from the London Times
aud pronounced by few shaking politi.
clans as their standard Of political duty
They call the war failure, then nominate
a failure to prove it, then get that failure to
write the platform q failure, and now j,
only wants one more failure on the Sth Oi
/ November to finish the concern. Indeed
has all this tramp, and shot and blood
availed nothing? Speak, . bowling jeff.
with your falling spirits and disbandine
coast, with bnt one port to welcome the
sDeaking smuggler to your traitorous
breast. Speak, Sherman, with your firm
foot upon their guilty hearths.oues, where
You but stamp It and insurrection starved
and ragged flies wailing before you. Speak
worthless currency. hopeless heresy, heart
broken community. Your falling tears
your running slaves, your dying brothers
Northern traitors stunned, foreign inter.
vention dead, do you tell me Abraham
Lincoln's grip has no vigor in it? Youhave
tried him in war, you nave tried him III
/ diplomacy, you have w-estled with him al
the foot of every throne. You have con.
fronsed him for thousands Of miles alone
river, marsh and forest, where he has
tracked you with the Indians scent to save
you from the Indians destiny. You have
summoned to your aid swamp fever, am.
bush, tonahawk and torpedo. You prom.
ised the world that you would harness the
IN double harness, and where are you now;
A nameless, penniless, shivering outlaw
lShrinking from the charter signed by
George Washington, and dying by inches
with the powder and ball Of Abraham Lin.
coin.
Il
digham, with that hundred thousand adj.
verse majority gazing down upon your
sinking platform? We who have gone
back to the barbar;sm Of blows to secure
the civilization Of votes-Iappiausel-wt
who love the contention of thou cght better
than the contention of arms-who prefer
always to conquer rather by convention
than collision We who have no heart in
moving down any portion Of the soul anG
strength Of this nation, il that soul and
that strength could be captured by prin.
cipie instead of the army, shall ne not to.
day, profiting by the lessons Of this wal
and this election, hold up tina: which best
point OF danger is watching us from oul
highest stand Of civil duty. Can we drop
the national fortunes in the slippery hands
stretched forth to grasp them Would We
not half mast the flag on every battlefield
for the fruits Of victory vanished, for the
dead too uselessly slain, for the living toe
hopelessly dethroned, debt-ridden and de.
graded No, we will treat our party % .
loved mistress who has Tilted us ; as q "a.
vorite gun that will not Ere as match too
damp with Southern tears to light. W.
will huddle under this Lincoln shed until
Democracy finds q better roof to shield u;
from the tempest; until better times and
better mon shall give rs back our party
purified by defeat, and our country. re-
leived Of the sophist and the traitor, walk,
forth once more among the nations Of the
commonwealth.
Mr.. Seward at Auburn.
Secretary Seward having gone home tc
vote he made speech at Auburn on Mon
day night. Much Of It related TO the cleo
tion, and has lost its interest, but portions
Of il are worthy Of reproduction. We
make the following extracts:
II WAR AND SLAVERY.