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

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profits and losses of this war they have
dropped in one scale the tears, the graves,
The taxes, the crippled limbs ANA ruined
homes, and in the other scale they have
placed the unitv, the progress aud the
prosperity Of America; and they know
how such profits outweigh all its losses
They see rising from the crimson mist
firmer, securer nationality, nolonger at the
mercy of the sophist of the conspiratOr,
just as restricted, but more respected OF all
States and nations. We see, too, the
States-always linviolate within their just
sphere-no longer, with an arrogant in-
trus!veness, aspiring to unsettle the guard
coin is the tyrant and imbecile they call
him, the Democratic party had a great
card in their hands, and the people will
hold them responsible for trifling with the
crisis and throwing away the game. If the
President is weak, better weak man with
q strong cause, than an indifferent man with
no cause at all. Processing to be hOrrifed at
the usurpation OF the Administration, the
Chicago party have left the people no alter
native bat to hold on to Mr.. Lincoln or
81 We up the country. What kind Of a coun.
try is it that elects the Chicago ticket? A
majority of the people will then have de-
eide that the principle of obedience to the
taine that il failed by peace in 1860 that
it has failed by war in 1854. Elect that
ticket, and you elect laugh at our own
arrogance, imbecility and cOwaYdice you
elec; an acknowledgment that eight mil
lions Of people, armed with an impractica-
bic sophistry are too much for twenty mill
lions backed BY the eternal truths OF re-
publican faith and national sovereignty.
Oh! but McClellan's letter is sound on
the war. When was the Democratic ma
chine ever stopped by a letter? franklin
Pierce's inaugural declared that the Slave
~ question should never be revived dur.
ing his Administration, and in one year
the land was wild with the repeal Of the
Missouri Compromise. James Buchanan
made similar declaration, and the blast
from Kansas almost blew out the light of
the Republic. A scratch Of the pen does
not prove man. A::campaign letter 10 no
a candidate character. If you want to
know Mcclellan, you must find out his
habit. thought and feeling. Who are his
friends? What are his associations and
surroundings? They make the man, not
the electioneering words. The very vir-
| tues Of the person would be the vices Of
the Administration. The men who made
him are heart and soul with the South. If
ne is grateful, he will be true to them, and
! so, false to the country. Elect the Chicago
ticket, and the Dem ocratic party will tell
you that the people had decided in favor
Of negotiation. You know, and I know,
and all the world knows, that success in
negotiation depends on success in war
South will say to our Commissioners, we
went to war for independence; you went
to war to prevent it. You have been
throwing shot and she'll upon us for three
years and q half without our crying quit.
| II your war is failure ours il success,
and we demand the fruits OF 1.-THE &C.
acknowledgement Of our Independence
What other guarantees could you give 10
them? The Republican Congress OF 1861
~ b.. -,
States, and refused to disturb it in organi-
zing new territories. If the South wanted
more at the Commencement of war, in the
name of God, what will they demand when
you have pronounced that war failure
Applause Mcclellan could give them
no more than Lincoln offered them tbro'
the first eighteen months of the war. He
gave them back their negroes he guaran-
,eed them every right under the Consti.u-
ton, and what was the answer? More ar
I m!es to invade Us, more pirates 20 burn
our helpless merchantmen, more impor-
iunities tor foreign aiG to cooperate
agains. us, and if these fail, the last ditch
more welcome than the temple of Wash
| ingtOn.
| General Mcclellan, in repeating Mr.. Lin
coins past, is only walking through the
canvass in that gentleman's old boots. II
elected, backing his car on the worn-out
rails OF 1851 and 1862, to end where the CO.
fiO0lcS OeR0u, aullO Tue CCQiuSlOQ anu an.
archy Of abolition conflicts. John Van
Burer, in speech at Hudson, told the
people that Lincoln had perverted the OBJ
Ijects Of the war. More than q year ago on
Madison Square, he declared that Slavery
deserved It's doom. Before the war, that
prophetic politician informed the North il
Secession took place 1t would be bat hol-
them without slavery. Where are we to
place ticket with such somersault sup
! por:ers? Here is one Of the original foun-
ders Of the latter arti-sIavery party going
about the country denouncing MS own Off
spring. Depend upon it, people who
could drop two houses OF congress, throw
away supreme judicial bencn, turn their
backs upon popular vote ready to sweep
them back into power-A people who have
emptied their hands of ell these blessings
that they might tear up the foundations Of
American prosperity and f.oat their ruins
in the hearts blood of the North-such q
people are not to be brought back by an
armistice, but on stretcher.
i Never but once have the people of the
North voted directly upon the slavery
question, and then they gave an over
wheiming majority for Southern rights
In the contest of 1852, The Fugitive Slave
Law and the compromise of 1850 were al
most the only questions before the people
yet every Northern State but two voted
solid for the South. Tha. was the real test
OF Northern feeling for Southern slavery
under the Constitution. In 1856 the large
vote of Fremont was neither for the wool
ly horse nor for the woolly head, but the
recoil Of business people from the breach
of contract in the repeal OF the compromise
of 1870. The election of Mr.. Lincoln was q
judicial verdict against the corruption o,
politicians, and the wiles Of conspirators
under the Buchanan administration. The
lanti-slavery vote was not the increase OF
anti-slavery feeling, but the people were
driven into the anti-siavery party as the
only means Of breaking down depraved
staiesmanship, corrupted by the slave
power. France has been called a monar.
chy, modified by songs; Russia q despot-
ism, tempered with assassination; and ia
not the American Republic q Democracy,
checked, not Chicagoed by watchful mi.
norities7 The great distinction between
despotism and Democracy is that in the
first the majority is dominant and station.
ary; in the last it Is patient, subordinate
and fluctuating. The minority Of to-day,
fresh from communion with the people
yra - 1,o thn majority of TO- O-YnorrOw adm; n.