The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1861-03-02

Dnk III, come what may, the Northern people
will ~ et@rnslly, diagraesd Il they barter sxsy
one iot OF their manhood Whsshes they sAve sne
Union or NOT, their ali respect must Be 0yeo.-
Whekher q nation haS larger Or smaller limits
matters little. but Il does matter that t should
have character-it does matter that It should
ham . soul For III tho efforts Of high minded
and true hearted men 70 bring back peace, We
are properly grsteful -men who Loyalty labor to
remove passion and prejudice and misconcep.
sion. and, %, they are men Of principle them.
selves are . Incapable Of asking =. they are Of
making any haas compliance. We say, God
speed their noble work. But there are other
spirits in The 6eld-borthsrn men without &C.
rious purpose or conviction -wretched creatures
whose very nature il is 70 cringe and to beg, who
have always had . Southern master and know
not how to live without him--the same tribe that
Webster spoke Of: dough faces, with dough
heads, and dough hearts, and dough souls; they
are AZ dough; The coarsest potter may mould
them to vessels Of honor or dishonor- most
| readily to vessels Of dls-honor." These people
are for propitiating the South At all Costs
There IL no degradation they are not prepared 70
stoop to, if 80 be they may keep the border
States in and get the cotton States back. Iney
70 for compromise, ~ they say; but the compro-
mise they 20 for il simply the Observation-Disclosures.
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grant, imposes no engagement they are not ready
to make. Many Of them, beyond all question,
1 would willingly consent even to the most infa-
| nous of infames--the re-opening at the African
slave trade itself-if slavery we're yet prepared
! to demand ii. To call these aoulless towards
peaeemakers 10 the grossest abuse OF tne WORD.
i Peace is blessing for freemen; it rests on law
it finds its guaranteesin justice. Submission to
arbitrary demands 10 not peace, nor does it bring
the fruits of peace It il vassalage, and its end
10 death.
We say, then, the Union If possible, but
UnioH or no Union, MANHOOD first and MANHOOD
always. How much, not involving absolute
moral wrong, it may be meet to yield to relieve
the present complication Of aifairsl how long 1t
will be wise, under the new administration, to
continue to enforce the laws upon an unwilling
people, must be determined by shapes and as
poets yet to come; but never, 'euer, under any
circumstances, in any extremity, must the North
humiliate itself by surrender which its con-
science and its sense of honor cannot approve
In these last years a change has come over the
southern mind, SO that what they once confessed
an evil, they now boast to be their supreme So
cial good. That change, attribute it to what we
please, is an accomplished fact. We have no
power, and want no power over it. But we do
have the power of preventing its being forced
II upon US, ana IL ID our duty 40 eAcerclse IL. We
do have the power of preventing Its turning our
glorious constitutional @gis, which was conse-
Grated to freedom by our fathers into an intern.
al device for the perpetuation and extension of
bondage; and every consideration of honor. every
mandate of conscience, every sentiment of re.
spect for those who have gone before Us, every
aspiration for influence among the nations. every
Interest of civilization, and every dictate of hu-
manity, obligate us to thwart this unhallowed
business We must not ,,atondlize slaus,y. We
must not consent that its sole interests shall
shape the policy of the coantry. Not yielding
this, the Union may end. So be it Fifty Unions
soud not BE- ,co,th the sacrifice Of honest CONNECTION
and tie prossration Of manly spirit incolred in gir
ing in to such 6ehests as ws hare heard andare yet
daily hearing. No honorable effort is to be spared
to msintain the government Oh its old basis
Whatever just authority can do, or generous con-
citation can do, to secure that, let it be done to
the full But when it comes to betraying our
faith and belying our principles there must be
q stop; consequences must cease to be regarded;
i we must stand firm, and, trusting to the God
above us, take what follows. Nothing can ruin
US if we only hold fast to our integrity New
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