The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1861-06-01
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In the Domestic and Foreign Affairs 0i
che United states. 5i
4 Our Government is rising to the dignity Of Il.
4 situation, to the grand responsibilities of the
crisis, and to the confident expectations of the
4 friends of our liberal institutions Throughout
the Union and throughout the whole civilized
world. liias ah5 y ssmaa ssailIa so z, III
The campaign in behalf Of the 'integrity oil
the Union" was opened in the movement be-
tween midnight and daylight yesterday morning
of an overwhelming army column from Wash
ington across the Potomac to the occupation OF
Alexandria, Virginia, and from this impressive
beginning we anticipate the speedy overthrow
of Secession in the "Old Dominion" With a
body of fifteen thousane Union troops in occu
/ patton of Alexandria and its Surroundings, the
insurgents at Harpers Ferry are cut off from
i their railway communications with the insur.
gents at Richmond, and on both sides they are
cut of from an important source of their sup
plies. simultaneously, from the presence Of
some six or seven thousand Union troops in aud
| around Fortress Monroe, and with co-opera-
ting Federal feet at hand, the insurgents in that
| quarter are in bad situation. They will re.
quire assistance from Richmond; but, consider
1 ing the alarm which has prevailed for the last
three weeks among their confederates in that
quarter, they will not feel 1t safe to move down
to the rescue of Norfolk On the contrary we
suspect that, without much fighting, the Seces-
sionists in and about Norfolk will fail back upon
Richmond, and that to that common point all
their available forces in the State will now be
hurried as fast as possible. This theory leads
to the conclusion that Richmond, at all events
ere long, will be the scene of desperate en-
tgagement, inasmuch al the loss of that Capital
/ to the insurgents will be loss of the State, and
| its restoration to the Union. fa
We anticipate this result, for it is inevitable I;
and we hope it will be reported in President Lin
coins message to Congress on the Fourth of Ju-
| ly. Nay, more, we hope that by that immortal
day the position Of Maryland, Virginia, Ken
lucky and Missouri will be 50 firmly established
| for the Union and that this whole Southern in !.
surrectionary enterprise will have become so de-
moralized, bankrupt and impotent, as only to
need rigid blockade by sea and land to starve
it, within few months, into submission to the
Constitution and the laws of the United States.
We hold that the wonderful Union reaction in
Maryland, resulting from the march into her ter
ritories of our irresistible Union volunteers, has
saved net only that State, but Kentucky and
Missouri, and that this present Union army
movement will not only reclaim Virginia, but
will soon render North Carolina and Tennessee
ripe for their deliverance from the most revolt
ing revolutionary despotism on the face of the
earth. a@tI
The superficial philosophers Of the London
Times, in assuming it az a fixed fact that the
American Union is destroyed, are very wide of
the mark. Our Union is just beginning to de-
vclope its strength. Its available active resour-
ces against this Southern insurrection are quite
as powerful as would be the resources of the
British Empire to-day against general rebel
lion in Ireland, unassisted by any great foreign
power. No future event is more inevitable than
the restoration of our confederate revolted
States to the Union; and willie the measures
and movements of Mr.. Lincoln's administration
promise the full establishment of the Union
upon solid and enduring basis at home, we are
further gratifed to be enabled to say that the
manifestations of his foreign policy promise to
our Government much higher and more in.
fiuential position in our foreign relations than
ever it has attained Heretofore.
While the young Republic of Rome was yet
embarrassed with its domestic feuds, factions
and conspraces, it presented no very formda-
BILE front to the surrounding nations; but Oil
emerging from her domestic discords Rome be. |
gan her grand march to the mastery Of the |
world So, ia modern times, England was
power comparatively weak in the counsels of
the continent until her domestic discords and
civil wars of thousand years were superseded |
by that consolidation of the Kingdoms estab-
lished under William Of Orange. So with the
United States of America at the present day
While their General Government and loyal PEG. |
pie are engaged in the great work of restoring |
and consolidating their Union at home, they are |
laying broad and deep foundations of foreign
policy calculated to place this country in the
rank with the leading European Powers touch
ing the great common interests of the civilized |
world. Such are the indications from Mr. Sew
ards acceptance of the code of the Congress of
Paris in reference to privateering, and from his
reported instructions to our new Ministers to
England and France, In which. we understand
while these Powers are frankly admonished of
the sure suppression of this Southern insurrec-
ton, they are also warned of the consequences
OF any foolish intervention in our domestic at-
fairs.
The movement of the United States forces
across the Potomac into Virginia carries this
war into Africa. It marks the beginning OF a
gloTous and successful campaign, and the end
will most assuredly be the restoration and puri-
fcation of the Union at home, and the exalta-
tion OF our Government abroad to its appropri
ate position of commanding voice among the
great Powers of the earth. Our Union was new
er so strong as it is to-day. Like the ancient
Republic of Rome, it will rise from its domestic
troubles TO its manifest destiny of grandeur,
glory and power.