The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1861-04-27
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"a 1he CsreAe Union DemOustIAsAOMs
The stup.endoas demonstration which the city
witnessed last Saturday, in favor Of the preser-
walton of the integrity OF the Union. has no par
allei in the history Of tho world. II was more
than a m eeting--it was a national ovation
Union square was but the loudly 6eating heart,
OF which every thoroughfare Of the metropolis
constituted an artery. Wave upon wave Of hui
man beings, thousands, and thousands upon tens
of thousands, poured through the streets tor
hours toge ther, actuated by sentiment, neither
Of Joy nor of triumph but OF infiexible deter
mination that, whatever the cost may be, the
Union shall be preserved. zG;s :,
With tho bombardment of Fort Sumter, all
past issues, every party line and platform, was
swept away, and became as obsolete as the
period beyond the food. With the opening OF
the batteries of General Beauregardg upon the
flag of the United States, new volume IN the
history of the country opened, which can never
close, until the Union has emerged out OF its
present trials, in full integrity and splendor,
!. without the loss of u single star. Nor ID the
enthusiastic patriotism which has been displayed
within the past week, confined TO New York.
North, West and East the people are unit
| Opposition is unknown; but, in every city, town.
village, hamlet and dwelling, from the Atlantic
seaboard 10 the Rocky Mountains, the same una
| nimous resolve prevails, not to lay down arms
| until the rebels Of the South have been reduced
| to submission. Ha 4Ja d. ear
The government of the Confederate States
! has wantonly and wickedly inaugurated HOSTILE
ties in order to discover and destroy the Iepub.
lie. The government at Washington has appeal
ed to the love of the country, which rules in the
heart of every good citizen, North and South, to
aid it in establishing the Union upon its pristine
| basis. 1t could have invoked no principle so
potent to unite the sympalhies and concentrate
the energies OF a civilized people. IL is founded
| in instincts which lie deep down in the human
| heart, and form part of its untaught. natural
| logic. Patriotism, reverence for the past, res
pect for established authority, well as the law
| of self-preservation are all motives for main
tanning it. The attempt Of a successful faction
| at the South to impair our national unity, is a
| sacrilege from which every sensitive mind shud-
ders, and the odiousness of the word treason,
justly attaches to those who would rend the
! part; Of the homogeneous whole asunder-
Hence it is that one soul, one WILL inspires the
Northern States in this terrible crisis, and
| that, as Senator Baker exclaimed, Seven
| hundred and fifty thousand men, and three
| hundred millions of money" will be readily
| sacrificed in behalf of such vast and precious
interest. 4 a
1t is clear as MONDAY, that the atrocious ef
fort to destroy the Union, cannot succeed. Its
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base, and eau find no response in the intellect or
conscience of right minded individuals, even in
the seeded States. The programme of Pres
ident Lincoln on the contrary, is founded upon
that imperishable. inextinguishable love of coun-
| try, which will not permit the REIMBURSEMENT of
any of its parts, but prefers any sacrifice to its
disintegration. All that the people demand 10
that it shall be carried out with the utmost vigor
| and energy. The North does not stint its prof
fers of men and money. Two hundred thousand
| troops will as readily be yielded as the seventy.
five thousand that have been required. Ii loans
are wanted our merchants and capitalists have
signifed their willingness to give, with the ut
most profusion We call, then, upon govern.
ment to take no less than the exigencies of the
case require and to he restrained within the
| limits OF no i'll calculated economy. The
that has begun, should be short sudden, bold
and determined. The banner Of the Constitution
should be carried into every corner of the Union
where it has been thrown down, and it should
be remembered that a fearful bloody strife, OF
limited duration, is preferable to prolonged
conflict. Neither should the object in view be
ever lost sight of, amidst the excited passions of
the hour 1t is not to aveRge wrongs, to destroy
enemies or to subdue territory, but TO restore to
the nation the prosperity it enjoyed one year
ago, in word, to conquer peace.
WAS THE CAPTURE OF Fort SUMTER A BLOOD.
LESS VICTORY ut may be readily presumed
that the rebels at Charleston would not permi,
| any drawback upon their recent brilliant exploit
| of compelling feeble garrison of seventy men
| to evacua.e in the face of force of seven or
ten thousand, after the latter had been permitted
for months to fortify every position which COM
handed the weak points CT that garrison, to be
spread before the public, # it could be avoided.
But the true facts of the case are leaking OFT -
II pretty certainly established that the reports
sent over the wires that none of the rebel force
| were killed or wounded are entirely untrue. The
letters of many private correspondents to news
papers, merchants etc, have been published, all
OF which agree that about 40 rebels we're killed
and some 100 wounded, many of their badly
In addition to former testimony upon this point
| the Cincinnati Commercial has seen a letter
which confirms the report. The Keokuk Gate
City also says that a young man has just arrived
in that city from Charleston, he having left there
since the evacuation of Fort Sumter He con
| firms the statement that 10 were killed and over
100 wounded He ALSO says that the idea is
prevalent among the people of Charleston that
the Secessionisis will be compelled to submit to
| the United States Government, as soon as the
! authorities resort to measures of coercion