The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1861-06-01

Tha following Song YES song q Corning. New
Yo;E - - ooeestoo Of the marching Of she
Corn;ns VoIunssers. By the daughters Of Major
Field. iormesiy Of Burlington:
Oh. tell % - brave sons Of battle,
Who's hssr,s sre beating % true; Is
Fear you the loud cann0n's rattle,
Whis your friends are bidding ron adieu-
While the prayer Of the good 10 ascending,
For each and for I'll, and for you.
While the vile traitor. proudly intending
Is knocking the RED, White and Blue"
A voice like TIE Wild roar of ocean,
Rolls along the rock bounden shore,
ASa calls on the blood Of our nation, ~
To How for its freedom once more;
To water the emblem lest it wither,
And fsde from the worlds anxious view,
And cease to lure the wand'rer hither,
To dwell meath the "Red, White and Blue
Then adieu, most dear loving brothers, rex q
Kind fathers and husbands good bye,
The wish from the fond heart Of lovers,
Il nobly TO conquer or die, bssH
Meath the shade of the cypress inclosing
The tomb of our w ashington true,
Who seems to speak from death long reposiiig,
Oh! rescue the "Red, White and Blue
Huekstering spirit q de REitish Press.
SO far as a portion Of the British press is con.
cerned. At the head OF which ia the London
Timcs the American rebellion has exposed the
hypocrisy of that high moral principle which
the Arisish nation has 80 long and 90 ostenta-
tiously paraded before American eyes, and Of
al that well.worn palaver about the same lin
cage, language, literature and free institutions,
and the pride of the mother country in her
promising American son, and has laid bare the
real huckstering spirit which was zbeusath oil
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troubles only - something to be turned to Bri
lives In the London Times: II shall be suffer to
the camp, and proats will accrue Fl
The only moral question with these journals
ID how England can best turn the rebellion to
account, and In this regard they seem likely to
defeat themselves in their excessive greed On
the one hand the London Times gioats over free
trade to British vessels and goods with the
South, and shows how munitions Of war and
coutraband goods Of all kinds can be transport.
ed under the Briti.h flag into Confederate ports
without inquiry, under the American strict doe.
trine Of the right Of search. The matter Of
blockade the Times talks of as q thing easily
managed. First, the rebels are to be recognized
as q belligerent power. Then, If the blockade
il not effective, British vessels will run it,
Second if the blockade is effective, it talks as il
To show how the prospect of plumber from,
our misfortunes has developed the low cunning
of the Artful Dodger in British journals and
politicians, we extract from an article in the
London Times the following, which is remark.
able for the amount of pettifogging meannesi
and falsity which 10 condensed into small
space: = Sha d.s5o4 Essa9td aaf t.
As the United States insist that they are not
at war, but are only putting down a rebellion, it
would appear that they have not that right oil
search or visit which has been sometimes con
ceded in time Of war; as they are not in pos
session of the Southern coast, they cannot claim
dominion over so much Of the sea as may be
appertained to the coast; and rs their adverse.
ries are "a mass of population having acquired
a certain degree of force and consistency and
engaged IN var, the cruisers of the Confederate
States will, subject to any difficulties which may
arise out Of the Treaty Of Paris, be recognized
by the Cove rnments and Courts of Law of for.
eign nations All these and other Kindred ques
tons which must unayoidably arise if this civil
war proceeds must be turned over and over
many times, both by diplomatsts and lawyers.
We have only attempted to portray the aspect
in which they at this early period present them
selves. GEaE
So excited are these journals at present at the
prospective humiliation of American shipping
and the substitution of British vessels in all our
trade, and free trade with the South, that they
have forgotten temporarily their first panic which
was that protracted war in the States would cur
tail the production of cotton, and TINS destro,
English industry. Now they are in such hea
venly mood at the idea of destroying our com
merce that they propose to encourage the wal
and protract it as much as possible, by Gripping
all our efforts to crush tho rebellion, and by
making it as damaging to the North as possible
quite unmindful that such war as would en-
sue would probably destroy the cotton produc.
ton entirely. -'e.
In all this the British journals falsely assume
that privateering has always been particular
American "vanity "-as the elder Weller
would say-and that England has always tiled
to abolish it, both these positions being, as we
have shown in another article, directly the re-
verse of the facts
the poison which Southern rule has instlled in.
to our politics at home, and Southern diploma
fists have carried abroad, and impressed upon
foreign nations, that this is not nation with a
government, but loose confederacy of sovereign
States, each with the right to withdraw from
the association at its pleasure. Thus the Loli.
don Times says: sa st-.. t-1a ~ar
The resolutions of the North to crush seces.
sion BY force, involves denial of the right of
each one of the seeding States to determine the
conditions Gifts own national existence. When
State Convention has adopted an ordinance
declaring its withdrawal from the Federal Union,
even those citizens who may have voted in
the majority against it cannot but feel that re-
fusa to recognise its validity is denial of their
own political independence In this considera-
ton lies the strongest ground for anticipation
that the South may exhibit itself as united in de-
Tense as the North is showing itself in attack.
If this should be SO, it is scarcely possible to
hope that anything short of sudden awakening
OF the combatants to common sense can avert Il
protracted and sanguinary struggle.
The seat of the mischief abroad as well as at
home is in the total Decentralization OF our Gov
eminent under Southern politics, until Govern.
ment which was formed by the sovereign people,
after the disgraceful failure of a Confederacy of
sovereign States, and which in terror is supreme
over the whole land, has been broken down again
into powerless disjointed and wrangled Con-
federaey. ~ s6 fa IL
The country has endured long enough the an.
archy OF conflicting State soyereignties. Once,
after the prosperity of the country was paralyz-
ed by it, and when the Government was power.
less for defense or to enforce its laws, ana when
nothing but the exhaustion of the revolutionary
war prevented the States from being preciptat-
ed into cor fct with each other, the people, in
their sovereign capacity, abolished State
sovereigLzs and independence, and made a
Government in terms supreme This has been
until it has been assumed in party
platforms and in Executive declarations, that it
Is even more helpless than the old broken down
Confidently: Now, this question must be set
tied for all. If Government cannot be created
by Constitutional provisions, but must be formed
in blood, letit be well laid and cemented in blood
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