The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1861-05-18
JUNE, 1889.
lFrom the New York Tribune. ]
LIES, q

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From the New York Trbune.]
LIES. 81
A Cause that is based upon lies can no more
| live and flourish than house can stand whose
| foundation is on tho sand. The truth of this
scripture Mr.. Jefferson Davis will live to wit
ness, and possibly may testify thereto in a more
| conspicuous manner than he would wish. This
| Southern Confederacy is certainly based upon
falsehood in moral, ard statecraft, and If, as
seems probable. it has no other chance for a
short lived exsteEce than the active promulga.
ton of lies, it must come To speedy end at no
distant period He must be "a wise and a wary
man, and a man OF many resources, who can de-
ceive a feilow-creature to his moral hurt; that
wisdom has not yet been given to man which
can cozen and cheat a nation out of its exist
enee. EE ia1f 9qEagsgas 7g
Il is not pleasant to US thus to speak of any
fello~-creature, not even Mr.. jeff Davis; but
then, as we know, to apply to him another
Scriptural phrase, that she is liar, and the
truth is not in him" aRd that thousands of lives
and millions of treasure are to be sacrificed to
the ambition of him and his fellows, we do not
care to stoop to choose our phrases, or to mi,ce
them if we did. This gigantic rebellion, of
which he is the head, WIS conceived in Slavery,
begot in fraud, aud feeds and grows fut on lies
1t any one thing has been made more manifest
than another throughout this Secession business.
it is that the halers dare mol trust the PeoDle -
The question of separate Confederacy has not
yet been submitted to them either rs whole
people or as separate State sovetcignties, and
never will be, simply because the leaders do not
dare. tits very true, and we hasten TO do them
the justice to acknowledge it, if there we're no
reason for fear, they would still be prevented
hv hot hap0 tl,ay fa,lc
are not of their own class, from consulting eth
er the wishes or the opinions Of the people in
relation to the matter. But as, after all. 'mud.
sills, are quite as necessary and useful in their
way as the more ornamental parts of the archi.
lecture Of human society, it is the fear of the
expression of their wishes and opinions that has
barred the submission of the question of Seces.
sion to their votes.
Nor is this the only way in which they show
their fear lest the truth should be known. The
newspapers Of the South are full of lies, and
common rumor more than justfes its, ancient
reputation, for not even by an accident does il
blunder upon the truth "A censorship of the
press. or that sense OF honor known even among
thieves, forblds Southern journals, and the few
Southern persons who have the Intelligence or
the ability to take Northern newsps per. to pro.
muigate the intelligence from the North. An
equally strict surveillance is exercised over all
correspondence. Prudent merchants of New
Orleans and we presume. of other places, who
wish to avoid suspicion, and to insure chance
of the transmission of their letters, send them
unsealcd, well aware that no seal is regarded ex-
cept to secure the destruction of a lst,er as q
safe alternative. when time fails in the ey.n,;na
ton of a large mail Sou,hern .en,,en.r
who left a Southwestern citv a xccI ago -
shocked and amazed at the state of things at the
North I'VE know nothing of it ut the South y
he declares. .t is al studiouslv kent f,or nc :,
.aGrea, God we ere lost ,n cxcl,ims snoth..
when he secs the unexnect.a unarim;tv and ac'
tivity of The North. which in his section aIso
thev are not pcrn,itted to hear. Fu,ther North
where il is iinnnssible tn keen hack all ;r,e,G-
gcpce il is still so distorted ana so ,niycd with
lies, as TO answer the same p,,rnose A oentla.
man from Virginia. no, more than sixtv nile,
south of Norfolk. informed us \ fpy da,s s;nno
that I, e two ppsi,iye staten .nts innrc;tIv 70
lied on in that section are. that Gen. Scott has
resigned, and lies in chains mt WASHINGTON and
that the only gay the North can raise ai,y troono
is by throwing oncn uI their5i,ils,
And this is no; accident. it is.a srstcm Tho
truth viii be fatal To the cause of Sare.s;on -
Let the South once knew that the North ia n
unit-.hat !. has rallied nsBopc man TO the de
tense Of liberty and ur time I,ouored Govern.
ment: that they have heer,-,Iccrive,, most cross
hy fha
promises of Northern traitors in ard ont of Of.
fee, and Northern pcwsnuners eop,lly y;,a and
the fear of tie traitors i that ,h. nrnnI. h;th.
erto inactive or only uu;vmn,thrtc viii ,;ro in
their strength and crush treason and t.,i,nr. "a
gether
On this theory the sotl,erwise inex xn,ic,hIe ot.
tempt to ,ictpl the Slarsbtrr -, Enrt Non,tr;a
has purp, So. and the ,igap,ic lie or NJ Jefr
Davis that Fort Sam.cr WAS taken without the
loss of II sinnie EC, i like The oth..r ,lp,os. in.
numerahlc lies Of hi. 1T MESSAGE s;mnIy in ,c.
cordancc with a consistent p,ap. II there ia spch
a thing us historical evidence of n fact il NAV
be considered proved that the hor of Eves
lost at Fort Moultrie was several hu,,,rcl, We
have the testimony Of lour different. nars,ns
differing in their opportunities for observation'
to the same tact, of which they were all cre.wit
nesscs If apy doubt cau!J be thrown unon the
statement of the two rnnn soldiers no, bp.
cause they may not be trustworthy. bat because
they are unknown or ul,op that of the o.ntle.
man published Yesterday. because his name
which we we're not at liberty TO give, was not
given that objection catinot he ,natlr TO the ties.
timonv Of Capt Corsen, well-known citizen of
Staten Island. And now, to the testimony of all
three comes the sipgu,a,Iy corroho,ativc nega.
tive evidence of Mr. Thomps on. Who was at the
head of the mailing dep rtment OF the Charles
ton Mercury all last winter, and who during
those even;ful Sumter days, was at his post
1t will be remembered that one or the other wit
nesses stated that the shot which did the most
execution was the first shot fred the first bull
letn, pulled down Immediately from the Mercu.
rvs board, and which announced the killing of
thirty men by single shot, was early in the dav.
Perhaps at that moment was conceived the no.
tioD of cnnre lment lot tho epy,o, ,no, A.
Southern mind generally. as we'll as mon rho
so!diery kept back in reserve, should be disas.
tro1s. Ihere ore L,ent. Rhett, who was wound
bur, ~ a, oxonn, hv r ",:"h. mu 81 '"ny, "asno'
carriage. So the soldier whom Mr.. Thomnson
heard speak of frightful work, located it not at
Point Cummings, where'he came from but at
Fort Moultrie. We only Yesterday asked Capt.
Doubleday ii any of his shot entered the embra.
sures az Monit,le' ana we nave MS positive as
sura"ees 'hat 'ney entered fhem ard tore them
a""y. ''o's" ""a' t,ies NAV nave done within,
ne ., course u'd NOT KNOW. we also have Capt.
n'uo,eoa. ~ > assurance .'a.' after the agreement
u' e'aoua'e' sreat numbers OF surgeons and
.'.' .hs. were Drought 70 'he,h. was It be-
eau. .ne onn eAper'enee 1aa oeeh so terrible
wa. ."es M's"eI 70 eA.eha 10 teir dying and
n.u';a '''1 a,u 1i sG.tnce ana tEe comforts OF