The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1861-05-04

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modes of thought did not prepare US to make.
We had supposed The heroic age past and gone.
We read the deeds Of our fathers, as we should
the traditional history Of any other nation, as
strange and inspiring. but never to be repeated
more. Their sacrifices and their wisdom SEEM
ed to have laid deep, the foundations of an ex-
tended and enduring empire, and it was ours to
muse upon the magnificent results of their pstr-
otto efforts, and seek by every unitarian meas
ure to promote our material prosperity. But
the few last weeks have proved that We lave
not left the age Of noble selfsacriace and hero
ism. The dollar il not almighty. Sel6shness is
the humor Of an hour, generosity is inbred
Mothers are sending their sons, and wives their
husbands to fields of carnage, because liberty is
to be defended there, and men whose grasp upon
their wealth no other appeal could loosen, have
dung their gold with lavish hand into the ma
tons, treasury as the first instinct Of patriotic
hearts.
As the result, our camps will not hold the
tens of thousands Of volunteers, arms are fur
nished without stint, fleets have been extempo-
rized in few days, and such display OF force
made, that the rebellion is already faint at heart
Maryland is returning. Virginia is professesly
engaged in defending the Capital, Pickens has
demoralized and defeated an army, and the arch
traitor in his message is evidently, endeayoring
to ease his inevitable fall. Men are beginning
now to fear that there will be no such dispute,
and decisive settlement, as they anticipated
The danger is that compromises may be adopt
ed and the impending issue postponed to the
future.
While we say that nothing short of final adj
justment Of the matter will satisfy, we divest
ourselves of every unchari.able thought and feel
ing. We cherish no revenge. we would satisfy
no mere vengeance. We would exhibit that
virtue which lis mightiest in the mightiest," and
while demanding justice upon the leaders of this
wide spread rebellion, would spare those who
having been mslead or coerced, are now willing
to return. We see the head Of this outrage upon
liberty, declares himself peacefully disposed y
lei alone, no doubt Of it who would not be,
having secured such an empire at SO small a
cost -! But his wishes are doomed to meet with
a stern denial Whatever the complications
growing out of this, we must with voice that
shall penetrate and inspire the Cabinet insist,
that secession has no rights-neuer can have !;
that it must be discarded as the most visionary
of all modes of redress; that these States are
inseparably one, now and forever; that slavery
on this continent receives no more protection
and is absolutely confined to its present limits !;
that southern outrages upon any American citi-
zen shall be no longer tolerated, and that in fu-
ture he who shall propose the dismemberment
of this Union shall be treated as a traitor.
We have it in our power go to adjust present
difficulties that the future shall be threatened
with no danger. We have only to insist upon a
settlement at once and forever, of the questions
out of which the troubles have sprung, and the
future will venerate US, as we yenerate the faith
ers of the revolution.
u Tennessee, we believe, has not as yet
adoped an ordinance of secession and does not
even set up claim that she is out of the Union.
Yet in some parts of the State in every town
ship, the entire male population, without regard
to age, is compelled by vigilance committees to
either enlist in war against the flag and Gov
eminent of the United States or leave. Humid
reds of persons have arrived in Iowa in the last
80 days, who, unwilling to join the rebellion,
were driven cut of the State upon twenty-four
hours notice. Others did join the army to save
their or their families live, their property, who
are at heart loyal This is the way citizens Of
Iowa and Illinois are treated in Tennessee.
The vigilance committee in the vicinity Of
Memphis, in going their rounds, found Physi
clan who would neither leave nor enlist. He an
formed them that he was pative of Canada
and subject of Great Britain--that he claimed
the protection of his Government. The Com
mittee left this man unmolested to follow hi:
profession, the name of Great Britain being more
powerful to protect British subject in a STATE
Of this Union than that of the American Gov
eminent its own citizens upon its own soil.
To be loyal to the Government of the United
States in most of the Slave States is to be al
exile or martyr. And silence will not do
Unless persons enlist under TIE rebel flag anG
march to battle, their loyalty to the Government
is taken for granted, and they are either huns
or exiled.
This is the ''fraternal" feeling of our South
ern brethren" that we have heard so much about
These are the tender mcrcies and this til,
slowing kindness" of the people it would be sucl
monstrous sin to war upon while they are
laboring to destroy the Government. Hundreds
of men have been ANONYMOUSLY murdered al
over the South for no crime except being born
upon soil where slavery is not permitted. Now
sit not a burning shame that sympathizing mel
in Iowa cannot express their admiration for th
kind of chivalry without becoming odious! 1t il
not great shame and burning disgrace, tina
men cannot assert upon the street that an army o
fifty thousand men made up from the South, car
whip one of hundred thousand Northern men
without being laughed at? Is it not a sham,
that blathering fools cannot safely stand upoI
the corners of the streets and insult passers by
with the assertion that Northern men won
fight! Is it not disgraceful that men are boot
ed at who call this war a war between the
"Black Republicans" and 'the South" and pro
claim their position as that of EARNED neutrali
typ" But worst Of all, is it not pity that per
sons who are anxious and spiling" for martyr
dom, in order to howl over it. can't be sratiaed
~ The Cincinnati Gazette asserts upon the
authority of a reliable person who was in posi-
ton to read the dispatch, that Governor Letchel
last Sunday night called for troops from the
Confederate States to aid Virginia in an attack
upon Washington. There is not the least doubt
that, relying upon its feeble defences, the treach
erous Governor of Virginia made his calculation
to strike sudden blow, with all the forces that
could be mustered. That ne has now abandoned
this idea and ordered the Virginia militia to re.
main at their homes until ordered out, proves
conclusively that he believes the time for taking
Washington has passed-that its defenses are
now too strong-that too many Northern troops
are there to make it an easy business to take
Washington. He is now much opposed to an
attack, and it is said even opposes the passage
of rakol fronns thronoh VIRGINIA What rn.