The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1861-11-09

Prom ~ epslas1saa (sass.,) Repshasean
4 H0Rk10N 0YMPAT1sY.
The the is probably NOT fAr distant when Y,
shall look back With surprise and shame upou
the sensitiveness we have manifested, ~ Ameri
cans, concerning the lack Of sympathy In on,
cause manifested BY Grest Britain. We shal
probably ~. thasvs have done nothing 70 elicit
sympathy, or 10 compel il. 1.-THE under dog.
or ~ weaker dog, naturally draws % himself
sympaehy. There b On instinct which leeds u
always to side with weakness; and If that weak
ness 10 daring and gallant, Il attracts our sym
pathies the more. The American nation stood
before the world, at the beginning Of the war
In the attitude Of great, blu6bering booby. who
had been cheated out Of HE eye-teeth BY sharp
err, and left with his hat knocked aver bic eyea
II 10 easy enough to see that the nations Of the
world, looking on ut distance, should be at
trscsed in sympathy to the ssucy varlets who
had walked out Of the Union, stolen everything
they could lay their hands on and snapped their
fingers at Brother Jonathan and told him TO help
himself The British people may protest that
they 'sympathiss" with the North, but We do
not believe it; and. more than oil this, We dc
not wish to believe it Heaven forbid tat We
should ever be in position in which British
sympathy would be pleasant to Ma! What We
/ want from Great Britain 10 respect, and when
We have whipped out this rebellion We shall have
it, and We may be certain, not only that We shall
not have il before, but that We shall not deserve
il 9t fe0 so
Great Britain respects power, and she does
not respect much, If anything, else, except mon
ey. Power and money she bows down to in pro-
found respect Let il become evident that the
rebels cannot carry through their enterprise, let
them get entirely out Of money, let them fail in
| their favorite project Of taking Washington, let
| their design to take all the slave states out Of
the Union miscarry-in short, let it be certain,
so far - human forecast can determine, that the
rebellion 10 to be put down by the Mnaided pow.
er and purse Of the government Of the United
States, and the sympathy for the rebels will be
dried up, and respect for the government Of the
Union will take its place At once. It will then
be impossible to find an Englishman who ever
sympathised with the rebels, or who ever
doubted for moment the power of the govern
ment to suppress the insurrection. Mr.. Pumble.
chook will be very overbearing and unpleasant,
SO long as Pip is weak and poor, but the moment
he comes into good fortune, or even a reasona.
bic expectation of il, he will publish to the world
the statement that he has been his earliest, most
consistent and best friend
That the tone of the British press and the
British feeling is modified must be evident, We
Judge, to all; and nothing has tended to produce
this modification go powerfully as growing con-
seriousness of the large power and resources of the
q. States. We have raised an immense sum of
money without going abroad for Z cent Of it. We
are supplying the old world with bread and pro
visions At the rate offrom two TO four million dol
lars worth per week, Notwithstanding our war,
and compelling constant return of specie with
which to help our cause. Both England and
France are compelled to help US to money to
keep their own people from starving, and are
thus unwilling tributaries to our national pow
er. We have in six months raised an immense
army, not only, but an immense navy, and now,
with 400 900 troops in the field, and in prepares
ton, and naval expedition-one Of the largest
which history records-actually sailed, we men,
people have an eye for such changes as these.
They see the rebels shut up with no navy, no
money, and no chance to get either; and they
see-the most intelligent of them-that the
North has not not only mot begun to fight"
but that it has not begun to draw upon its re-
sources. They zee that the rebels have thrown
immense energy into the first year of their en-
terprise, but they that this energy has failed
of success, and that there can be but limited
reserve. The money of the confederates is
gone. There is no money basis for even their
present operations. With the markets the
world closed against them, it is impossible for
question of time. When the time of surren-
der shall come, John Bull will be very certain to
be on the winning side.
No, we do not want the sympathy of Great
Britain, it would be a shame to US If we had it,
but we want the respect of Great Britain, and
this we have got to win, and we propose to do it.
The anti-slavery sentiment of England, so far as
itpertains to the upper classes, is worn entirely
for ornament, or INDUCED in as luxurious
amusement. It does not mean anything. Arts
tocratic instincts naturally side with the slave
leave the defeated power and side with demon.
strated strength England will be all right, and
will respect US as she never did before, when
we have successfully and forever put down trea-
son. We can afford to wait for her respect, and
do to without her sympathy until then.
There has been considerable uneasiness touch
ing the mission of Messrs Mason and Slidell,
and the effect Of their presence in Europe; but
if these men have gone upon the errand which
is attributed to them-that of securing the pro-
tectorate Of England and France-they have gone
with confession Of weakness which will harm
them, unless it should be the fixed desire and de-
termination of those powers to make war upon
the United States. We certainly cannot regard
the movement Of these commissioners, at this
time, as anything more or less than signal OF
distress, much more likely to repel than at
tract sympathy. II will be virtual dropping
Of bravsdo and self-sufhciency, which the Brit
ish Lion" will smell at once with appropriate
disgust
ONE OF THE VICTIMS oYSrHE BALTIMORE MOB.
LAST week young man came to this town in
search of relatives OF the name of Rock well. He
was member Of the Massachusetts, 9Th, which
was so brutally attacked in B,ltimore on the
10th of April last, and at that time received in
juries necessitsting the amputation of his right
arm and leg, and disfguring his face by cutting
away portion of his nose and upper lip and
teeth. He also received blow on the back part
Of the head which fractured the skull, and, in
itself came near proving fatal. And yet not
witl,etanding these extraordinary injuries be re-
covered entirely, and was as before stated, away
here in the west alone, in search of friends. We
have never seen more pitiful sufferer, from the
field of battle than was this poor fellow, who
vas thus mutilated in the villainous city of Bal.
timore. His sad appearance created no little
sympathy for him among our citizens.
1t recalled to US the scene that awaited the
regiment when it reached Washington. Tho
telegraph for two or three hours had been laden
ed with the details Of the dnheard Of outrage,
and thousands Of anxious citizens who began to
fear that the fate of the capital was doomed,
went hurryipg to the Depot, and watched with
eager eyes the approach of the train bringing
the regiment. As the time wore away and no
tidings of it came, rumors arose that it had been
thrown from the track BY the rioters at one of
the bridges, and thousand vague and uncer-
tain suspicious filed the murmuring crowd
Finally single engine came in sight with red
flag, and rapidly neared the depot bringing
conductor and brakesman or two, who sprang
off and ran into the Superintendent room, fol.
lowed by an immense crowd, clamorous for It'd
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the whistle was heard, and slowly rounding
curve came the long train crowded with soldiers.
Never will those who witnessed the debarkation
| of the Massachusetts, eth at the Washington de-