The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1861-12-07

IS suas a tt So. -
2 .l.vcrv: administered By men notorious sor
heir hatred Of England - an antl-nsvy ~. ~
"a and beyond some rather cola gens .'s. .so~.
~ 100 - tfoubles which have come upon ous
- .,sy;ca (reercts that Include alike
~ Gc,ernmeut and the rebellion, ne loysl GU
y. 49, - he Uoion. and those who ne waglng
-. sra deadly var against ~ scarce .C
~. - 49, rttered Of cordial sympathy wlsn :
c.ss.sss 1000 IN this season Of extreme tn"'
60, principles drawn with the mo-
ths,is m;lf Of Encland's breast. ~.
sscarCe 1 word Of sympathy" did LAY; VIZ .
precise reverse; the rebellion ascriDeu -
thing and everything but it's true cause- ..,os,s
inherent inbeciIity Of dcmocsaMc gos. ..n,n.e. :
~. II the strength of the English governmmSt
yyested upon anything but It's popular ei .ss md
"a tho protective psiicy, to class jeair..,rct al
sam b. Earl Russell, TO n simpc inss ss
empire on the one side, and thir. ior pow. W
the other, which have caused the consen.lvns
Of $50 many of the States o. sne olo WV S
Two months had no. elapsed iIom va NJ NJ
. v~ kno,n 70 hs ON their way, bad not reached
tbei, nosts--wben the Confederates were rccog'
n;zed "a s.beilieerents," and strict neusraiity
Rat veen the two parties proclaimed. There WIS
roth;nr in this recognition In contrAvennon OF
.he law Of nations. Corsatrs fitted out A. tne
South TO prey upon the lswfui commerce OF Tue
United States were pirates BY our law, % cor
sairs fitted out from Scotland IN i74o, Or ron
Ireland In 1898, 70 prey upon English commerce,
would have been pirates by law OF England;-
hut England was certainly not bound to CONSIDER
Mr.. Jefferson Davis privatcers pirates by the
She quoted the precedent Of the Greeks and
Turks. and our own conduct towards the Ievo-
lutionsry colonies Of Spain, AZ q precedent for
recognizing them as bcllgerents, and urged the
| intimate and extensive commercial relations OF
| the two countries, as a circumstance requiring
prompt action. But the recognition OF the
Greeks as belligerents, was, If mistake not, de-
llayed two years, that Of the South American
Republics. between whose case and ours there
is but slight Analogy much longer; and as TO
any practicdl necessity for meeting the question,
/ no one can suppose that there was ever pos
sibility that the Confederate privateers would
capture British vessels One would have thought,
under these circumstances, that unless the for
eign governments really are entirely indiifer'
ent to the moral aspects Of the struggle, their
decision Of the question might have been de-
layed till it was forced upon them by events.
Meantime, by several of the leading presses
Of France and England, the utmost pains are
taken to prejudice the public mind of Europe
against the cause Of the Government and Of the
loyal people Of the-Unitcd States, in reference
to the war and the manner in which it is con
, Quoted. II the South had been engaged in q
crusade in favor of freedom, while the North
was warning to perpetuate and extend slavery
the cause Of the South could not have been more
warmly pleaded by the presses that have been
denouncing slavery for the last thirty years
The constitutional right of individual States to
secede from the Union is Dramatically main
tanned abroad, in opposition to all the traditions
of our Government, the decisions of our highest
tribunals, and the authority Of our wisest states
men.
Notwithstanding the entire want Of analogy
! between the rebellion of the South against do
! nestle government all but monopolized by
|, themselves and tho esistancc of our Fathers in
l77s 10 the arbitrary acts Of transatlantic par
Lament in which they were not represented, the
unfriendly press in England taunts us with the
assertion that the South has the same right to
throw off the government Of the Union, that the
American Colonies had to throw off the govern
ment Of England forgetting that, in the opin-
ion of England and especially Of that school of
her statesmen now most distinctly sympathizing
with the South, the war Of the American Revo-
luton was always regarded and spoken of as q
rebellion. against which England struggled /. 8
long as she could do so with the slightest hope
Of success, and which che refused to recognize
in terms for two years after her military opera
, tions had ceased with the capitllation of York
Il town. Meantime no pains are spared to display
! in the most imposing light the success of the
!, rebels, to exaggerate the Ieverses of the loyal
# armies Of the United States, and no opportunity
omitted to produce the impression that the strug-
= gle to maintain the Union is hopeless
+ Nor is this all in some quarters it is openly
maintained, in Others intelligibly intmatej, that
!, ne time is rapidly approaching when those Eu-
= opean countries, which depend upon America
, Or staple products, must adopt measures to re
i've themselves from the interruption Of their
;, cmmercial intercourse. These measures, more
: oless obscurely limited at, are to recognize the
i Cnsedcrates as an Independent Power, and to
brak the blockade Of the Southern ports Mere
. recognition, though it would give great moral
:. aio and encouragement to the Confederates,
/ void afford no relief to the suffering commerce
OF hrope. If this reliefis, at all hazards, to be
procred, it can only be by breaking the block
:. ade hat Isl acaging ,rar on the United iSta!es
= Sue, in fact, is the truly monstrous course
" recommended and threatened by journals and
|. speakel-some of them men of position men,
. bers OF 'arliament-in the interest of the manu-
facturin and commercial classes of Europe
No enlightened Government, no conscientious
. statesma will, am sure, countenance policy
SO uttcrl,a war, not merely with the law Of ma
: tions, buwith the dictates Of humanity. What,
: because va suffer some inconvenience in your
, Industrial pursuits, from the existence of the
: cruel war breed upon the North in this most
unrighteou.cause-an inconvenience which the
industrious North equally suffers-wiI you,
! purely and solely from selfish motives, add to
8 all the othe calamities Of the conflict those of
6 an unprovGed war with two of the leading
; powers Of Proper You, anti-slavery England,
, on account temporary check in the supply
, of cotton, aryou going to send your fleets of
, iron plated vsses to batter down the cities of
, the friendly md Industrious North, whom for
thirty years y,u have been haunting for her me-
ccssary tolerance Of slavery, under the Constitu-
ton OF the Unied States? Are not two wars
; enough, forced tpon America within the memory
of living men, md on grounds which your own
statesmen now ,dmit to be untenable
The war of the Revolution was waged to en-
force the right Of Parliament to tax colonies not
represented. Lord Chatham denied, at the time
that you had the right, and "rejoiced that Amer
lea had resisted and you have yourselves lat.
terly conceded responsible self-taxing govern
ments to most Of your colonial settlements. In
lSO7-12, after giving up our lawful commerce
helpless prey to your cruisers to the amount of
tens OF millions, you brought upon rs the woes
OF another war, by those Orders in Council,
which your most intelligent text-writers on pub.
lie law, and your late Lord Chief Justice and
Lord Chancellor have pronounced to be in viola
ton, not merely of the law of nations, but of
your own municipal law? Will, you, before all
the centemporaneous victims OF the oldest of
these conflicts have gone to the grave, wage
third war against US, merely to keep the shuttles
Of Manchester in motion next winter !?
And you, France who for the gravest reasons
Of state lent your all powerful aid to America in
establishing her independence who perceived,
generation in advance, the important part as.
signed by Providence to our Union, ''as an es
sential element of the universal political eaui.
ibrium;" who entered into alliance with us, and
mingled your blood with ours on the battlefelds
i Of the war; whose first act after emerging from