The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1861-10-26

british OPINlOS VI ThE W Ak-lhk N ASS IN
SYMPATHY WITH OUR GovERNMENT.-We are
permitted, says the st. Louis Democrat, to make
the following extracts from letter, just receiv-
ed by one of our leading Main street houses:
"a - STREET, DUBLIN, lRELANDl
September 80, 1861.
Dear Sir: I am glad to know that yourself
and firm have escaped, so far, the horrors of
this terrible war, and sincerely hope that our
good old city will be preserved inviolate from
the tread Of traitors foot. Let me say to you,
tina, the mass II feeling here in Britain is on Me
side of The Government, ard am persuaded, if
enlistment were permitted in Ireland, 500, 900
men would enroll in two months, in the army Of
the United States The final result of this
atrocious rebellion is certain, as the existence
OF a experimenting Divine power, whose attr
butes are justice and truth.
History holds no parallel for so wanton, wick
ed and causeess war asthe present-in Il ma.
ton where liberty of the broadest kad, ana
the people really the rulers Keep up firm faith
and an unfailing hope, for the pra,e and wishes
Of the civilized world are with you and the NAL
edictions OF mankind are against that frsticidal
section Of men who rushed headlong into war,
regardless alike Of reason, right or liberty
who trampled on the sacred principles of that
Constitution which was framed by the purest
patriotism and philanthropy, ard, those rights
which were purchased BY the blood Of good and
great men. Such is a crime that 6alls to lea.
veB-such treason that invokes the inevitable
Nemesis through all time, to avenge and pun
ish it-such a shame that ages OF repentance
will not wipe out. But the result, say, is sure.
This baptism of blood will be followed by a re-
surreetion of freedom into-I trust and pray
an immortal life among tie purified people of
America.
Yours, most truly, &c.
---O----
WHr THE REBELS MAKE WAR-They make
war upon free and benifcent Government,
against which no man has ever rightfully utter
eda complaint, not to further any great princi
pies of humanity. but to crafty their selfish am
bitions They break away from a Republic
whose corners stone is freedom, to erect another
Republic whose corner stone shall he slavery
They endesvor to overthrow u society which
has conferred unlimited privileges and blessings
on the human race, and which is leaping for.
ward more rapidly in the career of civilization
than any other on the globe, 20 form another SO.
ciety in which the generic forces of civilization
are fatally fetter.d and paralyzed They are
not content with political experiment which
has converted the wilderness of an immense
continent into teemng helds covered it with
prosperous villages filled its homes with plen-
~, sent the rich products of its industry TO the
ends Of the earth, opened its hospitable man.
sions to the poor. the distressed and the wrong.
60 OF all CHIMES, anu won glorious name among
the nations.
But the black and hateful spirit of the pr
meval Satan, when he eyed with jealous leer
msg,I" the luxu, liant beauty of the early Para
disc, has embittered their hearts and piquet
their envy. They have longed for other field
and other polity. They have longed for stat.
in which the many, deprived of the chance o
future advancement. should be hewers of woot
and drawers of water, and themselves the SD
preIne and only lords. Visions Of an equatorial
empire danced before their minds-of an empir.
surrounding the Gulf of Mexico, as the ancien
Roman empire surrounded the Mediterranean
whose wings should be of cotton, the sugar, the
rice aud the spices of the rich tropical regions
and whose base, the eternal servitude Of tn.
African races. For that splendid dream the,
let slip the dogs Of war, arrested the prosperit,
of thirty millions of people, turned robbery, ar
son and rape into the bosom of their own com
y, muuities, and hazafded the peace OF the Who'll
-ivilszed globe.-IN. Y. Post.