The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1861-05-11
The Enthusiasm OF the Women.


increasing enthusiasm of the intelligent Chris
tian women of the North for the triumph Of
Liberty, Righteousness and Truth, in that mo-
nentous national controversy now coming at last
to conclusion and settlement through the dread
and final arbtrament of battle. What multi
tudes of women have met within these last ten
days, in private houses, vestres, churches with
spontaneous alacrity Fastening together to pre-
pare beforehand for the wants of the wounded,
or for the comfort and relief OF the sick, in the
campaign that is imminent! How many, with
far more signal exhibition of their love for the
right have sent their own husbands, brothers,
sons into the field, or have hidden their brother
hood go forth undaunted, in the cause of God
and their native land /! How many pastors,
preaching on the great and urgent theme, and
pouring their full souls into their message, have
been encouraged, reinforced, lifted TO higher
levels Of feeling, penetrated with more feryent
and powerful conviction, by the responses they
have met from the voices or the faces of those
whose delicacy has been heretofore more con-
spicuous than their daring, and into whose
dwelling no sound of strife was ever admitted.
1t is one of the most remarkable phenomena in
that whole series Of astonishing wonders which
we have of late been permitted to see.
Yet there is reason for this; and the fact has
a vast and deep significance. Women have rea-
son to love the land which is ther ample, boun-
tcous home. They have reason to value the
social system which cherishes and guards them
with its chieiest care. They have reason to
prize the great institutions of civil and religious
freedom, which furnish them with the richest
means of culture aud advancement, which open
to them the most various paths to happiness
and usefulness. No civilization that has ever
existed on the face Of the earth has had larger,
so large claim, on the love and loyalty of
hat, b;oh har
enjoyed; that which now is threatened and as
sailed by the headstrong violence and the vim
dictive passion of the Southern slave-masters.
1t is well, therefore, that women should rally to
contribute their part to maintain il well and
fit that they SHOULD give all that God enables
them to give in defense of past SO glorious as
ours, in defense of present so sh altering and
benign They would be unmindful OF the
sources Of their own highest prosperity, or un-
grateful for the blessings that hitherto have dis
TILED each day and hour upon them and their
children, except they did this
But there is yet another relation of this wide
sweeping spontaneous enthusiasm, inspiring to
contemplate 1t indicates and yndicates the
holiness of the cause in which our whole vast
Northern force is now TO be engaged. The moral
instincts of such multitude of Christian women
could not possibly haye been enlisted or conci
lated by any enterprise Of ambition or aggres-
sion, by any expedition prompted by desire of
territorial expansion or of martial renown.--
Rather from such scheme or purpose, however
plausibly advanced and advocated, such is the
Christian culture of the sex in our land and in
our time, they would have been in tantaneously
repealed. AS one immense, unconquerable host
they would have set themselves in the way of
its progress, and with intaliible certainly have
arrested it. 1t is because they, whose moral in-
stincts are finer and more sensitive than mans,
whose moral judgments are more immediate and
more authoritative, whose souls stand nearer to
God and to His Son, nearer the cross, nearer the
crown-it is because they know and feel that
this now coming and imminent war, however
protracted, fierce, and terrific it may be, is still
to be war Tor freedom, for truth, for the Cos
pei, for the coming Christian civilization of the
land, for the coming hope and glory of mankind,
therefore it is that they rise to the hight of the
sacrifice it demands; that they give to it the
verdict OF enthusiastic acceptance; that they
dedicate themselves already not only to the miti-
eating of the suierlngs it must cause, but to the
furnishing of the ranks with their recruits, OF the
soldiers with their equipments, OF the whole
army with their own temper of intrepid, self.
denying, and heroic faith
God bless for ever the worthy daughters of
the glorious and ever honored Revolutionary
mothers I'm. Y. Independent.
Surely HENRY CLAY was a model statesman
and patriot. Hear what he has said
II have said, what I solemnly believe, that
the dissolution of the Union and war are ident-
cal and inseparable they are convertible terms.
| am directly opposed to any pur.
pose of secession, of separation.
am for staying within the Union and fighting
tormy rights il necessary with the sword. ~
Here am within it, and here mean to
stand and die."-[Speech in the Senate, Feb 6,
1850.
"Mr. President, I have heard with pain and
regret confirmation of the remark made, that
the sentiment of disunion is becoming familiar
hope it is confined TO South Carolina. Edo
not regard as NJ duty what the honorable SEN
ator seems to regard as his. If kentucky to-
Dorro@ antivls tie banner of resistance aa;;astly
1 neuer ,eN fglt under thai banner. lore a pdr.
amount allegiance 10 tie ,ciole Uaioa-a saboyal !
nate one TO my om State. When my State is
fight-when il has cause for resisiance--w
tyranny, and wrong, and oppression insufferable
arise-l will then share her fortunes; but if she
summons me to the battlefield, or to support |
her in any cause which is unjust against the |
Union, never, never, will engage with her in |
such cause. "-lSpeech in the Senate, July %,
1880
MASTERS SHOOTING THEIR SLAvEs-A gentle. |
man from Petersburg Va, informs us that such |
is the terror of the shareholders of that neigh
borhood from apprehended save instructions, |
that in some instances they have deliberately |
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