The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1861-03-30

"a THn1H RoRTRAExD. < ztn i
Il has been sugges4ed that the capitalists of
Lombard street, in London, should employ some
photographer In this city TO take the likenesses
Of the three persons who are 20 be sent ont ~
Southern Confederacy 70 Europe. They viii 30
out osteusibly for purpose of persuading Eng
land and France to acknowledge their new gov
eminent; they are sent in reality, 90 say the
KNOWN ones, to obtain the money on the nj
teen million Joan which the government has or
dered, and which nobody in the United States
will touch II anybody touches it in Europe he
will deserve credit for IN easy liberality aud .
noble disdan of the sordid maxiEs Of self-inter-
est to which the money market furnishes no pa
rallel The Lombard street bankers should
therefore, be able to know these men when they
arrive The police in this city have Rogue's
Gallery---a collection of the Photographic like
ncsses Of those who have made themselvssemi
nent in the art Of irregularly appropriating to
themselves what belongs to others. If the bank
ers of London should wish to possess themselves
Of some marks BY which they can recognize the
agents Of this new design upon their purses.
perhaps, for want of something more definite,
the indications which We are about to give will
not be wholly unservioeable. ans e
The trio Who 60 out to Europe on this Grand
are, Mr.. William L. Yancey, Mr.. A. Dudley
Mann, and Mr.. P. A. Rost,1 gentlemen belong.
ing to political sect who disown the ohliga-
tions Of submitting to the law of the land any
longer than suits their convenience or caprice.
They 60 out as the agents Of government which
has at its head Jefferson Davis, the great pelisi
clan Of Mississippi, that regulating State-the
State which disowns the obligation Of payingits
debts Mr.. Davis ia great speech-maker, and If
| the European bankers should think proper to
lend their money to this government, and the
debt should be repudiated, we can assure them,
| for their comfort, that he will give them plenty
! of reasons for not repiying them. They will get
| their moneys worth In argument. $50
| Again these men who 60 out as the rcpresen-
tatives of government founded by such men as
Floyd our late Secretary of War, who has been
under indictment at Washington for swindlng
our government, and who has just managed to
get off without trial; Cobb, who managed the
affairs of our Treasury till he left it bankrupt,
and who just before lis resignation, came into
Wall street to decry the credit of the govern
ment and speculate On the fall Of stocks; and
Thompson, our late Secretary Of the Interior,
under whose administration of that Office the In
dian trust bonds were stolen. These honest men
were all concerned in plot to overtl.rn the
government of the United States at the verv
moment that they were its trusted, confidential
agents-performi its highest functions, pro
viding for their Instruments by the bestowal of
its offices, and taking their salary from its trea.
sucy. Among the founders of this new govern
nent are also to be numbered Mr.. Wigfall, Of
Texas, a famous lawyer who cheats his clients ;
Mr.. Benjamin. of Louisiana, who takes jack
knives and watch chains; and Mr. Slidell of the
same State, who, with his colleague, Benjamin,
succeeded in getting through Congress bill
putting him in possession Of the Houmas claim,
! an enormous swindle, which Congress at its last
session, to mark its sense Of the infamy of these
two men, repealed. A government established
under such auspices cannot but enjoy the high-
est degree Of credit in the money market That
generous and liberal-minded class of creditors
who lend, never expecting to see either ptinc-
pal or interest again, have here an opportunity
of lending to their hearts content We expect
to hear of them saving to Mr. Yancey and his
colleagues, Mann and Roast: ''You ask for IF
teen millions. Gentlemen, you are quite too
modest; double the sum, and then double that
amount Take sixty millions" af
Again: these worthless go out to Europe as the
agents of new government which makes no
scrupe of taking what it can lay its hands on
government which has robbed the United
States Arsenals, sezel upon forts belonging to
the Federal government, stolen our revenue cut
tiers, broken into our mnts and robbed them of
their contents, entered our navy-yards and taken
lsrcenous possession Of ships and naval stores.
This certainly is beginning which cannot fail
to command the confidence of the world. The
bankers of Europe will, of course infer that
those who SO scrupplously respect the rights
of property will keep their pecuniary promises
that those who are so careful not to take what
does not belong to them will certainly render
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faith.
With this little sketch of their objects and
design, and the circumstances which give them
claim upon the generous credulity OF the Eu.
ropean money market, we commend these ennis
saries of the Slave Confederacy to the kind at
tention of the European bankers. 1t is true that
their principals cannot obtain dollar of the
proposed loan in this country But here our
moneyed men are governed by certain old-fash-
Toned prejudices They are apt to stand upon
security. 1t cannot be said that they are of the
mdgnanimous class which
.'Exults to trust and bushes to be paid"
On the contrary, they are little slow to trust
and somewhat churlishly insist upon the certain
ty of repayment. Ar. Foyd's note of hand for
hundred dollars, even with the endorsement of
Wigfa,l, could not be csshed in Wall street
Unreasonable. we grant, selfish in the extreme,
utterly deficient in large, liberal views, are these
capitalists of ours In Paris and London doubt
less, business is transacted on different maxims.
There the borrower has only to hold out his
hand and it is filed, whatever smutches and
stains it may be filed with. There the lenders
heart warns benevolently towards the man who
comes to him without credit and without char
acter, or even with character which proves him
utterly unworthy of credit, and throws himself
upon his sense of generosity. We wish Messts
Yancey Mann and Roast good voyage to that
hospitsble rcgion.-TN. 7. Evening Post.
THE PHILOSOPHY OF SEcEssIeN.-The Repub.
licans have all along asserted their steadfast ad
herence to the principles of the revolutionary
fathers and the trainers of the Constitution, and
insisted that the departure of the South from
these principles is the cause of the present Sec
tional conflict. Here and there a candid and
philosophical Southern man is found who con.
fesses this fact. The Southern Confederacy
newspaper OF Atlanta, Ga, one of the ablest
papers in Secessia, has an elaborate article on
this point, in which it says: sa....
| with the formation of the Confederate
States OF America new era in civilization has
commeuced-an era in which, if we hope to gain
the respect of the civilized world, we must aban-
don the old idea of our foretathers that all men
born free and equal and teach the doctrine
of the diversity of the aces and of the suprema-
cy of the Anglo-Saxon race over all Others
We must take the ground never dreamed of by
the men of '76, that African slavery is right in