The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1861-03-23
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MT. Breckinridc has made speech in lths
ssnsss, in which We trust he has faithfully rep
resented NJ. Lincoln's position, he / argue,
against the policy Of enforcing the laws. by any
force, ~ preventing the restoration Of peace
bu. g construss tho Inaugural 70 promise an I'm
compromising endorsement, and does not CON
slider the svacuationof Sumter, for military res'
ssRs, any. abandonment Of such . policy. Mr..
Breckinridge would have this policy abandoned,
and permit misrule and confusion as . measure
OF conciliation.n The collection of the revenue
by force, parsicolatly odious 70 him. he makes
no effort to repeal the laws requiring payment
Of duties; he says nothing Of the esworn duty ol
tn, J, Presidents 70 enforce the laws everywhere
but proposes that We let ourselves remain
laughing stock to the world, for cancellation. q,
Luckily, however, If. Lincoln and his Cabi.
net, have no doubt Of their, duty TO collect the
'revenue-the only is as TO- the means The
troubles with foreign commerce, and our own,
from any other course, are plain to them A
vessel was recently seized a. New York, for 70.
ing from Mobile to Havana without . register
from this government when in fact she deman.
ded one, and was informed BY the Collector, that
being without the United States, Nsbile had no
officer to give one. The President ofs Southern
railroad, in our yesterdays dispatches, has an
nounced that goods are admitted into Southern
ports, and from thence transferred to Tennessee
and other States free of duty. This, once per
manently tolerated, will divert importations
from New York aud Baltimore, and make them
feel the disadvantages of loyalty. Such instan.
ces will multiply with time, and make the gov.
eminent ridiculous Some adjustment, either
to, repeal the revenue laws or to enact the Force
Bill Of Gen. jackson, or to declare ports in the
seeding States no longer ports Of entry, is ab
solutely necessary.
Mr.. Breckinridge's plan of Cancellation has
been tried long enough to prove its Weakness
It is an entirely one-sided arrangement. Jeffer.
son Davis talks of "Southern power and steel, "
and threatens to march an army upon the North.
and his people steal forts and arsenals, demand
ing and seizing daily some new enormity, and
all the while such men as Mr.. Breckinridge, ex.
tend a cordial sympathy, and prate of concilia-
tion, and deprecate the enforcement of the laws,
as coercion. We are asked to be conciliatory,
while the rebels Of the confederate States ask
no such Cancellation and extend none. They can
declaim against the Union and the North, but
the moment a word is spoken of the position of
South, such men as Mr. Breckinridge tells us
that it will cause irritation. They steal fort
or an arsenal, or federal money, and laugh at
we attempt to retake any stolen property or to
maintain any law, it will prevent peaceful so.
luton of our difficulties, and be coercion, which
the Border States will not permit And so the
or arsenal is stolen, when the same cry is raised
again, and with the same results. Cancellation,
according to Mr.. Brecklnridge, is to allow tho
South to rebel, to steal property, to do whatever
she likes, without any attempt at resistance
We trust Mr.. Lincoln expects to maintain the
Union in different way.
B During the exciting debate in the United
States Senate, recently, Senator Andrew john
son of Tennessee, declared, in answer to Jo.
Lane of Oregon: ''The Constitution defines
treason to be an act of leying war against the
government of the United States, or aiding those
who do Show me those who make war upon
the Government and fire on the vessels, and
will show you traitors! II l were President
would have all such arrested, and if tried and
convicted, by the Eternal God I would have
them hungw
SrucK.-Senator Green, of Missouri, is not
likely to be reelected. He has, after great
many ballotings, got up to 50 votes-79 being
His dsunion and reasonable proclivities do not
seem to have endeared him even to Missourians.
The Republican caucus Of the Ohio Legis
lature is unable to agree upon candidate for
Senator. Sherman, Denison and Schenck are
the most prominent candidates.
The Louisville papers expose plot which
seems to have for its object the precipitation Of
Kentucky into the arms Of the Secessionists.-
Messrs r. Mckee, W. Preston Johnston, G. Q.
Armstrong, Blanton Ducan, R. 7. Durrett and
w. c. Brooks have been disseminating a circu-
lar calling upon the people to organize State
Right Clubs, the members of which are to sign
this formula. .,,-,..
I'VE, the undersigned, believing that the dis
solution Of the Union is fact, and that Kentucky
must take her choice between the North and
South, agree to form an Association for the pur
pose of maintaining Southern rights and placing
Kentucky in her proper position with the South
The above named also called on the people tc
| appoint delegates to a Convention, which shall
assemble at Frankfort, on March 20.
The tariff trouble of the Rebel States bids fail
| to undermine their sham Union. The CORES
pondent of the Baltimore American says:
'sThe tariff land here is bone of contention
for the future of the Confederacy as we'll as tht
presently excites no little of public attention.
Georgia must have tarif-so must louisiana
and SO must Alabama. All three are manufact
uring States and must have protection. Soutl
Carolina, Texas, Mississippi, and Florida will no
agree to it, The fight will be conducted on the
same broad principles as in the olden time. L
will rack the new Confederacy as it did the old
ana there will come another Secession.
/ The ordinance for the permanent seizure OF tn
Government money at New Orleans, adopted b
the body of thieves calling themselves the LOU
siana State Convention, reads as follows:
An ORDNANCE to transfer certain funds to th
| Government of the Confederate States q
| America.
SECTION ]. II Is hereby ordained, That tn
4 sum of three hundred and eighty nine thousan
! two hundred and sixty-seven dollars and forty
six cents, now in the hands of A. ]. Gniro'
State Deposisary, and known as the Bullion Fund
be transferred to the Government of the Cor
I federate States of America, and that said Stat
| Depositary be and he is hereby authorized an
instructed to pay said sum upon the order OF tn
Secretary Of the Treasury Of said Confederat
| States.
SEC. 2. N;s further ordained, That the sur
! of one hundred and forty seven thousand fiv
hundred and nineteen dollars and sixty-six cent,
being the balance received by said State Depos
tary from the Custom House, the Slst of Janus
| ry last, be transferred to said Government, an
paid by said Depositary upon the order OF sal
Secretary. sl..