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The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1861-01-26

We are unable to say whether it is or is not
true that the Mississippi authorities after the
passage of their ordinance of secession, did, as
stated by telegraph, order the State cannon to
be taken from Jackson to Vicksburg for the
bringing to of boats passing up and down the
Mississippi river. Most certainly, however the
Secessonists of that State must ere this have
seen from the comments called forth throughout
the West and Northwest, by the rumor of their
movement, that the slightest obstruction or an
noyance offered by real or pretended'sovereign-
ties to navigation upon the mighty thoroughfare
of Western and Northwestern commerce would
arouse spirit that would cut its way to and
through the mouth of the Mississippi or sacrifice
tens of thousands of lives in the attempt
Lou. Journal.
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VOICE PROM BORDER SrATH-The Louis.
vile journal publishes long communication
from distinguished citizen of Kentucky. ad
dressed to Governor Magotfin, in which the fol
lowing sound counsel Is gwen to the Border
States:
Let the border Slave States remain in the
Union and the history of our country will be very
different. The friends of law and order, the real
worth and craftsmanship, the constitutional par
ty OF the North. will be strengthened and sun
ported. The glorious rally that has already been
made under the Constitution, for the yindica.
ton OF Southern rights against abolition law.ess.
ness, Will be maintained and carried forward To n
decisive victory In behalf of constitutional pov
crimeht. Right reason, true religion and regu-
lated liberty VIII have a continued chance to he
heard, and to assert their supremacy over the
higher law OF selt-will, selfconceit and in6deI
RIGHTEOUSNESS. The Free State border will retain
Its present friendly and cordial relations with ia
ana Slavery Will remain Indisturbed Holding
thus our rish,ful and commanding position in the
tnon, we will be the iuteiiigcnt and privileged |
agents OF safety and protection to the North and
South.
And when our Southern sisters begin to re- |
pent OF the hot haste and of the hysteric fear
With which they fled from their stately home and
'enounced their rich inheritance, when they he.
On TO tire OF the husks upon which they must
eed as separate soyereignties or Is membera az
! mere Southern confederation, they will find tbs
~ . Ice of former union ready for their attach.
neut and the old GonsitG...SS" in full and vigor.
us operation, ready to put them again imam :,
areef OF greatness and prosperity which "a
ad insanely abandoned" ney
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Some Of the fre-easen take great pains to
prove that the doctrine ot the right of secession
originated With Hss eagiand "AboIItonist."
h that The sso,a ~ - % grsstly 10 love
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WHY no BARGAIN cAu Be NAm.-The seces.

Why no BAR0AM cAH BE MAnx.-The Seces-
sionists are divided into TIRES classes:
]. Those Who intend 10 goout of the Union,
and etay out. This includes all the Cotton States,
e. tpting, possibly. Arkansas and Texas. b
III. Those mo intend to 70 out, rot to nay
out, but for tue purpose Of extortfng from the
adhercnts and loyal States Of the North. conces
sions to Slavery as the condition Of their return
to the Union. They call themselves ''reconstruc-
ticnists, and their leaders are Hunter and Brock
nridge.
III. Those who intend to stay in the Union,
but who keep threatening in the most ierocl0us
manner to go out on short notice, unless the Free
States will get down upon their knees, beg par
don for voting for Lincoln, and tender to the
South the most abject pledges in favor of eter-
nal Slavery. This class rally around the Critten-
den resolutions for amending the Constitution in
an unconstitutional mode.
The Republicans are asked to placate the Se-
cessionists, and thus save the Union. Can it be
done ? Not by unworthy and humilating con.
cessions; and for these reasons:
l. Nothing can be done to restrain the first
mentioned class: for their secession was a FORE
gone purpose. So much for them.
III. The second class are equally bent upon 60
ing out of the Union, provided they able to
effect that object. For, they fancy that if once
quasi out Of the Union, they can extort from the
North better terms as the conditions of their re-
turn than they now GA the conditions of their
staying in. Present concessions are therefore
thrown away upon this class. They prefer to
negotiate outside the Union.
III. The third class are playing hypocritical
part, and hence are dangerous men to trade with.
Besides they have not sufficient strength in their
several States to control the secession sentiment,
therefore not worthy of serious consideration.
What, then, can Republicans do except to ad-
here firmly to their principles, stand by the Con-
sttution as it is, hold no parey with conspirators
and traitors, and bide their time?
", W, TIL
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ANXIETY IN CHARLESTON FOR THE CAPTURE OF
FoRr SUMTER, ETc.-The following is an extract
of a letter from reliable gentleman in Charles
ton to friend in Cincinnati:

Charleston, Jan. II, 1861
The steamer Star of the West attempted on
Wednesday night to come into our harbor to land
Government troops, but she was driven back by
our fortress at Morris Island, and so will any
other that may make a similar attempt We are
in every way prepared to keep out any force that
may attempt 10 come here for any such pur-
pose. There is but one feeling here-the senti.
ment is unanimous not to submit to the rule of
the President that has been elected. 1t will not
be done by South Carolina. This can be relied
upon. She will suffer utter humiliation first
She can never be made to submit. 1t is utterly
out of the question. Every man in the State is
a soldier and will fight TO death on this question
You have no idea of the feeling that exists here
Major anderson oCiH be dripe1t ont of Fart Sumter
If Il costs ten Mo,@and ipeS. This is a tired fact
and IN my opinion Il o0iH be done rel.y soon, Eucry
preparation is being made to do II.
He ls in very strong fortifcation, and one
that it is difficult to take, but it will be done by
the force of numbers. There are 10000 men
now anxious to make the attempt, but the au-
thorites want it done with the least possible loss
OF life, and ere so preparing themselves. II may
be done before This reaches goa. 1t will be done
forcibly, certainly, unless Major Anderson sur
renders, and that do not think he will do. He
has but about one hundred men, and they are in
state of revolt. They are unwilling to fight
in a war OF this kind Many of them have ia.
miles in Charleston and Sullivan's Island, and
it Is reported they refused, on the morning that
ve love back the Star of the West, to work the
,rnnS .,ders,." did not fire single gun on that
morning, which, it is SAID, ue 80. "A'e uone II
ka could have got his men to obey. He has now
more than half his force in irons Tor re:5sinr 70
obey him on that morning. Thiswe learn from
deserter from his fort -,
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THE UNITED STATES SUB TREASURY AT CHARLES
ToN.-We have not cared, heretofore, to trouble
ourselves about the false statements of the Tri-
bune and other New York papers, concerning
the United States SubTreasury at Charleston
But as the honor of our State is concerned and
it is due to her friends everywhere that they
should know the truth of the matter, we now
state that neither the Governor of South Caro-
lima, nor any other power or authority Of law
has ever seized or made use of any of the funds
Of the Sub Treasury in tbs city. We further
state that the amount in the Sub Treasury when
South Carolina seeded, was not the pitiful sum
of $4,000, as at first reported, nor the sum of
$2l 600, as the Tribune now reports it; but it
was Sl5O,O0O, which amount has been reduced in
the usual manner, by payments according to the
law of the United States. to about $4,000
This sum is still in the Sub-Treasury, to the
credit of the United States Treasurer and the
dishursing agents. South Carolina has not
touched cent of this money, and her forbear-
ance in that respect is the more remarkable, be-
cause large amount of it is due to her own
citizens for the outfit and provision of Fort Sum-
ter, for payment of when they vainly besiege
the office doors of the Sub Treasurer-that off
Ger having no power to pay them without an
order from the authorities at Washington
Mercury.
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ABANDoNED.--The Pike County lind Repcr
ter announces the final abandonment of the w.
bash and Erie Canal. 1t states that it was ne We,
in use over four months in year, on account Of
breaks ani other injuries, and the people have
lost conider &c in it so far that they won't con
tribute to keep itup
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QUARTERS OF TIE TRoofs,--The troops are
comfortably quartered in the vacant unfinished
houses, though one or two companies, fearing
suppose, that it will be some lime before they
get another military holiday, have preferred to
camp out in tents. 1t was quite as good as
play to see some of their attempts at washing
dirty shirts and cooking victusls. In the houses
the men were as merry crickets cracking their
jokes and wishing for fight Many of the poor
fellows were laid up with bad cold-indeed it
was frightfu to hear some of them cough The
fatigue and exposure of guard duty-half the
night embracing the cold barrel of a musket, is
work that they are all SO unused to that ! won
der how SO many of them have cndeavored to
stand it SO bravely. Think of a bleak night on
the sea shore-the wind whstling, the waves
roaring and the sand sitting you!-i Charleston
Cor Bait Exchange.
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TREASON IN THE q. S. SENATE IN 1907 AND
IN lS6i.-In 1907, John Smith, Senator of
the United States from Ohio, was examined by
the Senate as to whether he had not, by enter
tanning Aaron Burr under his roof, and after
wards meeting him for some purpose in Cincinna-
ii and Kentucky-no more than this being shown
against him-been guilty of conduct incompat-
ible with his duty and station" He was ably
defended, and it was claimed for him that at
most he was only guilty of an ndiscreton. 1t
was not shown that he ever knew OF Burr's de.
signs, or had in any way given them counte-
nance; and yet resolution reported by John
Quincy Adams that he ought to be expelled from
his seat, got l9 out Of 20 votes. The vote was
not twothirds, but Mr.. Smith resigned, and died
few years later in deep disgrace Any body can
draw the line of comparison with the conduct
and treatment of Senators in these times.
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AN ENGLISH CALL.-We ought to consider
also that when the bulk of the American nation
has condemned and a5iured Slavery, the public
opinion which the collective nation could not
Withstand must be crushing to any severed Dor.
ton of it; and, again, tnst there is both disa-
greement among the shareholders about the mol
icy of secession, and a refusal of the handles,
whites to be disposed of by their aristocrat;c
neighbors and oppressors; and, again, that the
respective States in the South are already zeal.
Gus of each others attempts at a port: and
again, that the Republican spirit which alone
cal, form federal association in America. EXISTS
only among that portion Of the population which
abhors savey, and will never go into opposition
to the North for its sake
In short, the proposal of secession is so Wild.
SO absurd, that it could not be put forth BY men
sensible enough to conduct public affairs unless
they were so dishon est as to be unworthy of the
trust. The threat is either an outbreak of mad |
passion, or device 90 obtain concessions from |
the fears and affections of the North. If n. |
citizens q the free States are firm, frank, and
steady, there wN be no secession. oygaD;ss5 o,,,.
Iei.qi or Nss '0R preseavte apg.i atoms for ~.
'd"'i'Si"s "a IT, l,iap. We, at a distance, can
Zee how steadiness and patience on the mar. of
ne victorious party might convert this "Revo,u
lon" into Reformation; and. though wa co.,
hardly expect SO pure a result of the nressn,
ermentation OF passions, We may refuse To des
'air OF it llondon News, Jan. 1.
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captain Parsons has organized Zouave Co..,
pany o, aeai mntcs at Jacksonville, M Thu
are said to be admirably drilled AL iney
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gentleman direct from Charleston tells the
Louisville Journal that all who can are escaping
from South Carolina, and that if she is left to
herself little while longer tie spirit OF reyolu-
ton will perish, ike rat in an exhausted rece-
YER Another sign of the prevailing anarchy is
a resolution before the Legislature to postpone
the regular sessions of the Courts in Charleston
district.
letter from that city says: "Those slaves
who enjoy the better sort of advantages, are more
intelligent than the lower class of masters. They
dress well in their religious assemblies-thc wo.
men often sporting silks, and the men handsome
canes and even valuable watches. They are as
familiar with currenF events as the whites are.
and really expect to be made free by the incom'
ing administration. 1t is not q secret to them
that the whites are fearful of instructions. con.
seaqent!y they have become impertipent and in.
subordinate so much SO that the Eogyinq.ho,ss
is always full, and does thriving business
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The yick sbsrg Sun saws the South 10 extreme
" ressouabie Ia her demands, and tesAaaaable
n her ao4ioA
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FLORIDA BANKRuPT.-The Hon. James A. Pc
den, formerly United States Charge at Buenos
Ayres, arrived on Thursday from Florida, of
which State he has been a citizen ever since it
became State. He declares emphaticaly that
immediate secession is not the sentiment of the
people, as was clearly confessed by the refusal
of the Legislature to submit the ordinance of Sc
cession to the people for their ratification. He
says the whole move is one of a set of trading
politicians, who are using the secession project
for their own selfish purposes. .....
Having control Of the Legislature, they used
it as an instrument for their own mischievous
ends He states further that the treasury is alb
solutely empty, and the revenues of the State
exceedingly limited. To raise the first thousand
dollars for secession purposes, direct tax must
be laid. This would speedily effect reaction,
and bring the masses to the work of overthrow
ing the disunionists; but to avoid such result
the leaders design to levy the tax on negroes and
other property, so that its weight will not fall
upon the poor masses who are relied upon to sus-
tain the secession movement. This, of course,
will make the burdens upon the property holders
ruinous and tend to the speedy destruction OF
every material interest of the State.
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this city the 91st inst Of cramps infant sen Of
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sB- What change has come over the spirit Of
the dream Of the Democrats, in regard to the
instruction question short time since, they
were rampant in their profession Of Union sent-
ments Their press was loud in defence of the
Government, and in expressing a determination
TO preserve it. at all hazards. A large portion
Of the party favored immediate coercion. But
of late, although they deny any right of seces-
sion, they oppose the idea of preserving our
national institutions from the destructive in
fuences of what they admit to be absolute
treason. Many of them In fact threaten to take
up arms to oppose any attempt to defend the
Union.
So sudden and absurd change would be diff
cult of explanation were it not for the fact that
Mr.. Douglas, in his late efor. to dodge the ISSUE
il the Senate, unsittingly placed himself in the
same ridiculous position. The whole lock has
iumped into the hole which the bell weather fell
into Douglas does the thinking for the party;
and whatever idea he promulgates is eagerly
swallowed.
This fact illustrates the good fortune of the
United States in beiag rsdeemel from Demo
cratic sway party which has no principle
save the varying ipss dix Of isader--no opin-
sou sa,e his speeches. incapable of eserei'
sing the functions of . Government. II is to be
hoped that tina. party, If It lives, will not again
claim the endorsements OF the American people,
until it recover. fron ~ tsbit of opposing lis
~wu platform, and denying the tra.b Of its own
0ogmas.
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PARsoN BRowNLow.-The following plucky ar
| ticle we clip from the Knoxville Tenn Wbip
winch Is edited by the renowned Parson Brown.
low:
lou CANT lNTMIDATE Us.-Subscribers in
south Carolina, Alabama and Georgia are con.
stantiy sending in their insulting epistles to us
ana ask discontinuance of their papers bec,use
we are opposed to secession. We receive az ma.
ny new patrons as We lose old ones, but if NO
were 10 receive none, and every man ON our list
We're Withdrawn, we would have no mart orr Iot
IN the wlokedness and treason of secession TIL.
EFFORT to break up this government, led an nv
south carolina Is bold, wicked, daring and
dAnnahie act for which its guilty leaders onob,
TO be ANONYMOUSLY executed This wbols
e.ue'''e VI uisuh'on Is more conSummate Aboli.
So" eon'ritahce Than ever was devised at the
No m ny the most ultra anti-slavery men. and
wa, Work tue greater mischief to the slave non.
u'a'i0h Oh the country. IL ,e0 bring aHo,.t i,
oeertAFo'g Of sasay oas A,lnc,ei Years soo,.,.
Hs - Re'laf'coh party could hare done 4
The cotton States may 90 out of the rr,;o,
the border States may go out with them aI,n'
ge'ner may for Southern Con.ederacv w.
sna' adhere to our Union, Constitution and Laws
ana uehounce secession and the miserable Son,b' |
cru oohieueracy that may spring from il and |
sloss VINO brought II about, though it NAV cost |
US our life upon'the scatfold Nay, we shall dare
say IN the teeth CT South Carolina, tina, the FED.
'fai government ought to enforce the law, col.
700. .ss .~rn""e and lash the rebellious states
back into line at the point OF the sword ana n,
mouth of tho cannon
We have no desire to live under any govern.
nent controlled by the corrupt, wicked. and hell.
deserving villains who lead TIL, rev olution In the
|outh. "
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1t is not believed that the conference of Sou
thern States called, by resolutions of the Vir
ginia Legislature, to meet in this city on the
4th of February, will be of any considerable I'M
portance. Maryland having no Legislature in
session, cannot be officially represented, and it g
not likely that the Cotton States will take any
part in it.
The heavy vote cast for secession in the coun
ties in Louisiana, bordering on Texas, gave that
State against the co-operationists.
The Post Office Department intends to exact
the same rigid obedience to the laws in all the
States that have or may hereafter secede, in re-
gard to the mails, as in the case of South Caro-
lima, on the pain Of the withdrawal Of the pos
tai system. This, it is believed, will secure the
faithful execution of the laws.
1t having been announced in the New York
papers that Senator Hemphil of Texas would
make conservative speech, that gentleman has
taken occasion to contradict the report. He is
now for secession, though he was formerly Il CO.
operationist.
company of sixty sappers and miners ar
rived here today to- the general defence Of the
city. An unusual guard is now exercised over
the Arsenal, Navy Yard and Armory.
The extremists yesterday asserted positively
that Fort Sumter would be Immediately attack
ed owing to the failure OF the administration to
compromise matters, but the report tonight, is,
that Col. Hayne, Commissioner from South Ca
rolina, sent communication to the President,
asking that affairs at Charleston be allowed to
remain in statu quo, to which the latter consent
ed This puts matters on peaceab!e footing
for the present
Gov. Hicks Of Maryland refused to receive the
Pennsy lvania Commissioners in an official capa-
city In the course OF an informal convention,
he told them in case a separation takes place,
Maryland will go with the South
1t is understood that Major Anderson will not
interfere with the inSress egress of vessels at
Charleston.
A letter from Marshal Kane, of Baltimore, to
Mayor Barrett, denies any organization there to
prevent the Inauguration of Lincoln. He says
it is unnecessary and unwise for any military es.
cort to accompany Lincoln.
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question:, whether the government lLSelf shall
continue to exist; whether the Constitution by
which it is created possesses the inherent powe
to resist its own destruction.
eff, sir, II State possesses the right of seces-
sion. if the strength of the Government is
founded only on tle voluntary concert OF its va
rious parts, if any part Of the nation can with
draw from the common Confederacy a. pleasure.
without reference to the rreparable injustice
that may result to the other parts of the Con-
tederacy; then, sir, is ours the weakest Gov
ernrnenL oi tie face of the earth the prosperi-
ty lot its people at the mercy OF every storm of
human passion: its apparent greatness a n,iser-
able delusion, as baseIess as the fabric of a
dream .'' '...i
".t is urged, Sir, that ii State does actually
ssesas from, '"s Union, the question whether
.i'"i 80 act OF rev
the right exists, or whether 1t Dc a..
oiution, or an exercise of power without right,
Is wholly immaterial that the consequences are
the same. The proposition is not true. If the
right EXISTS, the remaining States, must acau-
esce, whatever may be the consequence to their
material interests. If it does not, they NAV de.
termine, without aggression what policy may be
necessary to vindicute their ou7t 7ights against
the consequences Of the act of the seeding
State But beyond this, sir, there are tribunals
to which States and nations are responsible
The question whether the overthrow of this Gov
ernment, by an act Of secession, be in conform.
ty with the compact by which it was founded, or
an act of unwarrantab.e violence, in derogation
of public faith, may determine the judgment
whlch the cirilized nations of the earth, and the
friends of freedom HromyhoaMe uoriR, may pro
no,H,ce upon tie act Of its destruction. But above
all, sir, it will determine the judgment of that
tribunal from which no State nor generation of
men can escape-the impartial judgment of pos
terity. If this Republic is to perish, and fur
nish another argument for kings and consolidated
power il the proud expectations of the Illus
trous men who formed it are to be disappointed
if the Government which is at once the hope and
the pride and the glory Of down trodden mil
lions is to become another mockery of human
aspirations; If the ark of the covenant of our
fathers, with the visible evidence of tile appro-
baton of Almighty God still resting upon 1t, is
to be dashed to pieces let that final tribunal de.
termIne the character of the act and denouncc
the sentence of its vindictive wrath upon the
memory OF the guilty. In the midst, sir, o. the
horrors of national ruin, if they shall come upon
us, the question whether they have resulted from
an exercise of rightful power OF from violated
faith will not fail to enter into the Judgment
which even the present generation will pro-
nounce."