The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1861-07-06
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Der hanging swift Potomac's bro,dsr.s
Bsarcheaded stood the heir Of Enelsnd,s c.,Ve,
By the poor stone that shuts an m ken. sn,
Giving meet reverence to the dead that s .s
Beneath the stripes and stars carved ~
stone; 'oas
Which nothing of inscription do,i, disn,..
To mar the majesty that broods upon
The ten plain letters spelling W snrya,ox
EnglanPs crown-prince at this arch.rebsp....,
First Magistrate, twice chosen Of the STAT"
Ihat rose impatient TOR more elbow.room
And flung the English crown out of tbs;r r.
The contrast Of those times and these a. s 4
In this respect Of Prince for Presiden. 'n0vs
That cen the trite prize poem maker ~.
Into some lines of grave and deep inten,
Describing that Young head in solemn revs,.
Passed theres stir from wasting bone to-
Ran there thrill through the great eb cone
dust,
That the old kings great grandson bv hi, 49,,
Should bow the head, owning him gres, ne
justs Aoa
lowered his placid spirit near, and ble,t
That latest victory Of truth DER time
When discords, slow but sure resolved 49,.
The high and holy harmonies which cb;ms
Their broader music through the sphere :,
lime? suo'
Or was there foresight Of the woe To he
Before the lapse Of twelve months and A.
Was that great spirit present to see Ay't
Inc stripes and stars torn from that a,o
To know the work that he had lived to a.
And saw and said was good, before be A.,
Undone--hs glorious Union cleft in two
And cleaving more and more on every IA.
I'LL none can say how far the fragments M.
divide. MAY
Saw he the day that we see with amaze
When those to whom his life from you,b /,
His own VirginiaDs, his dust should raisa
Out Of the shelter of that sacred grave,
Regardless of the curse that lies on ,boss,
Whose hands disturb even the common as,,,
Brothers, from brothers bearing, as frop, ~
| His bones that oft their sires to the bstlaI.5
Who now draw impious swords, near ~
honored bed 2
/ beware OF entrance into quas1s,; gu.
1t that the opposer may beware Of tree IS va
| The immortal bard himself could ma, -
asked US to follow more closely than ~ ~.
the advice of his first clause. The Quarrel !.
tween the people of the loyal and the rebsmo..
States was stunned by the former only too IoS.
10 ask them now to lay down their arms i, i.
say 'ney were Tools ever to have taken them an
ANY time these forty years, the people who i.
he'e III freedom OF opinion and freedom AZ
speech, amehaoie emily to law, have owed ths
power now in arms against the Union ao,,S
thrashng Such thrashing years AGO ,nrT
have done both parties much good.
There is a pet species of property, so e,u.S
at the South, which engenders in its owners,
wonderful conceit-a wonderfully growing cou.
ceit. They demanded when this Un;oo w.,
framed, good deal more than was asked in "a.
vor of any other species of prone,tv and
though they didn't get quite all thew demands
they did meet with success which made thsi,
own best statesmen blush, and say they did not
mean to perpetuate advantages SO directly n
war with the principles of democracy. My
these Southern owners Of a sort Of porerr
which all the Northern States renquisbsdosr
ago. as incompatible with republicanism, sWa
Danish or lynch their own fathers, should h,,
rise from their graves, and promulgate the opin.
ions they carried into them. There nav be df
ferences OF opinion among the people Of the loyL
States about this property, snd about What
should be done with it, or not done with ii: bu,
there is no difference of opinion about the fol.
lowing propositions:
l. II there had been no such property there
would have been no rebellion, and no atteuv,
ever to sunder the Union.
g If there had been the same freedom q
speech and of the press throughout the South
as throughout the North, even tCitt that propes
ty, there could have been no formidable rebe.
lion.
8. The great majority Of the people in lie
Southern States are not benefited but injurei
by the existence of the peculiar property which
suppresses freedom of speech and generates re-
bellion.
4. Freedom of speech and of the press, on 81
subjects, throughout the entire nation, beDgss
: sential to the national life, al the only sts
guard against such rebellious conspirscies
now suffer from, must be fully vindIcated wat
ever property or life it may cost.
Whether it will do the slaves, or their u%
tiers, or the world any good to convert slave
property into meu-that is, to make the Legal
correspond with the physical-there will be Va
rious opinions. But on the question whether.
will do the Shareholders or their chevaliers good
to take the conceit out of them, there can be
no two opinions. A war to subjugate the South!
For half century, by lynchiDg out the free
opinion Of the world, the South has been subju
gated by mountain pile of negative and posi-.
tive lies, and battle which will PROSTATE the
, miserable army that has been mustered to de.
fend that pile of lies will be the blessedest thing
that ever happened to the whole Southern popu-
lation. The humiliation of all army is by no
means the destruction OF people. conquest
is often deliverance then seeSugatiop. Inc
conquest of the North by the South, II ina!
could take place, would indeed be a suojusa'oa
! AN unmitigated calamity. But the reVersH
thorough and complete could be nothing BAT
unm.tigated blessing. The cost would na @
serve 10 be named. IF Slavery is in reality
good tree, worthy of liberation or cultisatar,
and tine South can be conquered without cutting
it down, then, under perfect freedom Of speech
and of the press, it viii bear more and better
fruit than it has ever done with light and are
cluded. But if it cannot weather the same At
mosphere of free information which peryats
the rest of the Union, if it cannot stand the
presence of men who vote for whom they please
then it must die, for the armies of the Union
will not sheath the sword while there lives sl
gle rebel against the supremacy of the free BAL
lot-box. That box must and shall be saerea
throughout United America, whatever and who
ever has to die for it IN Y Tribune.
The SEALS OF VIRGINIA The agent sent here
by the Wheeling Virginia Convention to procure
seals for the State under the new organization.
has completed his mission, and will return todg
to Wheeling, TO deliver the same in person 70
Gov. Pierpont. The work has been beautllllg
executed aud in addition to the notices on TIE
seals now in the hands of John Letcher, hk
Governor of Virginia, there have been added'hs
words, Liberty and Union."-tN. Y. Trierne'
After to-day, July LIST, no more letters viii 80
TO the pacific coast by steamers. All DMEF
| ter for California, Oregon and Washipsieh ~