The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1861-11-02

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Psncence, purchssed 6 The price Of that which
Independence Va intended 70 secure, viii pro
mise poor career to Southern ambition. On III
osncr hand, Il the old Union through this strus
&c restored, We shall have no powerful inter,
ees % Keep down, mo turbulent people 70 make
armies % nscessaty; but through natural causes,
ne real power will b weakened, and, In con.
sequence, IL sbyuptoms and manifestation" IN
due time win disappear.
Both parties are equally sincere and equally
sealoua TO . certain point they work togeth.
o.. The question II simply this-Though the
Diockade would de this wo,k, and though mar.
nai law would also do it, would not the block.
aoe 90 u more eaectually without martial Law
than With itl While one party bsees ~ poiiov
9. violence AMI the victory Of blows-on forci.
pie and immediate emancipation letting
loose upon false society, q was once done in
france, al the suppressed wrongs and barbsr.
lsm OF wicked system-on the sudden and Vi.
o'ent upturning Of whole detestable civilixa-
t'on the other, leaving the Slave to take his
iase IN the war, like Ill citizens Of the South,
ana refusing to interfere with domestic institu.
lions. State laws. or the rights of property, ex.
cept IN % far % they may be implicated In the
direct movement Of the war, would patiently
strive 70 destroy the systm BY sapping its foun.
nasaons-by bringing slave labor In active com.
petition With tree labor; and It would save
brother community BY forcing is In selfpreser.
son to abandon false system that It may com.
pete successfully With true One would de-
stroy slavery By carrying, II II must be 20, SER
viie war to every ireside Of the South; the 9th.
81, Ignoring such dangerous expedients, would
destroy II By carrying civilization and prosperi-
y to the hearts Of India and Africa. Amid the
angry crash Of aims, he would be bold man
who should prophecy that the negative measures
OF philanthropy would alone be patiently relied
on; but. in war or in peace, the immutsble pre-
cepts Of Christianity are the same and al sure
~ the heavens are above the earth, or the victo.
ries OF peace are above the victosies of war, 90
surely would the peaceful operation Of stern
blockade be, for bond and for free, more bene6-
ciai than the fierce upturnings Of the martial
law.
It may b WE'LL too, to reserve martial law as
. last resource If indeed cotton famine il to
rage In England, and that country, either alone
or associated with France, decides to purchase
cotton at the price of war, then indeed we shall
have no election. Then the great law of self.
preservation will dictate an immediate decree of
universal emancipation, and the frat duty of
foreign arms upon these shores must be to force
back the slave under the yoke of the MASTER
Then our blockade would be broken, and the
most violent expedient would be that most uni
VERBALLY demanded but while, as at present,w
do, or should, hold the South in the hollow Of
our hands, the blockade will accomplish all that
he occasion demands, and yet leave us martial
aw 40 stern resort against foreign interior
,nce.