The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1861-05-04

| be very happy to see a hundred thousand North
| ern men bitethe DUST and leave five hundred
thousand women and children to mourn the los
Of friends lovers and protectors but to let ZOOS,
upon Southern community slave population
with liberty TO take such revenge for their Ions
wrongs as they may deem best, is very inhuman
We do not recognize the difference, and we trust
our Government will not. Tie slave power il
determined to destroy our institutions, and will
be restrained by no considerations of humanity
Our only efficient defense is to destroy their in
stitutlons, and especially that institution which
/ is, and has always BEEN the bane Of the country.
i They have thrown of their allegiance, they
have voluntarily surrendered their Claim for the
protection Of slavery, and now let us wipe il
out, wherever our army goes. Let us arm ne.
/ groes from the Northern States and Canada, and
/ bid them march into the South as iberating
army, calling the slaves to their standard. Let
the scoundrels have secession to their hearts
| content. Their blood and their calamities be
upon their own heads
1t is the habit to say that we have to deal
with no despicable foe, and to magnify the
prowess Of the rebels But, in Gods name,
what are we? We are two to their one in num-
/, Der, we are two to their one in endurance, we
| are twenty to their one in financial resources,
| we have everything upon our side in the moral
| of the fight, we have the prestige of an estab-
lished Government, and the help Of navy, md
are we to be despised? The truth is that we
magnify our foe and depreciate ourselves. We
can whip them, and we shall; and the longer they
see fit to prolong the war, the shorter lived will
their internal system of slavery be. Ii the Ma
| tional Capital cannot be safe with Maryland and
| Virginia as Slave States, they will be made Free
| States. Nothing is to be allowed 10 hinder
the re-establishment of the federal authority, or
| tn inf wit no cnfe IF fho
| Capital. If nigger-brceding, as general in-
dustrial pursuit, is to make Virginia danger
GUS State then negroes will cease to be valuable.
| 1t sometimes seems to US that the time has
! come for the extinguishment Of African slavery
| in North America. Its deyotees have been led
along from point to point until they have reach
| ed absolute insanity. Leaving the doctrines Of
| the fathers, they have taken the position that
| slavery is Christian institution. that all who
denounc &c it are intdels, that labor is disgrace,
| and, at last, they have organized new govern
ment with slavery as its corner stone, and even
as the corner stone of human freedoml This is
| the work of politicians, and they have found the
| Christian church through all their borders ready
to come up and endorse their horrible doctrine.
Is it not time for system to be wiped out which
| can SO pervert the Judgment, and blind the NOR.
al sense of great people? Is it not time for a
system to be wiped out which ruthlessly tram
pies on all that is sacred in American history,
destroys all loyalty and patriotism, renders all
connected with it arrogant and brutal, and drives
men on to fratricidal warfare 1t seems as il
it were, and as if God had made these men mad
that they might procure their own destruction.
The truth is that foe SO treacherous as that
with which we have to deal cannot appreciate
gallant and polite treatment When we deal
with them cruelty, they will understand US, and
thav mt fnpn rs rN,k
will be construed into cowardice, as it has al
ways been. The fire, sword, grape shot, servile
war, destructive AID devastating invasion, must
teach them that we are in earnest, and that we
know what kind of foe we dealing with
We must overrun them. We must pour down
upon them our millions, and back those millions
by htadreds of millions of treasure. We must
burn their capitals aud starve them.
Is this cruel talk? Do you know what will be
done if this be not done? We shall be over
run. Our capitals will be burned. Fire, sword,
and devastating invasion will be sent among vs.
1t is not time to talk of cruelty. All war is
cruel. This war originated in the cruelty Of a
set OF dabolical politicians. The country might
just as well have been In prosperous peace to
day as otherwise. The war is not of our seeking;
and now let those who have sought it have
enough Of t.-ISprnsfeld Republican.
We have reliable advices from Montgomery up
to Wednesday evening JEFF. Davis was there
| at that time. He had not been sick, as reported
in the New York papers, but was expected to
leave on the following day for Norfolk, Virginia.
Troops were moving in that direction. Two
companies marched out of Montgomery on We'd
nesday, to take the cars for Virginia. Between
Montgomery and Nashville, our Informant OBJ
SERVED large numbers drilling but there were
few troops moving. 1t was understood that an
immediate attack on Washington had been de-
termined upon, and the capture of that place
was confidently expected. 1t was believed that
it was feebly defended The people were not
aware of the movements North. The leaders
were taking care to suppress information upon
this point. If it is true, as stated in teegra-
phic dispatch which We published this morning,
that Coy. Letcher Of Virginia has asserted that
no troops shall pass the line OF his State to
invade either Washington or Maryland, the an
nounsement is merely ruse, or the rebels have
concluded that the Capital cannot be taken.--
We stated, few days since, that last Saturday
night Gov. Pickens sent dispatch to JEFF. Da-
Wis that Letcher was calling tor help to attack
the Capital This was not a rumor, but a posi-
tive fact We had our information directly from
gentleman who, at the time, occupied posi-
ton which enabled han to read The dispatch re-
ferred TO,
Our informant, first alluded to in this article,
says Sunday, yesterday, had been decided upon
for an attack upon the Capital.
The facts communicated to US regarding the
movements of troops corresponds with the dis
patches from Cairo, printed in another place.
| Unless an attack shall be made upon Wash
| ington within few days, the delay may be re-
garded virtual defeat of the rebels, who
| had calculated with so mach confidence upon the
| capture of that city. No reliance whatever is
| to be placed in Letcher's proposition upon this
| point. He has proved himself "A traitor and a
| rObber, and is not to be trusted for moment
| The Government must not listen to him for an
instant, or to any one else arrayed either direct
| ly or indirectly against the country. If the Con-
| fedeiates do not attack Washington the United
States army must move forward promptly aud
| attack the rebels wherever they shall be found.
! The heads OF the leading traitors, and general
submission to the regularly constituted authori-
| ties OF the country are the only terms upon
which the people OF the North will agree to check
| the movement that has been set on foot for the
| suppression of rebellion. This is the ul,inatum
of those who have pledged "ther lives, their
! fortunes, and their sacred honor in defense OF
| the GoVeinment.-!Cin Gag.
Extremes Meet to Defend the Republic.
| The perfect fusion of all parties and sects into
one great patriotic mass of the North, may be
set down the greatest marvel of the age
| The Puritan and the Catholic, the Skeptic and
the Orthodox, the Republican and Democrat,
the Radical and the Fogy, have all united and
laid aside their prejudices and differences, and
joined in the work of crushing the treason against
| the Republic. One of the strangest instances
of "extremes meeting" was witnessed few days
| since in Boston, where two such representative
men as Wendell Phillips and Rev. Nehemiah
| Adams made speeches to the same audience in
Music Hall, and advocated the same platform,
viz: ''Thc Union, the Constitution, and the en-
forcement of the laws" They both exhorted the
people to save the Government and to punish
treason; to make any sacrifice of blood and
treasure to quell the wicked rebellion to fol
low blow with blow, until the head of the ser
pent was crushed and the last spark Of vitality
extinguished.
1t must be an urgent national necessity and 9
just and righteous cause which brings such mer
together. The bombardnent of Fort Sumter
was the wand of enchantment which fused into
one patriotic mass twenty millions of people
When the National Emblem was smitten down
and made to succumb to traitors, a cry of ven