The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1861-03-02
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Louis Democrats Springfield correspondence,
dated the l4th:A 80 asl bsali
! aThsrs was meeting Of the citissns Of this
statement Of the condition Of the suffering poor
in the Republic Of Mississippi, By Major Hawk
ina, who resides among them. A highly respect
able Committee was appointed to solicit sab.
scriptionsn lstls q 8 sos4
Resolutions were adopted, expressing kindly
feeling for tour brothers Of the South, and
taking active measures to extend the required
aid by contributing corn and Other PROVISIONS
The last rsselution has tie following signincans
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Resolved. That il, is no more than right that
the corn thus contributed should be let into that
foreisn country free Of duty aii'
Upon getting into the omnibus Ut b. Louis on
the 18th inst, to leave that city By railroad, !
found this same gentleman, MAJOR Hawkins, then
an lid vay to springfield. Hsdstated that ~
tho hotel he nut up 1t in ST. Louis there were
number of secessionists, who insisted on his
keeping silent while in st. Louis on the subject
Of lii mission, q the Democrat and News might
get hold of it; and they actually followed him
about when be went out, and would not allow
him to remain alone while there. ass
He stated that they elected cooperationist
in his county, who turned secessonist after going
into the Convention, and that the people were
verv indignant: that they we're expecting trou.
BILE among themselves that two counties were
ready for REBELLION, and that in eight counties
there was determination to ask the Governor
to submit the Ordinance Of Secession to the
people; if so submitted they would vote it down;
il not submitted to them they would not submit
to it Maj. Hawkins said that one man had been
taken up and whipped for expressing Union senti-
ments, and that the Union men were rubbing up
their muskets and armipg with the determination
that the outrage should not be repeated. Aud,
said Major Hawkins. ST am expecting every day
to hear of their being attacked" If they do,
you can get reinforcements," said astalwart free
State man present in the cars,-a sentiment
which was repeated, and apparently generally
scquiesced in.
Major Hawkins said that along the Mississippi
and other large rivers, the crops were not so
poor but in the interior they amounted to scarce
" anything. Some had quit trying to plough,
and had turned out their stock because they had
nothing to feed Numbers of horses aud cattle
had died, and be knew a number Of families
with nothing to live on but turnips.
Through brother living in Ottumwa, Major
Hawkins had first learned that there was plenty
in the North, and not that bitter enmity towards
the South which they had been taught to believe.
He bought q quantity Of corn at Ottumwa, which
is now stored with Messrs. Harrison Elliason,
of Keokuk. He said that Mr. Harrison had in
duced him to call on President Lincoln. When
he stated the result of that conversation to his
friends in Mississippi, they said, Why, that is
all we want !" The news of the feeling of the
North, its plentiful supply, and the sentiments
of Mr.. Lincoln, spread rapidly; public meet
ing was called, resolutions passed, and Major
Hawkins was sent by his neighbors and friends
on this mission, These resolutions were pub
lished in the county paper, and Hawkins was en-
dorsed by the editor as an honest and noble
hearted man a. ever lived. He showed me
these printed resolutions and remarks. s
Major Hawkins said the people were learning
that they bad trusted in their leaders and been
deceived, and Northern opinion and sentiment
misrepresented. Said to him, ut is charged
that freedom of speech and of the press in the
North has caused all the difficulty; l think tits
the want of freedom of speech and the press in
the South" THAT is so, said he. "By the
laws of Mississippi the postmaster throws oil the
abolition documents in the fire, and he don't
know what are abolition. Generally all from
the North are considered abolition. Why, said
he, "when it became known that had seen Mr..
Lincoln, hundreds,-no, wont say hundreds
but will say fifty men, not, to be sure, the best
informed, but who might be called intelligent
took me one side and ssked me if Lincoln was
not a black man"
He says there has been no increase of tax
yet, but the people are expecting the Legisla-
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forthwith. II so, they will not pay it. Even
the secessionists say that they will not pay it.
read him that portion of Lincoln's Indiana
polls speech in reference to the collectiot of rev.
enue, and put the question to him whether the
people would prefer that the merchants in the
Gulf cities should pay their duties, or the peo-
die be overwhelmed with direct taxation? "Make
them pay the duties of course" was the reply.
Major Hawkins informed that he had plant
alton in Smith county, Mississippi, where he had
resided sixteen years, having removed there from
North q lima. 1t is impossible to listen to him
without being impressed with his good sense and
the perfect sincerity and truthfnlness of every
word that he utters. ORION CLEMENS.
LNcoLN's SPEEcHEs.-The wiseacres who in
ddlge in criticism of the verbal structure of Mr..
Lincoln's recent speeches, do not venture to find
fault with the sentiments to which he gives ut
terance. If they should succeed, as they will
not, in convicting him of faulty grammar or
lack of polished rhetoric, they would place him
more nearly on an equality with General Jackson,
who, as is well known, could not get off half a
dozen sentences in an elegant nor even gram
NAUTICAL manner, in the form of an extempore
public speech. Men of action rarely have great
profusion of words; and mel of great ideas and
purposes have little leisure to give retundty and
10 thair ,lo
one of the most imperfect Of orators and Gen.
Scott, with all his opportunities and his high SOL
dierly qualities, makes but slight improvement
upon the Rough and Ready model General
Washington, taken unawares, was like school
boy or neophyte in a debating society; his
speeches, which are read nowadays, were care
fully prepared and pronounced from the man
uscript. Few of our public men have had that
fippant gift of CAB which makes as fine an
Grafton in answer to hurra at railroad station,
as upon the principles which underlie the State.
Your fellows who, like young crows, always have
their mouths open, for praise to flow in or words
licans are abundantly satisfied with Mr.. Lincolns
efforts They are plain, forcible, direct and un-
mistakably honest expressiona of purpose and
feeling. That speech at Springfield, brief,
reverent and sincere, will become part of the
national history. That reply to the impudent
Mayor of New York will be hereafter quoted as
model rebuff given by All honest man to DO
tical blackleg; and so Of all Mr.. Lincolns little
efforts--each has its meat for the place and the
occasion-each is marked by the earnestness
and patriotism without which political oratory is
nothing. So, let the small crisis fume.-[ Chica.
60 Tribune.
QUEM DEUS VULr PERDERE-Of all the jokes
ever joked:
OF all the absurdities:
OF all the incongruities:
Of all the Hibernianisms, follies, jests and in
considerations ever accomplished, commend us
to the conception Of the Southern Confederacy
which recognizes the basis of its stability the
right of any one of its members to withdraw at
any time!
Carrying with it be it added, any of it's neigh
boris property that may happen to be lying
around loose.
Founded in its very beginning, yea, conceived
in Theft, Swindling, Defalcation, Lies and 'Traa-
son. For it was in every variety of such Rascal
ity of the foulest and most degrading kind that