The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1861-06-15
SLAVES As CONTRA1aNn -
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SLAVES As CONTRABAND ~
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FROM the Boston Atla..
Theopbilus Parsons, Ii. D. Dan.
Law at Harvard College, has recsn, fass
this subject very fully in his iss,ay h
bridge. BY request be has furn;sbagsa
his remarks, which are as follovs. asks<
"Many Of you have asked Of ma
be the law or legal rights which wat
vancing by order Of the Pres;daaa arm
in Organized rebellion, would carry S
question. anssH
In the first place, the army mp,,
right', aud all the rights of war. R. nan
State puts itself into tina, position .; .ssause
to the United States, the governmen, u ,s ,elsrs
TED States must necessarily accent ,b,, We
while carrying on the conflict, ai,bonat POI
eral government prosecute the war ~ es
sire OF subjngatioD, but only for The a
bringing that State back to its oris;,.pp u'pSt
| There are four ways in which ths, Paa
deal with slaves. One is. to seizs .,a mj
in its military labors. That tl,ev r';., as |
seems to me a. certain as that tbey IN?
horses or oxen to draw their wagon. 81.
to dig the trenches. How far o 0sao
should be made must depend upon ciysnps'
IL is common opinion that ciyiliz,,;os
far mitigated war, that it is no lopos. ID
laws OF war that an invading arrpy NM. vFR
or destroy private property. Thai. Me
according to ali the authority on ,bs I.s
tons. 1t is undoubtedly true. boysv"a
modern usages and PROPERTIES of xs,"
are such th'ngs-would justify the e,
this right only on the ground Of miIi,,,.
ty.
| TEE RIGHT OF An IsvApIyG .s,,
Inc second way Is to receive and b,,,.
runaway slaves. And the third ia bu,
further in the same direction, altbopyb =.
seem to be wide step; it is to lib.,s,."
not, as it were passively, but by procl,m,
other active measures. As matter ~
have not the least doub. of the rirb, u,
ding army to do this. 1t would. he ,s
mere question of law, stand on The tos,
destruction of private property in an
country. And like that, il would Ia -,
tionable right; but il the ussges of VA
! govern it, it would be a right 70 be prs,.,
as military necessity, and forlh he purno,s's
ening the enemy, and lesseninr hi. pe,s
tack or resistance. And the e,i.tenas
necessity must be determined By the 80
ing officer, or by the supreme authorize
IN view OF all the circumstances Of ,hc 60
| Should there be war between two ,I,-aS.1
say Georgia and South Carolina. ana ca"l
should invade South Carolina, have M q
that the invading forces might and voula
and posses the right to exercise these ns,s
weakening their enemy if thought thew nm. u
! RESURRECTION NOT TO Be tsct1yn
The fourth way of dealing with slave, II
be to put weapons INTO their hands and II
them to armed insurrection. If any .1cb 81
as this can ever exist it can only spring IN, II
| EXTREMIST necessity, snd from a cop5itio- "a
| things which it would be difficult and p,ipGs
imagine. With my understanding Of VIA, II
armed servile instruction must he ma, N u
trate my view of the law thus An amy WIZ
vested a city that was supplied with r,,..
stream flowing into it,would have A right ii
off the stream and so reduce the city tn ~
sion. But 1T would have no right ~
other, to poison the waters. There seem. III
as matter Of law, good test for mi. y
commander of an invading army might cen, u
as military necessity, liberate the sl,vs. IL
make any use of them which he could mai, II
his own soldiers; but nothing more.
Questions OF moral nature, and oSs,, n, II
pediency, gather around this topic Of d, II
ment of slaves by an invading force. I ~
| voided all reference to them, no. becsu.a / u
lnsensible to their existence or force, RI
is my business here 20 speak 10 ycu, a. vel
can OF the law, and | believe can speat
more accurately, if1 speak only Of thehs'
O
The CONFEDERATE Forces BELOW C,nl
Gen. BRADLEY, OF Arkansas, on A Big Seal
We can give some authentic inforrs&
upon this interesting subject The rur,v
troops az Union City, Tenn, few mile,
Columbus, was, two or three DAYS ago
short Of 5000; at Randolph, 5000; GCoinI
| a few miles out of Memphis. upon the Rim II
1000; at point six miles below RardOlrk
the Tennessee side, l,200; at Fort Hrrs Il
miles above Memphis, 800; at Mound Git,
the Arkansas side, nearly opposite Fort H.1
loo.
At Randolph there are fifty cannon, nOsfk
Founders; the rest larger, 42's and 64'. Ts
two of them are mounted, and ten or ~.
ready to mount. At Memphis there Were,
or three days ago, thirty cannsn Of large.ca
lying on the wharf, some OF them Dshlgrebs
large number Of balls The people therek
just been hauling out two thousand bales Of
ton tor breastwOrks, expecting Cairo to bel
every day.
One little incident may be worth reatr. i
Ten or twelve DAYS ago, Gen. Bradley, Of
kansas, who was then at Memphis, heard
NOR that all Cairo had broken loose He ~
Instantly on board the Ohio Belle, the Cinei1
boat seized at Helena, aud steamed avs!
all possible speed to the encampment Ofhsr
at Bearted Point, about a hundred miles 81
on the Arkansas side. Upon reaching the n
he leaped ashore, and, fastening breathe
among the men, babe them fly to the boa
their lives. There were sixteen or sere1N
hundred of them, but, incredible as il may
they were all on board in less than twenty
utes. -.z-.
When they were ready to start, the fac
Cured to an officer that, in their precipiia
they bad left their picket guards behind thtz
Let us fire our guns" said the officer,
bring the picket in" Don't shoot for Cd
sake" exclaimed Bradley; mo dOubtihe ere1
are right on us" The boat started dow u
river like greyhound, the General all the Il
leaning himself forward to hasten her speed 4
he wouldn't stop until he landed his men o. :
Tennessee side, sir miles below he TeHRssust
at Rd''dotph.-lL Lou. journal, June 10th.
SUICIDE OF AN OFFICER.--The Suffolk =
SUN OF Thursday makes the following sad n i
I'VE record with a sorrowful heart the
OF Capt, Christopher F. Fisher, the comra
OF the Petersburg Cavalry, who died uhdsi
most melancholy circumstances. For IT
days Capt F.'s company had been statGs
Wise's store, near Pig Point, and the ca
became depressed in spirit, and seemed tOr
bend that his company was in a position
cut to pieces by the enemy The offices
privates of his company, discovering his D
condition, consented to accompany him
folk, and there intended to persuade hin 10