The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1861-08-03
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There y no Sses,ien Of n,cse mi Importance
connected with ths present war. than the one
which have placed q he caption Of this arsi-
Gle, and yet none concerning which there 10
sneh diversity Of opision. Your corresponds
ent Of Thursday says: 'lbs fcnaties Of the
North would like to seize upon this opportunity
70 invade slavery Ii the South. The sosserya
tipe North repudi.ted the idea, but insist that
We have nothing TO do with slavery except to
con6ne It within legal bounds The italic's
are mine. But here Old Line Whig' leaves US
al It ses again. What are the ..legsl bounds OF
slavery :" Upon this very point your cores
pos,dent and JEFF Davis, or Toonbs would. per-
hape, differ o. widely AZ the poles These men,
Il 81 onsae Ssn,@ claim that slavery has an equal
right With freedom in I'll the Territories now
posaessrd, or hereafter to be acquired, BY the
Government This is their idea Of the illegal
bounds Of slavery" Does "OM iine Wing" co
incides ls not this difference Of opinion one Of
the very things that has been placed as justi-
6cation Of this Southern rebeliioni Earnest
anti slavery men can we'll afford to smile at the
application to themselves OF such terms as fla
matte. &c. Such terms may be suggestive Of
fast nAs.n but certainly '.Od Lias Wing" is
provokingly suggestive Of fo.sils Anti.slavery
men do not desire to 'seize Upon this emporium
ity to invade slavery in the South" but 40
slavery in the South" has taken s.ths oppor.
tunity to invade" freedom. FIRST putting her hors
de combat BY scattering her navy. seizing her
ports and arsenals, stealing her money and pub
lie arms, We do ask-not of fossilif rous poll.
ticians, for from such We have nothing to hope
but Thousands on Bonded knees, before the
throne of the Eternal, with that faith that .cN
prevail. are daily asking that the blood Of free.
don's msrtyrs in this war may wipe out the &C.
cursed thing from the land. hid II ,ciH be done
Place that on record. know that this does
not at present enter into the plans and purpos-
es Of politicians Of either the Republican or
Democratic school, but, If mistake not the
signs Of the times, ere this war has come to
close tie people will accept of nothing less than
this.
But to recur to the question, "What are we
fighting for:n Is it for our GLORIOUS stars and
stripes" as one tells us! Surely this ''Southern
Conthieveracy" had no such chronic objection
to our flag that they could not have lived under
it il We had but consented that it should be the
symbol and representative Of slavery instead of
freedom.
Isit for the glorious Union, as another de.
clares? But these men would have been con.
tent to remain in the Uni,p, without any fight.
in &, if we had but consented to make Slavery in
stead Of freedom the curb stone Of the edifce.
Is the question whether we shall have gov.
eminent at all ? as others affirm. Nothing
could be further from the truth. These rebels
have never made that issue. 1t has been raised
by veak-knee'd politicians in the North, to
hide the tue issue The disunionists have al-
ways been willing we should have govern
ment. promded it was one in which slavery
should be secured as the dominant element, and
the devine right of shareholders to rule fully
acknowledged. 1t will not answer to say that
the Men1y of the secessionis,s about State sover.
eighty, State Rights, &c, wonld lead, logically,
to no government at vi. They adopted the
theory not from choice, but from Necessity. They
determined to sunder the Union. For this they
must seek some justification to satisfy their
own people, and, fposs,ble, bamboezle foreign
nations into an Acknowledgements of their nde-
pepdence. There was no other plea which
they could set uD, wit any show Of plausibility
but their nonsensical State Rights theory -
But who believes that We should ever have
heard of such hair Drained theory If slavery
could have all its demands in the Union 2 Who
would ever have heard of "Soulhern Confed.
eracy," if we had elected John G. Breckenridge
to make slavery in all time to come the domi
nant power of the land What, then, are we
fighting fors Not for the stars and stripes,
for these might still have been waving over n
united nation Without anu fighting, rs I have
shown. Not for the Union, for that, too, would
be conceded ,e;thona fighting. Those Southern
rebels say: 1--WE will have government purcly
sla,eholdmg." For this they have taken up
arms | pity the craven soul of the Northern
man who has not the sp rit to meet this issue,
thus forced upon us at the can 1on's mouth.
with the decla, alton We will have a govern
lGent p,reiy free. Bu' suppose the war should
close and leave this whole slavery question las it
actually cannot just where it was before it
commenced, what then ? He has stu lied the
history Of slavsholding nations hut very super
ficially, who does not know that eventually
either freedom must succeed, or the whole at
tie must be fought over again by our chill
dren of another generation with hundred.
fold intensified horrors. Every feeling of our
paternal nnture, every instinct of patriotism,
and above ALL every dictate of our holy relg.
ion cry ont against the postponement of the
settlement OF this question. Whatever can b.
| done in that direction no'c let it be done, and
done promptly. WGK.
ST.. Louis, July 81, 1851.
DEAR HAWK. EYE:-Iowans doubtless know
that there are some Union men in Missouri, but
they do not know how widely extended and how