The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1861-10-12
The SlavehOldlnc Observation-Disclosures of
England.

From the London Morning Star and DIAL Sept. III
The war is but beginning, and all the antece
dents Of the Northern race justify the belief that
their first efforts would be the least successful.
They have encountered one single disaster, and
have set about repairing it with the patient
vigor of men who can afford to make sure their
next advance at any expenditure of labor aud
money. With the dignifed humility that is
not above learning from defeat and danger, they
have thoroughly fortified their own capital be-
fore making another attempt upon The enemy's.
They have made of Washington an arsenal and
depot, well as a fortress. They have col
lected there an immense store of guns, with SO
many horses as to suggest to cur special cores
pondent that General Mcclellan means to win
the campaign with field artillery II the new
commander has not under his orders much
larger army than his predecessor, he has brought
1t into Infinitely better coEdltion. lie has GER
taniy checked the approaches of Beauregard TO
the lines befon Alexandria, and could probably
infict upon assaiants severe repuse. If he is
not master of the south bank of the Potomac
from Harper's Ferry to Fort Monroe, he has col
lected marine force sufficient to render the
passage of the river almost impossible. The
physique and morale of the new levies are such
as to satisfy even the experienced eye of Mr..
Russell The maritime superiority of the Feder-
aiists is also now becoming practically manifest.
The hardy seanen of the New Engl land sea board
are entering for service on board the gunboas
built with marvellous celebrity in the dockyards
Of Maine and Massachusetts, A naval expedi-
tion OF four thousand men and one hundred guns
has left Old Point, probably for the coast of
North Carolina. On the south west the banks
of the Mississippi are likely to witness the ad.
vance OF an overland expedition against New
Orleans. General Fremont is said to have been
charged with the conduct of this bold enterprise
and to have no scruples with regard to the ac-
ceptance OF negro auxiliaries. The very latest
news, telegraphed to the steamer at Father
Point indicates the resolution OF the Govern
ment to act upon the famous decision of Con.
grsss, to which the President SO reluctantly as
sented. Marshal law is proclaimed in Missouri,
and freedom promised to the slaves Of insurrec-
tionists. Thus the weakest place in Mr.. Lin
coins policy has been converted into strong
tete du pont. The world will be assured of the
tendency of the war, whatever doubt may still
rest upon its origin. The defense of the Union
viii be publicly identified with the liberation OF
the negro.
But it does not follow from these premises
that the English public may safely dismiss from
their minds all apprehension to the attitude
OF our Government toward that of the United
States. General Mcclellan may have dissipated
the illusion of an easy victory over the North.
The Missouri proclamation may bring the FEEDER
al cause nearer than ever to the sympathies of
the British people. Yet are our rulers by no
means to be trusted. The language of their
Organs-the organs OF the ruling classes Of this
country-is that of spirit maevolently hostile
to the North. They magnify every difficulty in
the way OF Il reunion, exaggerate every excess
OF popular feeling, dwell upon and distort every
disagreeabe necessity OF the crisis. In vain do
va nAuh fhai fur ark of
generous feeling toward men--and those our
near kinsmen-who have been overtaken by a
tremendous emergency, and are exerting them
selves with courage ana fortitude to bear up
against it. The South, on the contrary, is treat
ed with the tender consideration of friends and
relations whose faults and errors are those OF
noble blood. and whose cause, though not STAIN
less, is honorably sustained. The following ex-
quiste sentence WAS published yesterday by an
aristocratic and ministerial contemporary: eli
ths secession movement were tree from the tajnt
of slavery, a great obstacle in the way of its
recognition by foreign Powers, and especially
by this country, would be removed" Was there
ever such virtue in an "if?" That which is
delicately called '' taint all the world outside
Belgravia knows to be the body and soul, the
flesh, blood and spirit of the secession move
ment. Its leaders have avowed, with bias.
phemous peryersion OF sacred imagery, that
slavery is the corner stone Of the Contederacy-
the corner stone which the builders of the
| Union would fain have rejected, and did ut least
| cndeavor to conceal. Slavery has been the one
solitary but all pervadng element of unsound
ness and danger in the composition Of American
society. 1t has bafiled all endeavors to coniine
it within territorial boundary. 1t has pushed
its arrogant pretensons TO the very limits of the
| Union, and beyond-claimed to pursue its fugi
tives even to beneath the folds OF the British
flag, and to imprint its dcvilish foot upon the
soil of Mexico and Cuba, as well as of Kansas
and California. IL lad become The irreconcila
tie Toe oi civil aud religious freedom, and indeed
OF civilized society. The men who are nov
bowling and whining about the tyranny of th'
Federal Government and the brutality of Fed
eral mobs, are the same men who countenancet
and even instigated the suppression of ever,
Aboltionist newspaper, the lynching of Aboli
tionist advocates, the violation of correspon
dence suspected of Abolltionist sentiment an,
the prohibition of Bibles aud tracts within tn
pale of negro sentiments. The English sym
pathizers with these apologists of barbarisr
now taunt us, through the columns of fashlona
BILE journals, with the "practical result Of Amer
ican Democracy" as no better that the reign q
King Bomba. The extravagance Of the absurd
ty indicates proportionate depth Of malignt,
None but those who profoundly hate the libert
that is for the moment obscured could thus mac
Iy revie the men who have drawn swords in d.
fcnse of the vailed idol. And We may be sur
that they who thus bespstter the image the
profess to reverence would, If they dared, max
close alliance with its sacrilegious assailants.
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