The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1861-12-07

ments to most Of your colonial settlements. In
lSO7-l2, after giving up our lawful commerce u
helpless prey to your cruisers to the amount OF
! tens OF millions, you brought upon rs the woes
OF another war, by those Orders in Council,
which your most intelligent text-writers on pub.
lie law, and your late Lord Chief Justice and
Lord Chancellor have pronounced to be in viola
ton, not merely of the law of nations, but of
your own municipal law Will, you, before all
the centemporaneous victims OF the oldest of
these conflicts have gone to the grave, wage a
third war against u.s. merely to keep the shuttles
OF Manchester in motion next winter
And you, France, who for the gravest reasons
Of state lent your all powerful aid to America in
establishing her independence who perceived,
generation in advance, the important part as.
signed by Providence to our Union, "as an es-
sential element of the universal political eoui.
librium :" who entered into alliance with US, and
mingled your blood with ours on the ttle6elds
of the war; whose first act after emerging from
the chaos of your own re, olution WAS to revive
the friendly relations of the two countries who.
in the cession of Louisiana, made the largest and
most magnificent contribution to our growth
md welfare that was probably ever made by one
government to another who under every regime
and every dynasty have given us the most con-
uncing proofs of enlightened sympathy, are you
aow. for the sake Of restoring the market for
Jew invoices OF your silks, and wines. and cotton
Aor'es' going to undo the great work of your
own hands to assist England in DESTROYING that
lobie nationality you helped as to create: and
to subvert that essential element of the general
equilibrium, which exists as much for your bene.
fit as oursl -
It is impossible. Neither the Government Of
France nor England can possibly pursue police
60 much at war with every principle of public
morality. And II all consideration Of our rights
as an independent people, all respect TO the
piainest dictates Of the law of nations, nav. ali
regard to their own permanent interests. shonld
fail of their due effect, may We not with tenfoid
pertinence, echo the inquiry Of Earl Russcll
whether 1t is not the duty Of those who have
embraced the precepts Of Christianity to see
whether the present enlightened age viii tolerate
q war on the part Of England and France against
Ihe United States for the purpose Of supporting
an insurrectionary government which boasts
.nat u rests upon the corner stone of slavery.
which will unquestionably reopen the Africsn
slave trade, and which, in its princinle and car
tain effects, strikes a deadly blow AZ vestern
civiiization, and this merely to relieve the m
iaetafiDg interests of those two countries
Inat have not expressed myself too strong.
y, IN saying that "scarce word of cordial avn.
pa'ny Win US has been uttered" In ENGLAND an.
pears from an emphatic statement IN the ,sst
number Of the Rdinburg Review. N an elabo.
rate article. under the inauspicious title of "The
Dlsunlon Of America" it 10 said, with the az.
cept'on OF NJ: John Bright, we are not aware
!. mat any Englishman Of note has addressed 20
Ine Americans. either of the North or South. one
wofG OF encouragement since the outbreak IL the
.n;r This remark, unhsppily. 10 regarded on
nus sue OF the water, 40 accurate only In part
10 .ne government and loyal people Of the Uni.
ted States, il 10 most true that scarce word NJ
encouragement has been spoken; to the so.csIlsd
Sothern Confederacy, the prevailing voice Of the
public men q England, and ~ aImost mani.
nous tone OF her pres, including this article.
encouraging.