The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1861-07-27

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tic treason which threatens 20 esesn ~ se e.''
not what his name dmJ he or xhst the aesisna
ti0n of his politically pa tne p'a.'ornn
J on which he stood during the fresdent'ai res M can.
vas; We believe We fulfill In ngus OF cartn ana
heaven our highest ohiigAtiousato 10 our country
| in giving him an earuese and J0yal support ~
4 the struggle in which, be is engaged. ..,.,tss.
Nor are We at all disturbed by the hIppant
/ taunt, that in thus submitting 70 the authority
of our Government We are necessarily towards.
We know whence this tsunt comes, ana We es.
innate it at its true value. We hold that there
| is higher courage in the performance OF duty
than in the commission OF crime. Iae Tiger 81
the Jungle and the canuibaI Of the South Sea 10.
lands have that courage in which the revolution.
| lists Of the day make their especial boast. The
angels Of God aud the spirits OF just men made
perfect have had, and have inst coufage which
submits to the laws. Lucifers was . non ncsabmis-
sonist, and the first Secessionist OF whom his
tory has given US any account; and the chains
which he wears 6tly express the fate due all who
openly defy the laws Of theft Creator and of their
country. ne reeeied oecause "ic A''n'snv
would no. y'eid 70 MN 9sne tarone o. heayen.
Ine princ.pal Of the soatnern l reneI'ioh m Is t.e
same; Indeed, IN TINS SUBMISSION 70 'ne Jaws IS
louhd tne chiei distincuon oet~eeb' soou Hen
and devils good man 1oDeys tne Jaws % trutn,
OF honesty OF mora'ity ana aii inose aws Y, wnicn
nave 'oeen enacted py competent !a1 authoFity ior
'ne government ana psosocuoh ., Tue country III
which he lives; dcviI obeys only his own fero-
c'ons ana pronigate PASSIONS. Inc ps"S'p'c ch
wnch TINS reoeiiion proceeds, tnas IA " nave ~ J,
themselves no sanctions, no plnding force upon
the conscience, ana that every man. unoer .he
prompsings OF interest or PASSION of-caprice'
may at Will, and honoraoly 100, strike az the
government that shelters hlm,is one OF ntter oe-
moFaiization, and should De tr0dden OUT as you
would tread out spark that mas faien on the
roof OF your dwelling. its unchecked preVa.
ience would resolve society into caaoe, ana leave
you without the slightest guarantee tor NE, ITO.
erty or property. 1t is time that, IN their ma
Jesty, the people OF the United States should
make known to the world that this Government,
inhts dign'ty and power, ls something more tnan
q moot court, and that the citizen VINO makes
war upon it is traitor, not only in theory but
IN fact and should have meted out 70 hIm a trail
tors doom. The country wants no bloody sac
riices, but it must and will have peace, cost
wnat II may. 6- "A, i. 81.
= Before closing desire to say few words on
the relations of Kentucky to the pending rebel-
ion, and, as we are all Kentuckians here togeth
er to night, and rs this is purely family ma tter
which concerns the honor of us all, hope we
may be permitted to speak to each other upon
it with entire freedom. I shall not detain you
with observations on the hostile and defiant DO.
sition assumed by the Governor of your State
In his reply to the reuusition made upon him
for volunteers under the proclamation of the
President, he has, in my Judgment. written and
finished his own history, his epitaph included,
and it4is probable that in future the world will
little concern itself as to what his excellency
may propose to do, or as to what be may pro-
pose not TO do. That response has msde for Ken.
lucky a. record that has already brought burn
ing blush to the cheek Of many of her sons, and
is destined to bring it to the cheek of many more
in the years which are to come. It is a shame,
indeed crying shame, that State with so IL
lustrous past should have written for her by
her own chief magistrate, page of history so
utterly humiliating as this. But your Legisla-
ture have determined that during the present
unhappy war the attitude IF the State shall be
that of strict neutrality, and it ia upon this de-
termination that wish respectfully, but frankly
to comment. As the motives which governed
the Legislature were doubtless patriotic and con-
servative, the conclusion arrived at cannot be,
condemned as dshonorable, stifl, in view of the
manifest duty of the State and Of possible re-
suits, / cannot but regard it as mistaken and
false, and one which may have fatal consequen-
ces. Strictly and legally speaking Kentucky
must go oat of the Union before she can be neu-
tral. Within 1t she IS necessarily either faithful
to the Government Of the United States, or she
is disloyal to it, Ifthis crntch Of neutrality upon
which her well-meaning but illjadging politicians
are hating, can find any middle ground on which
to rest, it has escaped my researches though
have diligently sought it. Neutrality, in the
sense Of those who now use the term, however
patriotically designed, is, in effect, but snake
in the grass of rebellion and those who hsndle it,
will sooner or later feel its fangs. Said one who
spake as man never spake, "he who Is not with
us is against us" and of none of the conflicts
which have arisen between men or between ma
tions. could this be more truthfnly said, than of
that IN which we are now involved. Neutrality
necessarily implies indifference. Is Kentucky
indifferent to the Issues OF this .contestg Has
she, indeed nothing at stake! Has she no com.
pact with her sister States TO keep, no plighted
faith to uphold, no renown to sustain, no glory
to win Has she no horror OF that crime OF
crimes now being committed against us BY that
stupendous rebellion which mas arisen IKE
tempest cloud in the SOUTH We rejoice to
know that she Is stu a member OF TINS Union,
ana as sncn she mas the same interest," IN resist.
ing snis repeihon that each limo OF the oody mas
IN resisting poignaro whose point Is a'med al